Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
On the morning of May 12, the workers of the Lalbagh division of Silchar’s Doloo tea estate woke up to the news of hundreds of bulldozers approaching their division to clear the tea plantation from that area in order to acquire the land for a proposed greenfield airport. As the news spread like wildfire, hundreds of tea garden workers rushed to the site, drenched in heavy rain, ignoring the restrictions under Section 144 imposed in the area a day earlier.
