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Several companies have expressed interest in taking over Dem Dima Tea Estate of the Duncan Group in North Bengal. In a notification in end-January, the Union Commerce Ministry had announced its intent of acquiring seven of the 14 tea estates of the G. P. Goenka Group, which controls Duncan Group, in North Bengal. The gazette notification said that it has received several representations on the “deteriorating condition of the tea gardens of West Bengal, in particular the tea gardens owned and managed by M/s Duncan Industries Ltd.”
