Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) Leader MP Mano Ganesan has demanded the inclusion of Rs. 2000 as minimum wage for plantation workers in the government’s upcoming budget proposals.
Addressing the Parliament yesterday, MP Mano Ganesan stated he anticipates a Rs.2000 minimum daily wage for plantation workers, pointing out that they are the most marginalized segment in Sri Lanka.
“Unless and until plantation workers are taken care of, they cannot be considered equal citizens,” he stressed.
MP Mano Ganesan pointed out that together with him, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake co-sponsored Motions on Plantation workers in the last Parliament.
Stating that the government may grant relief in cess levy tax on tea exports to Plantation companies, he urged the government to instruct Regional Plantation Companies to pay a minimum wage of Rs. 2000.
MP Mano Ganesan further called upon the President of the JVP’s Plantation trade union, the All Ceylon Plantation Workers Union Kitnan, who is an NPP MP in the incumbent Parliament, to join hands with Tamil Progressive Alliance on this issue. (Newswire)