Tea Board disburses ₹19.92-crore subsidy
February 10, 2021
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Tea Board has disbursed ₹6.04 crore to 103 growers, manufacturers and scheduled caste beneficiaries as the fourth tranche of subsidy in the current fiscal.
Tea Board’s Executive Director M Balaji said that with this, a total subsidy of ₹19.92 crore has been disbursed in four tranches to 1,215 beneficiaries in South India.
He said that in the fourth tranche, a subsidy of ₹63.02 lakh was disbursed to 11 big growers and ₹2.39 lakh to 15 small growers under the Plantation development Scheme.
Subsidy totalling ₹5.34 crore was disbursed to 45 manufacturers as incentive for producing Orthodox tea.
A subsidy of ₹4.96 lakh was disbursed to 32 beneficiaries under Scheduled Caste Sub Plan Scheme.