Burdwan - a foremost transportation centre lying spanning the Banka River just north of the Damodar River. Burdwan is a district with assortment of living, cultivation, manufacturing, and mining, all at their climax. The farming manufacture is so soaring that the region is called the granary of Bengal. Manufacturing Township of Durgapur is second nearly to none. Mining, chiefly for coal, is an additional doings in the district.

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The name Burdwan is an anglicized form of the Sanskrit word Vardhamana. Barddhamana means flourishing expansion centre as a milestone of enlargement and affluence. In the 17th-18th century, Krishnaram Ray, belonging to a mercantile family unit from Punjab, recognized the zamindari of Bardhaman on a farman issued by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. The Ray family continued to rule Bardhaman till 1955.

Access
95 km from Kolkata, Bardhaman is well connected by rail and road. The district of Burdwan has a very good Railway Network with junction stations. Besides the usual broad-gauge railway tracks there is a narrow gauge between Burdwan and Katwa. The district has an extensive road network with inter state corridors. The G.T Road (N.H - 2) from Barakar in the west to Panagarh in the east and further is being extended upto Palsit at the junction point of Durgapur Express Highway.
The Durgapur Express Highway is

now easy to connect with NH- 2, N.H - 34 and N.H-7 also.

Places of Interest:

Curzon Gate
Curzon Gate The royal Curzon Gate, now recognized as Vijay Toran, was up righted in 1903 in Lord Curzon’s tribute.

Tomb of Sher Afghan
Tomb of Sher AfghanThis tomb of Sher Afgan, the final of the Afghan jagirdars in Bardhaman, is located at Pir Beharam in Kanchannagar.

Golapbag
Golapbag The garden of roses, which also has fine-looking water tanks.

Hawa Mahal
Hawa Mahal A place of chief sightseer attraction.

Kalna
Kalna, is the convergence of the Shakta and the Vaishnava forms of devotion. Kalna is well-connected by rail and road. 77 km from Kolkata, ‘Ambika Kalna’ was the summer habitation of the Rajas of Bardhaman. The temples at Kalna are built of bricks with complicated soil designs.

Kamalakanta kalibari
The temple Goddess Kali, related with the eminent devotee poet Kamalakanta.

Shah Alam's Darga
A construction of Archeological attention built in the early 18th century by Murshidkuli Khan, the then Subedar of Bengal.