Burnpur is a captive township of SAIL, the area covered by IISCO Steel Plant and its surroundings in Asansol of West Burdwan district, in the heart of the mining-industrial belt in the western periphery of the state of West Bengal, India. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation.[1]
History
In the early British era, Hirapur founds it place in the list of villages under Asansol police station and served by Asansol post office, in the village directory of Burdwan district compiled by the Post Master General of Bengal in 1884.[2] The Bengal Nagpur Railway main line from Nagpur to Asansol, on the Howrah-Delhi main line, was opened for goods traffic on 1 February 1891.[3] A railway station, named Narsinghbandh came up on that line, near Hirapur.[2]