Local businesses in Durgapur
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- IT and company offices: 1
- Pinnacle Infotech Solutions
- Government offices: 5
- BSNL Customer Care; Durgapur Municipal Corporation; Employees Provident Fund Organization; West Bengal Pollution Control Board; Central Excise Office
- Colleges and universities: 6
- IQ City Medical College; NIT Durgapur; Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur; IQ City Institute of Nursing Sciences; Michael Madhusudan Memorial College; B.C. Roy College of polytecnic
- Workshops and craft businesses: 1
- Finance, insurance and legal offices: 1
- LIC Office
- Banks: 7
- State Bank of India, B-Zone Branch; Allahabad Bank; UCO Bank; Punjab National Bank; State Bank of India
- Hospitals: 13
- Durgapur City clinic and Nursing Home Pvt Ltd; IQ CITY MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL; Disha Eye Hospitals And Research Centre Pvt Ltd; Dr.B.C.Roy Medical Institute; Durgapur City Hospital; Durgapur Steel Plant Hospital; Durgapur Sub Divisional Hospital; Main Hospital; MAMC; NIT Health Center
Durgapur facts
- District
- Paschim Bardhaman district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 5,66,517
- Area
- about 154.2 sq km, about 65 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 721631 (Durgapur), 733121 (Durgapur), 741506 (Durgapur), 711205 (Durgapur)
- Places nearby
- Nehru Stadium (stadium, 2 km), Sidhu Kanu Indoor Stadium (Indoor Stadium, 3 km), Durgapur Barrage (dam, 8 km)
- Culture and food
- About 92 per cent of Durgapur's residents are Hindu and about 6 per cent are Muslim, with small Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain communities.
- Local economy
- Durgapur is the biggest industrial hub of West Bengal, planned as an integrated industrial city on the Damodar river near the Raniganj coalfields.
- Geography
- Durgapur lies at about 65 m above sea level in Paschim Bardhaman district, on the bank of the Damodar river just before it enters the alluvial plains of Bengal.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.