SALES & SERVICE CENTRE:CARNATION AUTO

Carnation Auto - a multi-brand auto sales and service venture is coming up in Durgapur,the centre is coming up after a strategic partnership with auto dealers Lexicon Group with Maruti Suzuki.

BANK BRANCH:YES BANK

Yes Bank has opened a branch in City Centre in Durgapur

MULTI SPECIALITY HOSPITAL

A 200 bedded Multi Speciality Hospital is going to come up on an area of 8.30 acres near City Centre in Durgapur.The whole project will be designed,developed,financed,operated and managed by the private firm that will be chosen to build the hospital.The hospital will provide facilities in the fields of:

Cardiology

Neurology

Gastroenterology

Nephrology

Urology

Pediatrics

E.N.T

Orthopedics

Dermatology

Eye

Dental

General Medicine

Surgery

Gynecology

Hematology

Endocrinology

24 Hour Trauma Care Centre

Diagnostic Services like:

M.R.I

C.T.Scan

X-Ray

I.C.U

Super Speciality Operation Theatre

Old Age Care

Women & Child Care

CORDLIFE LTD:BLOOD STORAGE FACILITY

Treatment with stem cells has widened over the years. Stem cells can be used in treatment of 80 diseases like heart ailments, diabetes, skin trauma, certain cancers like leukaemia and breast cancer, and blood disorders like thalassemia major.
Cordlife Ltd, a Singapore-based cord blood banking group launched the first Indian facility to store stem cells from the umbilical cord blood, which can be used to regenerate tissues of brain, heart and the like.
One such Cordlife blood storage facility has come up in Durgapur.The initial storage costs can run as high as Rs 38,000 and then Rs 3,500 per month.

EXTENSION OF ROADS

The Ring Road and the Hanemann Sarani will be developed and extended.

CMERI & DVC-BUS TERMINUS

According to the town planners of Durgapur to contain the upcoming projects of the ever growing Durgapur DVC(Damodar Valley Corporation)More near NH-2 and the CMERI township will be brought under the areas where there will be rapid developments,this is keeping in mind the rapid urbanisation in Durgapur.
There is a plan to develop a Bus Terminus for long-route buses near DVC More and to shift the cattle-farm in DVC.

BENGAL SHELTER:INTERNATIONAL RETIREMENT VILLAGE

Bengal Shelter Housing Development Limited(BSHDL) is going to build one International Retirement Village in Durgapur.The idea is to attract international clientele,NRIs and Indian senior citizens of higher income group.The project is shaping up to create an abode of peace for senior citizens hailing mostly from European countries and United States of America as well as upmarket segment of Indian society.All the International Retirement Village will be at par with the reputed brands of retirement villages in the U.S of A and in Europe.The proposed project will also get a touch of fabled Asian hospitality.This project will also create a landmark in hospitality service in Bengal.
FACILITIES:
Restaurant
Bar
Coffee Bar
Lounges
Activity Room
Club with Music & Recreation Room
Gym
Swimming Pool(specially designed for aged people)
Tennis Course
Golf Course
Conservatory
Village Shop stocked with Local Artifacts
Lanscaped Garden
Hairdressing Salon with Beauticians
Prayer Hall
Walking Trail
Stores of International & Reputed Brand
Modern Ambulance
Organised Trips
Finest Health Care
Residential Doctors
Herbal Treatment
Yoga & Stress Management

FIRST CITY:JNNURM

Durgapur has been awarded as the first city in the state of West Bengal to have the tag of having one 'Complete Project'.This is on account of the completion of the Phase 2 of the water project which has been carried out under 'Mission One' of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNURM).The project is a Rs 28 crore water project(Phase 2) and having a capacity of 150 lacs gallon.This project has been funded by both Centre and Durgapur Municipal Corporation on a fifty-50 basis.
The Phase 1 of the water project under JNNURM was capacitated by 70 lacs gallon.
Durgapur is fast changing into a metropolis and population is also increasing along with the number of industries everyday, so to sustain the upcoming demand a Phase 3 of this kind of a project has also been proposed,the Phase 3 will also be having a capacity of 150 lacs gallon.

CITY BEAUTIFICATION:JNNURM

A total amount of Rs 106 crore has been sanctioned by the Central government for developments of slums in and around Durgapur,this has been granted on account of city's gradual making itself into a metropolis.Urbanisation is on track for Durgapur so the city needs to wear a clean and dressed look and in this context Rs 12 crore will be spent to build low cost houses for the poor and the destitutes in and around the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute(CMERI) township.The land that will be recovered will be used to build markets,lounges,clubs along with housing with proper roads and drainage system and then these will be sold to MIG & HIG consumers.Each low cost house comes at a cost of Rs 1lac 86 thousand of which 80% has been borne by the government and 20% has to covered by the consumers.The consumers will be provided loan facility.Already 500 such homes have been distributed among slum dwellers in different parts of the city.

