Doomdooma, Nov. 13 -- The Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) on Thursday staged a statewide three-hour sit-in protest, demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the tea tribes community, land rights for tea garden workers and higher daily wages under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

The agitation centred on three major demands: granting ST status to the tea tribes community, providing legal land pattas to tea garden workers and increasing their daily wages in accordance with the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

Irot Tanti, president of the ATTSA Doomdooma Regional Committee, said the community had waited for decades for recognition and justice. "The tea tribes community has been demanding Scheduled Tribe status for decades. Our people h...