Announce package for tea garden community: Gogoi
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce a financial package of ₹5,568 crore for the socio-economic upliftment of the tea garden community of the state. Further, the Assam government has notified the proposal for enhancing the minimum cash wages of plantation workers in tea estates to ₹143.50 from the existing ₹115, Gogoi said.