Gandrapara Tea Estate is located the hilly northern part of the district close to the Bhutan border.
[2] The map alongside shows the alluvial floodplains south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas.
Goodricke’s tea gardens in the Dooars are: Danguajhar, Leesh River, Meenglas, Hope, Aibheel, Chulsa, Chalouni, Jiti, Sankos, Gandrapara, Lakhipara and Kumargram.
[13] Gandrapara Tea Estate is at times visited by herds of elephants, in spite of barbed wire fencing to prevent the animals from entering the garden.
[14] On the other hand Lakhipara Tea Garden faces problems with leopards straying in.
[15] Although, most of the better organised tea gardens go in for periodical wage revisions of the workers with the trade unions, there are people who protest against the daily wage, considered to be low by many people, prevalent in the tea gardens.