Young tea, being highly susceptible to weeds and subjected to herbicide damage due to drift leads to higher dependence on manual weed control. Therefore, two weeders had developed for evaluating their field performance after modification of traditional weeder and field experiment was conducted at Jorhat, Assam with a view to monitor the severity of weed infestation and tea growth in relation to weed management methods in newly established tea. Manual weeding (cheeling) at various intervals was compared with two types of young tea weeder (Type I and Type II), with or without mulching under randomized block design with four replications. Paspalum conjugatum Berg., Axonopus compressus (Sw.) Beauv. and Borreria hispida (L.) K. Schum. were the dominant weed florae. Results revealed that weed control with young tea weeder (YTW) was superior to that of traditional cheeling and it can save mandays to an extent of 25 – 38 per cent, compared to conventional cheeling during the critical period of weed infestation and the saving in man power requirement was more when the collar of young tea was mulched with dry bamboo leaves and weeding done with YTW. Among the treatments, combination of Tocklai YTW II (Type II) with mulching was found to be the best in respect of less weed density, dry weight and man power requirement. This treatment also recorded the highest values of all the biometric parameters. Hence, a combination of mulching and YTW, particularly Type-II was considered the most appropriate treatment for weed management in young tea.