Three weeks after government's notes ban took effect, Assam's tea garden workers are at least getting paid. But they say it has not made much of a difference and they are still deprived of basic necessities. At the Belsiri tea estate, 150 km from Guwahati, the labourers, earlier paid in 100s and 500s were now being grouped together and paid in the new 2,000 rupee notes.