Note Ban Deadline Ends, Ordeal Of Assam's Tea Garden Workers Continue | Read
Even as the government's deadline for exchanging old Rs. 500 and 1,000 notes comes to an end, the tea gardens in Assam are still feeling the impact of demonetisation. At the Dherai Tea Estate in Sonitpur district, some 200 kilometres away from Guwahati, tea garden workers tell us how they have coped up with demonetisation ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the notes ban on November 8.
