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Durgapur Travel Guide

Durgapur a steel town and Industrial complex on the Banks of the Damodar River, set among sal forests. Durgapur projects an image of an Industrialised India. If is the third integrated steel plant of Hinduslan steel Limited and occupies an area of 6.47 SQ. kms Founded under the colombo plan Mission which visited India in April 1955, The plant has been instrunmental in changing the Rural lace of Durgapur in to a vast industrial complex comprising public and private sectors

Durgapur is well connected via roads and rails to other parts of Barddhaman district and to Kolkata. Express and mail trains and couple of intercity express trains do ply between Kolkata and Durgapur on a regular basis. Durgapur is 159 km from Howrah station. Buses from West Bengal state transport corporation run till Durgapur from the Dharmatala bus-stand and Karunamoyee bus-stand at Salt Lake. There are also some private authorities why ply regular bus service from Dharmatala. A person can avail non-ac, ac or volvo bus to travel from Kolkata to Durgapur and vice versa.

Within the city of Durgapur, bus,auto-rickshaws and cycle-rickshaws are the most common modes of transport. Nearest airport is at Dumdum, Netaji Subhash International airport; a smaller private airport at Panagarh is rarely used.Durgapur is located at 23°29′N 87°19′E / 23.48°N 87.32°E / 23.48; 87.32.[2] It has an average elevation of 65 metres (213 ft).Durgapur is situated on the bank of river Damodar, just before it enters the alluvial plains of Bengal. The topography is undulating. The coal-bearing area of the Ranigunj coalfields lies just beyond Durgapur, although some parts intrude in to the area. The area was deeply forested till recent times, and some forests are still there, standing witness to its wild past.

Two mighty rivers border it on the north and south. The Ajay River flows past unhindered in the north but the Damodar River on the south has two obstacles in its path – an earlier anicut at Rondia and a more recent barrage at Durgapur. Two rivulets, Singaran and Tamla, flow through the area and join the Damodar. Two other rivulets in the area, Kunur and Tumuni, join the Ajay.

Durgapur subdivision is surrounded by Asansol subdivision on the west, Bardhaman sadar subdivision on the east, Bankura district across the Damodar in the south, and Birbhum district across the Ajay to the north.

The Grand Trunk Road (NH2) virtually bifurcates the area. It has now been widened as part of the Golden Quadrilateral project. Another wide road takes off from Darjeeling Morh near Panagarh for North Bengal. It also links Santiniketan to the Grand Trunk Road. The Durgapur Expressway, linking Dankuni with Memari on Grand Trunk Road, now allows fast communication between Kolkata and Durgapur. A road over the Durgapur barrage links Durgapur with Bankura and beyond in South Bengal.

The Kolkata-Delhi railway track passes through Durgapur. Andal has a link with Sainthia on the Sahibgunj loop line.

There are airstrips at Panagarh and Durgapur, the former with the Indian Air Force and latter with SAIL. A full fledged domestic airport is coming up near Durgapur. The airport is expected to be operational by 2010.