Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on March 13 distribute land deeds to thousands of tea workers in Assam, giving them shares in the plantations where they have lived and worked for two centuries since British planters brought them from their villages in Chota Nagpur district, Bihar and Bengal.Nearly 350,000 families in 825 tea estates will benefit from the initiative, which aims to legalize the land rights of working generations who do not have their own homesteads. “The Prime Minister will hand over the first plot of land to designated tea garden workers. It will then be distributed across the state,” CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
Tea tribes and adivasis (who constitute about 20% of Assam’s population) influence nearly 35 of the 126 parliamentary seats. Parliament had amended the Assam Land Holding Ceiling Fixation Act in November 2025 to shift the labor line to workers.
