Samsing

Samsing is a small hill village and tourist spot in the Matiali (community development block), Malbazar subdivision of Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal situated at an elevation of 3000 ft in the foothills in between Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling districts border.

Samsing

Queen of Dooars
Place where nature smiles
Samsing
Location in West Bengal, India
Samsing
Samsing (India)
Coordinates: 26.59°N 88.58°E / 26.59; 88.58
Country India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictJalpaiguri/Darjeeling
Languages
 • OfficialBengali, Hindi, English
 • Un-officialLepcha, Nepali
Languages
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Samsing Lali Gurash Picnic Spot

It is known for its beautiful landscape with green tea garden scenery, hills and forests, which attract many tourists. On a clear day, the snow-clad mountains of Bhutan are also visible from this place. It lies 18 km from the Neora Valley National Park. It is the home of more than 4000 people. Its climate is noted for fog and cool breezes and a high rainfall. It has many beautiful picnic spots and tourist places. Some of them are Lali Guras, Rocky Island and Suntaley Khola. Neora Valley National Park is in a distance of an hour from here and has hills, plains, rivers, forest, tea-garden and villages. It is a tea garden inhabited by Paharhi and Madhesia people.

Description

Samsing is divided into two parts[1]; Samsing basti, which includes Khasmahal and Fari, and samsing tea garden. Samsing Tea Estate is under the administration of Jalpaiguri district and Samsing basti- comprises Sundar Basti, Khash Mahal and Fari are under Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. It has also three divisions:- top line, lower line and young tong division. The owners of the tea estate of Samsing were British companies. They divided the topline with Kurti line, New School line, Gumba Line, Kamal Bhawan line, MBP Line, SB LINE (later also known as PP Line), Munshi line and Junction line. where each line are separated by small brook and Samsing has its local bus stand. Local people are mostly employed in tea garden and tourism, but many of the younger generation have migrated to bigger cities for greater opportunities.

Samsing Higher Sec. School, Gardenwood Academy and Sai Santi Niketan are here. The people here never actively participated in both the violent forms of Gorkhaland demand. After Vimal Gurung fled in 2017, Shri Binoy Tamang became the GTA chairman. Now the valley is peaceful and developing. The early settlers in this village worked as tea plantation labourers and were from Rangeli, Sikkim and Indo-Nepal Mountain (Madhesia) region. They left for this place when they heard that people pluck leaves from tea plants bearing money.

References
  1. "Samsing Dooars | North Bengal Tourism". northbengaltourism.com. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
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