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Asansol
Asansol | |
|---|---|
Asansol Junction railway station, IISCO Steel Plant, Asansol Engineering College, Burnpur Nehru Park, Gandhi More street | |
| Nickname(s): | |
  Asansol Location in West Bengal, India  Asansol Asansol (India)  Asansol Asansol (Asia) | |
| Coordinates: 23°41′N 86°59′E / 23.68°N 86.99°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Bardhaman |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Asansol Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Bidhan Upadhyay |
| • Deputy Mayor |
|
| • Police Commissioner | Sukesh Kumar Jain, IPS |
| Area | |
| 326 km2 (126 sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 1,615 km2 (624 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 2nd in West Bengal |
| Elevation | 111 m (364 ft) |
| Population | |
| 1,243,414 [3][4][5] | |
| • Rank | 2nd in West Bengal |
| • Metro | 3,000,000 |
| Demonym | Asansolians / Asansolites/ Asansolbashi |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali[9][10] |
| • Additional official | English[10] |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 713 3xx |
| Telephone code | 0341 |
| Vehicle registration | WB 37 / WB 38 / WB 44 (WB 44A, WB 44B, WB 44C, WB 44D) |
| Sex ratio | 1.08[11] ♂/♀ |
| Literacy | 84.82[11] |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Asansol (MP — Shatrughan Sinha — TMC) |
| Vidhan Sabha constituencies | Asansol Uttar (MLA — Moloy Ghatak —TMC)
Asansol Dakshin (MLA —Agnimitra Paul —BJP) Pandaveswar (MLA — Narendranath Chakraborty —TMC) Raniganj (MLA — Tapas Banerjee —TMC) Jamuria (MLA — Hareram Singh —TMC) Kulti (MLA —Ajay Kumar Poddar —BJP) Barabani (MLA —Bidhan Upadhyay —TMC) |
| Police | Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate |
| Website | paschimbardhaman |
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Asansol is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest city in West Bengal. It is the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India by population. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bardhaman district. According to a 2010 report released by the International Institute for Environment and Development, a UK-based policy research non-governmental body, Asansol was ranked 11th among Indian cities and 42nd in the world in its list of 100 fastest-growing cities.[12] Asansol is classed as a Y-category city for calculation of HRA (House Rent Allowance) for public servants (rate 16%) making it a "Tier-II" city.
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Census2011was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The Kolkata Gazette" (PDF). Notification No. 335/MA/O/C-4/1M-36/2014 dated 3 June 2015. Department of Municipal Affairs, Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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- ^ a b "City - Asansol (West Bengal, India) -". Archived from the original on 20 October 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Asansol Durgapur Development Authority", Department of Municipal Affairs, Government of West Bengal, archived from the original on 13 April 2021
- ^ "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). Nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. p. 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Fact and Figures". Wb.gov.in. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Cities having population 1 lakh and above, Census 2011" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "World's fastest growing urban areas (1)". City Mayors. 7 December 2010. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
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