Upendra

Scheduled Tribe Re-Inclusion

Editorial, Upendra February 22, 2025

Scheduled Tribe Re-Inclusion Will Be Jeopardized

If there is communal strife in our region, it will, in all likelihood, give the Central Government an excuse to deny all the sub-tribes ST status, as center will show law and order problem.

I am therefore requesting all sub-tribes please don’t get involved in this manufactured tensions. The chances that those instigating you are working for the powers that be, or for money to foster communal strife and tension is very high.

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Tea Tourism Exploitation

Upendra June 26, 2022

TEA TOURISM, EXPLOITATION?

The tea garden workers despite working for generations, are still deprived of their right to land – Parja Patta, they are paid less wages than what other workers, even unskilled labourers make in West Bengal, the facilities they are entitled to are rarely provided. Adding salt to their woes, the WB Govt has allowed the tea garden owners to build commercial real-estate labeling it “tea tourism”.