Second round of Bengal hill parties' talks fails to end Darjeeling shutdown

Banerjee agreed to implement minimum wages for workers in tea gardens

Although West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed her meeting with the major hill parties as "a success" after consenting to three major demands of these parties, pushing for separate statehood and no consensus to end the shutdown was reached upon to end the self-imposed blockade in the Darjeeling hills.

The state government, headed by Banerjee met major hill parties in Siliguri on Tuesday to restore peace in the hills as the shutdown entered its 90th day.

Banerjee accepted to implement minimum wages for the workers in the tea gardens and consented to a "high-level enquiry" in cases related to