Bengal govt seeks tea planter view on land rights

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The Bengal government has asked the tea industry to submit its views within 14 days on the administration’s decision to provide land rights to workers after the planters raised “severe apprehensions” about the move. Chief secretary H.K.Dwivedi and other senior government officials held a meeting with representatives of the tea industry from the Darjeeling hills, the Terai and the Dooars in Siliguri on Wednesday, where the decision to provide land rights to the labourers came up for discussion.