SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE 

Education is a basic requirements for every human being. The governments should utilize all its recourses irrational manner to encourage people to become literate to some extent since educated persons are assets ho help in proper development of the country.

In Chandrapur districts a large variety of educational facilities exists to cater to the needs of 17.71 lakh population. In 2001, there were 2246 primary schools, 422 middle schools, 212 secondary schools. 37 higher secondary/PUC/intermediate schools, 29 colleges, 77 adult literacy centers and 49 vocational training institutions. They are distributed all over the district while higher order facilities like colleges, Vocational training institutions etc, are mostly found in towns and primary schools, middle schools, adult literacy centers etc predominate in the villages/

         Distributions of the educational facilities in the districts- 2001 

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HEALTH

The districts had 39 hospital, 58 dispensaries, 87 primary health centers, 11 maternity and child welfare centers, 317 primary health sub centers, 11 health centers, 94 community health workers and 316 other amenities which included nursing homes. other medical centers, registered private practitioners etc. The higher order facilities like hospitals, maternity and child care centers were mostly located in major urban centers while primary health centers and sub centers community health workers were largely located in various tehsils of the district.

Tehsilwise medical facilities- 1991

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Transport and Communication

Transport

The transport facilities in the district are well developed and wide spread. State or national highway link most of the urban areas. In 2001 total length of the railway network was 381 Km of which 121 was double track. All tehsil except Saoli, Gondpipri and Korpana have railway connection.

There were 26 railway stations / Halts in the district on the Railway network passing through the district. The important railway stations are Chandrapur, Balharshah, Ghugus, Tadalis, Ballarpur, Bhandak, Majari, Manikgarh, Vihirgaon. and Virur. The district has several bus routine operating in the district and also several inter state bus route pass through the district.

Communication

Communication facilities go a long way in information collection and its dissemination in an effective and speedy manner. In the modern society, the roll of the facilities in the socio-economic development of the society is very well recognized. Communication facility help in the flow of information from one place to another in shortest time, thus helping administration and corporate managers to take crucial decisions relating to daily functioning of administration and business dealings in shortest possible time. The importance of developed communication network for the common men judged from the fact that in rural areas the farmers can benefit directly from the knowledge of price prevailing in market/mandi if it is flashed in the Panchayat/community computer system which may interconnected to a local area network.

Distribution of villages with communication facilities- 2003

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Transport and Communication Network

 Road Network, Waterways, Airways, Airways and Railways 

Market

There were 127 villages only where such market facility exists. it was observed that the markets were largely  found in Sindhewahi(28) and Chimur(22) tehsils. The number of markets was least in Gondpipri and Rajura, Korpana and Chandrapur tehsils. In Rajura tehsil number of villages with no market facility was largest among all the tehsils(65) followed by Korpana(37)

Distribution of Markets Village wise- 1991

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