DURGAPUR is located in the district of Burdwan, in the state West Bengal, India, 168 km to the north of Calcutta. It is a well-planned industrial city on the banks of the river Damodar, with a population of about 250,000.

It was founded by in the late fifties, by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy. A close confidant and personal physician of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, B.C.Roy was the visionary who changed the face of post independence West Bengal. After the partition and the refuge influx of 1947, West Bengal was in a economically bad shape. Dr. Roy took to improve the condition, by founding a series of industrial satellite towns. The most prominent among them are Durgapur(steel and ancillary industries), Haldia (port and petrochemicals), Dankuni (oil refineries), Haringhata (dairy), Burnpur (steel), Chittaranjan (locomotive works), Kharagpur (IIT).