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Budget fails to cheer tea sector

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Assam's tea industry is very much upset with the union budget on Friday. The industry fails to get any stimuli in the budget.


The industry had hoped the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday would look into issues concerning the tea industry, one of the major revenue earners for the state.


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