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Coke Oven police station, located near Durgapur railway station, has jurisdiction over parts of Durgapur municipal corporation. The area covered is 49 km2 and the population covered is 136,181.Durgapur Urban Agglomeration included Durgapur (M. Corp) and 2 census towns: Bamunara and Arra, Paschim Bardhaman.
In the 2011 census, Durgapur Municipal Corporation had a population of 566,937 out of which 294,349 were males and 272,588 were females. The 0-6 years population was 50,512. Effective literacy rate for the 7+ population was 87.84.
According to Census of India 2011, Hinduism is the predominant religion in this city, followed by Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism and others. Out of 5,66,517 people living in Durgapur (Municipal Corporation); 5,19,122 are Hindus (91.63%), 35,923 are Muslims (6.34%), 1889 are Christians (0.36%), 2346 are Sikhs (0.44%), 513 are Buddhists, 382 are Jains, 906 are other religions and 5436 (1.04%) did not state their religion.
Durgapur is one of the biggest industrial hubs of India and was planned as an integrated industrial town. It lays on the banks of Damodar River river and coalfields of Raniganj. Durgapur was a dream of former prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and chief minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy. The first project in Durgapur was Damodar Valley Corporation's Durgapur Barrage which attracted many public sector units. Durgapur Steel Plant was the first PSU established in the region in 1955 with the help of U.K which was later undertook by Steel Authority of India. Later, an alloy plant was established by Hindustan Steel.Ltd in 1965 which was also acquired by SAIL. Mining and Allied Machinery Corp (MAMC) established in 1964 (now closed but reviving with J.V of Bharat Earth Movers, Coal India & DVC). Hindustan Fertilisers Corporation (HFC) was also operational but got closed down (now RCF showed interest to reopen it).
Durgapur is also an emerging I.T and real estate hub have many proposed residential areas like DLF's Durgapur Township
Durgapur is the preferred gateway to the districts of Bankura district, Birbhum district ( Bolpur, Rampurhat, Suri, Birbhum ), and Purulia district. National Highway 19 (India) (old numbering: NH 2) passes through the city jurisdiction and State Highway 9 (West Bengal) originates from Muchipara in the city. National Highway 14 (India) (old numbering NH 60) passes through the north-western suburb of Pandabeswar and finally passes through Raniganj and heads away towards Odisha, India. It happens to be one of the very few cities that have an Asian Highway Network passing directly through the city jurisdiction. The AH1 links Japan with Turkey, through Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
Durgapur has bus terminus at Benachiti-I, Benachiti-II (commonly referred to as Prantika), City Center, and Station More.Within the city, private mini-buses operate from Prantika to Station terminus, via different routes through the city.
Auto-rickshaws ply between Durgapur City Centre, Benachity, Railway Station and other parts of the city in a number of routes. Pre-paid taxis are available in the city from Station and City Center Terminus. Additionally, cab and auto-rickshaw services for the city are offered online.
Only one Bus (Abhishek) is available for the Kalyani-Bansberia route and it departs from Benachity at 4:40 am and from Kalyani, West Bengal at 10 am every day.
SBSTC and various other private buses ranging from sleepers to premium Volvo's are available from City Centre, Durgapur for Kolkata, Asansol, Barddhaman, Barakar, Bhubaneswar and other nearby cities.
The domestic airport of the city is Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport. The airport is roughly 15 kilometres from Durgapur's Durgapur City Centre. It is India's first private-sector Greenfield airport. It is located in a place called Andal.
An air force station at Panagarh (16.3 km from Durgapur City Centre), belonging to the Indian Air Force, is used as a base for a C-130J Hercules squadronal.
Durgapur is served by Durgapur railway station. It is one of the most important station of Eastern Railways where almost all express trains give a stop, except a few long distance trains like the Howrah - New Delhi Rajdhani express and Duronto express. It falls in the Bardhaman-Asansol section of Eastern Railways and Howrah-Gaya-Delhi line of Indian Railways.
Durgapur experiences a somewhat transitional climate between the tropical wet and dry climate of Kolkata and the more humid subtropical climate further north. Summers are extremely hot and dry, lasting from March to the middle of June, with average daily temperatures near 40 °C. They are followed by the monsoon season with heavy precipitation and somewhat lower temperatures. Durgapur receives most of its annual rainfall of around 52 inches during this season. The monsoon is followed by a mild, dry winter from November to January. Temperatures are quite moderate, with average daily temperatures near 20 °C. There is a short autumn at the end of October and a short spring in February, both of which have relatively moderate temperatures of around 25 °C.
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Durgapur is by far the most industrialised city in eastern India and the List of planned cities#India. It started with the first prime minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru. His dream of transforming the backward agricultural country into an industrially advanced nation was picked up in West Bengal by Dr. B.C. Roy. At the earlier stages for the selection of a proper site for a new industrial township, Jnananjan Niyogi, a great business organiser and planner, was involved. The modernist American architect Joseph Allen Stein, invited to head the newly formed Department of Architecture and Planning at the Bengal Engineering College in Calcutta, plunged into a major project as soon as he reached India in 1952 - the designing of Durgapur city with Benjamin Polk, another American architect already living in Calcutta. Thereafter it was the task of local leaders such as Ananda Gopal Mukherjee and bureaucrats such as K.K. Sen to get Durgapur going.
Before independence, only one small refractory plant of the Martin Burn group was located at Durgapur: the abandoned chimney is visible near the station. Damodar Valley Corporation constructed Durgapur Barrage in 1955 and shortly followed with the Durgapur Thermal Power Station.
