Pandabeswar | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Pandabeswar railway station | |
  Pandabeswar Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Pandabeswar Pandabeswar (India) Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:23°43′12.0″N87°16′48.0″E / 23.720000°N 87.280000°E /23.720000; 87.280000 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Bardhaman |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali,English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 713346 (Pandaveshwar) |
| Telephone/STD code | 0341 |
| Vehicle registration | WB40/38 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Asansol |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Pandaveswar |
| Website | bardhaman |
Pandabeswar (also spelled Pandaveswar) is an administrative centre inPandabeswar CD Block inDurgapur subdivision ofPaschim Bardhaman district in the state ofWest Bengal,India.
Pandabeswar police station has jurisdiction overPandabeswar CD Block. The area covered is 161 km2 and the population covered is 176,445.[1][2]
The headquarters of Pandabeswar CD Block are located at Pandabeswar.[1]
As per the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. Durgapur subdivision has 1 municipal corporation atDurgapur and 38 (+1 partly)census towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map).[3]
Pandabeswar is shown as part ofBaidyanathpur in the map of Pandabeswar CD Block[1] on page 243 of the District Census Handbook, Bardhaman, 2011. Separate demographic statistics are not available.
As per the Shodhganga website, collieries in thePandaveswar Area ofEastern Coalfields are: Madaipur, Mandarbani, Nutandanga, Pandaveswar, Dalurbandh, Kendra, Samla, South Samla, Khottadih, Kankartala, Dalurbandh OCP, Palasthali OCP and Gangaramchak OCP.[4]
As per ECL website telephone numbers, operational collieries in the Pandaveswar Area in 2018 are: Dalurband Colliery, Khottadih OCP, Khottadih UG, Madhaipur Colliery, Manderbony Colliery, Pandaveswar Colliery and South Samla Colliery.[5]
There is a Railway station in Pandabeswar on theAndal-Sainthia branch line.[6]
NH 14 (old number NH 60) passes through Pandabeswar.[7]
Pandaveswar College was established at Pandabeswar in 2005. It is affiliated withKazi Nazrul University. It offers honours courses in Hindi, English, history and political science.[8][9]
Pandabeswar Block Primary Health Centre, Pandabeswar CD block, with 10 beds, at Pandabeswar, is the major government medical facility in the Pandaveswar CD block.[10]
Medical facilities (dispensaries) in thePandaveswar Area of ECL are available at Pandaveswar Area PME Centre (PO Pandaveswar), Madhaipur (PO Nutundanga), Mandarboni (PO Nutundanga), South Samla (PO Pandaveswar), Pandaveswar (PO Pandaveswar), Dalurbandh (PO Pandaveswar), Khottadih (PO Khottadih), Area Dispensary (PO Pandaveswar).[11]
