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Shristinagar - The New Asansol, is an integrated green township spread over 90 acres with a total development of around 6 million sq ft. housing 5,000 families approximately. It comprises of premium residential apartments, group housing structures, plotted housing units, bungalows and row houses, commercial & retail area, IT Park and resort cm club, with infrastructure which will enable comfortable and luxurious living. The Master Planning of the township has been done by Sembcorp Architects of Singapore and other renowned architects such as SAA Architects of Singapore, Edifice and OS2 Architects are doing the detailing.

The residents of the township will enjoy an atmosphere of serenity with sublime landscaping and modern amenities, which satiate the standards of modern lifestyle living. The project will have tree-lined pathways, modern jogging tracks, decorated divider, modern street lights, substantial power back-up, cable connection, broadband internet, wireless telephone lines, round the clock security system, sewerage treatment plant, water treatment plant, gas bank etc. and other facilities which will make it an attractive destination.

Asansol, the city primarily known for its coal mines is the next stop for rapid growth and industrialization in Eastern India. Asansol is the second largest town in West Bengal after Kolkata and the central city for the eastern coal belt in India. It is well connected through road (Grand Trunk Road & National Highway - 2) and railways (Howrah - Delhi Grand Chord Route) with Kolkata (nearly 225 Kms) as well as other parts of the country.

Based on coal & steel, Asansol is an industrial hub of large scale public and private sector organisations. The population of Asansol is over 1 million with an average literacy of 73 per cent, higher than the national average of 59.5 per cent. All these factors make it an ideal place for future investments.

Asansol is a station in Asansol subdivision of district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves and the surrounding areas.

During the middle of the nineteenth century, M/s Carr, & Company transported coal from ghat on the River to , then known as . However, as the flow of water in the river was inconsistent, supplies were irregular. In order to capture the lucrative coal transport business, East Indian Railway, extended the railway track that had been laid between Kolkata and to in 1855 and up to Asansol in July 1863

The needed land to develop the infrastructure for the railways. While the Raj, then the in the area, refused to provide the land, the Raj, then functioning from Kashipur, agreed to provide the land in , of which Asansol was then a part. In 1863-64, East Indian Railway purchased a large area of jungle land from the Panchakot Raj, thereby initiating the development of Asansol as an industrial area.

Subsequently, Asansol gained further in importance. What was later known as the Sahibganj Loop was the first line from Kolkata to Delhi and the first direct train started in 1866, but the shorter line via Asansol and Jhajha came up in 1871. It was initially called the Chord line but as it attracted more traffiic, was rechristened the main line and the earlier main line became Sahibganj loop. With the completion of the Sitarampur-Gaya-Mughalsarai Grand Chord in 1901 (formally inaugurated in 1906 and finally opened in 1907), the Kolkata-Delhi rail distance became even shorter, and Asansol started functioning as the junction station of the main and chord lines, as Sitarampur, the actual junction, near Asansol, is a comparatively smaller station

While momentous developments were taking place in connecting Delhi and Kolkata by rail, Bengal Nagpur Railway extended its tracks to the Asansol coal belt in 1887, thus connecting Adra with Asansol.

The railway establishment at Asansol contributed substantially to its development and growth

Left Front era - Days from the past
(1977-2000)
1977 Election
In the 1977 election of the state legislature, the Left Front, headed by Communist Party of India (Marxist), won 243 seats thereby gaining a majority. The first Left Front government was established with Jyoti Basu as the Chief Minister

, 1979
The massacre in Marichjhanpi, which took place under CPI(M) rule in between January 26 and May 16, 1979, relates to the forcible eviction of refugees who had fled from East thereby leading to the death of a sizable population among them.

Out of the 14,388 families who deserted [for West Bengal], 10,260 families returned to their previous places … and the remaining 4,128 families perished in transit, died of starvation, exhaustion, and many were killed in , , and by police firings (Biswas 1982, 19).
After leading the Left Front government for consecutive five terms, Jyoti Basu retired from active politics and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was appointed as his successor. Five years later, the Left Front came back to the power with Bhattacharjee again assuming the office of the Chief Minister

Bhattacharya (2000-2011)
The state's economic recovery gathered momentum after economic reforms in India were introduced in the early 1990s by the central government, aided by election of a new reformist Chief Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in 2000. As of 2007, armed activists have been organizing terrorist attacks in some parts of the state,while clashes with the administration have taken place at several sensitive places on the issue of industrial land acquisition.

violence
Main article: Nandigram violence
The Nandigram violence was an incident in Nandigram, West Bengal where, on the orders of the Left Front government, more than 4,000 heavily armed police stormed the Nandigram area with the aim of stamping out protests against the West Bengal government’s plans to expropriate 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to be developed by the Indonesian-based Salim Group. The police shot dead at least 14 villagers and wounded 70 more.

The SEZ controversy started when the government of West Bengal decided that the Salim Group of Indonesia would set up a chemical hub under the SEZ policy at Nandigram, a rural area in the district of Purba Medinipur. The villagers took over the administration of the area and all the roads to the villages were cut off. A front-page story in the Kolkata newspaper, The Telegraph, on 4 January 2007 was headlined, "False alarm sparks clash". According to the newspaper that village council meeting at which the alleged land seizure was to be announced was actually a meeting to declare Nandigram a "clean village", that is, a village in which all the households had access to toilet facilities.