DIBRUGARH, Jan 30 � The All Adivasi Students� Association of Assam (AASAA) has sought the intervention of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in effecting an immediate hike in the wages of plantation workers following the expiry of the previous wage agreement.
Members of the AASAA staged a sit-in demonstration at Chowkidinghee traffic intersection here on Thursday in support of their demand for increase in the daily wages of tea garden workers to Rs 330.
In a memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister, the Adivasi students� body alleged that the Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha was trying to sabotage the State Government�s attempt to implement the Minimum Wage Act in the plantations in Assam.
The AASAA has warned that it would resort to an agitational path if the minimum wage rules were not adhered to.
