Managers exit, 900 tea workers jobless

[Tea Plantation Workers - Related News]

The management of the Kohinoor tea estate in Alipurduar district reportedly abandoned the garden late on Tuesday, leaving around 900 workers jobless since Wednesday. Such a sudden departure of the managerial representatives irked the workers who have not received their fortnight’s wage supposed to be disbursed on Wednesday. Regular production activities have completely come to a halt in the garden. According to workers, as some of them reached the garden’s office on Wednesday morning for work to be assigned to them, they didn’t find any managerial representative. After some time, they came to know that the manager and three assistant managers had left the garden located in Alipurduar-II block of the district on Tuesday night.