A Nostalgic Road Trip: Talap to Digboi I Tinsukia, Assam I 14th June 2023
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Talap Town village is located in Doom Dooma subdivision of Tinsukia district in Assam, India. It is situated 5km away from sub-district headquarter Doom Dooma (tehsildar office) and 45km away from district headquarter Tinsukia. Talap is the gram panchayat of Talap Town village. The total geographical area of village is 28.95 hectares. Literacy rate of talap town village is 80.40% out of which 83.63% males and 76.89% females are literate.
The weather of Talap Town village ,Assam is very conducive for tea plantation. On my way to Digboi, you can find many tea estates which have come up in an around Talap region.
Digboi is a town and a town area committee in Tinsukia district in the north-eastern part of the state of Assam, India. Digboi is known as the Oil City of Assam where the first oil well in Asia was drilled
Crude oil was discovered here in late 19th century and first oil well was dug in 1889. . The first refinery was started here as early as 1901. Digboi has the oldest oil well in operation.[1] With a significant number of British professionals working for Assam Oil Company until the decade following independence of India, Digboi had a well-developed infrastructure and a number of bungalows unique to the town. It has eighteen holes golf course as part of the Digboi Club. It has guest houses and tourist residential apartments laid on Italian architectural plan to promote tourism in upper Assam.
Today, though the crude production is not high, Digboi has the distinction of being India's oldest continuously producing oilfield. Digboi refinery, now a division of Indian Oil Corporation, had a capacity of about 0.65 million tonnes per year as of 2003.
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