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Paschim Bardhaman district is a predominantly urban mining-industrial district in
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 ...
. The headquarter of the district is
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after bifurcation of the erstwhile
Bardhaman district Bardhaman district (, ; also spelled Burdwan or Barddhaman or Vardhaman) was a district in West Bengal. On 7 April 2017, the district was bifurcated into two districts: Purba Bardhaman and Paschim Bardhaman district. The headquarters of the dis ...
as the 23rd district of West Bengal.


Etymology

Some historians link the name of the district to the 24th and last
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''
tirthankara In Jainism, a ''Tirthankara'' (Sanskrit: '; English: literally a 'ford-maker') is a saviour and spiritual teacher of the ''dharma'' (righteous path). The word ''tirthankara'' signifies the founder of a '' tirtha'', which is a fordable passag ...
'', Mahavira Vardhamana, who came to preach in the area. Alternatively, ''Bardhamana'' means a prosperous and growing area. It was a forward frontier zone in the progress of Aryanisation by the people in the Upper Gangetic valley. ''Paschim'' means west.


History

Microlith A microlith is a small Rock (geology), stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from around 35,000 to 3,000 years ago, across Europe, Africa, Asia an ...
s found at Birbhanpur, near Durgapur, indicate settlements in the Ajay valley in the
Paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...
/
Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymous ...
age, around 5,000 BC. In early historical times Bardhamanbhukti, a part of the
Rarh region Rarh region () is a toponym for an area in the Indian subcontinent that lies between the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the West and the Ganges Delta on the East. Although the boundaries of the region have been defined differently according to various ...
, was ruled successively by the
Magadha Magadha was a region and one of the sixteen sa, script=Latn, Mahajanapadas, label=none, lit=Great Kingdoms of the Second Urbanization (600–200 BCE) in what is now south Bihar (before expansion) at the eastern Ganges Plain. Magadha was ruled ...
s,
Mauryas The Maurya Empire, or the Mauryan Empire, was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in the Indian subcontinent based in Magadha, having been founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, and existing in loose-knit fashion until 1 ...
,
Kushanas The Kushan Empire ( grc, Βασιλεία Κοσσανῶν; xbc, Κυϸανο, ; sa, कुषाण वंश; Brahmi: , '; BHS: ; xpr, 𐭊𐭅𐭔𐭍 𐭇𐭔𐭕𐭓, ; zh, 貴霜 ) was a syncretic empire, formed by the Yuezhi, i ...
and Guptas. In the 7th century AD, when
Shashanka Shashanka (IAST: Śaśāṃka) was the first independent king of a unified polity in the Bengal region, called the Gauda Kingdom and is a major figure in Bengali history. He reigned in the 7th century, some historians place his rule between circ ...
was king, the area was part of the
Gauda Kingdom The Gauḍa Kingdom (Gāuṛ Rājya) or Shashankas, was a classic kingdom during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal (modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) in 4th century CE or possibly ea ...
. It was ruled by the
Palas A ''palas'' () is a German term for the imposing or prestigious building of a medieval ''Pfalz'' or castle that contained the great hall. Such buildings appeared during the Romanesque period (11th to 13th century) and, according to Thompson, ...
and Senas, till
Bakhtiyar Khilji Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī, (Pashto :اختيار الدين محمد بختيار غلزۍ, fa, اختیارالدین محمد بختیار خلجی, bn, ইখতিয়ারউদ্দীন মুহম্মদ ...
captured it in 1199 AD. The early Muslim rulers ruled over major parts of Bengal from Gauda or Lakhnauti. In ''
Ain-i-Akbari The ''Ain-i-Akbari'' ( fa, ) or the "Administration of Akbar", is a 16th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl in the Persian language. It for ...
'', Bardhaman is mentioned as a ''mahal'' or ''pargana'' of ''Sarcar Sharifabad''. The area between the Damodar and the Ajay river was referred to Gopbhum, where the
Yadav Yadav refers to a grouping of traditionally non-elite, Quote: "The Yadavs were traditionally a low-to-middle-ranking cluster of pastoral-peasant castes that have become a significant political force in Uttar Pradesh (and other northern state ...
kings ruled. There are remains of the period at Shymarupar Garh and Ichhai Ghosher deul in Kanksa CD Block. In 1689, Raja Krishnaram Roy, of the Bardhaman Raj family, obtained a ''farman'' (royal decree) from
Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...
by which he was made the ''
zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a ...
