Tea board on survey path-Plan for garden health check after prod from minister

[Tea Plantation Workers - Related News]

The Tea Board of India has decided to survey and categorise all registered tea gardens in north Bengal into four categories, taking into consideration their financial state and condition of workers, so that spiralling industry trouble such as the Duncans garden deaths may be avoided in the future. Tea board officials said they had not got the final format for the survey from the Centre ­ the board is under the Union ministry of commerce and industry ­ but conceded that Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union minister of state for commerce and industry, in January had made this suggestion while reprimanding the board.