Tea Board has issued showcause notices to 16 biofertiliser and eight prompt tea factories found in distinctive elements of South India for alleged violations of statutory specifications.

Four teams of board officials conducted inspections and found out a number of deviations from the Board’s rules,” Tea Board Govt Director M Balaji said.

“These units have not managed statutory data correctly. They failed to deliver relevant aspects on the sale of their conclude goods,” the ED said.

“Their production functions have been not carried out in accordance with the phrases set in their licences. Aside from, they have not submitted returns correctly,” he said.