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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.

Transport


The main mode of transport in the area is roadways. Most of the places are well connected by roads and to rest of India. N.H. 31 is the main highway of the area. Regular bus services provided by North Bengal State Transport Corporation and Assam State Transport Corporation and other private parties run between all important places of the area. Share jeeps and maxi-taxies are quite popular in the area.
Railway is not much popular as a mode of transport in the area. Though there are some important stations like New Jalpaiguri, New Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, New Bongaigaon, etc. An important rail route between Alipurduar Junction and New Jalpaiguri via Malbazar covers almost entire Dooars region.
Two important airport of the area are Bagdogra airport at Siliguri and another airport is going to start in Cooch Behar shortly
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