Contingency workers of Assam’s Pakke Tiger Reserve go on strike
The Hindu
Move taken over non-payment of wages since December 2020
More than 200 contingency workers of the Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh went on an indefinite strike from Wednesday over non-payment of wages since December 2020. The 862 sq.km. tiger reserve in Pakke-Kessang district has been left unguarded as all the 202 workers, along with their eight elephants, converged at the tiger reserve’s administrative office to demand their wages for the last six months. “Our strike was scheduled from May 2 but was withdrawn after the Environment and Forest Minister [Mama Natung] promised that the wages would be released. We can manage somehow, but all of us have families to maintain with the meagre wages we get,” Pakke Tiger Reserve Workers’ Union general secretary Nikum Nabam said.
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