Chirgaon is a

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and a

municipal board A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

in Jhansi district in the Indian state of

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, India. Chirgaon is located 30 km away from Jhansi, situated on Jhansi–Kanpur National Highway 27. There is a fort in the middle of the town. The place is also famous for being the birthplace of poets

Maithili Sharan Gupt Dr Maithilisharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one among the pioneers of '' Khari Boli'' (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most ...

, his younger brother Siyaram Sharan Munshi and Munshi Ajmeri. Chirgaon was actively involved in Freedom Movement led by

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...

, who had visited Chirgaon on more than one occasion. From 1935–45, hundreds of Chirgaon youth joined the movement.

Demographics

India

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, Chirgaon has a population of 16,724. It has an average literacy rate of 84.86%, male literacy is 91.95%, and female literacy is 77.10%. Also 12.11% of the population is under six years old. Scheduled Castes constitute 16.19% of the total population.

Transport

Road

Chirgaon is well connected by Indian National Highway 27 with Jhansi and Kanpur. It is also connected with

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by State Highway 45.

Railways

Chirgaon is served by a station on the Electronic

Indian Railways Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fou ...

network. Chirgaon railway station (Station Code :
CGN
is operated by

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Jhansi railway division Jhansi railway division is one of the three railway divisions under the jurisdiction of North Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 5 November 1951 and its headquarters are located at Jhansi in the stat ...

. Trains that pass through Chirgaon : To *51814) Lucknow–Jhansi Passenger (between

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/LKO and Jhansi /JHS) *19166

Sabarmati Express The 19167 / 19168 Ahmedabad-Varanasi Sabarmati Express is an express train which connects the city of Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat to Varanasi city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh through Jhansi. The train may take up to t ...

(between

Darbhanga Darbhanga is the fifth largest city and municipal corporation in the state of Bihar in India, and is considered an important city in North Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. Darbhanga ...

/DBG and

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled Amdavad (), is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 ...

/ADI) *11016 Kushinagar Express (between

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/GKP and

Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (also known by its former name Kurla Terminus, station code: LTT) is a railhead and a major railway terminus in the Kurla suburb of Mumbai, India. LTT is managed by the Central Railway. The and suburban railway station ...

/LTT (

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) ) *11110 Lucknow–Jhansi InterCity Express (between Lucknow/LKO and Jhansi /JHS ) *51804 Kanpur–Jhansi Passenger (between and /CNB and Jhansi /JHS) *11123 Gwalior Mail (between

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/BJU and

Gwalior Gwalior (Hindi: , ) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; It is known as the Music City of India having oldest Gwalior gharana, musical gharana in existence. It is a major sports, cultural, industrial, and political c ...

/GWL) *19168 Sabarmati Express (between

Varanasi Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.* * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of I ...

/SBS and Ahmedabad /ADI) To *51813 Jhansi–Lucknow Passenger (between /JHS and

/LKO) *19165

(between

/ADI and

/DBG) *11015 Kushinagar Express (between

/LTT (

) and

/GKP) *11109

Jhansi–Lucknow Intercity Express The 11109 / 10 Jhansi–Lucknow Intercity Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways – North Central Railways that runs between and Lucknow NE in India. It operates as train number 11109 from Jhansi Junction to Lucknow NE and ...

(between Jhansi /JHS and Lucknow/LKO) *51803 Jhansi–Kanpur Passenger (between Jhansi /JHS and Kanpur Central/CNB) *11124 Gwalior Mail (between

/GWL and

/BJU) *19167

(between Ahmedabad /ADI and BSB/

) For more detail, Please go to https://web.archive.org/web/20140408180437/http://www.indianrail.gov.in/

Air

The nearest airport from Chirgaon is

Gwalior Airport Gwalior Airport , also known as Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Terminal, is a domestic airport managed and operated by the Airports Authority of India serving the city of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in Maharajpura, 10 km (6 mi) no ...

(

). Gwalior Airport (

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Code:GWL,

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Code: VIGR), also known as Rajmata Vijyaraje Scindia Vimantal, is about 130 km from Chirgaon. Gwalior is connected to Delhi, Mumbai and Jabalpur regularly by

Air India Air India is the flag carrier of India with its main hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, and secondary hubs at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, alo ...

. Gwalior also has a big airforce station. More flights for major destinations like Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Jaipur are expected to start soon.

Schools

Chirgaon has an agricultural college. It has three Inter colleges and 4 high schools and several primary schools in the public service. Main schools in the town are : *Gyan jyoti Public School. *Sardar Patel Inter college. *Saraswati Vidhya Mandir Inter College. *Saraswati Shishu Mandir. *Sri Shah Lal Chandra Jain Adarsh Junior High School (Bal Mandir High School) *Rashtrakavi Maithili Saran Gupt High School. *C.L.S. Inter College *B.L.N. Memorial Public School Despite being in the hinterland and being neglected by the national and

state governments State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

, Chirgaon has given a lot of good engineers, doctors & administrators who have served the nation and the world in their respective capacities.

Banks

Chirgaon has a branch of

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(Branch code=7831), a branch of

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, a branch of PNB and a branch of

Bank of India Bank of India (BoI) is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. Founded in 1906, it has been government-owned since nationalisation in 1969. BoI is a founding member of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Inter ...

. There are five

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s of Central Bank of India, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, HDFC Bank in the city near bank. Another ATM from Chirgaon is situated at

Parichha Parichha is a census town in Jhansi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located on Jhansi-Kanpur Kanpur (Hindustani language, Hindustani: ), originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the second large ...

, 8 km away from Chirgaon and at

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, about 24 km away from Chirgaon.

Health care

Chirgaon is served by a primary health care center of state government, where a team of general physician and specialist is available for taking care of local and nearby patients. Private practitioners are also there to serve patients.

Business and industry

Chirgaon and nearby areas are mainly dependent on agriculture business. There is no Industry in and around Chirgaon and hence growth of area is also dead. Most of the people involved in the agriculture industry are illiterate. And they handle their crops unscientifically and do net get much return on their investment and labors and hence most of them are in hand to mouth situation always. Chirgaon is not a big industrial area. Chirgaon and surrounding area are highly neglected by Central and

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for any development initiative in the field of business or industrial growth of area.

References

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