DURGAPUR is an industrial township in the district of Burdwan,in the state of West Bengal, India.Durgapur is located about 168 kms north of Kolkata. Durgapur was founded by in the late fifties, by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr.B.C. Roy.After the partition and the refuge influx of 1947, West Bengal was in a economically bad shape. Dr. Roy took to improve the condition, by founding a series of industrial satellite towns. The most prominent among them are Durgapur(steel and ancillary industries), Haldia (port and petrochemicals), Dankuni (oil refineries), Haringhata (dairy), Burnpur (steel), Chittaranjan (locomotive works), Kharagpur (IIT). The well laid out industrial township of Durgapur was designed by Joseph Allen Stein and Benjamin Polk .Durgapur is home to the largest industrial unit in the state, Durgapur Steel Plant, one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited. Alloy Steel Plant of SAIL is also located here. There are a number of power plants, chemical and engineering industries. Some metallurgical units have come up in recent years. It is a well-planned industrial city on the banks of the river Damodar, with a population of about 250,000.It is located very close to India's biggest coalfields in the Ranigunj-Dhanbad area.Durgapur has got the many of the good educational institutions of the country e.g. NIT,Durgapur ,CMERI,etc. Those who feel nostalgic about our beloved durgapur are cordially welcome here.This is a place to unite the durgapurians over the internet and divert their creative minds for the development of durgapur.So be a part of it.