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Tea Board is currently working on developing a Tea Management System (TMS) at its Coonoor office.
“The objective is to strengthen the data relating to stakeholders and create an efficient system to build statistics relating to important parameters including holding area, owners, details, tea production and sale within the country and abroad besides buyers' preferences,” Executive Director, Mr R Ambalavanan, told Business Line on the sidelines of his releasing the “Global Tea Diary 2011” brought out by Mr Rajesh Gupta, Director, Global Tea Brokers.
He said that the TMS was being developed at an outlay of Rs 34 lakh. “It will be launched by mid-2012. It takes care of workflow and documentation management. It is a pilot project aimed at making Coonoor a hub for tea data.
It entails collecting e-returns from all stakeholders,” he said.
“We are currently building growers' data bank. This will help us dispose off the nearly 3,000 applications pending for subsidy under various schemes”, he said.
Listing the benefits of TMS, he said that growers could get relevant data online which saves them visits to Board's office.
“Application processing will be quick and time-bound. The Board can monitor the progress of the applications up to disposal of subsidies by the banks. Besides, the Board will have useful statistics for taking decisions,” Mr Ambalavanan noted.
“We are also working with Indian Space Research Organisation for mapping the tea area,” he added.
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