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