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P.S. Sundar

Coonoor , April 20

THE Tea Board is now running a workers' education programme to improve labour productivity in corporate and Government-managed estates in the South.

With visiting foreigners being taken to small grower fields and bought leaf factories in preference to corporate units, the board has now launched an intensive training programme for the workers of the corporate sector. This includes the field personnel working for the State-owned Tamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation Ltd (TANTEA).

Mr Vikram Kapur, Executive Director of Tea Board, said the idea was to train at least 1,000 workers in batches to cover plantation labour, worker leaders, trade unionists as also the personnel in the Labour Department.

The board has entrusted the job to the Tamil Nadu Institute of Labour Studies (TLIS), Chennai, and the Plantation Management Academy (PMA), Coonoor. Now, the programme is being conducted in batches of 25 personnel to spread for two days. The workers are given a stipend, food, reading and writing materials and wherever required, accommodation as well.

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