A Correspondent
JOYSAGAR: The Mezanga Tea Tribes Women Training Centre situated in Nazira subdivision of Sivasagar district is grappling with many problems for which the resident trainees are returning home without completing their due training. Some miscreants have created an atmosphere of fear at night and on the night of September 2, some miscreants tried to enter the training center taking advantage of the darkness, alleged some hostel inmates of the training center.
The Mezanga Tea Tribes Women Training Centre was started in 2005 to help tea tribes women become self-employed. All the Upper Assam tea companies had allotted an amount from their annual cess to the welfare fund of the female laborers of various tea gardens. From this fund, the Mezanga Training Centre was started where training in knitting, cutting, embroidery, handloom, and weaving is offered to selected trainees free of cost for a period of one year. During the training period, trainees can stay free of cost at the center hostel in Mezanga.
But allegations have been made that some big tea garden companies are not giving proper interest to run this centre and hence the centre is facing financial and other problems. Lack of proper electricity services, scarcity of pure drinking water facility and poor condition of residential rooms and food supplied are some problems faced by the centre.
Besides, regular classes are not held due to the negligence of the management. There were about 72 women in the 2018 batch but following so many difficulties, about 22 trainees left the centre without completing their training. Moreover, some local miscreants are also creating an atmosphere of fear and there is no proper security arrangement due to which many women fear staying in the hostel. ATTSA Mezanga regional committee members submitted a memorandum to the Nazira SDO on Monday and mentioned all the difficulties faced by the resident trainees. They sought the administration’s intervention in running the training centre smoothly. ATTSA also demanded proper security measures to be taken soon to protect the hostel inmates and asked the Nazira SDPO to start police patrol in the training centre area immediately.