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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Longview Tea Garden
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| settlement_type = Village
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in West Bengal, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.816478|N|88.260652|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Darjeeling district|Darjeeling]]
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| population_total = 5,301
| population_as_of = 2011
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 734217
| area_code_type = Telephone/[[Subscriber trunk dialing|STD]] code
| area_code = 0353
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| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)|Darjeeling]]
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Kurseong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kurseong]]
| website = {{URL|darjeeling.gov.in/}}
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'''Longview Tea Garden''' is a village in the [[Kurseong (community development block)|Kurseong]] [[Community development blocks in India|CD block]] in the [[Kurseong subdivision]] of the [[Darjeeling district]] in the state of [[West Bengal]], [[India]].

==History==
Longview Tea Company was incorporated in 1879. In earlier days, Longview Tea Garden was owned by such companies as James Warren and Company.<ref name="teaboutique">{{cite web | url =https://www.darjeelingteaboutique.com/longview-tea-estate/ | title = Longview Tea Estate | publisher = Darjeeling Tea Boutique |accessdate = 3 March 2020}}</ref> Another source says that that Longview Tea Estate was initially owned by a pioneering British tea planter C.G.Adams, who opened it in 1873. “Wyandhams of Australia owned the estate until 1953.”<ref name="darjeelingtourism">{{cite web | url = https://www.darjeeling-tourism.com/darj_0000c5.htm | title = Darjeeling Tea Estates L - M | work= Longview Tea Estate | publisher = Darjeeling Tourism |accessdate = 5 March 2020}}</ref> Longview Tea Co. was taken over by the Dagas in 1954. The company started operations with a single tea garden – Longview Tea Garden. It subsequently took over five more gardens – [[Phuguri Tea Estate]] in Darjeeling (1954), Bhatpara Tea Estate in Dooars (1988), [[Orange Valley Tea Garden|Orange Valley Tea Estate]] in Darjeeling (1990), the Sanyasithan Tea Estate in Terai (1991) and the Anandapur Tea Estate in the Dooars (1991). Towards the end of the last century, the company produced 30 lakh kg of all varieties of tea. It was a profit-making dividend paying company for years. During the financial year 1999–2000, on incurring losses, the company “practically sold all tea estates/projects and is driven by other activities/ sources.” <ref name="teaboutique"/><ref name="standard">{{cite web | url =https://www.business-standard.com/company/longview-tea-4016/information/company-history | title = Longview Tea Company Limted| publisher = Business Standard |accessdate = 3 March 2020}}</ref>

Longview Tea Company sold [[Rohini Tea Garden|Rohini Tea Estate]] to Sona Tea, [[Avongrove Tea Estate]] to Avon Tea, Longview Tea Garden to Ambari Tea and Phugri Tea Estate to the Bagarias. In 2000, the only garden left with the Longview Tea Company in Darjeeling district was Orange Valley Tea Estate. P.K.Daga, managing director of Longview Tea Company, said that they were no more interested in tea gardens in Darjeeling. He said, "It is individual garden owners who are thriving in Darjeeling, compared with the big corporates, because they can afford to give complete attention right from the production to marketing of the tea produced by them."<ref name="standard"/><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/longview-tea-loses-taste-for-darjeeling-flavour/cid/900976 | title = Longview Tea Looses Taste for Darjeeling Flavour| work=Pallab Bhattacharya| publisher = The Telegraph, 14 March 2000 |accessdate = 3 March 2020}}</ref>

All 87 gardens producing [[Darjeeling Tea]], were closed from June 17, 2017, when the [[Gorkha Janmukti Morcha]] announced the indefinite general strike. More than 500 workers, out of the total strength of 1,200, of Longview Tea Garden joined “voluntary work” on the 64th day of the strike.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/hills-tea-workers-return-to-garden/articleshow/60110487.cms | title = Hill tea workers return to garden| publisher = The Times of India, 18 August 2017|accessdate = 3 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/tea-hands-want-to-work/cid/1526414 | title = Tea hands want to work | work= Avijit Sinha| publisher = The Telegraph, 22 August 2017 |accessdate = 3 March 2020}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{OSM Location map
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===Location===
Longview Tea Garden is located at {{coord|26.816478|N|88.260652|E|display=inline}}.

Out of the total area of {{convert|1,020|ha|abbr=on}} in Longview Tea Garden, tea is cultivated in {{convert|506|ha|abbr=on}}. A majority of the tea leaves in this garden goes in for the production of black tea.<ref name="teaboutique"/>

===Area overview===
The map alongside shows the eastern portion of the [[Darjeeling Himalayan hill region]] and a small portion of the terai region in its eastern and southern fringes, all of it in the Darjeeling district. In the [[Darjeeling Sadar subdivision]] 61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the [[Kurseong subdivision]] 58.41% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 41.59% lives in the urban areas.<ref name="admin">{{cite web | url = http://darjeeling.gov.in/dist-prof.html | title = Darjeeling | work =District Profile - General Information | publisher = District administration |accessdate = 21 March 2020 }}</ref><ref name="handbook">{{cite web |url = http://wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook |title = District Statistical Handbook 2013 Darjeeling |work = Tables 2.2, 2.4b |publisher = Department of Planning and Statistics, Government of West Bengal |accessdate = 21 March 2020}}</ref> There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), in the district, producing and largely exporting [[Darjeeling tea]]. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.darjeeling.gov.in/darj-tea.html | title = Darjeeling Tea| publisher = District administration |accessdate = 21 March 2020}}</ref> Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as [[census town]]s or villages. <ref>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/pcadata/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = 2011 Census – Primary Census Abstract Data Tables | work= West Bengal – District-wise |publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | accessdate = 21 March 2020 }}</ref>Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

==Longview Tea Estate==
Longview Tea Estate produces 700,000 kg of tea annually, which is around 10% of the total production of [[Darjeeling tea]]. Long stretches of tea gardens, belonging to Longview Tea Estate, are visible on both sides of the road, as one proceeds towards Pankhabari.<ref name="darjeelingtourism"/>

In 2008, a devastating fire burnt down the tea factory.<ref name="darjeelingtourism"/>

Around 2,000 workers work in tea estate.<ref name="darjeelingtourism"/>

==Demographics==
According to the [[2011 Census of India]], Longview Tea Garden had a total population of 5,301 of which 2,651 (50%) were males and 2,650 (50%) were females. There were 536 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Longview Tea Garden was 3,571 (67.36% of the population over 6 years).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/pcadata/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = 2011 Census – Primary Census Abstract Data Tables | work= West Bengal – District-wise |publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | accessdate = 3 March 2020 }}</ref>

==Education==
Pankhabari High School is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 1964. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has 10 computers and a library with 3,664 books.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.icbse.com/schools/pankhabari-high-school-ny3dwe | title = Pankhabari High School | publisher = ICBSE|accessdate = 5 March 2020}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist|3}}

{{Darjeeling District}}

[[Category:Villages in Darjeeling district]]

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