Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha forms human chain, demands hike in daily wages

DIBRUGARH/DOOMDOOMA: Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS), while congratulating all office bearers of its branches and ACMS members for making their last phase of agitation programme on Tuesday a grand success, cautioned the government that ACMS would not hesitate to intensify their agitation in the coming days if the government failed to gauge the intensity of the ACMS agitation.

The ACMS launched three-phase agitation programme in support of their 11-point charter of demands, including enhancing daily wages of tea workers to Rs 351. The protest was held earlier on September 16 and September 22 and it successfully concluded on Tuesday.

In a statement issued to the press, ACMS general secretary Roopesh Gowala stated that participation of such a large number of their members in Tuesday's human chain programme on the national highway as well as other main roads and subways of all the districts of Brahmaputra and Barak valleys, had once again prove the strength of ACMS

In response to ACMS' call, lakhs of tea workers of 22 branches of ACMS- Doomdooma, Margherita, Panitola, Tingrai, Naharkatia, Dibrugarh, Halem, Tezpur, Lakhimpur, Borchola, Mangaldoi, Kamrup and Goalpara - took part in the protest in their respective areas by forming human chain along the assigned national highway and major roads and subways of their respective areas, adhering to COVID-19 protocol.

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