Singla Tea Garden


Singla Tea Garden is a village in the Darjeeling Pulbazar CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Geography

Location

Singla Tea Garden is located at.

Area overview

The map alongside shows the northern portion of the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region. Kangchenjunga, which rises with an elevation of is located further north of the area shown.Sandakphu, rising to a height of, on the Singalila Ridge, is the highest point in West Bengal.In Darjeeling Sadar subdivision 61% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39% of the population lives in the urban areas.There are 78 tea gardens/ estates, producing and largely exporting Darjeeling tea in the district. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly.Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT or R. 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, Singla Tea Garden had a total population of 3,400 of which 1,715 were males and 1,685 were females. There were 293 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Singla Tea Garden was 2.254.

Darjeeling Ropeway

was started in 1968 from Singamari in Darjeeling. In 45 minutes, the ropeway transported passengers from a height of 7,000 ft down to 800 feet where the last station was located at Singla Bazar on the banks of the Rangeet. As of 2020, the ropeway runs only up to Tukvar.

Education

St. Mary’s School in Singla valley has 480 students. Some of the students have to walk for an hour to reach the school.