Smart City tag is now being conferred upon this ever expanding city of Durgapur – once known as the Rurh of Bengal for its excellence in industrial bang since the late 1950’s. From the upsurge of Public Sector behemoths beside bonhomie of Small Scale Industries, this city emerged to be the most promising urban conglomeration and a congenial destination for entrepreneurship development in the mid 1
970’s and the legacy of industrialization, which faced a setback for some time, has further has got acceleration in last couple of years resulting successful commissioning of the much talked about Aerotropolis, the IQ City Knowledge Campus, setting up of yet another medical college in Molandighi. It already has bagged an ambitious tag of ‘Education Hub’ over the years after a number of professional, technical and technology institutes were set up luring hundreds of students from different states, especially from the North East states. The Non Company Housing was set up occupying vacant land on Plot Number: 3601 in the mid 1980’s. The land requisitioned in the name of Durgapur Steel Project was left unutilized for a period of more than 30 years, which the state Land & Land Revenue authority had taken cognizance of this retention and in 1984 had forwarded a note seeking resumption of the entire land reserve in state’s favour. The Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) – state’s statutory body, considering the growing need for urbanization exploited the potential of the land reserve for the purpose and this helped City Centre to grow bigger with the setting up of this new locality – within the reach of administrative and commercial corridor. More than 900 plots are accommodated on the land in which most of the occupants come from steel sector. Besides, a number of state government employees, on the staff of state undertakings, professionals were given berth helping this locality to incorporate a cosmopolitan demography. Sharodotsava is the most magnificent event being arranged with utmost courage and ambition each year. Chaturanga Committee has conceived the idea of floating this website to elevate the customary especially to cater to the needs of persons hailing from this locality and staying abroad or places far from Durgapur. The pages of this website dedicated to the Grand Community Puja will be updated regularly and will accommodate enormous photographs, live videos of the Puja and the exciting cultural events time to time. Chaturanga expects your active participation and cooperation in the days ahead. We also expect your day to day feedback, which would help us developing the webpage and make it more user friendly and convenient.
