Workers protest clogs NH-55

Demanding payment of their dues, workers of the Jogmaya Tea Estate staged a road blockade on National Highway 55 at Ghayabari near Kurseong, for two hours today.

Mr Sathish Chettri, a workers’ union leader of the Jogmaya Tea Estate said that the workers had submitted several deputations to the authorities demanding their dues, but they were yet to get a response. “Under the circumstances we were forced to stage the roadblock,” he said. He threatened a similar roadblock tomorrow as well by the workers. MORE...