The Hindu Business Line : Curbs on PDS supply to tea growers hit garden owners

Kolkata, Aug. 9 The drastic curtailment in allotment of foodgrains for tea garden workers under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in West Bengal has hit the garden owners of the State, according to Mr Shashank Prashad, President, Tea Association of India.

To bridge the gap between the present TPDS allotment and the actual requirements of the workers, the owners were being required to buy foodgrains in the open market at a cost. Worse, the large-scale purchases were pushing up the prices of foodgrains in the open market beyond the means of the garden owners most of whom were not doing too well because of the crisis in tea industry for the past several years.

Representations to the Government to restore the allotments had gone unheeded so far. Unless the Government did something immediately in this regard, the system of providing foodgrains to tea workers at subsidised rates would collapse, throwing up various other problems, said Mr Prashad.

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