Rohini Tea Garden
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Rohini Tea Garden | |
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Village | |
  Rohini Tea Garden Location in West Bengal, India  Rohini Tea Garden Rohini Tea Garden (India) | |
| Coordinates: 26°50′37″N 88°17′23″E / 26.843478°N 88.289652°E | |
| Country 26.843478,88.289652 |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Darjeeling |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 2,752 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 734203 |
| Telephone/STD code | 0353 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Darjeeling |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Kurseong |
| Website | darjeeling |
Rohini Tea Garden is a village in the Kurseong CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
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Wildlife
Sanctuary
CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, N: neighbourhood, H: hill centre, NP: national park/ wildlife sanctuary, TE: tea estate, TA: tourist attraction
Abbreviations used in names – TG for Tea Garden (town/village), TE for Tea Estate
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
Location
Rohini Tea Garden is located at 26°50′37″N 88°17′23″E / 26.843478°N 88.289652°E.
Of the 1,300 hectares originally planted with plants of Chinese variety, only 38 hectares have survived. 108 hectares planted from 1996 onwards have not yet attained maturity but still produce exquisite tea. Tukuriya, the highest division of the garden, has an average elevation of 4,400 ft (1,300 m). The estate has a new factory.[2][3]
Area overview
The map alongside shows the eastern portion of the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and a small portion of the terai region in its eastern and southern fringes, all of it in the Darjeeling district. In the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision 61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the Kurseong subdivision 58.41% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 41.59% lives in the urban areas.[5][6] There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), in the district, producing and largely exporting Darjeeling tea. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly.[7] Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages.[8] 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.
