FROM STATE SECURITY TO HUMAN SECURITY: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO STATUS OF TEA GARDEN WOMEN WORKERS OF JORHAT DISTRICT

Health is the basic requirement for fulfillment of all human aspiration. Health refers to a state of complete Physical, mental and social wellbeing. Health security, as discuss in the earlier chapter refers to minimum protection from diseases and unhealthy lifestyles. Health security now regard as a major component of Human security. Human Security is not (only) a concern with weapons. It is a concern with human dignity. In the last analysis, it is child who did not die, a disease that did not spread an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.