Durgapur Municipal Corporation
Durgapur Municipal Corporation দুর্গাপুর নগর নিগম | |
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Seal of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation | |
Type | |
Type | Municipal Corporation |
History | |
Founded | 1994; 30 years ago (1994) |
Leadership | |
Mayor | Anindita Mukherjee, TMC since 2021 |
Deputy Mayor | Amitava Banerjee, TMC since 2021 |
Chairperson | Mrigendra Nath Pal, TMC since 2021 |
Structure | |
Seats | 43 |
Political groups |
TMC: 43 |
Elections | |
Last election | 2017 |
Next election | 2024 |
Meeting place | |
Headquarters of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation | |
Website | |
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Durgapur Municipal Corporation (DMC) is the civic body that governs Durgapur in Durgapur subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India.
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, 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).[1][2]
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- Air Force Station Arjan Singh
- Asansol Municipal Corporation
- Asansol Airfield
- Bardhaman/Burdwan Raj
- Bargi
- Bhadu
- Burnpur Airport
- Dharmathakur
- Durgapur Barrage
- Durgapur Steel Plant
- Durgapur Thermal Power Station
- Gajan
- IISCO Steel Plant
- Nehru Park, Burnpur
- Pandaveswar Airfield
- Raniganj Coalfield
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Asansol Sadar subdivision |
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Durgapur subdivision |
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- NH 19 (old numbering NH 2)
- Panagarh–Morgram Highway
- Grand Trunk Road
- NH 14 (old numbering NH 60)
- Howrah–Delhi main line
- Grand Chord
- Bardhaman–Asansol section
- Asansol–Gaya section
- East Indian Railway Company
- Eastern Railway zone
- Asansol–Tatanagar–Kharagpur line
- Aryabhatta Institute of Engineering & Management Durgapur
- Asansol Engineering College
- Bengal College of Engineering & Technology
- Bengal Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Asansol
- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur
- Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
- Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology and Management
- Gouri Devi Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital
- IQ City Medical College
- Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol
- National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
- National Power Training Institute
- Shri Ramkrishna Institute of Medical Sciences and Sanaka Hospital
- Sanaka Education Trusts Group of Institutions
Hindu | |
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Christian |
- Asansol
- Bardhaman–Durgapur
- Durgapur – now defunct
Vidhan Sabha constituencies
- Cities, towns and locations in Paschim Bardhaman district
- Villages in Paschim Bardhaman district
- Damodar Valley