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Bankola Area
	Bankola Area Location in West Bengal Bankola Area Bankola Area (India)
Coordinates	23°40′07″N 87°14′37″E / 23.6685°N 87.2436°E
Production
Products	Non-coking coal
Owner
Company	Eastern Coalfields Limited
Website	http://www.easterncoal.gov.in/

Bankola Area is one of the 14 operational areas of Eastern Coalfields Limited located in Durgapur subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Geography

3km
2miles

Kazi Nazrul
Islam Airport

Bankola Area Hospital

S

Jhanjhra Project

U

ECL Jhanjhra Area Office

A

ECL Bankola Area Office

A

Nakrakonda OCP

O

Tilaboni Colliery

U

Shyamsundarpur Colliery

U

Shankarpur OCP

O

Kumardihi B Colliery

U

Kumardihi A Colliery

U

Moira Colliery

U

Khandra Colliery

U

Bankola Colliery

U

Collieries in the Bankola and Jhanjhra Areas of Eastern Coalfields
U: Underground Colliery, O: Open Cast Colliery, S: Mining support, A: Administrative headquarters
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

Location

Bankola Area is located around 23°40′07″N 87°14′37″E / 23.6685°N 87.2436°E / 23.6685; 87.2436

Bankola Area is bounded by the Sonpur Bazari and Pandaveswar Area on the north, Jhanjra and Faridpur Durgapur CD Block on the east, Andal CD Block on the south, and Kajora Area and Kenda Area on the west.^[1]^[2]

The map alongside shows some of the collieries in the Areas. However, as the collieries do not have individual pages, there are no links in the full screen map. However, all places in the map of the northern portion of Durgapur subdivision, placed a little below, are linked in the full screen map.

The Pandeveswar Area, Jhanjra, Bankola Area, Kajora Area and Kunustoria Area, the easternmost operational areas of ECL, mark the end of the coal mining zone starting from the upper reaches of the Damodar in Jharkhand.

Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport is to the south of the Bankola Area.^[1]

5km
3miles

Damodar River

Ajay River

Madhaipur

R

Shyamsundarpur

R

Tilaboni

R

Pandabeswar

R

Laudoha

R

Durgapur

MC

ECL
Sonpur Bazari
Area Office

ECL Jhanjhra Area Office

ECL Bankola
Area Office

ECL Pandaveswar Area Office

ECL Kenda
Area Office

Parashkol

CT

Chak Bankola

CT

Bilpahari

CT

Ramnagar

CT

Dalurband

CT

Baidyanathpur

CT

Mahal

CT

Konardihi

CT

Nabgram

CT

Sankarpur

CT

Haripur

CT

Chhora

CT

Bahula

CT

Mandarbani

CT

Banagram

CT

Sirsha

CT

Nabaghanapur

CT

Sarpi

CT

Ichhapur

CT

Kendra Khottamdi

CT

Cities, towns and ECL Areas in the northern portion of Durgapur subdivision in Paschim Bardhaman district
MC: Municipal Corporation, CT: census town, R: rural administrative centre
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

Coal

According to the Shodhganga website, collieries in the Bankola Area of Eastern Coalfields are: Moira, Khandra, Bankola, Shyamsundarpur, Kumardihi A, Kumardihi B, Tilaboni, Shankerpur and Shankerpur OCP.^[3]

As per ECL website telephone numbers, operational collieries in the Bankola Area in 2018 are: Bankola Colliery, Khandra Colliery, Kumardih A Colliery, Kumardih B Colliery, Moira Colliery, Nakrakonda Colliery, Shankarpur Colliery, Shyamsundarpur Colliery and Tilaboni Colliery.^[4]

See also – Kenda Area#Mining plan – it includes information about Khandra and Shankarpur collieries
See also – Pandaveswar Area#Mining plan – it includes information about Bankola, Shyamsundarpur, Kumardih, Nakrakonda and Tilaboni collieries
See also – Kajora Area#Mining plan – it includes information about Moira colliery

Subsidence

Traditionally many underground collieries have left a void after taking out the coal. As a result, almost all areas are facing subsidence. As per CMPDIL, there were 12 points of subsidence in the Bankola Area involving 538.00 hectares of land.^[5]

Migrants

Prior to the advent of coal mining, the entire region was a low-productive rice crop area in what was once a part of the Jungle Mahals. The ownership of land had passed on from local adivasis to agricultural castes before mining started. However, the Santhals and the Bauris, referred to by the colonial administrators as "traditional coal cutters of Raniganj" remained attached to their lost land and left the mines for agricultural related work, which also was more remunerative. It forced the mine-owners to bring in outside labour, mostly from Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. In time the migrants dominated the mining and industrial scenario. The pauperization and alienation of the adivasis have been major points of social concern.^[6]^[7]