Tea industries in Dooars have come across series of troubles owing to decreasing demand of tea in the international market and due to poor quality of tea that has been produced over the years. The failure of tea industry presently has really hampered the livelihoods of the workers dependent on tea. Sudden shut down of some of the tea industries have left remarkable repercussion on the lives of the tea dependent families and have really affected their socio economic conditions. The present study is an attempt to highlight the condition of tea dependent families in Dooars. The household interviews have been taken in four closed tea estates and their changing livelihood conditions have been analyzed. The need for immediate interventions by the government has been the findings in order to prevent the tea dependent families from being the victims of poverty and other forms of exploitations.
Dooars, livelihoods, poverty, exploitations
