Telipara Tea Garden is a census town in the

Dhupguri Dhupguri is a town and a municipality of Jalpaiguri district near Jaldhaka River in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography General Dhupguri has an average elevation of 80 metres (262 feet), and is a municipality in the Jalpaigur ...

CD block in the Jalpaiguri Sadar subdivision of the Jalpaiguri district in the state of

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Geography

Location

Telipara Tea Garden is located at .

Area overview

The map alongside shows the

alluvial Alluvium (from Latin ''alluvius'', from ''alluere'' 'to wash against') is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. All ...

floodplains south of the outer foothills of the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 10 ...

. The area is mostly flat, except for low hills in the northern portions. It is a primarily rural area with 62.01% of the population living in rural areas and a moderate 37.99% living in the urban areas. Tea gardens in the

Dooars The Dooars or Duars ( as, দুৱাৰ, duar, rkt, দুৱাৰ, duar, bn, দুয়ার, duyar) () are the alluvial floodplains in eastern-northeastern India that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the ...

and Terai regions produce 226 million kg or over a quarter of India's total tea crop. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE. 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.

Demographics

According to the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Telipara Tea Garden had a total population of 11,535 of which 5,708 (49%) were males and 5,827 (51%) were females. There were 1,398 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Telipara Tea Garden was 6,814 (67.22% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Jalpaiguri'', Telipara Tea Garden covered an area of 15.5407 km². Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved overhead tanks, uncovered wells. It had 986 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 family welfare centre, 10 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 7 primary schools, 2 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 1 senior secondary school, the nearest general degree college at

22 km away. An important commodity it produced was tea. It had branch of 1 nationalised bank.

Education

Banarhat Kartik Oraon Hindi Government College was established at Banarhat in 2014. Affiliated with the University of North Bengal, it is a Hindi-medium institution offering courses in arts and science.

References

{{Jalpaiguri district Cities and towns in Jalpaiguri district