Alipurduar, Oct. 6: December
15, 2005, is slated to be celebrated as World Tea Day.
Before the first commemoration of World
Tea Day, an international conference on tea will be held in
New Delhi, attended by tea-producing countries of Kenya, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka and Vietnam and members of different trade unions
in India.
The decision was taken by RSP labour wing
called the UTUC, in a meeting at 17, Firoz Shah Road, New
Delhi, yesterday. Seven trade union members of the central
committee attended the meet.
The MP of Alipurduar and the member of the
central committee, Joachim Baxla, said over the phone that
UTUC was implementing and idea chalked out at the World Social
Forum held in Brazil this January.
Leading to the December 15 celebration,
many rallies and workshops will be held exposing the problems
faced by tea labourers in tea plantation areas. |
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