Raghunathpur is a city and a municipality in Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Industrial City Raghunathpur is located near Adra on the North-East part of Purulia district.

[3] Purulia district forms the lowest step of the Chota Nagpur Plateau.

[7][8] The comparatively more recent in historical terms, Panchkot Raj has interesting and intriguing remains in the area.

Some parts of Raghunathpur are in intermediate panchayat in Purulia district, with Arrah, Babugram, Bero, Choprahari, Khajura, Nutandi, Sanka, Barrah, Cheliama, Jotadih, Mangaldah-Mautore, Nildih, and Nutandih village panchayats under it.

[18] Representatives of the Jai Balaji group[19] visited the Raghunathpur on 11 January 2007 to see the sites for their proposed steel, cement and power plants.

The Jai Balaji group will be setting up these projects worth Rs 16,000 crore with a captive power plant on 3,800 acres (15 km2) of land.

The project covering an area of nearly 2,400 acres (9.7 km2) will also comprise a captive power plant involving an investment of Rs 6400 crore.

The state government was acquiring the balance portion of the land,[22] In the first phase the Jai Balaji group will begin with coal mining at Asansol and sponge iron production at Raghunathpur.

Affiliated with the Sidho Kanho Birsha University, it offers honours courses in Bengali, Sanskrit, English, economic, geography, history, political science, sociology, accountancy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, botany, zoology and general courses in arts, science and commerce.