Memorandum for implementation of ATTSA’s 10-point charter of demands

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BOKAKHAT: A united delegation representing the Assam Tea Tribe Students’ Association (ATTSA), Dergaon branch, including members from Rongagora, Radhabari, and Bonggaon, submitted a 10-point memorandum to the Sub-Divisional Officer of Bokakhat under Golaghat district, highlighting issues faced in the Badulipar and Rongamati tea estates.

The delegation included ATTSA Golaghat District President Sushil Kalindi, Dergaon Branch President Dayaram Rabidas, Secretary Danesh Kumar, Vice-President Dinesh Rabidas, Assistant Secretary Rajib Karmakar, Organizational Secretary Suraj Karmakar, Utpal Rabidas, and Ganesh Ghatowar of Rongagora sub-branch.

The demands presented to the SDO for urgent and effective implementation under their leadership include increasing the daily wage to Rs 351 along with ensuring weekly holidays on Sundays, scrutinizing the documents of suspected individuals residing in brick kilns of Rongamati and Badulipar and deporting those found to be illegal, evicting encroachers, particularly suspected and non-indigenous communities, from illegally occupied lands in the Rongamati and Badulipar tea estates, ensuring that the clean drinking water supply under the Jal Jeevan Mission is made accessible to the public in tea gardens like Rongagora, Radhabari, Bonggaon, Badulipar, Nilgiri, and Rongamati, deploying full-time doctors, pharmacists, and nurses in the tea garden hospitals under Bokakhat subdivision to ensure 24/7 healthcare services, along with adequate medicine supply, releasing pending Provident Fund (PF) and gratuity payments owed to workers of Assam Tea Corporation’s Rongamati tea estate, immediate inauguration of the Primary Health Centre recently constructed at Rongamati tea estate, providing all entitled welfare benefits to tea workers under the Plantation Labour Act, 1951, reconstructing the dilapidated bridge over the Doriya Jan stream near Dan Baba Than in Rongamati under Bokakhat subdivision, and constructing a permanent (pucca) bridge between Barbam and Hatimora villages at Joba Gosainjan under Bokakhat subdivision for the benefit of local farmers.

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