It is an important location in the Dooars region and is surrounded by scenic landscapes and various tea gardens.

It is undulating country, largely forested, with numerous rivers flowing down from the outer ranges of the Himalayas in Bhutan.

The Dooars: A World After we arrived at New Jalpaiguri Railway Station, he (my husband) drove me out into the hot and humid plains to Birpara Tea Garden...

There are more than two hundred tea gardens here… The early British planters brought with them thousands of migrant Adivasi labourers from the neighbouring Chhotta Nagpur region.

National Highway 31, as well as the second broad gauge line from Guwahati to Delhi, runs less than one kilometere away from my house.

There are gardens in the interior too, from where a ride to the nearest town could take an hour's drive over riverbeds or through dark and frightening forests full of wild animals.

Life is an amazing and curious mix of old and new, civilization and wilderness, natural beauty and cultivated plantations.

The total number of literate people in Birpara Tea Garden was 28,020 (75.14% of the population over 6 years).

The Goenka family took over Duncan Brothers in 1951, and under the leadership of G.P.Goenka, diversified substantially and emerged as one of the top business houses in the country.

[12][13] The Tea Division of the Duncan Goenka group has been facing rough weather on the labour front and has been in the news.

[citation needed] According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Jalpaiguri, Birpara covered an area of 6.1247 km2.