Nabaghanapur


Nabaghanapur is a census town in the Faridpur Durgapur CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

Location

Nabaghanapur is located at.
The Asansol-Durgapur region is composed of undulating laterite region. This area lies between two mighty rivers – the Damodar and the Ajay. They flow almost parallel to each other in the region – the average distance between the two rivers is around 30 km. For ages the area was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. The discovery of coal in the 18th century led to industrialisation of the area and most of the forests have been cleared.
Banagram, Mandarbani, Sirsha, Nabaghanapur, Sarpi and Ichhapur form a series of census towns along the western border of Faridpur-Durgapur CD block.

Urbanisation

According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. Durgapur subdivision has 1 municipal corporation at Durgapur and 38 census towns .

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Nabaghanapur had a total population of 5,383 of which 2,931 were males and 2,452 were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 408. The total number of 1literate persons in Nabaghanapur was 4,175.
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bardhaman, Nabaghanapur covered an area of 3.1086 km2. Among the civic amenities, the protected water-supply involved overhead tank, tap water from treated sources, uncovered well. It had 482 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 maternity and child welfare centre, 2 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had were 2 primary schools, other school facilities at Kalipur 4.5 km away or Laudoha 2 km away. Among the important commodities it produced were paddy, wheat and mustard.

Economy

As per the ECL website telephone numbers, operational collieries in the Bankola Area of Eastern Coalfields in 2018 are: Bankola Colliery, Khandra Colliery, Kumardih A Colliery, Kumardih B Colliery, Moira Colliery, Nakrakonda Colliery, Shankarpur Colliery, Shyamsundarpur Colliery and Tilaboni Colliery.