About Durgapur City

1. DURGAPUR(STEEL
CITY)Presented By:
Supriya
Mondal(181150)

2. ABOUT THE CITY
• City name:- Durgapur
• State:- West Bengal
• District:- Paschim Bardhaman
• Total area:- 154.20 𝑲𝑴 𝟐
• Population(2011):-1,080,990
• Local Languages:- Bengali, English,
Hindi
• Food habits:-Rice, Fish, Sweets etc.

3. HISTORY
• Durgapur city was established at late 1950.
• Founded by Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy.
• The well laid out industrial town of Durgapur was designed by Joseph Allen Stein
and Benjamin Polk in 1952.
• Durgapur is the third largest urban agglomeration after Kolkata and Asansol 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.

4. CITY FAMOUS FOR
The city of Durgapur is located in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is popular as an
abode of numerous steel manufacturing companies. The city also has various big
markets, which are famous for the garments, jewellry and steel utensils.

5. MAIN OCCUPATION
Durgapur, better known as the steel city of West Bengal,
is situated in the district of Paschim Bardhaman. As the name suggests, Durgapur is
home to several steel producing companies as well as power plants and other
engineering and chemical factories. It is one of the few planned cities in India, the
credit of which goes to architects Benjamin Polk
and Allen Stein.

6. TOURIST PLACE
• Durgapur Steel Plant
• Kumar Mangalam Park
• Anand Amusement Park
• Bhabani Phatak’s Tilla
• Duel Temple
• Durgapur Barrage

7. CLIMATE
• 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 32 °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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