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Date: 21/05/2020 Objective : To promote and foster collective actions, to implement activities in favour of sustainable production and consumption of tea and raise awareness of its importance in fighting hunger and poverty.             21 st May, 2020: Tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world, after water. With time, it has become a very important cash crop the world over. There was a dire need to plan and implement actions to secure wages of workers at tea plantations, their health and security, sustainable methods of tea production, etc. Thus, the United Nations, on recommendations of the tea growing countries of the world, especially India, declared 21 st of May as International Tea Day.            Department of Botany, Y & M AKI’s Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce, celebrated this day via the digital platform ZOOM, a step taken in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic on 21 st May, 2020. Students and staff registered for the event through Google