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DIBRUGARH: Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS) will launch a ‘Shramik Gorjon’ programme in Dibrugarh on January 18. ACMS, which is the largest trade union of tea workers in the northeast, is seeking fulfilment of its 11-point charter of demands. Among its major demands are hike of minimum daily wages of tea garden workers from Rs 167 to Rs 351, adequate daily wage and other facilities for labourers working in tea gardens owned by small tea growers, Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for adivasis of Assam and a separate autonomous council for the tea community. ACMS general secretary Rupesh Gowala on Monday said that that more than one lakh tea labourers of the Brahmaputra valley would participate in the first phase of agitation in Dibrugarh, which would be followed by a similar programme at Biswanath Chariali on January 28. The agitation will culminate in Guwahati with a ‘Dispur Chalo’ programme on February 8. ....