The Government through the Tea Board is implementing Tea Development and Promotion Scheme (TPDS) which provides financial assistance to the tea industry in the country including the tea gardens of West Bengal covering Jalpaiguri District for increasing production and productivity of tea, and welfare measures for tea garden workers and their wards.  Tea Board has disbursed ₹ 218.28 Crores in last three financial years from 2016-17 to 2018-19 of which the share of West Bengal was ₹ 44.50 crores.

As per TPDS, there is no provision of extending loans to tea industry or tea growers.

The tea is mostly blended before it is exported, as such the origin (State/UT-wise) is lost in the process. Hence the data pertaining to the export share of the States and UTs are not maintained by the Tea Board.  However, region wise exports (based on the ports in the region) of tea during 2018-19 is given in the following table:

Region	Quantity in M.Kgs	Value in Rs Crs	Unit Price in Rs/Kg
North India	152.83	3748.40	245.27
South India	101.67	1758.44	172.96
All India	254.50	5506.84	216.38

Source: Tea Board

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Hardeep Singh Puriin a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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Tea Development and Promotion Scheme clarifies assistance focus and confirms no loan provision while region-wise export data maintained. Tea Development and Promotion Scheme provides financial assistance for production, productivity and welfare of tea garden workers but contains no provision for extending loans to tea industry or tea growers. Due to pre-export blending obscuring State-origin, the Tea Board does not maintain State-wise export shares and instead publishes region-wise export statistics based on ports, with 2018-19 region-wise quantity, value and unit price reported.