Doomdooma, Nov. 11 -- Hundreds of tea garden workers, including many women, staged a two-hour protest outside the factory gate of Baghjan Tea Estate in Assam's Tinsukia district on Wednesday, demanding residential land rights, higher daily wages and action on other long-pending issues affecting the tea tribes community.

The protest was organised by the Baghjan-Dighaltarang sub-branch committee of the Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA), along with its affiliated primary units and tea garden workers.

The demonstrators urged the government to expedite the process of granting periodic land pattas for residential plots where tea workers and their families have lived for generations.

Addressing the gathering, Irot Tanti, presiden...