Guwahati, May 21 -- Reported by Manoj Kumar Ojha

Doomdooma: The Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) launched a two-hour protest on Tuesday against alleged air and water pollution and unemployment among local Tea Tribes youths in the Baghjan-Diyamuli-Dighaltarang OIL belt of Tinsukia district.

"We are not against industrial development or oil production. But even after giving away land and enduring pollution for years, we deserve employment, proper infrastructure, and dignity," said Irot Tanti, president of ATTSA's Doomdooma branch.

The protest, organised near installations linked to HAL-Offshore Limited and FGGS operations by the Baghjan Gaon primary unit and the Baghjan-Dighaltarang sub-branch of ATTSA, witnessed hundreds o...