From the archive record
A Mahindra Scorpio SUV belonging to the assistant manager of the tea garden stands by, as he supervises the picking, packing and cleaning of tea leaf on his garden. The freshly-picked leaves will then be taken to a weighing center before being deposited in the factory. Tea garden workers sit next to their cane and wicker baskets (and plastic bags), resting and awaiting a ferry to the factory for weighing of their leaf. Heritage North East is a relatively new Company, conceived and floated by the initiative of the B&A Group of Companies in the year 2000, with the objective of getting into Tourism, and especially into Heritage and Tea Tourism in the North East. The north-eastern part of India is called the land of blue hills, green valleys and red rivers. Of what little is known about it, su