GUWAHATI: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has taken strong exception to the Assam government’s statement of raising the daily salary of tea workers to Rs 205, which the party says is far under the electoral promise of earnings growth to Rs 351 from BJP back in 2016.
The APCC, in an announcement on Saturday, explained each tea employee dropped Rs 2,70,000, if salary depended for five decades, by one arrangement of the BJP government in Assam.
Congress chose a dig in the brand new Himanta Biswa Sarma authorities, stating that the increase is less than the prior Sonowal government’s telling of 2021, that had additional Rs 50 before the 2021 meeting elections and raised daily commission to Rs 217.
AICC general secretary and celebration in-charge to get Assam Jitendra Singh advised the tea workers the”cost they’re paying” for unemployment BJP into electricity.
Congress had”ensured” a rise around Rs 365 from the daily percentage of the tea employees in just six months of forming the authorities although the Grand Old Party set up a dismal display at the tea buckle again.
“The tea employees (per individual ) are currently having a reduction of Rs 160 daily.
If we compute the reduction of a tea employee, it is going to be roughly Rs 4,500 monthly that means the monthly reduction of a tea employee for retirement for BJP is Rs 4,500 that will amount to an yearly reduction of about Rs 54,000 percent ounce employee.
If we calculate for five decades, then it might come to a reduction per tea employee of about Rs 2,70,000,” Singh explained.
“To know the measurement of reduction per household, should we presume that four members of your household are engaged as tea employees, then the reduction per household is going to be Rs 640 daily along with the accumulated reduction in five years will be roughly Rs 10,80,000,” he mentioned.
Congress alleged that it’s a fairly harsh present from the BJP government meted from the tea employees for a single error of unemployment for BJP.
“it’s no doubt a rude shock for the easy tea employees to think from the false claims of BJP and Congress believes this can be a lesson for other people to understand also,” explained Bobbeeta Sharma of their media division of the APCC.
Tea garden employees in the Brahmaputra Valley were obtaining a yearly wage of Rs 167, whereas the corresponding amount for the Barak Valley was 145.
Chief Union Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday held a meeting with representatives of Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS) and other tea bodies to talk about topics pertaining to wage fixation.
Observing the lengthy demand of wage increase from the tea labourers marriages, it had been determined that with this particular hike, the tea employees in the Brahmaputra Valley would currently get Rs 205 daily, whereas the native employees of the Barak Valley could have Rs 183.
As ACMS, the largest company of this tea garden workers in the country, has welcomed the seventh commission declared on Friday, general secretary of this business along with BJP MLA Rupesh Gowala told TOI their requirement for Rs 351 later will probably last.
“We advised that the out-of-court settlement accomplished in the conclusion of the principal ministry.
Since nobody could determine when the dispute could have finished,” explained Gowala.
The prior BJP-led state authorities in February had increased the daily percentage of the tea pot workers to Rs 217 however the backyard owners approached the Gauhati High Court shortly after opposing the transfer and the matter was subjudice.
Hence the employees couldn’t reap the advantages of the increase.
Trade unions such as the Citu had been, nevertheless, critical of their interim increase in tea employees’ commission – next time because 2016 later BJP came into power at Assam.
“The tea garden owners are deprived of honest wage, citing company reduction by the owners in the very start.
But we’d love to make it very clear Rs 351.
33 as daily percentage of this tea labourers was determined depending on the consumer price index (CPI) of 2017.
Nowadays, it will be approximately Rs 400 per day, contemplating that the most recent CPI,” explained Citu’s Assam state general secretary Tapan Sarma.