Browsing by Subject "Crisis"

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Life of the Workers in an Abandoned Tea garden in North Bengal
(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2020) Rai, Ambika
A tea plantation, apart from being an economic unit, is a social institution, which, to a great extent, controls the lives of their resident work force. The tea industry of North Bengal provides employment to more than three lakh workers. These workers are dependent upon the plantation management for food, water, shelter, education, health, sanitation and more. However, it is taken to be caught in crisis since the early 2000s. The closure and abandonment of several tea plantations of North Bengal has thrown the labourers into a situation of dire uncertainty. They lose their jobs, and there comes a shift in the nature of their work, from permanent labourer in the tea estate to casual labourer elsewhere. Besides losing economic security, they are losing whatever minimum social security they had prior to the closure or abandonment of the estate. The paper aims to understand the reason(s) behind the closure of one particular tea estate from the Terai, namely, Panighatta Tea Estate. The estate has been abandoned since 2015. The paper further tries to analyse the impact of the abandonment and closure upon its concerned labourers.
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Role of Virtues to Resolve Crisis
(J. K. Singh, 2022-01-01) Roy, Nirmal Kumar; Barman, Ranjit Kumar
We are running through numberless crisis. But today the most fatal crisis we are going through is nothing but the pandemic called covid-19. Naturally our society is looking for a way out to resolve this crisis. But I think the solution of this problem may be of two types-- one is to discover the medicine to cure the patient affected by the pandemic and another is the prevention of the pandemic itself. The first one is the concern of medical science but the second one I think is the concern of our Sastras. I think the role of our Sıstras is more important than that of medical science.