'' (landlord) of Bardhaman, and since then the Raj family's history became identical with that of the district. There are references to the Raja of Panchkot being zamindar of certain sections (mostly the western part) of what later became Asansol subdivision. There also are references to the Raja of Searsole being zamindar of the Raniganj area. After the death of Aurangzeb, the
Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
became weak and
Murshid Quli Khan Murshid Quli Khan ( fa, , bn, মুর্শিদকুলি খান; 1660 – 30 June 1727), also known as Zamin Ali Quli and born as Surya Narayan Mishra, was the first Nawab of Bengal, serving from 1717 to 1727. Born a Hindu in the D ...
became the
Nawab of Bengal The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
, owning only nominal allegiance to the Mughal emperor. At that time Bardhaman was referred to as ''chakla'', a change from the earlier ''pargana''. Subsequently, during the reign of
Alivardi Khan Alivardi Khan (1671 – 9 April 1756) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1740 to 1756. He toppled the Nasiri dynasty of Nawabs by defeating Sarfaraz Khan in 1740 and assumed power himself. During much of his reign Alivardi encountered frequent Mar ...
, the
Bargi Bargis were a light cavalry mercenary group of Maratha Empire's who indulged in large scale plundering of the countryside of western part of Bengal for about ten years (1741–1751) during the Maratha invasions of Bengal. Maratha invasions too ...
s attacked and plundered Bardhaman. After the victory of the British in the
Battle of Plassey The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive. The victory was made possible by the defection of Mir Jafar, ...
in 1757, the fertile district of Bardhaman, along with Medinipur and Chittagong, was ceded to the
East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
. In 1857, the British Crown took over the administration of the country from the East India Company. In 1765, when East India Company acquired the ''diwani'' of Bardhaman, it was composed of Bardhaman, Bankura, Hooghly and a third of Birbhum. In 1805, the western ''parganas'' of Shergarh and Senpahari (which later formed Asansol subdivision) and parts of Bankura were formed into a new district called
Jungle Mahals Jungle Mahals, ( jungle estates) was a district formed by British possessions and some independent chiefdoms lying between Birbhum, Bankura, Midnapore and the hilly country of Chota Nagpur in what is now the Indian state of West Bengal.O’Malle ...
. Shergarh and Senpahari was restored to Bardhaman, when Bankura was made into a separate district. Hooghly was separated in 1820, Bankura and Birbhum in 1837. At the time of the
Permanent Settlement The Permanent Settlement, also known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land that had far-reaching consequences for both agricultural met ...
of
Lord Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United S ...
in 1793, the ''chaklas'' were reduced in size, in order to make them more manageable, and districts were created. Six subdivisions were created in Bardhaman district – Bud Bud in 1846, Katwa, Raniganj, Jahanabad (later named Arambagh), Bardhaman Sadar in 1847 and Kalna in 1850. In 1906, Raniganj subdivision was converted to Asansol subdivision. The ''parganas'' were converted to ''thanas'' (police stations). At that time there were 22 ''thanas'' in Bardhaman district. Later, Jahanabad was transferred out of Bardhaman. Some minor changes went on taking place. Durgapur subdivision was carved out of Asansol subdivision in 1968. The Permanent Settlement ultimately led to the dismemberment of the Bardhaman estate. As the rajas often failed to pay the rent demands, some parts of the estate were auctioned off. However, there were bright spots even in the later period of the rule of Bardhaman zamindary till the abolition of zamindary system in 1954, after independence of the country. Bardhaman district was bifurcated into two districts,
Purba Bardhaman Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...
and Paschim Bardhaman, on 7 April 2017.


Geography

The rocky undulating topography with
laterite Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...
soil found in Paschim Bardhaman district is a sort of extension of the
Chota Nagpur plateau The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the bas ...
. For ages the area was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. The discovery of coal in the 18th century led to industrialisation. Most of the forests in the coal-bearing areas have been cleared but some areas in the eastern part of the district remained thickly forested till more recent times and some are still there. The eastern part of the district gradually slopes down to the rice plains of the agriculturally rich
Purba Bardhaman district Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...
.


