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December 27, 2016 Banks Roll Out Mobile Mini ATMs In Assam Tea Gardens
Five Mini ATMs have been launched in Assam tea gardens following the cash crunch. DHEKIAJULI (ASSAM): HIGHLIGHTS Bank accounts have been opened for 15 lakh workers in tea gardens The mini ATMs of the UBI cater to 50 tea gardens a week Locals say it is too few, given there are 850 gardens in the […]
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NEWS 
December 27, 2016 Mobile Mini ATMs launched for tea gardens in Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for demonetisation has changed many things for a lot of people in the country. One of them being the way payments are being done in tea gardens of Assam. Right since the Britishers introduced tea plantation in Assam and brought the Adivasi tea garden workers from Chota Nagpur plateau, Odisha, […]
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NEWS 
August 26, 2016 6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Myanmar, tremors felt in West Bengal, Bihar and Assam
Image credit: Google Maps An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck central Myanmar on Wednesday. The epicentre was located 190 km southwest of Mandalay city, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre, and strong tremors were felt in the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam. There are no reports of casualties yet, […]
