{"id":140739,"date":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-provide-special-relief-package-for-revival-of-tea-industry-on-5-december-2006"},"modified":"2017-03-01T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:56:13","slug":"need-to-provide-special-relief-package-for-revival-of-tea-industry-on-5-december-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-provide-special-relief-package-for-revival-of-tea-industry-on-5-december-2006","title":{"rendered":"Need To Provide Special Relief Package For Revival Of Tea Industry. on 5 December, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Need To Provide Special Relief Package For Revival Of Tea Industry. on 5 December, 2006<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>                                          an&gt; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a>:  Need to provide special relief package for revival of Tea Industry.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRI%20JOACHIM%20BAXLA%20\">SHRI JOACHIM BAXLA <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=ALIPURDUAR\">ALIPURDUAR<\/a>):\u00a0 Sir, since 1998 Tea industry has been passing through a bad phase, resulting in closure of several Tea Gardens.\u00a0 Ultimately, labour force has to suffer a lot.\u00a0 They are deprived of their statutory benefits as per the Plantation Labour Act, wages are not paid timely as it should have been done.\u00a0 Further medical facilities are suspended; rations are\u00a0 not provided regularly; Provident Fund and LIC premium, although deducted from the salary of the workers, are not deposited at the respective accounts; and PF and Gratuity are not paid to the employees even after retirement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Replanatation and\u00a0 rejuvenation were not done for long.\u00a0 One lakh seventy two thousand hectares and 42,000 hectares of land required to be replanted and rejuvenated respectively in the existing Tea Gardens.\u00a0 It was given an impression by the hon. Commerce Minister that a package of relief would be announced during the Budget Session to support the Tea industry. Except withdrawal of surcharge of Re.1.00 on one kilogram of Tea, quantum of sum required for revival of Tea industry was not declared as yet.\u00a0 Hence, I would request the hon. Minister of Commerce to expedite the matter and a package of relief for the Tea industry may be announced immediately.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Need To Provide Special Relief Package For Revival Of Tea Industry. on 5 December, 2006 an&gt; Title: Need to provide special relief package for revival of Tea Industry. \u00a0 SHRI JOACHIM BAXLA (ALIPURDUAR):\u00a0 Sir, since 1998 Tea industry has been passing through a bad phase, resulting in closure of several Tea Gardens.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Need To Provide Special Relief Package For Revival Of Tea Industry. on 5 December, 2006 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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