NIFFA:REGIONAL BRANCH

National Institute of Film & Fine Arts has opened a regional centre in City Centre, Durgapur.

HYUNDAI:AUTHORISED SHOWROOM

Hyundai Motor India has opened a new authorised showroom in Durgapur.One can check out all the existing or running models of Hyundai along with the recently launched 'i 20'.
Rudra Hyundai,Durgapur
Bamunara, NH-2, Opp- EPIP Plot.
Contact No:9434021538

MANI GROUP:IQ CITY+HEALTH CITY

Mani Group a well known real estate developer in Kolkata is going to construct a 100 acre township of international standards comprising premium healthcare and medical education infrastructure.The location is Shovapur,Steel Township,Durgapur which is just 6 km from City Centre.The township comprises

No.of Blocks:14

No. of Towers:31

Residential Apartments & Bungalows:3000 in numbers.

Retail Mall

Cinema and Entertainment Complex

Restaurants

Hotel

Gas/Fuel Station

Office Towers

Club: Commercial Housing & Staffs

Fitness Centre

Swimming Pool

Medical College

Hospital

Nursing College

Medi-Inn

Paramedical college

Flats for Doctors,Principals & Directors

Residential school

Hostels

Huge Playground

60% Open Space

35% Green Area

Years to complete:7 (2015)expected

Work Started

Investments:1000 crore

SBI-NEW BRANCH

SBI will soon open a branch in Durgapur dedicated for SMEs(Small and Medium Enterprises) to facilitate the sector in getting credits from the bank.

TRANSPORT BODY-THINKING GREEN

SBSTC(South Bengal State Transport Corporation) which is headquartered in Durgapur is thinking to work out an integrated fleet management system that is fuel-efficient
and be rewarded in cash for going green.
On the other side WBPCB(West Bengal Pollution Control Board) is advising the sponge iron units on how they can generate energy from waste heat.

DMC-POWER FROM WASTE

DMC will soon(may be Jan 2010) streamline the disposal system and set up a power plant with an investment of Rs 120 crore,this power plant will draw precious power out of the waste with zero recurring cost.DMC will also bid for a clean development mechanism (CDM) project under the Kyoto Protocol and is having a plan to earn lakhs of rupees for tapping methane, an extremely hazardous greenhouse gas.This process will surely stop the mindless, unscientific dumping that has led to the catastrophe.DMC is soon to adopt scientific municipal waste disposal,already the creation for a blueprint for DMC to adopt a technique called engineering landfill' so that methane can be tapped to generate power is going on.
Durgapur generates 250 m.t of waste.
How much power?
For DMC the total production will be 1.6 MW which is enough to light 1000 homes.
Mechanism
A 20 feet deep pit on a 1km-1.5 km plot would serve as the waste collection centre. The pit will be lined with geotextile to prevent seepage of chemicals. Special perforated PVC pipes are to be then set up in grid formation with vertical pipes 42-43 feet tall that can be sealed at the end. "These pipes will channelise the methane that is generated from the decomposing waste. Once the pit is filled with garbage (for a municipality that generates 1,000 tonne a day, it will take a year and a half to fill the pit), 20-feet-high embankment is to be created after the pipe ends sealed. Over the next year and a half, waste can be dumped in the embankment, thereby creating a 40-feet stack of waste. At the end of third year, enough methane will be generated from the pit to power a 5 mw power plant for next three years. Careful layout of landfill will ensure that a second site is ready for methane tapping once the first is exhausted. By the time the methane generation stops, the waste would also have converted into earth and can be used for landscaping.At 0.5 kg of waste generated per capita, one township can generate 750 tonne waste daily.DMC needs to manage the waste properly because methane leakage is a major cause of global warming. That will be one of the biggest challenges in future.

RANK 1- SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Durgapur has been chosen as the best city in the country among the other 63 cities in managing solid waste. The Durgapur Municipal Corporation(DMC) received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Excellence award in the “improvement in solid waste management” category recently. DMC has been rewarded as the best civic body in the country ahead of metropolitan cities in the category of successful implementation of solid waste management in 2007-08. Surely it is a matter of glory for West Bengal.The DMC had launched the Solid Waste management programme as a pilot project for ward no-22 of the civic body covering the posh 'City Centre' locality in the town in July 2006.Durgapur generates 250 metric tons of average bio-degradable and non-degradable waste everyday. The venture was taken up in association with the technical collaboration of USAID Fire, an USA based agency.

CNG AUTO

Durgapur is the first city in West Bengal to have commercial operation of CNG auto services.Recently state has flagged off CNG auto services in Durgapur in 8 routes and with specified fare chatrs.80 such autos will ply on the roads of Durgapur.The old fashioned 2 stroke autos will be phased out within this financial year.The fare range is Rs 3-Rs 5.50.