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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN TEA GARDENS OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH

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Title HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN TEA GARDENS OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH
 
Creator BOJE, DONI
 
Contributor RADHIKA, P
 
Subject manpower, tea (plant), productivity, biological phenomena, beverages, policies, irrigation, byproducts, research methods, area
 
Description The present study entitled “Human resource management in tea gardens of
Arunachal Pradesh” was undertaken to analyse the nature and issues of human resource
in tea gardens of Arunachal Pradesh. The study also includes the perception of employees
towards various employment policies and practices in tea estates of Arunachal Pradesh and
the efficiency of labours and the causes for their inefficiency. Both primary and secondary
data was collected for the study. Garrett’s ranking technique and formulas for calculating
absenteeism rate, turnover rate and labour productivity were used to analyse the data.
In the study it was found that women workers constitute 50 per cent of total work
force in all the studied tea estate according to their official file record. Workers in the tea
estates are mostly illiterates, unskilled, permanent labour, have no working experience
before joining the current tea estate and majority of workers are from Assam and Nepal.
In the study it was found that workers are paid very low wages and have to work
six days a week for 8 hours a day. They are not provided any paid leaves and are not
provided with proper basic facilities like safe drinking water, electricity, school for
children, safety equipments, etc. It was also found that medicines to employees are not
provided free of cost and compensation for accidents and mishap while working is not
provided to them. Managers in tea estates are well provided with the basic facilities,
medical allowances, paid holidays and their salaries are reasonably good.
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The major issues of workers faced in tea estates are low salary, lack of regular
medical facilities and free medicine, lack of safety equipments, frequent illness or
accidents in the tea estates, lack of schools for the children, lack of regular safe drinking
water, electricity and price of food commodities. While managements’ major issues
regarding the labour are high absenteeism rate and irregularity, labour shortage, drinking
habits of labourers and illiteracy.
Majority of workers are unaware of Plantation Act, 1951 and Minimum Wages
Act, 1948. And none of the workers are aware of Factory Act, 1948, equal Remuneration
Act, 1976, Women Maternity benefits Act, 1961 and most of the managers have no
awareness regarding these acts.
Satisfaction level of workers towards the various facilities and practices followed in
the tea estates can be summed up as unsatisfactory. Most of the workers have low level of
satisfaction for the sanitation facility. Majority of workers are dissatisfied with the drinking
water facility, electricity, lack of school for children, lack of medical allowances, and
trainings. With regard to incentives and welfare measures, most of the workers are
dissatisfied. Majority of workers are dissatisfied with lack of medical insurance, lack of
medical allowances, lack of compensation for accidents and mishap during work, lack of
maternity and welfare fund.
The workers efficiency was measured in terms of absenteeism rate, turnover rate
and productivity. Main causes of inefficiency found in workers are genuine personal or
family sickness, working overtime, bonafide personal matters, drinking habits of workers,
personal disharmony with co-worker or management, occurrence of accidents, lack of
welfare amenities, laziness and odd timing of the work, poor wages, bad working
conditions, lack of incentives and promotional tools, inadequate housing and medical
facilities, lack of good recruitment policy, termination due to factors like unsuitability,
insubordination, and negligence, lack of adequate recreational facilities and poor worker-
supervisor relationship, lack of training along with harsh weather conditions.
Proper awareness should be created among the workers and owners of the tea
gardens about the Plantation Act, 1951 and other labour acts relevant to the labour working
in tea estates. Better human resource development programme should be started in this
sector. Wages of the workers should be fixed as per the norms of Minimum Wages Act,
1948 which should be revised as an when the revision are done by the government.
 
Date 2016-06-23T10:01:32Z
2016-06-23T10:01:32Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67786
 
Language en
 
Relation D9148;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY