Siliguri Tea Auction Committee

About Siliguri Tea Auction Committee

Siliguri Tea Auction Centre was inaugurated on 29th October 1976 in presence of the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Late Siddhartha Shankar Roy and other Central and State Ministers. At the beginning on 29th October, 1976 we had 16 Seller Members, 132 Buyer Members & 7 Broker Members with a total registered Warehouse area of 39,726 sq.ft for storing teas. Now in the year 2016 there are 595 Seller Members, 433 Buyer Members and 11 Broker Members. The Center has registered Warehouse space of 792375 sq.ft for storing 10 lakh packages of tea at a time. Siliguri Tea Auction Centre is the third largest Tea Auction Centre in India in considering the volume of tea selling in a year. A record quantity of 1266 lakh kg (127 million kg) of tea was sold during the year 2015, worth Rs.1518 crore.