Protests ebb, works of greenfield airport at Silchar gain momentum
NEW DELHI: Slightly over a month after trouble broke out at Mainagarh and Lalbagh in Assam’s Silchar district, about 1,700 tea garden workers have resumed based on the assurance that a proposed international greenfield airport at nearby Doloo would not adversely impact their jobs and livelihood.
“A fringe organisation, Assam Mazdoor Sramik Union, backed by the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), had needlessly provoked and instigated the labourers by resorting to mendacious propaganda against the proposed commercial airport, the first that Silchar will have in many years,” said CITU Silchar district president Samiran Acharjee.
