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The Bengal administration has intervened to reopen a Dooars tea garden within seven days of its closure because of alleged vandalism by a Trinamul-backed union. Sources said the administration showed unusual alacrity in fast-tracking negotiations to open Samsing Tea Estate, which employs 1,460 labourers, because it did not want a garden to close over law-and-order issues at a time the Mamata Banerjee government had been highlighting the woes of estate workers because of demonetisation. At a tripartite meeting involving the management of the tea estate in Jalpaiguri's Malbazar, representatives of the Trinamul-backed Terai-Dooars Plantation Workers' Union and the sub-divisional officer today, an agreement was reached that the garden would reopen on December 26.
