Durgapur Municipal Corporation (DMC) is the civic body that governs

Durgapur Durgapur () is a planned tier-II urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the fourth largest urban agglomeration after Kolkata, Asansol and Siliguri in West Bengal ...

Durgapur subdivision Durgapur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview The rocky undulating topography with laterite soil found in the western part of the district extends to the w ...

Paschim Bardhaman district Paschim Bardhaman district is a predominantly urban mining-industrial district in West Bengal. The headquarter of the district is Asansol. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after bifurcation of the erstwhile Bardhaman district as the 23rd district o ...

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

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History

The Durgapur Notified Area (DNA) was formed in 1962 surrounding the areas in and around the Gopinathpur area and the halt station named Durgapur. The governing body got its name from the railway station. The formation of the

Durgapur Steel Plant Durgapur Steel Plant is one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited, located in Durgapur, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. It was set up with the help of United Kingdom. Product mix Tonnes/annum : Merchan ...

, an integrated steel plant and its steel township in late 1950 by the then chief minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, heralded the rapid development of the region. Plenty of industries were set up at that time in Durgapur. As a result plenty of people from adjoining areas came to newly formed city to try their luck for a job in the city's hoard of Industries. By 1994 the city was thickly populated. Seeing this an act was passed to change the existing Durgapur Notified Area (DNA) to a Municipal Corporation and thus came into existence the present Durgapur Municipal Corporation governing a total area of 157 km² and a population of total of 5.81 lakhs (according to the 2011 census).

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{{Paschim Bardhaman District Municipal corporations in India Municipal corporations in West Bengal 1962 establishments in West Bengal