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THE GAZETTE OF 1NDTA : EXTRAORDINARY

[PART I—SEC U

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.

estates could help the small producers.

(d) To study as to how the public sector companies in lea

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

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.

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.

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