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Pulgaon, with in 1961 a population of 28,063, is a fast-growing, Tahsil-level municipal town in Wardha district on bank of the Wardha river situated about 19 miles (31 km) south of Wardha.

In 1991, Pulgaon's population was 36,600 and still growing higher, as like in the rest of India. The city limits have already been crossed and the majority of the Pulgaon population, which even write Pulgaon as a city & pin 442302, are legally in the limits of either Nachangaon or Gunjkheda and so there is a need of restructuring of the city limits, which might make it a B-grade or even rather A-grade Municipal corporation with the total possible population of >70000. In 2005, it was B-grade, with the current boundary limits of 5.29 square miles (13.7 km).

Though, Pulgaon falls under class-III towns in Maharashtra, the population of Pulgaon is largely declined in the past few years. This is the only case of population decline in the past decade, by 6.06%, in the Wardha District and in Vidarbha too. This is mostly because of the non-interests of the local people in politics, no Social awareness in people about their own rights, unavailability of industries and proper Education facilities in the area and also partly because of the CAD camp in the surrounding area. This tend to result in the migration of the local people for their various needs. Also, Pulgaon, a Tehsil level town, and almost twice in the size and population as compared to its tehsil Deoli, it is still ignored and always left unattended by the local and state authorities.

Education & Facilities Available[edit]

Previously, in past until around 12-15 yrs back, Pulgaon had educational facilities only up to the higher secondary school stage, with the primary education being solely conducted by the municipality. But the recent evolutions & developments made it a city with almost all facilities, comparable to other Tier IV cities or the other cities/towns of its type. This town now has the Jr. & Sr. Colleges of all the streams viz., Science, Commerce, & Arts. The degrees offered in those colleges are BA, MA, BCom, MCom, BSc, DEd, with BEd, BCS/BCA, DFarm and some other diploma & academic degree colleges in the Science, Education and Medical & Pharmaceuticals fields coming up in nearer future (Src.: news in the daily news papers in the area, published from Nagpur & Wardha, in Jun-Jul' 2005).

Also, the Primary Schools are not solely the Municipal dominations now. There are more Marathi, Hindi, English & Urdu medium schools shaping up in Pulgaon Town, and which are the way better than these old schools, offering a high quality education to build tomorrow's youth. The R. K. High School & Jr. College being the Top ranked school in town and the oldest of its kind, with almost 85-90% of the town's doctors, engineers, managers & teachers of tomorrow coming out from the school every year. This school has the highest record of the number of the "Passing" candidates every year of an average of >82%, followed by other schools & Jr. colleges in town, namely, Aadarsh High School & Jr. College, Laber Camp High School, St. John High School, Central School, Dr. ZakirHussain Urdu High School, Lalitabai Muraka girls high school and Jr.collegeetc.

Pulgaon is city of technical education, one of pulgaon city jewell educational institute is Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Pulgaon, established in 1963 with need of catering technical manpower established by Govt of Maharashtra. Its providing cutting edge technical education to young youth of city, and transforming them to tommarrows technical leaders.

A city library is conducted by the Siddharth Navyouvak library. The municipality conducts a civil hospital together with a family planning centre. There are also a veterinary dispensary and a leprosy eradication center. A club known as Liberty Club established in 1952, besides providing most of the indoor games, has been doing fine work in social and cultural fields also. In 1961 the efforts of its members materialized in the shape of a Manila Mandal, tailoring classes and a vyayamshala or gymnasium. It also brings out a weekly magazine both in Hindi and Marathi captioned 'Shiv Prerana' for which a press was set up in 1962.