Minimum Wage of Assam Tea Garden Workers to be Increased in Next 10 Days: Himanta Biswa
Congress had criticised Amit Shah after his recent visit to the state and alleged that the govt did nothing to grant ST status to tea garden workers.
| 6 Feb 2021 11:50 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: Assam state finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the minimum wage of tea garden workers of the state will be increased within the next 10 days. In the next 10 days, there will be notification which will increase the wages of the tea workers. You will definitely get good news whenever the next cabinet meeting is held, the minister added.
FM Nirmala Sitharaman Initiates 3rd Phase of Chah Bagicha Dhan Puraskar Mela in Guwahati
With the vision of PM Modi, Chah Bagicha Dhan Puraskar Mela is an ambitious move by Assam govt to ensure financial inclusion of tea tribe workers
| 6 Feb 2021 11:19 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 6, initiated the ceremonial distribution ceremony of Chah Bagicha Dhan Puraskar Mela in Guwahati.
It is to be mentioned that as many as 7,46,667 beneficiaries of tea gardens were covered under the scheme.
Notably, the scheme was launched in Financial Year (FY) 2017-18. The main objective of the scheme is to incentivize and strengthen the efforts of financial inclusion of the tea tribe community.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Assam s Dhekiajuli on February 7: Sarbananda Sonowal
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Sonowal went straight to the meeting venue from where the Prime Minister would ceremoniously launch the Assam Mala Project for the upgradation of State highways in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would also lay the foundation stones of two medical colleges of Biswanath and Charaideo from the same venue.
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Sonowal also took stock of the traffic arrangements and route lining for the Prime Minister’s programme.
GUWAHATI: In view of the Prime Minister’s visit to Dhekiajuli in Assam on February 7, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal visited Dhekiajuli to take stock of the elaborate preparations put in place for the high-profile programme.