Socio-Economic Status of Tea Tribe: With Special Reference To Assam

Abstract

Tea tribes of Assam are primarily the labor of tea industry and are regarded as one of the exploited
and backward community of Assam. But at present the younger generation of tea tribes are
comparatively literate .At present there are few intellectual, academic and professional are emerged
in various fields. Tea tribes generally live in very hazardous places. Tea companies usually exploit the
tea tribes in every possible ways and hence their conflict with the management is very common. There
are few instances in which the tea companies did not even supply the life saving drugs when workers
were dying out of epidemic. Poverty, backwardness, illiteracy and addiction of alcohol, poor standard
of living and lack of health facilities are inherent problems of Assamese tea tribes. Although
government of Assam undertook various programmes to develop the tea tribes, yet desired result is
not achieved. This paper is concerned with the Social condition of tea tribes in Assam