Baruah also alleged that there was a monitoring committee in Golaghat with the Deputy Commissioner acting as a chairman, member and secretary from Tea Board of India, two members of Small Tea Growers’ Association, two members each from NETA, ABITA and Tea Association of India. The Deputy Commissioner as well as the monitoring committee did not pay any attention to the matter and failed to control the crisis and solve the problems of the small tea growers, he alleged. The Golaghat district Small Tea Growers’ Association said that unless the authority concerned took steps in this regard, they would launch a massive agitation against the government and bought leaf factories soon.