Administrative divisions

The district comprises two subdivisions:
Asansol Sadar subdivision Asansol Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview Asansol Sadar subdivision is part of the Ajay Damodar Barakar tract. This area is sort of an extension of ...
and
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 ...
. In Paschim Bardhaman district, there are 8 CD block under two subdivision. In Asansol Sadar subdivision, there are 4 CD block -
Salanpur Salanpur is a village, in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Urbanisation As per the 2011 census, 83.33% of the population of Asansol Sada ...
,
Barabani Barabani is a village, in the Barabani CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Urbanisation As per the 2011 census, 83.33% of the population of Asansol Sadar ...
,
Jamuria Jamuria is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Geography Location Jamuria is located at . It has an average elevation of 111 metres ...
and
Raniganj Raniganj is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Geography Location Raniganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 91 met ...
. In Durgapur subdivision, there are 4 CD block -
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Pandabeswar Pandabeswar (also spelled Pandaveswar) is an administrative centre in Pandabeswar CD Block in Durgapur subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Police station Pandabeswar police station has juris ...
, Faridpur-Durgapur and
Kanksa Kanksa is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History As per Peterson’s District Gazeteer of 1910, the south-western ext ...
.
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
is the district headquarters. There are 16 police stations, 8 development blocks, 2 municipal corporations, 62
gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...
s in this district. Other than municipality areas, each subdivision contains community development blocks which, in turn, are divided into rural areas and census towns. In total there are 66 urban units: 2 municipal corporations, 3 municipalities (which have subsequently been absorbed in Asansol Municipal Corporation) and 65
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s. There are two
urban agglomeration An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, t ...
s (UA). *
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
, Kulti, Bhanowara, Jamuria, Jemari, Raniganj, Amkula, Murgathaul, Raghunathchak and Ballavpur together form the Asansol UA. * Durgapur UA consists of
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 ...
, Arrah, Bamunara, Amlajora, Kanksa, Panagarh, Mankar, Shibpur, Andal, Ukhra, Kajora, Pandabeswar, Ichhapur and Madhaiganj. Asansol Sadar subdivision
Asansol Sadar subdivision Asansol Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview Asansol Sadar subdivision is part of the Ajay Damodar Barakar tract. This area is sort of an extension of ...
has 10 police stations, 4 community development blocks, 4 panchayat samitis, 35 gram panchayats, 181
mouza In Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of India a mouza or mauza (also mouja) is a type of administrative district, corresponding to a specific land area within which there may be one or more settlements. Before the 20th century, the term referred to a ...
s, 165 inhabited villages, 1 municipal corporation, 3 municipalities and 26
census town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...
s+1 (partly). The single municipal corporation is at
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
. The municipalities are at:
Raniganj Raniganj is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Geography Location Raniganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 91 met ...
,
Jamuria Jamuria is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Geography Location Jamuria is located at . It has an average elevation of 111 metres ...
and
Kulti Kulti is a neighbourhood in Asansol. Asansol is located in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation. Geography Kulti is located at latitude 23°43'60N and longitude 86°50'6 ...
. The census towns are:
Chittaranjan Chittaranjan is a census town in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is popularly known for the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works. It was recently featured i ...
, Hindustan Cables Town,
Domohani Domohani is a census town in the Barabani CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Pangachhiya, Majiara, Bhanowara, Domohani, Charanpur (OG), R ...
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Bhanowara Bhanowara is a census town in the Barabani CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Bhanowara is located at . Pangachhiya, Majiara, Bhanowara, Domo ...
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Majiara Majiara is a census town in the Barabani CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Majiara is located at Pangachhiya, Majiara, Bhanowara, Domohani ...
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Pangachhiya Pangachhiya (also called Panchgachhia) is a census town in the Barabani CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Panchgachia is located at . Panchg ...
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Charanpur Charanpur is a village in the Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India, about from the industrial town of Asansol. Geography Location Charanpur is classified as an Out Growth (OG) Urban Unit. It has an area of . In 2001 the populati ...
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Kunustara Kunustara (also called Kunustoria) is a census town in the Jamuria CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Kunustoria is located at . The Asansol-Du ...
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Topsi Topsi is a census town in the Jamuria CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Topsi is located at Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 83.33% of ...
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Nimsa Nimsa is a census town in the Jamuria CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Nimsa is located at Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 83.33 ...
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Chinchuria Chinchuria is a census town in the Jamuria CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Chinchuria is located at Urbanisation According to the 2011 cen ...
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Kenda Kenda is a census town in the Jamuria CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision in the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Kenda is located at . It has an average elevation of . The Asansol reg ...
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Parasia Parasia is a census town in the Jamuria CD block in Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Parasia is at . Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 83.33% of ...
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Ratibati Ratibati is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Ratibati is located at . The Asansol-Durgapur area is composed of ...
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Chapui Chapui is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location The Asansol-Durgapur region has undulating laterite soil. This area ...
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Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township) Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township) is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location J.K.Nagar Township is located at . Jemari (J.K. ...
