The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
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No. 41] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1981/PHALGUNA 4, 1902
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108 THE GAZETTE OF 1NDTA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC U (d) To study as to how the public sector companies in lea could help the small producers,MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
RESOLUTION
New Delhi, the 23rd February, 1981
No. I-12011(8)80-Plant(A)•—The Tandon Committee on Tea Marketing inter-alia considered and gave its [recommendations in regard to small growers/producers of tea. The Committee recommended that a special study of the small growers should be made by the Tea Board and tea industry, together with the representatives of small growors, which should be updated every three or five years. In this context, the Tea Associations in the north and south India should also develop separate cells which will liaise with the small grower's cell of the Tea Board and the Small Growers Association. With a view to implement this recommendation the Government of India havo decided to constitute a Committee of Experts with the following terms of reference :
(a) To conduct a special study of small growers/producers to identify thoir problems and to suggest remedial measures.
(b) To study tha nocd for opening up more cooperative
factories.
(c) TO study the ways and means by which the larger tea
estates could help the small producers.
(e) To study whether some priority may be given in the matter of cataloguing at auctions of teas produced by small growers which will enable them to realise their sale proceeds a little earlier.
(f) Any other aspect which in the committee's opinion is
germane to the broad purpose of this study.
2. The Committee shall consist of the following members :—
(a) Chairman . . Deputy Chairman, Tea Board,
Calcutta.
(b) Members . . (i) Chairman, Consultative Com mittce of Plantations Asso- ciation, Calcutta.
(ii) President, United Planters'
Association of Southern India, Coonoor.
(iii) A Representative of Kangra Valley Small Tea Grower's Association, Post Office Baij- nath, Kangra Dt., Himachal Pradesh.
(iv) Representative of Nilgiri Small Tea Growers Associa- tion Coonoor.
(v) A representative of North Bengal Small Tea Growers Association, Mahanatid Para Siliguri Dt., Darjecling. (vi) Shri N.D. Saha, Ambari Tea
Estate, Jalpaiguri.
(c) Member-Secretary Director, Tea Development, Tea
Board, Calcutta.
3. The Committee's Headquarters will be at Calcutta but t he Committee may meet at any other place in the country. The Committee shall have power to co-opt other members.
4. The Committee shall submit its reports to the Govern- ment as early as possible and in any case not later than 3 months from the dato of its appointment.
ORDER
Ordered that the Resolution be published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary.
D.W. TELANG, Jt. Secy.