Chirgaon is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and a

municipal board A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

Jhansi district Jhansi district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Jhansi is the district headquarters. The district is bordered on the north by Jalaun District, to the east by Hamirpur and Mahoba districts, to th ...

in the Indian state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

, 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 Maithili Sharan 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 Hin ...

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

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

, 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 The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...

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

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

by State Highway 45.

Railways

Chirgaon is served by a station on the Electronic

Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tota ...

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

North Central Railway zone The North Central Railway (abbreviated NCR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India. The largest railway station in NCR is Kanpur Central. It is headquartered at Prayagraj and comprises three divisions: Allahabad division, Jhansi division, A ...

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

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

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

/LKO and Jhansi /JHS) *19166

Sabarmati Express The 19167 / 19168 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 two days to complete ...

(between Darbhanga /DBG and Ahmedabad /ADI) *11016

Kushinagar Express The Kushinagar SF Express is an Indian Railways train running between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) and Gorakhpur. It is numbered as 22538/22537. The train is named after the town of Kushinagar, an important Buddhist pilgrim centre near Gorak ...

(between

Gorakhpur Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometers east of the state capital Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur dis ...

/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 (

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

) ) *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

Barauni Barauni is an Industrial City situated on the bank of the river Ganges in Begusarai district in the state of Bihar, India. Transport Railways Barauni Junction is one of the important stations in Bihar and has strategic location. It is a ju ...

/BJU and

Gwalior Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...

/GWL) *19168 Sabarmati Express (between

Varanasi Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and 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 t ...

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

/LKO) *19165

(between Ahmedabad /ADI and Darbhanga /DBG) *11015

(between

/LTT (

) and

/GKP) *11109

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

(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 Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindhia Gwalior Airport is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force base serving the city of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in Maharajpur, 10 km (6 mi) north-east of the city premises. It is one of the s ...

(

). Gwalior Airport ( IATA Code:GWL, ICAO 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 airline of India, headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons, after Air India Limited's former owner, the Government of India, completed the ...

. 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 * N.C Jain Memorial Public School Despite being in the hinterland and being neglected by the national and

state governments A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government. A state government may have some level of political autonomy, ...

, 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 State Bank of India (Branch code=7831), a branch of

Central Bank of India Central Bank of India (CBI) is an Indian public sector bank based in Mumbai. Despite its name, it is not the central bank of India; The Indian central bank is the Reserve Bank of India. History The Central Bank of India was established on ...

, 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 founder 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 highway on the bank of Betwa River. Geography Parichha is located at . It has an average elevation of 213 metres (698 f ...

, 8 km away from Chirgaon and at

Moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

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

References

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