The Dooars Cha Bagan Workers' Union is a trade union of tea plantation labourers in the Dooars in northern West Bengal, India. It is affiliated to the

United Trade Union Congress United Trade Union Congress is a central trade union organisation in India. UTUC is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party. Ashok Ghosh is the general secretary of UTUC. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labo ...

, the labour wing of the Revolutionary Socialist Party. Historically it held a strong influence among tea plantation labourers in the eastern Dooars. As of 2010, its general secretary was

Manohar Tirkey Manohar Tirkey (born 20 November 1953) is an Indian politician and a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected on a Revolutionary Socialist Party (India), Revolutionary Socialist Party ticket from Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency). The ...

. The Dooars Cha Bagan Workers' Union emerged in 1948. The first RSP-controlled tea plantation workers union was established at the Sarugaon Tea Estate. Subsequently, the union established its presence in the Majherdabri, Kohinoor and Mathura tea estates. Its founding president was Brojen Das and its general secretary was Suresh Talukdar.Gupta, Manas Das.
Labour in Tea Gardens
'. Delhi: Gyan Sagar Publications, 1999. 79 The union was registered in the same year.Bhowmik, Sharit.
Class Formation in the Plantation System
'. New Delhi: People's Pub. House, 1981. pp. xii, 150 As of 1961, it claimed 11,152 members. In the 1960s,

A.H. Besterwitch A. H. Besterwitch was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He belonged to the Revolutionary Socialist Party. As of the 1960s and 1970s, he served as general secretary of the Dooars Cha Bagan Workers’ Union, a trade union of tea plantation ...

served as general secretary of the union.Europa Publications Limited.
The Europa Year Book
'. London: Europa Publications, 1961. p. 591 Its offices were located in

Kalchini Kalchini is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Alipurduar subdivision of the Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Kalchini is located at . The Kalchini CD block l ...

for many years. During the years of the Emergency in the 1970s, the organisers of union suffered from violent attacks from the plantation owners. At this point, its general secretary was

Nani Bhattacharya Nani Bhattacharya (6 November 1917 – 11 October 1993) was one of the founder-members of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, trade union activist, minister in West Bengal, and Member of Parliament. Early days Nani Bhattacharya was born to Kal ...

. As of 2005, DCBWU was the third largest union in the tea plantation sector in the region. However, the union has lost ground after the entry of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad in the tea plantation union sector.

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