Barughutu is adjacent to Ghatotand, where Tata Steel's West Bokaro Colliery is situated.

Four of the six CD blocks in the district have coal mines – Patratu, Ramgarh, Mandu and Chitarpur.

Ramgarh district lies in the central part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau.

The far-off hills in the background in exquisite tints of blue or purple as the light falls, the nearer hills picturesquely shaped and luxuriant in every shade of green with their bold escarpments in black or grey, and the brown plains below furnishing their quota of colours.

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Ramgarh, Barughutu covered an area of 6.719 km2.

Among the civic amenities, it had 60 km roads with both open and closed drains, the protected water supply involved tap water from treated and untreated sources, overhead tank.