Shakti Tea Udyog

Shakti Tea Udyog is located on Burdwan Road, right near the Shivam Palace in the Darjeeling district. If you’ve been to Darjeeling, you know the roads are narrow and the weather is always doing something different. Being near Shivam Palace makes us easy to find, but the traffic on Burdwan Road can be a nightmare during the tourist season. Our workplace is a modest building. It’s not fancy or modern. We have wooden floors that creak and the smell of tea is soaked into the walls. We spend a lot of time grading the tea. It’s a slow process that requires a lot of patience. Sometimes the mist comes right into the building if we leave the doors open. We don't have a big marketing budget or a team of people to handle the public. It’s just us, the tea, and the customers who know where to find us. We use old-fashioned scales and write our records in big thick books. It’s a lot of standing and moving around. My back usually aches by the end of the day. We don't use any of that corporate talk because it doesn't fit who we are. We are just local people working in the tea industry. Sometimes the phone line acts up and we can't take calls, so we just focus on the physical work in front of us. It’s a steady life, even if it is a bit tiring.