Murud
Murud is a town in Raigad district of Maharashtra and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluka and Block Panchayat of Raigad district.
As on December 2024, the current population of Murud is 13.9 thousands out of which 6.8 thousands are males and rest 7.1 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1039 females per 1000 males. There are around 1 thousands teenagers in Murud. It has literacy rate of 84% which means around 11.7 thousands persons can read and write. Total 282 people belonging to scheduled caste and 1.8 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 3.2 thousands households in Murud, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 4.8 thousands.
Schools
Murud has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Sir S.A. High School
- Jindal Vidhyamandir
- A.I.J Agri H.Sc & Junior Co Murud
- Chatrapati Shivaji Nutan Vidya
- Anjuman Islam Janjira Urdu Primary
Murud Block Panchayat
Ashika Ananat Thakur is the President (Block Pramukh) of Block Panchayat Murud, who can be contacted at email address eovpmurud1@gmail.com and mobile number 70666xxx29. The Block landline number is 02144-27**21. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Aniket Shivaji Patil, who can be reached at email address bdomurud@gmail.com and mobile number 97675xxx30. The Block address is Darbar Road, Murud Janjira, Pincode - 402401. You can reach there by taking a bus till Murud bus stop. The Block has both internet facility and Wi-Fi facility.There are eight computers, five printers and two scanners available for various works.Murud Block Panchayat consists of total 24 Village Panchayat.
- Agardanda
- Amboli
- Bhoighar
- Borli
- Chordhe
- Akdara
- Kakalghar
- Kashid
- Korli
- Mandla
- Majgaon
- Mithekhar
- Nandagaon
- Rajpuri
- Salav
- Savli
- Shighre
- Talekhar
- Telwade
- Usroli
- Walke
- Wawdungi
- Welaste
- Vihoor
Other villages in Murud Taluka
Murud Taluka has total 3 villages which are currently not mapped to any Village Panchayat.