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Banshra Bansra is a census town in the Raniganj CD block of the Asansol Sadar subdivision in the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Bansra is located at . Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township), Belebathan, M ...
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Belebathan Belebathan is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Belebathan is located at . Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township), Beleba ...
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Chelad Chelad (also spelled Chelod) is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Chelod is located at . The Asansol-Durgapur r ...
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Murgathaul Murgathaul is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Murgathaul is located at . Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township), Beleba ...
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Amkula Amkula is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Etymology The word Amkula derives its origin from two Bengali words – ''am'' (mango ...
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Baktarnagar Baktarnagar is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Baktarnagar is located at Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township), Beleb ...
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Raghunathchak Raghunathchak is a census town in the Raniganj CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Raghunathchak is located at . Jemari (J.K. Nagar Township), ...
, Ballavpur and
Kendra Khottamdi Kendra Khottamdi is a census town located partly in the Pandabeswar CD block of the Durgapur subdivision and partly in the Jamuria CD block of the Asansol Sadar subdivision in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geo ...
(partly). The subdivision has its headquarters at Asansol. According to the Kolkata Gazette notification of 3 June 2015, the municipal areas of
Kulti Kulti is a neighbourhood in Asansol. Asansol is located in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation. Geography Kulti is located at latitude 23°43'60N and longitude 86°50'6 ...
,
Raniganj Raniganj is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Geography Location Raniganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 91 met ...
and
Jamuria Jamuria is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation Geography Location Jamuria is located at . It has an average elevation of 111 metres ...
were included within the jurisdiction of Asansol Municipal Corporation. Durgapur subdivision
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 ...
has 6 police stations, 4 community development blocks, 4 panchayat samitis, 27 gram panchayats, 171
mouza In Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of India a mouza or mauza (also mouja) is a type of administrative district, corresponding to a specific land area within which there may be one or more settlements. Before the 20th century, the term referred to a ...
s, 151 inhabited villages, 1 municipal corporation and 39
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s+1 (partly). The single municipal corporation is at
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 ...
. The census towns are:
Siduli Siduli is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur ...
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Khandra Khandra is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Khandra is located at . Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22 ...
, Chak Bankola,
Ukhra Ukhra is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Ukhra is located at . Ukhra is a census town in Andal (community develop ...
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Mahira Mahira (also called Moira) is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Mahira is located at . Urbanisation According to the 2 ...
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Dakshin Khanda Dakshin Khanda is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the D ...
, Parashkol,
Kajora Kajora is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Kajora is located at . Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22% ...
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Harishpur Harishpur is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durga ...
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Palashban Palashban is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Palashban is located at . Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22 ...
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Dignala Dignala is a census town in the Andal CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Dignala is located at . Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of ...
, Andal (gram), Ondal, Baska,
Bilpahari Bilpahari is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Mahal, Baidyanathpur, Dalurband, Ramnagar, Bilpahari and Kendra ...
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Ramnagar Ramnagar may refer to the following places: Bangladesh * Ramnagar, Bangladesh, a village in Chittagong Division * Ramnagar Union, Jessore Sadar India Jammu and Kashmir * Ramnagar, Udhampur, a town in Jammu and Kashmir ** Ramnagar Fort Udha ...
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Dalurband Dalurband is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block of the Durgapur subdivision in the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Mahal, Baidyanathpur, Dalurband, Ramnagar, Bilpahari and Kendr ...
, Baidyanathpur, Mahal,
Konardihi Konardihi is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Konardihi is located at . Konardihi, Nabgram, Chak Bankola, Sank ...
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Nabgram Nabgram is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Nabgram is located at . Konardihi, Nabgram, Chak Bankola, Sankarpu ...
, Sankarpur, Haripur,
Chhora Chhora is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Chhora is located at . Konardihi, Nabgram, Chak Bankola, Sankarpur, ...
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Bahula Bahula is a census town in the Pandabeswar CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Bahula is located at . The Asansol-Durgapur region is composed of undul ...
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Mandarbani Mandarbani is a census town in the Faridpur Durgapur CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Mandarbani is located at . Banagram, Mandarbani, Sirsha, Na ...
, Banagram, Sirsha,
Nabaghanapur Nabaghanapur is a census town in the Faridpur Durgapur CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Nabaghanapur is located at . Banagram, Mandarbani, Sirsha, ...
, Sarpi,
Ichhapur Ichapore or Ichhapur is a locality in North Barrackpur, North Barrackpur Municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan De ...
, Arra, Gopalpur, Bamunara,
Amlajora Amlajora is a census town in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Amlajora is located at . Arra, Bamunara, Gopalpur and Amlajora form a clu ...
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Kanksa Kanksa is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History As per Peterson’s District Gazeteer of 1910, the south-western ext ...
, Debipur,
Prayagpur Prayagpur is a census town in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Urbanisation According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durga ...
and
Kendra Khottamdi Kendra Khottamdi is a census town located partly in the Pandabeswar CD block of the Durgapur subdivision and partly in the Jamuria CD block of the Asansol Sadar subdivision in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geo ...
(part). The subdivision has its headquarters at Durgapur. Urban-rural divide The urban-rural divide of the two administrative subdivisions are as follows:


