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Gayabari
Gayabari (Nepali translation: The cowshed) is a tea garden village in the Kurseong CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling District of West Bengal state, India. Geography Gayabari Tea Garden village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is the elected representative of village. Postal pin code: 734223 Postal head office: Tindharia. Nearby cities & towns Kurseong: 15 km Darjeeling: 44 km Siliguri Siliguri, ) is a major tier-II city in West Bengal. It forms twin cities, "Twin Cities" with the neighboring district capital of Jalpaiguri. The city spans areas of the Darjeeling district, Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts in the Indian sta ...: 26 km Demographics As per Indian Population Census 2011, Gayabari Tea Garden has 99 families residing in the village and has a population of 460 of which 238 are males and 222 are females. Gayabari Tea Garden village has a higher literacy rate compared to the rest of West Bengal. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayabari Railway Station
Gayabari (Nepali translation: The cowshed) is a tea garden village in the Kurseong (community development block), Kurseong Community development blocks in India, CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district, Darjeeling District of West Bengal state, India. Geography Gayabari Tea Garden village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is the elected representative of village. Postal pin code: 734223 Postal head office: Tindharia. Nearby cities & towns Kurseong: 15 km Darjeeling: 44 km Siliguri: 26 km Demographics As per Indian Population Census 2011, Gayabari Tea Garden has 99 families residing in the village and has a population of 460 of which 238 are males and 222 are females. Gayabari Tea Garden village has a higher literacy rate compared to the rest of West Bengal. The total geographical area of village is 236.34 hectares. Nepali is the main language spoken in Gayabari. Transport The village is served by Gayabari railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayabari Railway Station
Gayabari (Nepali translation: The cowshed) is a tea garden village in the Kurseong (community development block), Kurseong Community development blocks in India, CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district, Darjeeling District of West Bengal state, India. Geography Gayabari Tea Garden village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is the elected representative of village. Postal pin code: 734223 Postal head office: Tindharia. Nearby cities & towns Kurseong: 15 km Darjeeling: 44 km Siliguri: 26 km Demographics As per Indian Population Census 2011, Gayabari Tea Garden has 99 families residing in the village and has a population of 460 of which 238 are males and 222 are females. Gayabari Tea Garden village has a higher literacy rate compared to the rest of West Bengal. The total geographical area of village is 236.34 hectares. Nepali is the main language spoken in Gayabari. Transport The village is served by Gayabari railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurseong (community Development Block)
Kurseong is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Kurseong is located at . Kurseong CD block is partly in the Kurseong Range physiographic region, south of the Darjeeling Himalayas physiographic region, and partly in the Western Dooars physiographic region, a plain area spread over foothills of the Himalayas. The elevation in the Kurseong Range varies from 300 to 1,800 m and there are many low hill peaks. Western Dooars is a plain area with elevation ranging from 80 to 300 m. Kurseong CD block is bounded by the Rangli Rangliot CD block on the north, Kalimpong I CD block and Rajganj CD block in Jalpaiguri district on the east, Matigara and Naxalbari CD blocks on the south and Mirik CD block on the west. The Kurseong CD block has an area of 372.30 km2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 14 gram panchayats, 123 gram sansads (village council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurseong Subdivision
Kurseong subdivision is a subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India. Subdivisions Darjeeling district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions: Police stations Police stations in the Kurseong subdivision have the following features and jurisdiction: Gram panchayats Gram panchayats in Kurseong subdivision are : * Kurseong block consists of rural areas only with 14 gram panchayats, viz. Gayabari–I, Shivakhola, St. Marry's–III, Seetong–III, Gayabari–II, St. Marry's–I, Seetong–I, Sukna, Gayabari–III, St. Marry's–II, Seetong–II, Pandu, Chimney–Deorali and Mahanadi. Blocks Community development blocks in Kurseong subdivision are: Demographics According to the 2011 census, Hindus numbered 90,031 and formed 65.82% of the population. Buddhists numbered 31,133 and formed 22.76% of the population. Christians numbered 9,639 and formed 7.05% of the population. Muslims nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yangdup Lama
Yangdup Lama is bartender, bar-owner, entrepreneur, author and mixologist based in India and is known to be one of India's finest mixologists. Lama has been featured by drinks international magazine in the Bar World 100 list of most influential people in the global beverage industry 2020, the first Indian to feature on this list. This follows the feat of having his bar Sidecar win a coveted spot as India's best bar in 2021 and the Asia's 50 Best Bars awards 2020 and 2021 and the Joint Nikka Highest Climber Award 2021. Early life Lama is the second child born to mother Kamala Lama (Sherpa) and father Late Namgal Lama (Yonzon) in the village of Gayabari near Kurseong in the hill district of Darjeeling in the North Eastern part of India. He completed Secondary School Certification (Class 10th) from Victoria Boys’ School, Kuseong and Senior School Certification (Class 12th) from Army Public School Bengdubi. Lama moved to Kolkata in 1992 to study Hotel Management ''Hote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-independence The Indian subcontinent has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each instituting their own policies of administrative division in the region. The British Raj mostly retained the administrative structure of the preceding Mughal Empire. India was divided into provinces (also called Presidencies), directly governed by the British, and princely states, which were nominally controlled by a local prince or raja loyal to the British Empire, which held ''de facto'' sovereignty ( suzerainty) over the princely states. 1947–1950 Between 1947 and 1950 the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian union. Most were merged into existing provinces; others were organised into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tindharia
Tindharia or ''Tindharay'' (English meaning: 'Three streams') is a village in the Kurseong (community development block), Kurseong Community development blocks in India, CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India. History It was developed for the purpose of a railway workshop for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway or "toy train". "The construction work including rail track of Darjeeling Himalayan Railways started in May 1879 and completed from Siliguri to Tindharia in 1880. The Governor General of India, Mr. Lord Litton inaugurated the train running in March 1880". The workshop was built at the present location in 1881. It was built temporarily during the last part of the 19th century for the maintenance of locomotives and carriages and wagons of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Construction of the Tindharia workshop at the present location started in 1913 and started operation in 1925. The total area of the workshop is 6670 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Health Centre (India)
Primary Health Centre (PHCs), sometimes referred to as public health centres, are state-owned rural and urban health care facilities in India. They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for minor surgeries. They are part of the government-funded public health system in India and are the most basic units of this system. As on 31 March 2019 there are 30,045 PHCs in India in which 24,855 are located on rural areas and 5,190 are on urban areas. Suggest of PHC is given by Bhore committee in 1946. Primary Health Centres programmes are listed below: * Provision of medical care * Maternal-child health including family planning * Safe water supply and basic sanitation * Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases * Collection and reporting of vital statistics * Education about health * National health programmes, as relevant * Referral services * Training of health guides, health workers, local dais and health assistants * Basic laboratory workers * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus
The Tenzing Norgay Central Bus Terminus is the one of the largest and most important bus terminal in North Bengal. It is located on Hill Cart Road, Siliguri, District Darjeeling, adjacent to the Siliguri Junction railway station, about 6 kilometers from New Jalpaiguri Railway Station. Both State owned North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) buses and private buses ply from here. The Terminus is named after the famous Nepali mountaineer Tenzing Norgay who was a resident of the Darjeeling District. In August 2017 the state government announced its plan to shift the private buses operations to a proposed new site nearby and upgrade the terminus to international standards. Distance from towns/cities See also * Sikkim Nationalised Transport Bus Terminus (Siliguri) * P.C. Mittal Memorial Bus Terminus (Siliguri) * Siliguri Junction railway station * Siliguri Corridor The Siliguri Corridor, also known as the Chicken's Neck, is a stretch of land around the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagdogra
Bagdogra is a settlement in the Naxalbari CD block in the Siliguri subdivision of the Darjeeling district, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the Greater Siliguri Metropolitan Area. The Bagdogra is well connected by air to six major cities of India – Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai through the Bagdogra Airport. The Bagdogra railway station is also well connected. Geography Location Bagdogra is located at . It is 11km away from Siliguri. It has two National Highways:- AH 2 and NH 31C. It also has Asian Highway (AH2). Area overview The map alongside shows the Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district. This area is spread across the foothills of the Himalayas and is a plain land gently sloping from north to south. While the northern part is mentioned as the Terai region, the larger southern portion forms the western part of the Dooars region. While 55.11% per cent of the population resides in the rural areas, 44.89% resides in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagdogra Airport
Bagdogra Airport is a customs airport located in the western part of Siliguri, in Bagdogra in northern West Bengal, India. It is operated as a civil enclave at AFS Bagdogra of the Indian Air Force. It is the gateway airport to the hill stations of Darjeeling, Gangtok, Kurseong, Kalimpong, Mirik and other parts of the North Bengal region. As a major transport hub in the region, the airport sees thousands of tourists annually. The Government of India conferred limited international airport status to the airport in 2002 with limited international operations. Bagdogra Airport experiences humid sub-tropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cwa) - hot humid summers and cooler winter. Significant precipitation in all seasons but drier in the winter. Air traffic at Bagdogra crossed 1 million for the first time growing at 43.6% percent in 2014–15. In 2019–20, the airport served 3.2 million passengers which was an increase of 11.2% from the previous year, making it the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jalpaiguri Junction Railway Station
New Jalpaiguri Junction railway station (station code NJP) established in 1960, is an A1 category broad gauge and narrow-gauge railway station under Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is the largest as well as the busiest railway junction of Northeast India. This junction is largest among the railway stations which serves the city of Siliguri, the largest metropolis of the North Bengal. The other stations are- Siliguri Junction, , Bagdogra, Matigara, and . New Jalpaiguri junction ranked 10th cleanest railway station in India in 2016 survey and came among the top 100 booking stations of Indian railway. New Jalpaiguri, as a railway station serves as the entry point to North Bengal, Sikkim, other countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the seven northeastern states (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya). New Jalpaiguri Junction acts as a connecting base for the Northeastern states to the Indian mainland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
