Durgapur Municipal Corporation
Logo of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation
Seal of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation
Type
Type
History
Founded1994 (1994)
Leadership
Mayor
Anindita Mukherjee, TMC
since 2021
Deputy Mayor
Amitava Banerjee, TMC
since 2021
Chairperson
Mrigendra Nath Pal, TMC
since 2021
Structure
Seats43
Political groups
  • Government (43)
  TMC: 43
Elections
Last election
2017
Next election
2023
Meeting place
Headquarters of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation
Website
www.durgapurmunicipalcorporation.org

Durgapur Municipal Corporation (DMC) is the civic body that governs Durgapur in Durgapur subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India.

History

The Durgapur Notified Area (DNA) was formed in 1962 surrounding the areas in and around the Gopinathpur area and the halt station named Durgapur. The governing body got its name from the railway station. The formation of the Durgapur Steel Plant, an integrated steel plant and its steel township in late 1950 by the then chief minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, heralded the rapid development of the region. Plenty of industries were set up at that time in Durgapur. As a result plenty of people from adjoining areas came to newly formed city to try their luck for a job in the city's hoard of Industries. By 1994 the city was thickly populated. Seeing this an act was passed to change the existing Durgapur Notified Area (DNA) to a Municipal Corporation and thus came into existence the present Durgapur Municipal Corporation governing a total area of 157 km2 and a population of total of 5.81 lakhs (according to the 2011 census).[1][2]

References

  1. "Durgapur City".
  2. "Durgapur Municipal Corporation Act 1994".
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