Desk report: Tea garden workers’ organisations on Saturday demanded immediate implementation of six-point demand, including daily minimum wage of Tk 300, reports The new Age.
They made the demands from a rally after forming a human chain in front of the Central Shaeed Minar in Sylhet city in the afternoon.
Bishwabidyalaya Cha Chhatra Sangsad, a platform of the tea garden workers’ children studying at different universities in the country, arranged the programme to press home their demands.
People of cross sections in the society also attended the human chain programme extending their support to the demands.Speakers at the rally said that Tk 102 as daily minimum wage for tea workers was unacceptable and they demanded Tk 300 as minimum daily wage. They also demanded weekly ration, government primary schools, healthcare facilities for the tea garden workers and their families.
They said they would go for tougher movement and they would boycott the ruling party in the upcoming general election if their demands were not met.
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