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Asansol is one of the largest cities in the State of West Bengal outside Kolkata Metropolitan area. It emerged as a Municipal Corporation in the year 1994 by way of a merger which brought together the Burnpur Notified Area, some rural parts of Asansol Block and some colliery areas with erstwhile Asansol Municipality. Obviously, the erstwhile Asansol Municipal town had grown into a vast service city from the industrial as well as mining point of view. Gradually, within the city, both wealth and poverty began to co-exist side by side. Poor population of the city was localised in the clusters of crude dwellings, mostly squatter colonies, dotted all over the city area... Asansol is an important division of Eastern Railway of Indian Railways. Asansol Railway Station has the potentiality of modern Railway Station and that is why the Central Govt. has decided to make it a model Railway Station. Situated at 200 KM away from Howrah, it is also an important junction of South Eastern Railways...

Also known as: Asansol, Asansol Municipal Corporation

Primary location: Bengal