Demographics

As per the
2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...
data, Paschim Bardhaman district (after bifurcation of Bardhaman district in 2016), had a total population of 2,882,031. There were 1,497,479 (52%) males and 1,384,452 (48%) females. Population below 6 years was 322,268. 2,351,954 (81.61%) lived in urban areas. As per the 2011 census data the total number of literates in Paschim Bardhaman district, after bifurcation of Bardhaman district in 2017, was 2,015,056 (78.75% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 1,136,990 (85.44% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 806,010 (65.55% of the female population over 6 years). Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 628,568 (21.81%) and 161,946 (5.62%) of the population respectively. In the 2011 census Hindus were the majority with 2,442,414 (84.75%) in Paschim Bardhaman district. Muslims numbered 384,027 (13.32%), Sikhs were 14,754 (0.51%), almost entirely in urban areas such as Asansol and Durgapur. Christians numbered 12,636 (0.44%) of the population. Other religions (including indigenous religions such as Sarna) numbered 42,954 (1.49%) of the population. According to the 2011 census, 58.18% of the population in what is now Paschim Bardhaman district spoke
Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
, 26.78%
Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
, 7.64%
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''
Santali as their first language.


Economy


Coal mining

Coal mining in India first started in the
Raniganj Coalfield Raniganj Coalfield is primarily located in the Asansol and Durgapur subdivisions of Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal. It spreads over to the neighboring districts of Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and to Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. History ...
. In 1774, John Sumner and Suetonius Grant Heatly of the
British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
found coal near
Ethora Ethora is a rural suburb of Asansol, located in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was a site of the first attempts at commercial coal extraction in t ...
, presently in
Salanpur Salanpur is a village, in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Urbanisation As per the 2011 census, 83.33% of the population of Asansol Sada ...
CD Block.Akkori Chattopadhyay, ''Bardhaman Jelar Itihas O Lok Sanskriti'' , Vol I, pp. 46-51, (Bengali), Radical, 2001, In 1973, the Government of India took over the management of all non-coking coal mines in the country and in 1975
Coal India Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India. It is headquartered at Kolkata. It is the ''largest government-owned-coal-producer'' in the world. It is ...
was formed to manage the coking and non-coking coal mines. Eastern Coalfields has been producing around 30 million tonnes per annum from its open cast mines, it has been modernising its underground mines to produce around 10 million tonnes per annum from its underground mines.


Railways

Narayankuri ghat, on the Damodar, was used by Carr Tagore & Company for transporting coal to Kolkata by boat in the middle of the nineteenth century. Varying levels of water in the Damodar posed problems for transportation. In order to capture the lucrative coal transport business,
East Indian Railway The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Barod ...
laid lines up to Raniganj in 1855. It captured the entire coal transport business. The line was extended to Asansol in 1863. The Howrah-Delhi main line via Asansol and Patna of
East Indian Railway The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Barod ...
was made operable in 1871 and the
Grand Chord Grand Chord is part of the Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line and Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line. It acts as a link between Sitarampur, (Asansol), (West Bengal) and Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Uttar Pradesh, previously known as Mughalsarai Jun ...
from Sitarampur to Mughalsarai was completed in 1901, shortening the travel distance between Howrah and Delhi.
Bengal Nagpur Railway The Bengal Nagpur Railway was one of the companies which pioneered development of the railways in eastern and central India. It was succeeded first by Eastern Railway and subsequently by South Eastern Railway. History The opening of the ...
linked its operations in the Nagpur-Chandil sector to Asansol in 1887. With all these links Asansol emerged as a major railway junction. Asansol has an electric loco shed and an EMU shed. There is a diesel loco shed at Andal and Andal also has a large goods yard, apart from those at Sitrampur and Barakar. Asansol Division of Eastern Railway handles around 1,300 wagons of coal every day.


