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Table 2 Diseases in families
Diseases
frequency
Percentage (%)
Diarrhea
130
34.62
Dysentery
35
9.33
Fever
100
26.67
Tuberculosis
15
4.00
Typhoid
30
8.00
Hepatitis
25
6.67
Another
40
10.71
Total
375
100
disease attacks on the tea worker. In our research
finding, we see that Diarrhea and Fever basically
attack on most of the tea workers family. In spite of
this we find some families where diseases of parents
also lie on children. We find 3-4 cases like that. There
is also occupational disease like; pains in the body etc
are present among the tea workers.
3.13 Inclusion on politics
The people are not included on politics. Some are
included but only as a supporter mostly. The
percentage is shown below (Table 3).
Most of the respondents do not have any idea about
politics and political parties of Bangladesh (Das and
Islam, 2006). They said that politics is not for mine;
rather they said that, politics is for them whose have
enough money. Most of the people do not participant
in the election. If they get time after works then they
provide vote in the election.
3.14 Educational status of the family members
The maximum respondents were totally illiterate.
They had no chance of education, they said “we are
here for working and not for education, the authority
were against to educate us”. So, they are illiterate or
have little education. They also said “now there is no
restriction to educate their children “Educational
status of the family members of the respondent’s
Educational status of the family members of the
respondents is in very lower situation. In our findings
we see that most of the people finish their study after
class five. Without these many person not went to
school for one single day. This is shown in a table
below (Table 4).
Table 3 Inclusion on politics
Status
frequency
Percentage (%)
Included Supporter
70
Activists
10
Total
80
21.33
Not
included
295
78.67
Total
375
100
Table 4 Educational status of the members
Status
Frequency
Percentage (%)
No education
75
20
1-5 class
200
53.33
6-10 class
70
18.67
Up to 10 class
30
8
Total
375
100
Education is the optional thing to them, they work
very much. Das and Islam (2006) found that 59% of
the tea workers are illiterate. Majumder and Roy
(2012) also found around 60% respondents are
illiterate; on the other hand, below 1% have completed
above secondary level of education. They actually
can’t go for education and there is the human rights
violence. The reason we find that there is the
unconsciousness of parents. They said that “
children
are not eager to go to school
”. That means they do not
pay attention on education. They think after a few
years’ children can join to work and that’s all.
3.15 Knowledge/idea about human rights
Most of the people don’t have any idea about human
rights. They are very much normal to their lifestyle.
But, we find some people who are concerned about it.
The community people don’t cause any harm or any
violation. In tea garden area sometimes occurs stealing
and other offence but community people said that this
offence happen by outside people. Community people
do not involve in such activities (Figure 11).
It has been seen that the consumption of the tea
increasing day by day. Now we consume around
58,000 Metric Tons of Tea per year (Ahmad et. al.,
2013). But the production of tea was not as much as
needed. There are several reasons for which tea
production is hampering. We think the condition of tea
workers is one of them. If the condition of the workers
