GUWAHATI, Feb 22 - State Industry Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary today said that the tea garden managements are shying away from their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) due to the stiff competition faced from Sri Lanka and other tea-producing countries.
�The tea garden managements must step in to improve the standard of living of the workers. Due to the stiff competition faced from their competitors, the tea garden managements are unable to spend on the welfare of the tea garden population the way they should have. We will certainly take up the matter,� said the Minister.
Replying to a question by Bimal Bora of Bharatiya Janata Party, the Minister said that the government would ask the Oil India Limited (OIL) to utilise its CSR fund in a more effective manner for welfare of the tea garden areas.
Bora, in his question, stated that the OIL is not spending on welfare of the tea garden population residing in its proximity in a satisfactory manner.
Minister Patowary in his reply, told the House that he would take up the matter with the Managing Director of OIL.
On the level of sound pollution faced by people living near the oil fields, the Minister said, �OIL has informed that the pollution-related issues are controlled by the Environment Protection Act, 1986. The noise pollution level is surveyed from time to time.�
