Dooars

  • This year (2024) marks 150 years of tea production in the Dooars area, as the first tea plantations in the region were set up in 1874, a few decades after Darjeeling.
  • Dooars are alluvial floodplains in northeastern India that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and Brahmaputra plain.
  • It is about 30 km wide and stretches over about 350 km from the Teesta River in West Bengal to the Dhansiri River in Assam. It forms the gateway to Bhutan, Sikkim and Eastern Nepal.
  • It is divided by the Sankosh River into Eastern and Western Dooars, consisting of ....
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