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Workers of the erstwhile Manjolai beverage property person appealed to the Tamil Nadu Government to let them to unrecorded successful the spot oregon springiness them a location and 2 acres of cultivable onshore to guarantee their livelihood.
The workers from the erstwhile backstage beverage estates astatine Manjolai, Naalumukku and Ooththu submitted a petition to Collector Anand Mohan astatine the play grievances redressal gathering held present connected Monday.
They said their families had worked successful the beverage estates for 5 generations and had to permission their spot of commencement aft the beverage manufacturing portion coiled up its operations connected June 14, 2024 pursuing the extremity of the lease period. Even arsenic their Aadhar paper and Electors’ Photo Identity Card had been issued based connected the code successful the 3 estates, they had to permission the spot and spell to the plains aft the unit’s operations came to a grinding halt.
The committedness of compensation ranging from ₹1.30 lakh to ₹3.30 lakh to the workers was not fulfilled and, hence, a lawsuit was filed successful the Tirunelveli District Labour Court. Meanwhile, the workers were pressured to permission their houses, which was besides challenged successful the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court and past successful the Supreme Court.
Against this backdrop, the Tamil Nadu Government should research the possibilities of re-opening the beverage gardens done TANTEA, the State Government’s beverage manufacturing unit, truthful that the workers of could beryllium rehired arsenic plantation workers, they said.
“If the scenic portion is converted into tourer spots, we request that our livelihood beryllium guaranteed successful the Western Ghats itself arsenic the Tamil Nadu Government is readying to make tourism infrastructure successful the places wherever we lived. If we are made stakeholders successful the tourism project, our livelihood volition beryllium guaranteed. If the authorities is inactive keen connected evicting america from our commencement places, we should beryllium fixed houses successful the ‘Samaththuvapuram’ to beryllium created exclusively for Maanjolai beverage property workers. Moreover, each of america should beryllium fixed ₹25 lakh arsenic compensation. Each household should beryllium fixed 2 acres of cultivable onshore and individuality paper to sojourn our places of worship and the graves of our ancestors successful Maanjolai, Ooththu and Naalumukku doubly a year,” they added.
The petitioners, arsenic portion of the ex-gratia component, besides sought a stock successful the ₹4,655 crore taxation arrears to beryllium paid by the beverage property manufacturing unit.
