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Agartala, Nov. 13 (PTI): Tripura may soon boast of a tea auction centre as the Tea Board of India is “actively considering” setting up one in the northeastern state. India has at least eight tea auction centres with the oldest in Kolkata’s Nilhat House, besides auction centres in Guwahati, Siliguri, Cochin and Coimbatore. Tripura Tea Development Corporation (TTDC), Chairman Santosh Saha said, “The Tea Board of India informed us that it was actively considering to set up a tea auction centre in Tripura. Now we need to build up a warehouse to support it”. He said the auction centre could be set up at Dharmanagar, the headquarters of the North district, so that tea planters from neighbouring Karimganj and Cachar district of Assam also could sell their tea besides the planters from Tripura. “Tripura has always had a problem in auctioning tea as there is no auction centre in the state. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha and the former chief minister Biplab