ATTSA demand to privatise Assam Tea Corp

ATTSA demand to privatise Assam Tea Corp

By A City Correspondent GUWAHATI, June 24 – The Assam Tea Tribe Students Association (ATTSA) on Tuesday demanded of the State Government to hand over the ailing Assam Tea Corporation (ATC) to private party and warned of vigorous agitation in the coming days if the Government failed to address the problems of the thousands of workers employed by the ATC. Slamming the Government for its alleged apathy towards the tea garden workers, the ATTSA said that 15,000 workers employed by the ATC were living in abject misery deprived of the bare necessities of life.“The Government has been repeatedly assuring us that the problems of the workers under ATC would be solved, but so far nothing has been done in this regard,” alleged Pallav Lochan Das, general secretary of ATTSA maintaining that one lakh families have been experiencing one of the greatest nightmares in life.It may be mentioned here that the ATTSA blocked NH 52 and NH 37 today in protest against the indifference of the Government towards the grievances of the ATC workers. The activists of the student body blocked the NH 52 at Gohpur and NH 37 at Sibasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat and Nagaon.The ATTSA made it clear that it has not called any Assam bandh on June 25 as published in a section of newspapers. Source: assamtribune