Alipurduar, carved out of Jalpaiguri, is the district that holds Buxa Tiger Reserve

Background

Buxa Tiger Reserve, where a tigress was released this week, lies in Alipurduar district. Alipurduar was established on 25 June 2014 as West Bengal's twentieth district, carved out of Jalpaiguri district, and its headquarters is at Alipurduar. The district has two municipalities, Alipurduar and Falakata, and six community development blocks: Madarihat-Birpara, Alipurduar-I, Alipurduar-II, Falakata, Kalchini and Kumargram. It contains 64 gram panchayats and nine census towns. It is a landlocked district bounded by Jalpaiguri on the west, Assam on the east and Cooch Behar on the south, and it shares an international border with Bhutan to the north. Its rivers include the Torsa, Raidak, Kaljani, Sankosh, Jayanti, Dima, Mujnai and Gadadhar.