200-yr-old Assam tea industry gets its first woman estate manager
Manju Baruah has become the first woman tea garden manager in Assam's nearly 200-year-old tea industry when she was promoted as the manager of Apeejay Tea's Hilika Tea Estate in Tinsukia. The 43-year-old rides a motorbike across the 633-hectare tea estate to perform her duties. An MBA graduate, Baruah joined the Apeejay Tea Group as a Welfare Officer in 2000.n