Northeast’s first ‘tea museum’ to come up in Assam’s Dibrugarh

News Desk :

The first “tea museum” of the Northeast will come up at Dibrugarh in Assam. 
Dibrugarh in Assam, is considered to be the “tea city of India”. 
The “tea museum” in Dibrugarh will be opened for public in the first half of 2023. 
This development was informed by Assam Tourism Development Corporation Limited (AITDC) chairman Rituparna Barua in Dibrugarh on Tuesday. 
Baruah said that almost 90 percent of work in the first phase of the project has been completed.  
For the second phase of the project, an amount of Rs 40 crore has been approved by the NEC on a priority basis, Baruah said.  

In the second phase, an auditorium, a model tea garden and a tea factory will be constructed inside the museum complex, which is spread over 2.66 acres of land. 
“It was a long-standing demand of the people to set up a tea museum in Dibrugarh which is known as the tea city of India,” Baruah said.