Students of Dhaka University belonging to the families of 'tea-workers' staged a candle-procession at the campus demanding to raise the wage of tea workers.

The procession was formed at the foot of anti-terrorist Raju monument of the Dhaka University around 7:45 pm on Sunday.

During the procession they demanded to increase the daily wage of tea workers to Tk 300 from Tk 120.

"Today, we, the children of tea workers, came here for our rights. It is very inhuman that tea garden owners pay only Tk 120 to the tea workers. The wage is too low to meet our urgent needs and must be increased to taka 300," one of the protesters said.

Later they marched toward Central Shaheed Minar with candles and concluded the procession there.

On August 9, the Bangladesh Tea Workers Union started two-hour work abstention a day demanding daily wage hike.

Workers demanded an increase of their wage to Tk300, with inflation rising and the currency depreciating.

The workers of 168 tea gardens across the country went on a full-scale strike on Aug 13.

Bangladesh is producing a record amount of tea every year through the toil of the tea workers. In 2021, a record 96 million kilograms of tea was produced in the country thanks to the hard labour of the underpaid tea workers.

Although two agreements on increasing wages were signed, the fate of more than 1.5 lakh tea workers in the country hasn’t changed a bit.