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destination- the dooars. Not so much known to the world.The dooars valley stretching from river teesta on the west to river sankosh on the east,over a span of 130km by 40km, forms a major part of Jalpaiguri district.
Derieved from the word ‘doors’ (doors to bhutan ),this region also forms
a gayewayto the hill stations of north Bengal, Sikkim, Bhutan & the north eastern states. The dense natural forests interwoven with lush green tea gardens are crisscrossed by Teesta.
Raidhak, Toorsha, Jaldhaka, kaljani and other rivers & theirinnumerable tributaries trotting and rolling down from yhe hills.The entire region is served with a network of motorable roads running through the deep forests and tera gardens. A meter gauge railway service connects siliguri and cooch behar via alipurduar. A journeu itself by rail or on road through this region gives immense delight to both the mind and the eyes.
WILDLIFE SANCTUARIESJaldapara wildlife sanctuary situated in Alipurduar sub-division of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal is about 124kms from Siliguri. This sanctuary was constituted in the year 1941 for the protection of wild life, particularly one horned rhinoceros..The forest is mainly savannah covered with tall elephant grasses.The wild life in addition to one horned rhinos, consists of royal bengal tigers, wild elephants, deer , sambhar, barking deer, spotted deer and hog deer, wild pig, bisons and a number of birds, peafowls.

Language


Dooars villageLanguage
Dooars in Jalpaiguri is a land of diverse ethnic communities. Being a home to different tribal communities and immigrant people from neighbouring states and countries Jalpaiguri Dooars has a number of distinct languages and Dialects.
Bengali is the most widely spoken language in the region and is the official language in the state. The maximum number of people mainly in the towns and cities uses Bengali. The second important language in Dooars is Rajbansi, which is basically a dialect of Bengali spoken by the most of the rural people in North Bengal plains. The dialect is locally known as Bahe. Before adopting the bahe language the Rajbansi people used to speak Koch- a language of Boro group of Tibeto-Burman family of language. The Koch language is still a majore language of the rural people of Coochbihar.
SamsingThe overall linguistic picture of Dooars part of North Bengal is that the aboriginal people in the region like Meches, Coches and Ravas largely speak the language of Boro group of Tibeto-Burman family. However, all these languages are distinctive and have their individual identities. The Toto tribe speak a language of Himalayan group of Tibeto-Burman family.
With the Hinduization of the Coches a large numbers of former Bodo speakers began to speak Bengali and developed distinct Bengali dialect. With the opening of tea gardens from the middle of the ninetieth century, a large number of Dravidian speaking Oraon and Austric speaking Mundas and Santhals started migrating into Dooars area and settled there. Apart from speaking their own language among themselves, for inter-caste communication they developed a dialect called Sadri or Madesia, which is a mixture of Hindi and Bengali. In course of time this dialect became a significant mother tongue of tribal people in the teagardens.
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