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929:– and one garden in the Terai region at Gungram. The company has been regularly carrying out uprooting, replanting and rejuvenation of tea areas. It has high quality clonal gardens and has expanded substantially over the years. Birpara Tea Estate has 798.78 hectares of mature tea and 128.65 hectares of young tea. In 1998-99, it produced 1.817 million kg of tea. Yields in Duncan gardens are double that of the national average.
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868:
Where I now live, the nearest town is just two kilometers away. National
Highway 31, as well as the second broad gauge line from Guwahati to Delhi, runs less than one kilometere away from my house. There are gardens in the interior too, from where a ride to the nearest town could take an hour's drive
865:
planters brought with them thousands of migrant
Adivasi labourers from the neighbouring Chhotta Nagpur region. They also brought Nepali workers from the hills. The original inhabitants of the area were gradually outnumbered. North Bengal began to grow into the multi-ethnic region it has become today.
924:
In 1859, a young
Scottish merchant, Walter Duncan, started business ventures in India. Initiated as Playfair Duncan company, it grew as Duncan Brothers, amongst the earliest companies being Birpara Tea Company and Anglo-India Jute Mills. The Goenka family took over Duncan Brothers in 1951, and under
846:
in Bhutan. It is a predominantly rural area with 79.38% of the population living in the rural areas. The district has 1 municipal town and 20 census towns and that means 20.62% of the population lives in urban areas. The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, taken together, form more than half the
864:
After we arrived at New
Jalpaiguri Railway Station, he (my husband) drove me out into the hot and humid plains to Birpara Tea Garden... The Dooars is a world that abounds in natural beauty, with its forests, rivers and mountains. There are more than two hundred tea gardens here… The early British
910:, Birpara Tea Garden had a total population of 42,080 of which 21,226 (50%) were males and 20,854 (50%) were females. There were 4,788 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Birpara Tea Garden was 28,020 (75.14% of the population over 6 years).
925:
the leadership of G.P.Goenka, diversified substantially and emerged as one of the top business houses in the country. The Tea
Division of Duncans has nine tea gardens in the Dooars – Birpara, Hantapara, Dumchipara, Lankapara, Tulsipara, Garganda, Killot, Nagaisuri,
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Since 1992, we’ve had satellite television, and since 1999 we’ve had
Internet connections. We didn’t have a phone line that could connect us to family in Delhi until 1996, though! We wrote letters and waited for weeks for replies to reach us.
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The Tea
Division of the Duncan Goenka group has been facing rough weather on the labour front and has been in the news. As per newspaper reports, there is likelihood of ownership change.
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over riverbeds or through dark and frightening forests full of wild animals. We even have wild elephants, snakes and leopards that very often make their way into our bungalow compound!
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population in all the six community development blocks in the district. There is a high concentration of tribal people (scheduled tribes) in the three northern blocks of the district.
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Birpara Tea Garden spared a portion of their cultivable land for the establishment of
Birpara town, many years ago. Over the years, it has developed as an important town in the area.
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Places and tea estates in the western portion of
Alipurdar subdivision (including Madarihat-Birpara, Falakata and Alipuduar I CD blocks) in Alipurduar district
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Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
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959:, it offers honours courses in Bengali, Nepali, geography, history, sociology, a general course in arts, and honours and general courses in commerce.
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Life is an amazing and curious mix of old and new, civilization and wilderness, natural beauty and cultivated plantations.
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in West Bengal. It is undulating country, largely forested, with numerous rivers flowing down from the outer ranges of the
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CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, N: neighbourhood, NP: national park/ wildlife sanctuary, TE: tea estate
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1127:. Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal. Archived from
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Alipurduar district is covered by two maps. It is an extensive area in the eastern end of the
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Birpara police station has jurisdiction over a part of the
Madarihat-Birpara CD block.
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Birpara police station is shown as being a part of the Birpara Tea Garden village.
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Abbreviations used in names – TG for Tea Garden (town/village), TE for Tea Estate
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The Journal of an Indian Tea Planter’s wife, Seventh Chords, 30 April 2006
976:"District Census Handbook Jalpaiguri, Series 20, Part XII A , 2011 census"
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According to the map of the Madarihat CD block on page 193 in the
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1083:"District Census Handbook, Jalpaiguri, Series 20, Part XIIA"
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1247:"Duncan's 'abandoned' tea estate to reopen on November 23"
307:(or simply Birpara) is a village, a tea garden and two
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1179:. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India
1063:. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India
1061:2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD blocks
825:District Census Handbook, Jalpaiguri, 2011 census,
1057:"CD block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA)"
1121:"District Statistical Handbook 2014 Jalpaiguri"
1092:. Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal
1031:"District Statistical Handbook 2014 Jalpaiguri"
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985:. Directorate of Census Operations West Bengal
940:There is a station at Dalgaon, nearby, on the
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955:was established in 1986. Affiliated with the
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1090:Census of India 2011, page 13 Physiography
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942:New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar-Samuktala line
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1249:. The Indian Express, 21 November 2016
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1291:"Managers exit 6 Duncan tea gardens"
983:page 193: Map of Madarihat CD block
14:
1293:. The Telegraph, 27 February 2019
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1607:Kumargram and Sankos Tea Estates
1271:. The Telegraph, 5 February 2018
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1675:Villages in Alipurduar district
1638:Villages in Alipurduar district
1360:Cities, towns and locations in
74:Location in West Bengal, India
1:
25:Village in West Bengal, India
1518:other than cities and towns
1397:Alipurduar Railway Junction
1177:West Bengal – District-wise
748:Alipurduar Railway Junction
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957:University of North Bengal
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107:Birpara Tea Garden (India)
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1151:"Search a Police Station"
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920:Dooars-Terai tea gardens
18:Birpara (disambiguation)
77:Show map of West Bengal
1269:"2 tea gardens reopen"
1009:The history of Birpara
878:
789:Birpara is located at
320:Alipurduar subdivision
1536:Dheklapara Tea Garden
1199:"Duncan Goenka Group"
1526:Bandapani Tea Garden
908:2011 Census of India
889:Civic administration
882:Gowri Mohanakrishnan
859:The Dooars: A World
252:Vehicle registration
16:For other uses, see
1362:Alipurduar district
1153:. Alipurduar Police
808:26.7113°N 89.1366°E
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324:Alipurduar district
139:26.7113°N 89.1366°E
135: /
1602:Aryaman Tea Estate
1531:Birpara Tea Garden
1492:Uttar Kamakhyaguri
1131:on 21 January 2019
305:Birpara Tea Garden
202: • Total
101:Birpara Tea Garden
68:Birpara Tea Garden
32:Birpara Tea Garden
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1628:Alipurduar topics
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1417:Jagijhora Barabak
1313:"Birpara College"
1005:"Birpara College"
906:According to the
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680:Jagijhora Barabak
313:Madarihat-Birpara
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1656:India portal
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90:
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57:
28:
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