Labour Minister Moloy Ghatak while talking to reporters regarding the bill said it will provide interest subvention and matching grants to the employers of tea gardens as soft loan which they may take for undertaking social welfare schemes, medical facilities, housing, primary education, potable water supply, sanitation and child care and for providing other basic amenities for the families of tea plantations employees.
He also said that the bill will have provision to provide scholarship to the children of tea garden employees for undergoing training in technical institutes and polytechnics.
Ghatak also said that the bill has provisions to provide margin money as soft loan to incentivise the present owners or the new owners of the sick and closed tea gardens to infuse additional capital through bank loan for rejuvenation and modernisation of the tea gardens.