Mangarjung Tea Garden (Nagri) is a

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in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri CD block in the

Darjeeling Sadar subdivision Darjeeling Sadar 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 i ...

of the Darjeeling district in the state of

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Geography

Location

Mangarjung Tea Garden (Nagri) is located at .

Area overview

The map alongside shows a part of the southern portion of the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region in the Darjeeling district. In the

61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the

Mirik subdivision Mirik subdivision is a subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India. It was declared a subdivision on 30 March 2017. Subdivisions Darjeeling district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions: ...

80.11% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 19.89% lives in the urban areas. There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), in the district, producing and largely exporting

Darjeeling tea Darjeeling tea is a tea made from ''Camellia sinensis var. sinensis'' that is grown and processed in Darjeeling district or Kalimpong district in West Bengal, India. Since 2004, the term ''Darjeeling tea'' has been a registered geographical in ...

. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as

s 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, Mangarjung Tea Garden (Nagri) had a total population of 5,644 of which 2,758 (49%) were males and 2,886 (51%) were females. There were 490 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Mangarjung Tea Garden was 4,090 (72.47% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Darjiling'', Mangarjung Tea Garden (Nagri) covered an area of 5.524 km². Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved overhead tank and spring. It had 400 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 medicine shop. Among the educational facilities it had were 7 primary schools, 1 middle school, the nearest secondary and senior secondary schools at Nagri Tea Estate 3 km away. It had 16 non-formal education centres (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan). An important commodity it manufactured was tea.

Economy

DOTEPL group

The gardens of the Darjeeling Organic Tea Estates Private Ltd. are:

Ambootia Ambootia or ''Ambootay'' is a Tea, tea estate 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 States and territories of ...

, Changtong, Happy Valley,

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, Moondakotee, Mullootar, Nagri, Noorbong, Sepoydhurah (Chamling), Sivitar, Rangmook Ceder, Rangaroon, Pandam and Aloobari.

Education

Indira Ojha High School is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 1986. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class X.

References

{{Darjeeling District Cities and towns in Darjeeling district