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Land Ownership for Tea Workers
December 2 , 2025
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- Assam passed the Assam Fixation of Ceiling of Land Holdings (Amendment) Act, 2025.
- The law grants legal ownership of residential land to families living in tea garden labour lines.
- It removes these lands from the category of ancillary land in tea cultivation.
- The government will notify the plot sizes to be allotted and provide compensation of about ₹65.57 crore at the rate of ₹3,000 per bigha.
- Assam has 825 tea estates with labour colonies covering over 2 lakh bighas of land.
- The amendment aims to correct long-standing inequities faced by tea worker families and strengthen their social and economic security.
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