Durgapur

Durgapur (/dʊərɡɑːpʊər/ or /-ɡæ-/) is a city in the Burdwan District in the state of West Bengal India. Durgapur is the third largest city in West Bengal in terms of both area (154.20 km² / 59.54 sq. miles) and population (5,66,937) (2011 census & excluding the urban agglomeration). The well-planned city of Durgapur is the second planned city of India after Chandigarh being designed by Joseph Allen Stein and Benjamin Polk. This highly industrialized city has the only operational dry (inland) port in Eastern India. It is also one of the six Municipal Corporations in West Bengal and the headquarter of the Durgapur subdivision consisting of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation and five community development blocs: Durgapur–Faridpur, Galsi–I, Kanksa, Andal and Pandabeswar. The five blocks contain 36 gram panchayats and 30 census towns. Distances from Kolkata: By Road 170 km via NH-2, by Rail 158 km and by Flight 163 km. Durgapur Urban Agglomeration includes: Durgapur (Municipal Corp.), Bamunara (Census Town) and Arrah (Census Town) and ranks 4th (in terms of population) among other urban agglomerations in West Bengal. Durgapur is also one of the three Y (for the purpose of HRA [House Rent Allowance] calculation) class cities in West Bengal.

Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency) was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Durgapur in West Bengal. The seat was reserved for scheduled castes.

As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist from 2009; some of the assembly segments under this constituency will be part of a new Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency), others will be part of Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency).

This page also includes results for Ausgram (Lok Sabha constituency) during the short period of its existence from 1962 to 1971.

Assembly segments

Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:

Durgapur (disambiguation)

Durgapur may refer to: