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Bhanora colliery is a coalfield area situated 12 kilometers from Asansol, West Bengal. The settlement's population is approximately 10,000.[ citation needed ] It is divided into four Gram panchayats. The area is part of the barabani legislative assembly constituency in West Bengal. [1] The colliery is an important element in India's coal mining industry.
Asansol is a metropolitan city and a municipal corporation in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest metropolitan and most populated city of West Bengal after Kolkata. It is the district headquarters of Paschim Bardhaman district. It is the 39th largest urban agglomeration in India. 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. Asansol is classed as a Y-category city for calculation of HRA for public servants, making it a Tier-II city.
West Bengal is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of 88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi). A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India, and center of the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
