Bamunara is a

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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 The name Kankasha comes from the name of Sadgope king Kanka Sen Ra ...

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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 wes ...

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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 distric ...

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Geography

Location

Bamunara is located at . Arra, Bamunara, Gopalpur and

Amlajora Amlajora is a village and partly a locality in Durgapur Municipal Corporation 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 ...

form a cluster of census towns in the western portion of Kanksa CD block and adjacent to Durgapur Municipal Corporation area.

Urbanisation

According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. The sole municipal corporation in the Durgapur subdivision is located at

Durgapur Durgapur (), is an industrial hub and a planned urban agglomeration in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is stands on the northern bank of the Damodar river and located in Paschim Bardhaman district. Durgapur is a major centre for producin ...

and the subdivision has 38 (+1 partly)

s (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map).

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Bamunara had a toal population of 6,665 of which 3,399 (51%) were males and 3,266 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 728. The total number of literate persons in Bamunara was 4,584 (77.21% of the population over 6 years). In the 2011 census, Durgapur Urban Agglomeration had a population of 581,409 out of which 301,700 were males and 279,709 were females. The 0–6 years population was 51,930. Effective literacy rate for the 7+ population was 87.70. Durgapur Urban Agglomeration included Durgapur (M. Corp), Bamunara and Arra.

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Bardhaman'', Bamunara covered an area of 4.9615 km². Among the civic amenities, it had 7 km roads with open drain, the protected water-supply involved overhead tank, tubewell, borewell, hand pump. It had 1,000 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 family welfare centre, 1 maternity and child welfare centre, 1 charitable hospital/ nursing home, 5 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had were 5 primary schools, other school facilities at Gopalpur 2 km away. It had one non-formal education centre (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan). Among the social, recreational, cultural facilities it had one public library and one reading room. Among the important commodities it produced were rice, bamboo products.

Industry

Mackeil Ispat & Forging Ltd., located In Bamunara Industrial Estate, is a large open die forging unit. It has modern machining facilities, comprehensive heat treatment facilities and sophisticated metallurgical and inspection facilities.

Transport

Bamunara is on National Highway 19 /

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References

{{Paschim Bardhaman District Cities and towns in Paschim Bardhaman district