Tea Board plans Jebel Ali-style integrated park near Dhamra port

It will be an EOU, set on a minimum area of 500,000 sq ft

Tea Board India might set up an ‘integrated tea park’ close to the Dhamra port in north Odisha. This is proposed as an export-oriented unit, with facilities for warehousing, packaging, blending, testing and allied activities.

The Board was keen to locate this in the eastern region and has found Dhamra an appropriate site. A letter asking for the land “on or near the port” has been sent by Priyanka Basu Ingty, secretary, Tea Board, to L N Gupta, principal secretary of the Odisha government for small and medium enterprises.

The proposed park is to be modelled on the DMCC Tea Centre at