Tirap Gaon, Ledo also known as Tirap Colliery, is a small village in

Margherita Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means " daisy". Given name As a name, it may refer to: *Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma *Margherita de' Medici (161 ...

Tehsil in

Tinsukia District Tinsukia district () is one of the 34 administrative districts in the state of Assam, India. The district headquarters is located at Tinsukia city. The district occupies an area of 3790 km2. Towns *Digboi * Doomdooma *Jagun * Kakopathar * L ...

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Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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. It is located around 3 km away from nearest town Ledo, 11 km away from sub-divisional town

and 60 km away from district headquarter

Tinsukia Tinsukia (Pron: ˌtɪnˈsʊkiə) is an industrial town. It is situated north-east of Guwahati and away from the border with Arunachal Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Tinsukia District of Assam, India. History During t ...

. Tirap Gaon is connected to Makum by National Highway 38 (old numbering). The Indian census counts Tirap Gaon as two villages: No.1 and No.2. This place is known for opencast coal mining since 1983 under North Eastern Coalfields, a unit of Coal India Limited. In 2018–2019, an international team of researchers discovered fossil impressions of two previously unknown species of bamboo ('' Bambusiculmus tirapensis'' and '' Bambusiculmus makumensis'') in the Tirap coalmine. These fossils date back to about 25 million years ago, falling in the late Oligocene period. This discovery strengthened the theory that bamboo came to Asia from India and not from Europe. It also challenged the previous hypothesis that Asian bamboo spread from the Yunnan region of China to India.

Nearest town and villages

Ledo, Assam Ledo is a small town in Tinsukia district, Assam, India. , the Ledo railway station is the easternmost broad gauge railway station in India. The town is also the starting point of Ledo Road, also known as Stilwell Road, a highway built during W ...

Lekhapani Lekhapani is a town in Tinsukia district, Assam, India. and it is also the last frontier of North Frontier Railway(but it is inoperative since 1993) Lekhapani railway station Geography It is located at an elevation of 150 m above MSL.

* Tipong *

Jagun Jagun is a small market in Margherita Tehsil in Tinsukia District of north-eastern state Assam, India. It is located around away from the nearest coalfield Tipong, away from Lekhapani, from away Tirap Gaon and away from Ledo. Jagun is ...

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M.D.K. Girls’ College, Dibrugarh made an educational tour to Tirap Colliery

NEC Coal India Limited flayed for dismissing 340 security guards

Students' protest hits in Ledo Tirap coal field
Cities and towns in Tinsukia district Tinsukia {{Assam-geo-stub