Durgapur is a Tier-II city in Paschim Bardhaman district, in the state of West Bengal, India. Durgapur is the third largest urban conglomeration in West Bengal and happens to be the second planned city of India after Chandigarh and has the only operational dry (inland) port in Eastern India.Clockwise from the top :
At the entrance of Durgapur Steel city from NH-2
Durgapur Steel Plant, Durgapur Rai
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Durgapur Expressway, Durgapur Railway Station plate
Nickname(s): Ruhr of India

Durgapur
Location in West Bengal, India
Coordinates: 23.55°N 87.32°ECountry IndiaStateWest BengalDistrictPaschim BardhamanEstablishedLate 1950sFounded byDr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (former chief minister of West Bengal)Named forDurgamohan Chattopadhyay, former Zamindar of SagarbhangaGovernment • TypeDurgapur Municipal Corporation • BodyDMC • MayorApurba Mukherjee • Commissioner of Police (CP)Vineet Kumar Goyal, IPS (Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate)Area • Total154 km2 (59 sq mi)
• Density3,400/km2 (8,800/sq mi)Demonym(s)Durgapurbashi, DurgapuriansLanguages • OfficialBengali, English,Time zoneIST (UTC+5:30)PIN713 2xx [713 201-713 216(city proper);713 217 & 713 219 (suburbs)]Telephone code+91 343Vehicle registrationWB-39 / WB-40Lok SabhaconstituencyBardhaman-Durgapur (MP - Mamtaz Sanghamita Choudhury - AITC )Vidhan Sabhaconstituency
Durgapur Purba (MLA - Santosh Debray - CPI(M)),
Durgapur Paschim (MLA - Biswanath Pariyal (CPIM & INC)Websitedurgapurmunicipalcorporation.org
