Activities of Department of History
Title: - Health, Education and Tea Garden Workers: A Study of Jagduar Tea Estate of Jorhat District | ||
Start Date - 2020-05-01 End Date - 2020-12-01 Duration - 240 days. | ||
Nature of the Activity: - Research Project | ||
Summary: - | ||
A Department Research Project on 'Health, Education, and Tea Garden Workers: A study of Jagduar Tea Estate of Jorhat District' was done by Dr. Gautam Das who is a faculty member of the Department of History and currently the Assistant Coordinator of IQAC, C.K.B. College, Teok. The major objectives which
we formulated in order to study about the
specific features of health , education among the tea garden workers of
the Jogduar Tea Estate of Jorhat are basically concerned to understand the
conditions of health and education and
also in respects of the living patterns, hygienic environment , medical
facilities . In order to study about those conditions we also had to give
emphasis upon the policies of the government in totality in respect of the
welfare of the tea workers. We also tried to study the nature of responses of
tea garden workers towards the process of deprivation. Most importantly we also
aimed in studying the policy of the plantation company towards the welfare of
their workers.One the distinctive features of the Jogduar Tea Estate is that
the half of workforce in the garden are women and there is a great number of
people who are dependent upon the basic forms of work in a tea garden and there
are sizeable number of temporary workers.Although the government in recent
years have been taking up efforts to bring better livelihood to the deprived
people of the tea gardens but still the rate of poverty, illiteracy and ill
–health has been endemic feature of the area under study. The project work
helped us to know about some important characteristics of the workers of the
Jogduar Tea Estate like that the lack of consciousness about their basic
provisions of their rights in work field and where out of thirty respondents
the twenty one respondents(70%) who did not know anything about those rights
.There is also another feature which has come out of our research is that very
few workers know in details about the Plantation Labour Act ,1951 and where
interestingly out of thirty respondents the eleven respondents(36%) said they
have hardly any idea about the Plantation Labour Act.Another important finding
of our research work is that the majority of the workers about 78.3% are male
workers and 82.9% workers are female .Those workers say that they are not
getting adequate medical facilities for protection of their health. Only the
21.7% and 17.1% female workers say that they are getting medical assistance
properly for protection of their health which is abysmally low in comparison
with the actual percentage of workers. There is another major finding where it
has been brought into clearer focus through the study is that malnutrition has
been rampant among the women workers and that substantially has reduced the
strength of the working force in act of labouring. The study has made it clear
safe drinking water has still been a distant dream for the workers and which in
turn has created water borne diseases .The urgent need of the hour is that the
amelioration of the problems regarding the sanitation , drinking water and
proper awareness about their rights could give a decent livelihood where the
improved conditions of healthcare and better education facilities could give a
new ray of light to the marginalized population like the tea workers of the
Jogduar Tea Workers. | ||
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