Guwahati, July 15 Tea workers of Assam not only get paid less compared to the workers of other tea growing states in India Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka but also get less than one fourth of the ‘living wage of Rs 884, a study, involving IIT-Bombay, revealed.
The study by Oxfam India, a confederation of 20 independent charitable organisations headquartered in Kenya's capital Nairobi, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, revealed that there exists a growing incidence of contractualisation in the tea plantation sector in Assam.
"Only 39 per cent of workers can be considered as permanent workers, while the remaining 61 per cent are temporary workers when social security and other mandated provisions under the Plantation Labour Act
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