Director of tea development is the committee secretary and convener...

The three Es are namely encroachment, elephant attack, and erosion...

Number of projects inaugurated in tea gardens was among the highest for tea region in recent times...

The animal is yet to be steered back to the forest...

Residents informed foresters who reached spot and placed cage with goat as alive bait to trap big cat and release it into wild...

Foresters ask workers to leave area till reunion...

Fund was set up by Anit Thapa as GTA-nominated head, on March 24, 2020, purportedly to take up the task of 'paying tea garden workers during lockdown'...

Management has not cleared 21 days of workers’ wages and one month and 21 days of wages of the sub-staff, says Alamgir Hossain...

Quarters where we stay are in pathetic shape. We spend nights under tarpaulin sheets as roof collapsed years back, says Mahipal Dorji...

Workers and their families in some gardens on fringes of reserve forests and elephant corridors often face attacks from wild elephants...