Industry

IISCO Steel Plant IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited is an integrated steel plant located at Burnpur, a neighbourhood in Asansol city, in the Asansol subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. Overview IISCO Steel Plant ...
of
Steel Authority of India Limited Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is a central public sector undertaking based in New Delhi, India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Steel, Government of India with an annual turnover of INR 1,03,480 Crore (US$13 billion) for fisc ...
at
Burnpur Burnpur is a captive township of SAIL, the area covered by IISCO Steel Plant and its surroundings in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district, in the heart of the mining-industrial belt in the western periphery of the state of West Bengal, India. It ...
has a crude steel production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per year. The modernisation and expansion programme of IISCO Steel Plant was implemented with an investment of over Rs 16,000 crore As of 2015, the investment for modernisation was the single largest investment in West Bengal till then. Established in 1918, the Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO) was amalgamated with SAIL in 2006 and renamed IISCO Steel Plant.
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) is an electric locomotive manufacturer based in India. The works are located at Chittaranjan in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of West Bengal, with an ancillary unit in Dankuni. The main unit is 32 km f ...
is one of the largest electric locomotive manufacturers in the world. Established in 1950, it produced steam locomotives up to 1972. Ballavpur Paper Mnfg. Ltd. (earlier Bengal Paper Mill) at Ballavpur started production in 2009 after revamp. Amongst the other industries at Asansol are: Burn Standard (earlier Indian Standard Wagon), Sen Raleigh cycle factory (not a productive unit any more), Hindustan Pilkington glass factory (not a productive unit any more), Dhakeswari Cotton Mills (not a productive unit any more), Kulti Works of SAIL Growth Division and Hindustan Cables at
Rupnarayanpur Rupnarayanpur, Rupnarainpur or Hindustan Cables Township, is a census town in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Rupnarayanpur is l ...
(not a productive unit any more).
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 ...
of
Steel Authority of India Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is a central public sector undertaking based in New Delhi, India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Steel, Government of India with an annual turnover of INR 1,03,480 Crore (US$13 billion) for fisc ...
, set up in the fifties, has a rated capacity of 2.2 million tonnes of crude steel, after expansion and modernisation. The plant is consistently performing at beyond its rated capacity. Durgapur Barrage was built by
Damodar Valley Corporation Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is a government-owned power generator which operates in the Damodar River area of West Bengal and Jharkhand states of India. The statutory corporation operates both thermal power stations and hydel power stat ...
in 1955 and handed over, along with the canal network, to the Government of West Bengal in 1964. Amongst the other industrial units at Durgpur are: Alloy Steels Plant of SAIL, Durgapur Projects Limited, Mining and Allied Machinery Corporation (not a productive unit any more), Alstom Power Boilers Ltd. (earlier known as ACC-Vickers Babcock and later as ACC-Babcock), Philips Carbon Black Limited, Sankey Wheels (a unit of GKW), Birla Cement (earlier Durgapur Cement Ltd.), Graphite India Limited, Durgapur Chemicals, Bharat Ophathalmic Glass Limited (not a productive unit any more) and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation (not a productive unit any more). Between 2001 and 2007 Durgapur saw the setting up of around a dozen middle to large scale industrial investment in iron and steel manufacturing sector. The prominent investors are MB Group, Jai Balaji group, SPS group, Adhunik Group of Industries, Neo Metallic, Stolberg India, Super Smelters Ltd
Shyam Steel
and
UltraTech Cement UltraTech Cement Limited is an Indian cement company based in Mumbai, and a part of Aditya Birla Group. UltraTech is the largest manufacturer of grey cement, ready-mix concrete Ready-mix concrete (RMC) is concrete that is manufactured i ...
. Amongst the industrial areas in the district are: Durgapur Industrial Area, Industrial Complex at Rajbandh, Industrial Estate at Kalyanpur, Asansol, Raniganj Industrial Estate, Panagarh Industrial Park, Aluminium and Non-Ferrous Metal Park and Salanpur Industrial Park. IT industry in the area is slowly picking up with the small IT hubs scattered around Durgapur and Asansol. Along with this the area is running a parallel economy in illegal mining of coal and sand. Various groups of scrupulous individuals are digging mine shafts and extracting coals illegally which are sold to the small scale industries at less than government rates. The
illegal sand mining Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a widely unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity. Beach theft is illegal removal of large quantities ...
at Damodar river has damaged the natural flow of the river, caused due to rise in demand for construction of houses and factories recently


