Minister in-charge of labour, law, and judicial departments, Moloy Ghatak, has called a high-level meeting to discuss pressing concerns related to tea gardens and the tea industry in West Bengal.
The Asansol Minibus Association and the Asansol Bus Association has announced free travel to Madhyamik examinees in Asansol sadar sub-division this year, both in minibuses and in public buses.
Asansol South Police has already started investigations and are scanning the CCTV footages of the house in the resident of businessman Subir Basu in North Hill View area.
An FIR has been lodged against twelve persons by a resident of Hill View area under Hirapur Police Station.
Law minister Moloy Ghatak has announced that the state government has agreed to set up a flyover in Asansol Town on the G T Road to decongest traffic and also set up a medical college very soon at the district headquarters.
Planters have filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court against the state government's decision to hike wages of tea workers from Rs 232 to Rs 250 a day on an interim basis.
She claimed this is not only affecting the morale of the force but also damaging the prospects of the aspirants. “Complete recruitment in the police force in three months.
Minister in Charge of Labour Department has said that tea workers associated with Small Tea Gardens (STG) will be getting daily-rated wages
Tea workers will now be given Rs 250 a day, as against the Rs 232 the daily rated workers had been drawing. Minister Ghatak said the state government will issue a notification to this effect soon.
INTUC president Debashish Choudhury said that the SAIL should focus on the issue of safety of iats workers as regular incidents of accidents are creating a fear amongst the contractor workers.
