Comments on: IN THE NAME OF SAVING TEA GARDENS – TMC is Handing Over our Prime-Land to their Financiers

By: FALL OF THE LAST T - The Darjeeling Chronicle

FALL OF THE LAST T - The Darjeeling Chronicle — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:31:48 +0000

[…] Let’s discuss the 2nd T- Tea The less said about the Tea industry, the better. Generation after generations of our people have shed that sweat and blood slogging to keep the Tea industry alive. What for? For the meagre Rs. 200.00 they get per day for their blood and sweat? For literally having to beg for the measly “Bonus” of 20% that they are otherwise legally entitled to? For being forced to accept 5 decimals of land instead of their rightful claim over that portion of land which their father’s and grandfather’s had tilled and curated all their lives? For watching, as mute spectators, a new generation of profit hungry Tea Garden owner, earing millions while the houses of Tea Garden workers crumble down to the ground? […]

By: G20 Tourism Meet in 5-star Hotels in the Tea Gardens – While Tea Workers are Landless - The Darjeeling Chronicle

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 04:18:22 +0000

[…] 5-star hotels have been built in the tea gardens, whereas the tea garden workers who have toiled in the same garden for […]

By: NO LAND FOR TEA GARDEN, CINCHONA GARDEN WORKERS - But… - The Darjeeling Chronicle

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:59:04 +0000

[…] for tea garden, cinchona garden workers, but there seems to be plenty of land with the WB Govt to hand out to “refugees” in South […]

By: Parliamentary Standing Committee Scathing Findings on Darjeeling and Dooars Tea Industry – Recommends Legislative Action for Ensuring Parja Patta Rights and Other Reforms - The Darjeeling Chronicle

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 04:09:11 +0000

[…] It further notes that “the perpetual struggle of tea workers to seek rights for their own lands not only for living but eve….” […]

By: Ajit Doval - An Open Letter to the National Security Advisor - The Darjeeling Chronicle

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 05:04:33 +0000

[…] the tea garden owners have been given the right to construct 5-star hotels in the name of “tea tourism“, the tea garden workers, even though they have lived, toiled and worked in the same garden […]

By: TEA TOURISM, EXPLOITATION? - The Darjeeling Chronicle

TEA TOURISM, EXPLOITATION? - The Darjeeling Chronicle — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:47:16 +0000

[…] 5-star and 7-star hotels have been built in the tea gardens, where as the tea garden workers who have toiled in the same garden for […]

By: DARJEELING TEA INDUSTRY: Prayers, Petitions and Pathological Indifference - The Darjeeling Chronicle

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 04:21:28 +0000

[…] India Despite several prayers petitions to the government for implementation of Minimum Wages Act, Parja Patta rights to workers, nothing has been done writes Sugam […]

By: Tea Tourism - Another form of exploitation - The Darjeeling Chronicle

Tea Tourism - Another form of exploitation - The Darjeeling Chronicle — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 04:50:35 +0000

[…] Tea Tourism is just another form of exploitation. Our tea bushes are being uprooted, workers denied their right to parja patta and Minimum Wages Act, and whatever little money would flow into villages through homestay programs are now being diverted towards “tea tourism” which is owned by rich industrialists. What is surprising is, no politician or social worker is least bit bothered about this […]