UPSC Prelims 2022 – Question 79

by Edukemy Team February 22, 2024

Here is Question No. 79 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2022.

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The Tea Board is a statutory body.
It is a regulatory body attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
The Tea Board’s Head Office is situated in Bengaluru.
The Board has an overseas office in Dubai and Moscow.

Which of the statements given above are correct?
a) 1 and 3
b) 2 and 4
c) 3 and 4
d) 1 and 4

Answer (d)

Statement 1 is correct: The Tea Board of India is a statutory body created under the Tea Act, 1953 and it was established for the purposes of regulating the Indian tea industry and protecting the interests of tea producers in India.
Statement 2 is incorrect: It is functioning as a statutory body of the Central Government under the Ministry of Commerce. The Board is constituted of 31 members (including the Chairman) drawn from Members of Parliament, tea producers, tea traders, tea brokers, consumers, and representatives of Governments from the principal tea-producing states, and trade unions. The Board is reconstituted every three years.
Statement 3 is incorrect: The Tea Board of India’s Head Office is situated in Kolkata.
Statement 4 is correct: The Tea Board of India has overseas offices in Moscow, Dubai, Hamburg, London, and New York. Moscow office. The Moscow office of the Tea Board of India operates under the Embassy of India, and its area of activity includes Russia and the CIS countries, which comprise 50% of Indian tea exports. All these foreign offices of the Board are designed to undertake various promotional measures to boost up export of Indian tea. These offices also act as liaison offices for interaction between importers of Indian tea of the respective regions as well as Indian Exporters

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