Demonetisation: Cash crunch has hit the tea gardens of Bengal

Gardens in Assam were able to pay over 90% of the workers during the very week of demonetisation by transferring wages to district magistrates accounts

Over a month since the demonetisation announcement, West Bengal continues to struggle, though tea gardens in Assam have managed to resolve the crisis of paying workers their wages.
 
Gardens in Assam were able to pay over 90 per cent of the workers during the very week of demonetisation by transferring wages to district magistrates accounts.
 
Three gardens in the Dooars have shut down, affecting the livelihood of 4,500 workers. The situation is acute in most tea gardens in West Bengal because they lie in an unbanked part of the state.
 
Only three banks operate in the Dooars,