Salanpur
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Salanpur | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Salanpur village | |
  Salanpur Location in West Bengal, India  Salanpur Salanpur (India) | |
| Coordinates: 23°46′36.1″N 86°52′35.4″E / 23.776694°N 86.876500°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Bardhaman |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 4,739 |
| Languages* | |
| • Official | Bengali, Hindi, English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 713357 (Salanpur) |
| Telephone/STD code | 0341 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Asansol |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Barabani |
| Website | paschimbardhaman |
Salanpur is a village, in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Urbanisation
2.5miles
Reservoir
Locomotive
Works
Steel Plant
Area Office
Area Office
Temple
MC: municipal corporation, P: rural administrative unit, CT: census town, N: neighbourhood, OG: out growth, T: temple
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
As per the 2011 census, 83.33% of the population of Asansol Sadar subdivision was urban and 16.67% was rural.[1] In 2015, the municipal areas of Kulti, Raniganj and Jamuria were included within the jurisdiction of Asansol Municipal Corporation.[2] Asansol Sadar subdivision has 26 (+1 partly) Census Towns.(partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map).
Civic administration
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India Salanpur had a total population of 4,739 of which 2,454 (52%) were males and 2,285 (48%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 658. The total number of literate persons in Salanpur was 2,909 (71.28% of the population over 6 years).[5]
*For language details see Salanpur (community development block)#Language and religion
Economy
Coal mining
As per ECL website telephone numbers, operational collieries in the Salanpur Area of Eastern Coalfields in 2018 are: Bonjemehari Colliery, Barmondia Colliery, Dabor Colliery, Gourandi Colliery, Gourandi Begunia Colliery and Mohonpur OCP.[6]
Industry
Bhushan Steel signed an agreement with the West Bengal government to set up a 2 million tonne steel plant, with auxiliary facilities, at Salanpur, in 2007. The company expected to get around 2,500 acres of land acquired in the subsequent one year and start production in 2012.[7] With growing resistance to land acquisition the state government was not able to make much headway.[8] In 2012, Bhusan Steel put the project on hold.[9]
Transport
There is a station at Salanpur on the Asansol-Patna section of the Howrah-Delhi main line.[10]
State Highway 5 running from Rupnarayanpur (in Paschim Bardhaman district) to Junput (in Purba Medinipur district) passes through Salanpur.[11] It links to the Kolkata-Delhi NH 19, passing nearby.
