Kulti
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Kulti কুল্টি (کلٹی) |
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| Neighbourhood in Asansol | |
 Kulti
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| Coordinates: 23°44′N 86°51′E / 23.73°N 86.85°ECoordinates: 23°44′N 86°51′E / 23.73°N 86.85°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | Bardhaman |
| Elevation | 114 m (374 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 290,057 |
| Demonym(s) | Asansolians / Asansolites/ Asansolbashi |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali, English, Urdu |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Asansol |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Kulti |
| Website | bardhaman |
Kulti (কুল্টি) is the Western neighbourhood in Asansol,Barddhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kulti is located at latitude 23°43'60N and longitude 86°50'60E at an elevation of 114 meters. Asansol is composed of undulating latterite soil. This area lies between two mighty rivers – the Damodar and the Ajay. They flow almost parallel to each other in the region – the average distance between the two rivers is around 30 km. For ages the area was heavily forested and infested with plunderers and marauders. The discovery of coal led to industrialisation of the area and most of the forests have been cleared. At the western fringe of the area the Barakar River forms the boundary with Jharkhand.
According to the Kolkata Gazette notification of 3 June 2015, the municipal areas of Kulti, Raniganj and Jamuria were included within the jurisdiction of Asansol Municipal Corporation.
Kulti police station has jurisdiction over parts of Asansol municipal corporation. The area covered is 96 km2 and the population covered is 310,000.
Earlier a small village, Kulti has grown around the IISCO plant for more than a century. The plant has many historical achievements to its credit:
India’s first blast furnace was built way back in 1870, when even in the industrially developed countries there were few blast furnaces. That open top blast furnace used coal instead of charcoal for the first time, thereby introducing modern metallurgy to India. The furnace was in operation from 1875 till the fifties when it was dismantled, as the plant at Burnpur was expanded.
Steel was made for the first time in India in 1904, in open hearth furnaces. The furnace lost out to the cheap steel dumped into the country from England. Steel making withered away and Kulti remained an iron making plant with numerous foundries producing a wide range of intricate castings. Large castings and large diameter cast iron pipes produced at Kulti for more than century are still being used at many places throughout the country. Technological obsolescence and vast changes in the process of steelmaking forced the closure of the foundries.
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