Educational institutions

The district has a number of colleges imparting education in engineering, management, medicines, law, science and other technological and general courses. There is only one university in the district namely
Kazi Nazrul University Kazi Nazrul University (KNU) is a Public Collegiate university in Asansol, West Bengal. The university has been named after the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The university was established under the Kazi Nazrul University Act, 2012. Assent of the Go ...
. Some of the well known institutes are: *
Asansol Girls' College Asansol Girls' College is a women's college in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts and sciences. The College is affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. His ...
*
Asansol Engineering College The Asansol Engineering College or AEC is a private engineering college in Asansol, West Bengal, India. It offers different undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Engineering and Technology and other allied fields. It was established in 1998 ...
* Banwarilal Bhalotia College, Asansol *
Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol Bidhan Chandra College, also known as B.C. College, Asansol, established in 1961, is the well-known college in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to Kazi Nazrul Un ...
* Deshbandhu Mahavidyalaya * Bengal College of Engineering & Technology
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 ...
*
Bengal Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital Bengal Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital is a homeopathic medical college in Asansol West Bengal, India. it was established in 1980. It offers the Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) degree course. This college is recogn ...
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
*
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute The Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (also known as CSIR-CMERI Durgapur or CMERI Durgapur) is a public engineering research and development institution in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. It is a constituent laboratory of the I ...
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 ...
*
Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College (BCREC) - is a private engineering college in Durgapur named after legendary physician Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, located in Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, about 160 kilometers from the city of Kolkata, ...
* Dr. B.C. Roy College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Science, Durgapur *
Durgapur Government College Durgapur Government College, India, is the only government college not only in the home district of Paschim Bardhaman, but also in the neighbouring districts of Bankura, Purulia and Birbhum. It was established on 15 September 1970. It is affil ...
*
Durgapur Institute of Legal Studies Durgapur Institute of Legal Studies is a college providing legal education in Durgapur, West Bengal. The college was established in 2012, and is affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University. This college is also approved by the Bar Council of India ...
* Durgapur Women's College * Gupta College of Technological Sciences, Asansol * IQ City Medical College
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 ...
*
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Durgapur Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Durgapur or locally called as JNV Durgapur is a boarding, co-educational school in Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal in India. Navodaya Vidyalayas are funded by the Indian Ministry of Human Resources Developm ...
*
Kazi Nazrul University Kazi Nazrul University (KNU) is a Public Collegiate university in Asansol, West Bengal. The university has been named after the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The university was established under the Kazi Nazrul University Act, 2012. Assent of the Go ...
,
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
* Kazi Nazrul Islam Mahavidyalaya,
Churulia Churulia is a suburb of Asansol under the Jamuria (community development block), Jamuria Community development blocks in India, CD block, in the Asansol subdivision, Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West ...
* Law College Durgapur *
Michael Madhusudan Memorial College Michael Madhusudan Memorial College, established in 1996, is a general degree college in Durgapur, in the Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in Arts, Commerce, Management and Sciences. It is affil ...
*
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur National Institute of Technology Durgapur (also known as NIT Durgapur or NITDGP), formerly known as Regional Engineering College, Durgapur (also known as REC Durgapur or RECDGP), is a public technical university in the city of Durgapur in We ...
*
National Power Training Institute National Power Training Institute (NPTI), is a government training institution under Ministry of Power, Government of India with its Corporate Office at Faridabad. NPTI had been providing its dedicated service for more than five decades. His ...
*
Shri Ramkrishna Institute of Medical Sciences and Sanaka Hospital Shri Ramkrishna Institute of Medical Sciences and Sanaka Hospital is a private (50 government seats) medical college located in Durgapur, West Bengal. It was established in 2015. About the college The institute offers undergraduate seats for M ...
* St. Xavier's College, Asansol * Triveni Devi Bhalotia College


