Tea will be declared as national drink of India by April 2013

Tea will be declared as national drink of India by April 2013. This was announced by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia at Jorhat in Assam at a function celebrating the 212^th birth anniversary of first Assamese tea planter and Sepoy Mutiny leader Maniram Dewan.
Assam government has already declared tea as the ‘State Drink’ and also asked the Centre to declare it as the ‘National Drink’.

• Assam Tea: Planters Association was the first tea producers’ association formed by the Indian planters during the pre-independence period. It was come into being on 23rd June in 1935 by 17 tea planters of the region.

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