Raghunathpur, Purulia

Raghunathpur is headquarters of Raghunathpur subdivision in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. It is on the Purulia – Barakar road.GeographyRaghunathpur is located at. It has an average elevation of 155m. The area forms the lowest step of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The general scenario is undulating land with scattered hills.Police stationsRaghunathpur police station has jurisdiction over Raghunathpur municipality and parts of Raghunathpur I CD Blocks. The area covered is 337 km2 and the population covered is 197,430.Raghunathpur Women police station. It will cover all the police stations areas of Raghunathpur subdivision.CD Block HQThe headquarters of Raghunathpur I CD Block are located at Raghunathpur.DemographicsRaghunathpur total area covered 12.95 km2, and at present 13 nos of Ward. Raghunathpur had a total population of 25,932 in 2011. Out of this 11,326 were males and 10,486 were females. 2,640 persons were below the age of 6 years. 13,317 persons were literate.EconomyDamodar Valley Corporation has planned for a power plant at Raghunathpur as a proposed greenfield plant in the 11th plan. The first stage would be 2 X 600 MW.Representatives of the Jai Balaji group visited the Raghunathpur on 11 January 2007 to see the sites for their proposed steel, cement and power plants.A steel plant of 5 million tons capacity along with a cement plant with capacity of 3000,000 tons will be set up at block one in Raghunathpur. The Jai Balaji group will be setting up these projects worth Rs 16,000 crore with a captive power plant on 3800acre of land. Adhunik group will set up an 1,100,000 ton capacity steel plant along with a 1000,000 ton cement plant. The project covering an area of nearly 2400acre will also comprise a captive power plant involving an investment of Rs 6400 crore.The state cabinet approved the industrial projects on 22 August 2007.