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Indian tea workers' conditions remain very poor
Low wages and poor living and working conditions for the 155,000 people who live on the vast estates owned by Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL) are leading to high levels of malnutrition and ill health.
"...'The report validates concerns workers have been raising for years about poor living and working conditions on APPL plantations, and shows how the World Bank Group and APPL repeatedly failed to fulfil their obligations,' said Wilfred Topno, director of PAD, one of three organisations that complained to the World Bank on behalf of workers..."
Read the full article from BBC News.
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