SEZ for tea in CBE sought

The South India Tea Exporters' Association (SITEA) has sought to set up a Special Economic Zone for tea here, as more than 60 per cent of the exports from South was originating from Coimbatore.

The city was also considered to be an ideal place for doing pre-export obligations like blending, packing, before transporting the containers to the Ports of exporters' choice at Cochin, Tuticorin and Chennai, a SITEA release said today.

The appeal was made at the 3rd annual general meeting of the association held here recently, it said.


The meeting elected R K Agarwal Chairman and Mahesh Bajaj as Vice-Chairman of SIETA for 2006-07.

Manosh Choudhury, Dipak Shah,U V Saraf, Hemant J Shah, V Mani, Rony Elias Tharakan and Hemen Shah, were elected members of the managing committee, the release said. (Agencies)

Source : Chennai Online