International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 3

Water environment of tea production areas - Darjeeling hilly region and its health impact on tea workers

  • Author:
  • Lopamudra Ganguly, Lakshminarayan Satpati
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 390 to 398

Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, 35, Bullygunge Circular Road, Kolkata-700019

Online published on 21 April, 2016.

Abstract

Tea and tea workers are the two sides of a coin where health related issues of tea workers occupy delicate position in these state of affairs. In spite of heavy rainfall in Darjeeling hilly track the workers in tea garden suffer water crises. Hence they used to collect water from the nearer plain region and store for long times for their daily house hold works. The stored water strongly attracts water and vector born diseases like cholera and diarrhoea and malaria.

Keywords

Tea-workers, cholera, diarrhoea, sanitation, malaria, hygiene, water born disease, vector born disease