Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Thursday (January 1, 2026), threatened to withdraw all incentives given to tea estate owners if they oppose the move to grant land rights to their workers.
The State government brought legislation in November 2025 to make tea garden workers the owners of the land they occupy in the ‘labour lines’ of the tea estates.
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