 On 10 February 2015, Chas was accorded municipal corporation status adding Kandra and Bandhgora to its area increasing the town's population to 156,888 from 141,640.

 census, the total number of literates in Chas Nagar Nigam was 103,167, out of which 58,758 were males and 44,409 were females.There are many schools and colleges in Chas offering undergraduate to post-graduate courses -


Chas also have many well known & reputed schools of agglomeration like DPS (Chandankiyari Road), Crescent Public School, BPS, Adarsh Vidya Mandir, Ramkrishna Vidya Mandir, Guru Gobind Singh Public School, Rainbow Public School, etc.Electrosteel Castings.Ltd (now Vedanta Resources), is one of the major iron and steel units established nearby.