There was a massive follow up - Durgapur Steel Plant (commissioned 1960), Alloy Steels Plant (commissioned 1965), Durgapur Projects Ltd. (established 1961), Mining and Allied Machinery Corporation, ACC-Vickers Babcock (later ACC-Babcock and Alstom Power Boilers Ltd, now GE Power India Ltd.), Hindustan Fertiliser Corporation, Philips Carbon Black Ltd., Sankey Wheels (a unit of GKW), Bharat Ophthalmic Glass Ltd, Durgapur Cement Ltd. (now Birla Cement) (established 1975), Graphite India Ltd. (established 1967), Durgapur Chemicals Ltd. (DCL) was incorporated on 31 July 1963, Ispat Forgings and many others, large and small.
The administrative setup came in stages. In 1837, when Bankura district was formed, Durgapur area was part of it. In 1847, Raniganj subdivision was formed with three police stations - Raniganj, Kanksa, and Neamatpur - and it was made a part of Bardhaman district. In 1906, the subdivisional headquarters was shifted to Burdwan and the subdivision renamed accordingly. In 1910, the police stations in Asansol subdivision were Asansol, Ranigunj, Kanksa, Faridpur, and Barakar. On 14 April 1968, Durgapur subdivision was carved out of Asansol subdivision.In 2011, the Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) was formed by the State Government.
Durgapur is home to National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, an autonomous institution in eastern India of List of Institutes of National Importance. It is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technologys in the country. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur is one of the 8 old Regional Engineering Colleges established in 1956.
Durgapur Government College, India, is the only government college not only in the home district of Burdwan but also in the neighbouring districts of Bankura, Purulia and Birbhum. It was established on 15 September 1970 and was affiliated to the University of Burdwan which later got affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University.
The Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (also known as CSIR-CMERI Durgapur
CMERI Durgapur) is a public engineering research and development institution in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. It is a constituent laboratory of the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The institute is dedicated to work in the Mechanical engineering and allied engineering disciplines.
The National Power Training Institute (Also known as NPTI(ER) and formerly known as PETS, Durgapur) is an institute under Ministry of Power, Government of India which offers postgraduate education in the field of power plants. This institute is also associated with several industrial bodies for imparting training to plant personnel.
Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology and Management , B.C. Roy Engineering College and the Bengal College of Engineering and Technology,NSHM Faculty of Engineering and Technology,SETGOI Institute of engineering and Industrial Technology,Durgapur which are affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) offers engineering degrees. NIM Durgapur School of Hotel Management, Paramedical College Durgapur, IQ City Medical college and Hospital, SANAKA educational trust, Gouri Devi medical college and hospital, New Horizon Institute of Technology, NSHM knowledge campus Durgapur offers multidisciplinary courses like engineering, Hotel Management, Ophthalmology, Polytechnic, Business and Finance. Durgapur Govt College, Durgapur Women's College, MMMC College, are general degree colleges affiliated to Kazi Nazul University.
State Institute of Hotel Management 'Aahoran' under Dept. of Tourism, Govt. of West Bengal is spread over 05 acres of land at Fuljhore,Durgapur which offers 3-year B.Sc degree course in Hospitality and Hotel Administration, and various Diploma Courses with affiliation under NCHMCT, Ministry of Tourism, Govt of India.
with schoolchildren at DurgapurDurgapur houses a large number of government aided and public schools in addition to two Kendriya Vidyalaya and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Durgapur (under the Government of India). The most renowned private schools are D.A.V Model School; St. Xavier's School, Durgapur; St. Michael's School, Durgapur; Bidhan School ;St. Peter's School; Delhi Public School; Carmel Convent High School, Fuljhore, Carmel School, Durgapur Steel Township, Pranavananda Vidyamandir. Other than those there are other schools like Bidhannagar Govt. Sponsored Boys' High school (H.S),Bidhannagar Govt. Sponsored Girls' High school (H.S) , St. Xaviers High School Palashdhia, Durgapur A.V.B. High School ,DPL Boys' School, DPL Girls' School, ;Suren Chandra Modern School(SCMS); Aurobinda Vidya Mandir (D.H.B Road); Amrita Vidyalayam; Durgapur Ispat Vidyalaya; Hem Sheela Model School; Bidhan School; Bidhan Chandra Institution for Boys and Bidhan Chandra Institution for Girls (both imparting Higher Secondary education only); Narayana School; Amrai High School; R.P Vivekananda Vidyapith; Durgapur Tarak Nath High School; Techno India Group Public School,Career Sabish Pre-School, Durgapur Public School; Guru Teg Bahadur Public School;MAMC Boys and Girls high school are closed due to Company lock-out, MAMC Modern High School and Assembly of God Church School.The DSP aided schools have now been closed due to the falling education quality and lack of students but at their golden period have produced great academics.
Durgapur has several electronic media houses. Express News, Axes Info Media, DSTV (owned by DSP), Hallow India, TV Bangla are some of them., are printed from the city. Anandabazar Patrika is published from Ghutgoria, near Durgapur, in Bankura District, and has a separate Asansol-Durgapur edition. Samay Sanket is another newspaper published from Durgapur. Dainik Jagaran has a Durgapur Edition, too. Durgapur does not have any F.M. stations. However All India Radio 100.3 FM, 92.7 Big FM, 93.5 Red FM and Radio Mirchi 95 FM has stations at Asansol and serve both Asansol and Durgapur.