Chittaranjan is a census town in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

The town of Chittaranjan was featured in the final episode of BBC's The Great Indian Railway Journeys, which aired on 10 April 2018.

The episode highlighted the management of Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) and the significance of this town.

Chittaranjan police station has jurisdiction over a part of Salanpur CD block.

Most of the Patna, Barauni bound express trains coming from Howrah, Sealdah, Ranchi, Kharagpur, Tatanagar, and Dhanbad stop here.

1 where buses arrive and depart to Haldia, Kolkata, Bankura, Mukutmonipur, Burdwan, Kalna, Asansol, Raniganj, Durgapur, Bongaon and elsewhere.

It also produced few special narrow gauge (2 ft, as in Darjeeling Himalayan Railway) diesel locomotives of the NDM class.

The present staff strength of CLW is around 13,000 people making it the biggest unit of the Indian Railways.

It had 3 non-formal education entres (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan),1 special school for disabled.

Among the social cultural and recreational facilities, it had 3 stadiums, 1 cinema theatre, 9 auditorium/ community halls, 4 public library, 2 reading room.

[10] Chittaranjan, an ISO 14001 certified township has neatly arranged row-houses, broad, clean roads, greenery and lakes.

Chittaranjan also has its own cinema theatre known as "Ranjan" which primarily shows Hindi and Bengali movies in addition to this it also has many centres for recreational purposes and extracurricular activities like singing and martial arts.

There is also a riverine front of Ajay River which makes it an excellent picnic spot.

Chittaranjan has been given a Golden Peacock award by Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Railway Minister for the ISO-14001 certified green city, which is generally called "Swarg" (meaning: "Heaven").