Unable to afford LPG refills, Assam’s tea workers demand wage hike
Tea workers in Assam, while demanding a wage hike, said they are unable to refill their LPG cylinders as the cost has gone out of their reach.
Workers said they have been forced to cook on firewood stoves.
“The government gave me an LPG cylinder and stove, but I’ve no money for a refill, that’s why I have switched to firewood stove three months back,” a tea worker told ANI.
A tea worker from Jorhat said that the state government failed to deliver on the promise of increasing our daily wages from Rs 170 per day to Rs 300 per day.
