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Burnpur is a captive township of SAIL, the area covered by IISCO Steel Plant and its surroundings in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district, in the heart of the mining-industrial belt in the western periphery of the state of West Bengal, India.
Bangladesh has a labor force of 71.4 million, [168] which is the world's seventh-largest; with an unemployment rate of 5.1% as of 2023. [169] Its foreign exchange reserves, although depleting, [170] remain the second-highest in South Asia, after India. Bangladesh's large diaspora contributed roughly $27 billion in remittances in 2024. [171]
Production of crude steel at Burnpur rose sharply from 353,427 tonnes in 1953–54 to 914,159 tonnes in 1960–61. Production of ingot steel was 93.5% of the rated capacity in 1961–62. The next year, 1962–63, IISCO surpassed the million-tonne mark for the first time and the tempo of production continued in 1963–64 with a production of ...
IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited at Burnpur has a crude steel production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per year. [35] The modernisation and expansion programme of IISCO Steel Plant was implemented with an investment of over Rs 16,000 crore [ 36 ] As of 2015, the investment for modernisation was the single largest ...
The Burnpur Football Stadium is a centre of extensive sports activities. Players groomed in the SAIL Football Academy at Burnpur have represented SAIL in the Kolkata IFA and 1st Division League matches. [46] [47] Burnpur Cricket Club Ground is a first-class level cricket stadium located at Burnpur.
The park was planned by F. W. A. Lahmeyer, general manager of the IISCO Steel Plant.Although officially named Riverside Park, it was nicknamed Lahmeyer Park. In 1989, the 100-year anniversary of the birth of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the park was renamed Nehru Park. [1]
A professor of history at the University of Dhaka, the oldest and largest university in Bangladesh, Islam gave up his day job five years before the formal date for retirement, to make time for Banglapedia. [9] He also edited the 3 volumes of the History of Bangladesh (political, economic and socio-cultural), published by the Asiatic Society In ...
Bandarban District (Bengali: বান্দরবান জেলা), officially Bandarban Hill District, is a district in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a part of the Chittagong Division. [6] It is one of the three hill districts of Bangladesh and a part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the others being Rangamati District and Khagrachhari District.