date:Sep 29, 2012
ns chairman, pointing to some government employment schemes and the growing trend by young rural workers to migrate to the cities.
The labour problem is also acute in the two other plantation states in South India, a recent study found. The report, by the Tea Research Foundation and the United Planters Association of Southern India, found thousands of plantation labourers have been opting to work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme due to higher wages.
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