Ghugus

Ghugus is a census town in Chandrapur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.GeographyGhugus is located at. It has an average elevation of 189 metres (620 feet). Wardha river is flowing by the side of the village which make it prosperous in Minerals, like Coal. Climate here is dry where winter is Cool and Summer is extremely hot. The temperature rises up to 49 Celsius.DemographicsIndia census, Ghugus had a population of 29,945. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Ghugus has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 67%. In Ghugus, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. Gandhi chowk is in the center of the town and a place meant for big meetings and rallies for the awareness and information of the people.EducationGhugus town has well grade of schools up-till 12th.It takes the privilege of having the schools of C.B.S.E, I.C.S.E and Maharashtra Board. The oldest and most popular of the schools is Mount Carmel Convent Higher Secondary School(C.B.S.E). The other schools are Vianney Vidya Mandir(I.C.S.E),Janata Vidhyalaya and Kirti Convent.There are so many WCL colonies in ghugus. Shubhash Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Ram Nagar etc. are some of them. Ghugus is a coal mining village in Chandrapur tahsil, about 20.92 km. (13 miles) from Chandrapur connected by a branch railway line shooting off at Tadali from the Chandrapur-Wardha main line of the Central Railway. Here two collieries are work yielding a good variety of non-coking coal. Besides Ghugus proper whose population was 1,767 in 1961, two separate habitations have grown round the collieries with population of 1,862 and 1,660, respectively. All the three places have each a post office, a medical practitioner and a primary school, excepting Ghugus proper where there is a middle school. The colliery areas have a rest house each and at the first of these a weekly bazar is held on Sundays.