With Assembly elections approaching, people in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district speak out on unemployment, lack of healthcare and stalled development in tea garden regions. Locals say promises are plenty, but delivery remains missing.
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View from the Margins: In the tea gardens of Bengal, neither Ram Mandir nor Kashmir is a poll issue
For the underpaid, underrepresented Adivasi workers of Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri, elections are often a time to express their discontent.
Unable to link his Aadhaar with govt ration scheme, 58-yr-old dies of starvation: Tea workers’ association
“Despite numerous Duare Sarkar camps, the couple did not receive benefits from the state Government schemes like Tapashili Bandhu or Lakshmi Bhandar,” he said.
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Unable to link his Aadhaar with govt ration scheme, 58-yr-old dies of starvation: Tea workers’ association
“Despite numerous Duare Sarkar camps, the couple did not receive benefits from the state Government schemes like Tapashili Bandhu or Lakshmi Bhandar,” he said.
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