Tea Workers Need To Improve The Quality Of Life
Tea workers of Bangladesh have been living through illiteracy, persecution, social and cultural deprivation. They have no contact with the country’s mainstream population. They burn in the sun, bathe in the rain, walk barefooted and stay with mosquito and poisonous insects. They work only at Tk 120 wages from dawn to dusk.
In every respect, the tea-workers are far behind from all other people in the country. The main reason is illiteracy. There is a big allocation in the National Budget for the education sector, where tea-garden workers’ education rates are very small.
There are no quota facilities in job like other backward groups of the country, and there is no social security facility available for the children of tea-labourers.
The State should give equal attention to every citizen living in the country. The State can ever deny this liability.
Md. Atikur Rahman
Head PRO
BUFT, Dhaka
