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Small scale tea growers of the region have expressed their gratitude to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for regularising small plantations that came up between 2001 and 2017. This has been a long-standing demand of 50,000 small-scale tea gardens of North Bengal. A gazette notification on April 5, stated: “…Now, for the interest of large number of laborers and stakeholders, the state government has decided to regularise the conversion of small tea gardens land made before November 7, 2017 which was considered by the State Government through the enactment of the West Bengal Land Reforms (Third Amendment) Act, 2017. Anyone who set up a tea plantation on their own land between June 30, 2001, and November 7, 2017, has to pay the rate of conversion of land by plantation of tea on Raiyati land, which is fixed at Rs 25,000 per hectare. For the settlement of small tea gardens on Government
