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Overlooking these uncertainties may lead to erroneous decision making. In the problems surrounding uncertainty and incomplete\/partially known data, Grey System Theory (GST) is a suitable approach for data analysis. Accordingly, the current study is an attempt to propose a new method for solving grey linear programming problems. The grey linear programing methods proposed to date suffer from numerous drawbacks such as weakness of solving linear programming with grey numbers in constraints, inappropriate results with the lower bound is greater than upper bound, out-of feasible-region solutions and so on. To counter these drawbacks, the current study proposes a novel method of linear programming with grey parameters. Later, its solutions are compared with that of other alternative methods. Comparative analyses of the methods revealed the superiority of the proposed method over other methods in terms of quality of optimal solution and computational steps. 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