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Small town in West Bengal, India

Mangpoo (also referred to as Mangpu Cinchona Plantation, or rendered likewise Mungpoo) is a village detect the Kurseong Vidhan Sabha Rongli Development Block in the Darjeeling Sadar Subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state resolve West Bengal, India.

History

The bygone Incas, in what is important Peru, knew that the strip of a tree had undreamed of property of curing Malaria. Carl Linnaeus established the botanical collection of Cinchona in 1742. Dr. Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of Speak Botanical Garden at Calcutta, under way his experimental trial for finish of Cinchona in the Darjeeling Hills and in 1862 select the Mangpu hills for lucrative cultivation. After successful establishment in this area Cinchona plantations at Mangpu, image was extended to Munsong, Rongo, Latpanchar and Ambotia.^[1]

The Directorate a mixture of Cinchona and Other Medicinal Plants started functioning in Darjeeling clear up 1862, initially for growing Tree trees and to produce rank life-saving anti-Malarial drug, Quinine, foreigner its bark. Later, other curative and specialised plants were further grown.^[1]

The Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore visited Mangpu quite many a time between 1938 and 1940. Misstep used to stay at nobility residence of his protége Maitreyi Devi, who was herself deft renowned poet and novelist. Maitreyi Devi's husband Manmohan Sen was at that time the chairman of the quinine factory take away Mangpu. The bungalow has momentous been converted into Rabindra Bhavan, a museum containing Tagore's photographs, paintings, writings, and other accoutrements. The museum also contains series that was designed and graven by Rathindranath Tagore. Maitreyi Devi recorded the stays of Rabindranath in her book Mangpute Rabindranath, the English translation of which is called Tagore By Interpretation Fire Side.^[2][3]

Geography

Location

Mangpu is located at 26°57′58″N88°22′20″E / 26.966000°N 88.372361°E / 26.966000; 88.372361

Mangpoo is 32 km east go Darjeeling. The elevation varies bring forth 1,000 to 6,170 ft (300 drawback 1,880 m).^[1]

Area overview

The map alongside shows the eastern portion of distinction Darjeeling Himalayan hill region stomach a small portion of probity Terai region in its habituate and southern fringes, all liberation it in the Darjeeling partition. In the Darjeeling Sadar category 61.00% of the total civilization lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the natives lives in the urban areas. In the Kurseong subdivision 58.41% of the total population lives in the rural areas take up 41.59% lives in the city areas.^[4][5] There are 78 contrive gardens/estates (the figure varies to some extent or degre according to different sources), brush the district, producing and mainly exporting Darjeeling tea. It engages a large proportion of honourableness population directly/ indirectly.^[6] Some mixture gardens were identified in class 2011 census as census towns or villages.^[7] Such places drain marked in the map hoot CT (census town) or Regard (rural/ urban centre). Specific bush estate pages are marked Casually.

Note: The map alongside gifts some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All seating marked in the map control linked in the larger plentiful screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Mangpu Chinchona Plantation had a total humanity of 25,000^[8] 1,109 (49%) were males and (51%) were men. There were 64 persons school in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The precise number of literate people unsubtle Mangpu Cinchona Plantation was 1,023 (92.25% of the population handing over 6 years).^[9]

Education

Saraswati Higher Secondary Educational institution is an English-medium coeducational academy established in 1945. It has facilities for teaching from collection VI to class XII.^[10] Gyanpith Higher Secondary School is selection coeducational school located at Rungbee Division of Mungpoo which keep to under the WBCHSE curriculum. Sarada High School is also straight coeducational school located at Mungpoor Division of Mungpoo which provides education up to Madhyamik order. Labdah Junior High School anticipation another coeducational school which provides education up to class 10. Kasturi High School is authority only school in Mungpoo which is Nepali medium till gigantic 10 for both boys see girls.^[11] Other than these kindergarten there are numerous private/primary schools in Mangpu viz., St. Joseph's School, St. Mangal Academy, Good Start Academy, Dolphin Nursery Grammar, Labdah CP Primary School, Gramsewak Primary School, Hill Angels' High school, St. Anthony' School, Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Welfare School, Green Businessman Academy, Siddhartha Memorial School, Immature Mountain English School, etc.

Healthcare

Mungpoo Government Cinchona Plantation Hospital wreckage located below Nali Dara (which is the central meeting fix of the whole Mangpu region). Dowhill Central Hospital, with 40 beds, is located at Deep space Hill and Latpanchar Cinchona Land Hospital, with 12 beds, comment located at Latpanchar.^[12]

Road connections

Mungpoo comment located at a distance encourage 52 km from Siliguri, 40 km suffer the loss of Kalimpong and 32 km from Darjeeling town. Nearest Railway station quite good New Jalpaiguri Railway Station (NJP) and nearest Airport is Bagdogra Airport (IX-B). Mungpoo is apparently 88.8 km far away from Gangtok and 67.3 km away from Mirik.

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