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Durgapur ( or ) is a city in the Burdwan District, in the state of West Bengal, India. Durgapur is the third largest city in West Bengal in terms of both area (154.20 km / 59.54 sq. miles) and population (5,66,937) (2011 census & excluding the urban agglomeration). Durgapur is the second planned city of India after Chandigarh and has the only operational dry (inland) port in Eastern India. It is one of the six Municipal Corporations in West Bengal.
Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency) was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Durgapur in West Bengal. The seat was reserved for scheduled castes.
As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist from 2009; some of the assembly segments under this constituency will be part of a new Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency), others will be part of Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency).
This page also includes results for Ausgram (Lok Sabha constituency) during the short period of its existence from 1962 to 1971.
Durgapur may refer to:
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Durgapur, West Bengal, a city in West Bengal, India
- Durgapur subdivision, the subdivision in which the aforementioned city is located
- Durgapur Barrage, across the Damodar River
- Durgapur Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
- Durgapur Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
- Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency) - now defunct
- Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)
- Durgapur, Angul, a village in Orissa, India
- Durgapur, Netrokona Bangladesh
- Durgapur, Rajshahi Bangladesh
- Durgapur, Maharashtra
- Durgapur, Nepal