Notable people

* Abhisek Banerjee, Former Indian Domestic Cricketer * Aloke Paul, Indian materials scientist * Alok Krishna Gupta, Indian mineralogist, petrologist *
Arjun Atwal Arjun Singh Atwal (born 20 March 1973) is an Indian professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and is the first player born in India to become a member of, and later win a tournament on the U.S.-based PGA Tour. E ...
, Indian professional golfer, the first player born in India to become a member of, and later win a tournament on the U.S.-based
PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
*
Bikash Sinha Bikash Sinha (born 1945) is an Indian physicist, active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Bikash Sinha was the director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the chairman of th ...
, Indian physicist, chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur in June 2005 *
Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam ( bn, কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, ; 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, Bengali literature, writer, Bangladeshi music, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul is regarded as one ...
, Bengali poet, writer, musician, popularly known as Bidrohi kabi * Meenakshi Banerjee, Indian cyanobacteriologist and presently works as the head of the Center for Applied Algal Research at Rice University in Houston, Texas *
Malcolm Roberts (politician) Malcolm Ieuan Roberts (born 3 May 1955) is a far-right Australian politician. He is a member of One Nation and has been a Senator for Queensland since 2019. He also served in the Senate from 2016 to 2017. Roberts studied engineering at the Un ...
, Australian politician for
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON or ONP), also known as One Nation or One Nation Party, is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia. It is led by Pauline Hanson. One Nat ...
* Meenakshi Banerjee, Indian cyanobacteriologist and presently works as the head of the Center for Applied Algal Research at Rice University in Houston, Texas *
Prayas Ray Barman Prayas Ray Barman (born 25 October 2002) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Bengal in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 20 September 2018. He was the leading wicket-taker for Bengal in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with ...
, cricketer and youngest player to debut in the IPL *
Mika Singh Mika Singh (born 10 June 1977) is an Indian singer. His songs include "Bas Ek King" ('' Singh Is Kinng''), "Mauja Hi Mauja" (''Jab We Met''), "Ibn-e-Batuta" (''Ishqiya''), and "Dhanno" ('' Housefull''). He has released several solo albums and a ...
, Indian singer * Munmun Dutta, Indian actress and model, best known for her portrayal of Babita Iyer in the Hindi sitcom
Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah ''Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah'' () is an Indian sitcom based on the weekly column "Duniya Ne Undha Chasma" by Taarak Mehta in '' Chitralekha'' magazine. It is produced by Asit Kumar Modi. It premiered on 28 July 2008 and airs on Sony SAB ...
* Rana Chowdhary, Indian cricketer *
Sandip Burman Sandip Burman is a tabla player from Durgapur, West Bengal, India. After his initial training with Shri Sudhir Roy, he began a long discipleship with Pandit Shymal Bose. Sandip's performances are marked with spontaneous innovation and tonal ...
, Tabla Player and Musician *
Sharmila Tagore Sharmila Tagore (also known as Begum Ayesha Sultana; born 8 December 1944) is a retired Indian actress, primarily known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema, Tagore is the recipient of two National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award, and the Fi ...
, Indian film actress *
S. S. Ahluwalia Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia (born 4 July 1951) is an Indian people, Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and a senior Member of Parliament in his 32nd year as a Parliamentarian. A former Minister of State, Union Minister of ...
, notable politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) *
Sudip Chattopadhyay Sudip Chattopadhyay (born 1 August 1960) is an Indian developmental biologist, biotechnologist and the dean of research and consultancy at the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. Known for his studies on the ''molecular basis of light-co ...
, Indian developmental biologist and biotechnologist * Swami Ashokananda, monk of the Ramakrishna Math, in charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco from 1932 * Timir Biswas, Indian playback singer of Bengali and Hindi films, lead singer of the band Fakira *
Vivek Singh (chef) Vivek Singh (born May 6, 1961) is an Anglo Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media personality known for his Indian cuisine. He is the CEO and Executive Chef of four London based modern an restaurants and one Oxford bas-based modern res ...
, Indian British celebrity chef and restaurateur


Gallery

File:Sacred Heart Church, Asansol 01.jpg, Sacred Heart Church in Asansol File:Mother Kalyaneshwari Temple, Maithan 77.jpg, Kalyaneshwari Temple in Asansol File:Ghagar Buri Temple, Asansol.jpg, Ghaghar Burhi Chandi Temple in Asansol File:JTM, Brunpur.jpg, Jagannath Temple in Burnpur, Asansol. File:Vivekananda Institute or Durand Institute, Asansol- 01.jpg, Vivekananda Institute (Durand Institute), Asansol File:Rabindra Bhawan, Asansol.jpg, Rabindra Bhawan in Asansol File:Burnpur Nehru Park 1.jpg, Burnpur Nehru Park in Riverside, Asansol File:Maithon Dam.jpg, Maithon Dam File:Statue of Kazi Nazrul Islam, Asansol.jpg, Statue of
Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam ( bn, কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, ; 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, Bengali literature, writer, Bangladeshi music, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul is regarded as one ...
in
Asansol Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
File:Nazrul Academy Churulia.jpg, Nazrul Academy;
Churulia Churulia is a suburb of Asansol under the Jamuria (community development block), Jamuria Community development blocks in India, CD block, in the Asansol subdivision, Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West ...
, Birth Place of
Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam ( bn, কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, ; 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, Bengali literature, writer, Bangladeshi music, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul is regarded as one ...
.


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