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Durgapur ( Bengali: দুর্গাপুর, Durgāpur ) is an industrial town in the district of Bardhaman in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has about 570,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ).

Durgapur is located on the river Damodar along the railway line Delhi- Howrah and 170 km from Kolkata. Other important places are within Asansol, Bishnupur and Shantiniketan.

The city was founded in the 1950s and designed as a planned city by the architect Joseph Allen Stein and Benjamin Polk. It is famous for its steel industry with two steel mills with a total of 40,000 employees, Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP ) and Alloy Steel Plant (ASP ), both of which are operated by the Steel Authority of India.

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