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International Labour Organization (ILO) and Indigenous Peoples Development Services (IPDS) jointly organized a Tripartite Workshop for promoting decent work in the tea plantation sector in Bangladesh on 30th October 2018 at Grand Sultan Tea Resort & Golf, Sreemangal, Moulvibazar. Around 100 participants attended the workshop whose came from different tea gardens of Moulvibazar district including different background such as tea workers, representatives of tea labour union, development activities etc. The aim of the workshop was to promote decent work in the tea plantation sector in Bangladesh. To establish decent work in the tea plantation, how the tripartite groups can play the great role, was the main purpose of the workshop. The tripartite, the representatives of government, the representative of Employers, Bangladesh Tea Association and the tea workers/members of Bangladesh Cha Shramik Union attended there to make the workshop meaningful. At the tripartite workshop, Md. Nurul Amin, Secretary, Ministry of Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs was the chief guest. Mr. Tuomo Poutiainen, Country Director, ILO Country Office for Bangladesh, Ms. Sakeun Nahar Begum, ndc, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Md. Tofael Islma, Deputy Commissioner & District Magistrate, Moulvibazar, Mr. Tahsin Ahmed Choudhury, Committee Member and Convenor- Labour Health and Welfare, Sub-Committee, Bangladesh Tea Association and Mr. Makhan Lal Karmakar, President, Bangladesh Cha Shramik Union (BCSU) spoke as special guests. Key Note papers were presented by Mr. Ram Bhajan Kairi, General Secretary, BCSU and Mr. Alexius Chicham, National Project Coordinator, ILO. Mr. Sanjeeb Drong, IPDS’s President chaired the programme. Participants at the workshop shared experiences and opinions from their perspective to implement the decent work amongst tea workers. The initiative of ILO and IPDS was encouraged in the discussion. The government offices, NGO’s officers, the private sectors and development partners, community leaders, women, journalists from digital and print media were present at the workshop. The chief guest, Md. Nurul Amin said we drink tea every day with pleasure but we feel unsatisfactory when we could know the poor condition of health and wages of tea workers. He added, current wages of tea workers is BDT 102 which is too poor compared to other job’s wages of the country, that’s why we need to sit together to consider increasing the wages of tea workers. He said if the three parties (Government, Employers and Workers) sit together to discuss the problematic issues of tea estate area aim to build decent work in...
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