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Assam’s world-famous tea gardens are deadly for pregnant women Researchers who investigated 150 maternal deaths discovered that 69 per cent of all deaths were among the tea garden community Current Affairs :-“Moms are presently ready to contact us notwithstanding during the storm,” said Arundhati Das, 52, pointing at the black-top street outside a one-room government wellbeing sub-focus in Bhojkhowa town. The middle serves a populace of 10,000 in Assam’s flood-inclined Sonitpur area and Das has been accountable for it since 2001. There is a bed in one corner, and a child gauging scale over it. Holding tight the divider are material pockets with inoculation cards to monitor the immunizations that youngsters in the zone have gotten. The sub-focus that gives essential social insurance—iron tablets, data about government plans, inoculation and contraceptives—gets overwhelmed each rainstorm. “The moms are then compelled to remain at home,” said Das. More than 30 of Assam’s 33 l...