<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The daily wage of tea garden workers has been increased to Tk 170 from Tk 120, according to reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The decision came after a meeting of tea garden owners with the Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban on Saturday (August 27).</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus revealed this emerging from a meeting with the Tea Garden Owners, saying that the Premier, on behalf of the workers, set the daily wage.</div><div><br></div><div>The Premier also requested the workers to go back to their respective works, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Before this, a meeting with PM Sheikh Hasina started at Bangladesh Tea Association (BTA), an organisation of tea garden owners, at Ganabhaban at around 4:30 pm. 13 tea garden owners of the country were present in the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, more than 150,000 workers of 166 tea gardens of the country went on strike from August 9 demanding an increase of their daily wage to Tk 300 from Tk 120. From that day, they observed a two-hour strike for four days. After that, the tea garden workers started a full-scale strike and protest for an indefinite period from last August 13.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>