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Hemendra Prasad Barooah

Mr. Hemendra Prasad Barooah was born in 1926 to Raibahadur Siva Prasad Barooah, the legendary tea planter and businessman of Assam and Kamal Kumari Barooah, a highly integrious woman of her time.

Mr. Barooah graduated from the Calcutta University taking position among the first ten top students and getting top Government Scholarships' throughout. He became the first person from the North East to achieve the MBA degree in 1949 from prestigious Harvard Business School, USA.

Mr. Barooah joined the family tea plantation business in 1950 and rapidly increased the volume of its operations by undertaking modernizing plans in the gardens. Apart from acquiring several new gardens in B&A Ltd, he forayed into other business ventures like packaging, tea broking, heritage tourism and leisure resort when he promoted B & A Packaging India Ltd, Assam Tea Brokers Pvt.

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