India, Feb. 9 -- The Assam government on Monday formally began the process of granting land ownership rights to tea garden workers, describing the move as a landmark step towards ending decades of land insecurity faced by the community.

The rollout was launched at Dinjoy Tea Estate in Dibrugarh with the distribution of settlement application forms under the Assam Fixation of Ceiling on Land Holdings (Amendment) Act, 2025. Addressing the gathering, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said nearly 800 tea plantation workers witnessed the start of the process.

He said the State Assembly had recently amended the land ceiling law to allow ownership of house sites and land to workers living in labour lines, which were earlier legally owned by t...