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Tamil Nadu
Raja’s plea for plantation workers
Special Correspondent
A. Raja
CHENNAI: Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology A. Raja has urged Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to declare plantation workers in the State as agricultural workers and extend them all benefits now being enjoyed by agricultural workers.
Mr. Raja, who met the Chief Minister and handed over a memorandum, said lakhs of agriculture workers in the State were being covered under social security schemes, besides getting funds from the government under welfare schemes. To extend the same benefits to plantation workers, the existing Act had to be amended.
By amending the Act, plantation workers, especially those working in coffee, tea and rubber estates would get marriage benefit fund, old age pension, agriculturist card, free gas supply and community houses.
Mr. Raja told the Chief Minister that by extending the benefits to plantation labourers, thousands of workers in the Nilgiris Parliamentary constituency would be benefited. He appealed to the Chief Minister to consider the demand favourably and take steps to amend the Act.
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