Assam approves 3% job quota for tea tribes ahead of elections, enhancing welfare schemes and economic growth initiatives.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, is expanding its political footprint into Assam by ...

Explore the vital role of Assam`s Tea Tribes in elections, their long-standing demands for wage security and ST status, and their impact on political outcomes.

Guwahati: In a major pre-poll push, the Assam cabinet on Tuesday approved 3% reservation in Class I and Class II state govt ...

Demonstration by Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association Dibrugarh, Feb 18: The Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association (ATTSA) organized a protest today, presenting a detailed memorandum to the State ...

Assam cabinet approves 3 per cent reservation for tea tribes in govt jobs ...

Several thousand tea estate workers, many of them Catholics, in India’s northeastern state of Assam staged a mass protest on Oct. 13 to demand constitutional status as tribal people, higher wages, and ...

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma had announced a 3 per cent reservation for youths from tea gardens in Grade I and Grade II government jobs in October last year during the 19th biennial general conference ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], January 13 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday distributed appointment letters to 296 candidates belonging to the Tea Tribes and Adivasi communities, ...

It may be noted that a total of 44,700 beneficiaries from the three Legislative Assembly constituencies of Dhemaji district, namely Dhemaji, Sissiborgaon, and Jonai, received land pattas, allotment ...

Before the 1920s, tea was a brew enjoyed only by Anglicised Indians, even though some indigenous communities from the Northeast had been infusing tea long before the British inhabited the subcontinent ...

Guwahati: The BJP-led Assam govt on Monday began the process of granting tea tribes and adivasi community ownership of the land they have lived and worked on for generations. The initiative is ...