Didi gives pucca house certificates to tea workers

KOLKATA: A day af ter the Centre announced a Rs1,000 crore dole for tea estates and its workers in West Bengal and Assam, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced allotting concrete houses to tea estate workers and handed over the certificates to beneficiaries.

Taking part in a mass wedding program in Alipurduar, the TMC supremo claimed under the TMC government scheme ‘Chai Sundari’, the rest of the workers will get houses in three years. “The BJP-led central government announces doles ahead of polls but never implements anything. The TMC works for the development of people. We have increased wages for tea garden workers from Rs67 to Rs202. The BJP is only spreading canards. They have MPs in North Bengal but didn’t do anything for the poor tea estate workers,” said Mamata in the mass wedding event in Falakata.