Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
The Centre's decision to scrap Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes has posed a challenge to the tea industry in north Bengal as managements of several plantations do not know how to pay the garden hands on time, while labourers who received wages recently do not know what to do with the money. While most garden owners in the Dooars and Terai have already withdrawn money from banks to pay the workers, most managements in the hills were about to withdraw cash from banks in a day or two for the purpose. But Rs 20,000 (the maximum one can withdraw in a week till November 24) would not be enough to pay labourers.
