It is the administrative headquarters of the Surajpur district, located 334 km away from the state's capital city, Raipur.

The Government of Chhattisgarh is Planning to Open a school to Provide English Medium Education for the Regional students.

Numbers of Hindi and English Medium Schools have come into existence after the formation of Chhattisgarh States Surajpur is linked with both Road and Railways.

National Highway 43 Cross to link Katni towards North and Gumla & Ranchi towards east.

Surajpur is directly linked to Varanasi Via Bhaiyathan → Pratappur → Renukoot → Robertsganj and is also well connected to Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh → Raipur → Bhilai → Nagpur.

Indian Airlines, jet airways and Air India are Providing their Daily Service to all the Major airports of the Country.

Bilaspur is the headquarters of Southeast Central Railways and is well connected with mail and super-fast trains from Bhopal, Indore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Gwalior, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Patna, Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur, Katni, Kota, Jaipur, Jammu & Hyderabad.

Some of the important train connecting Surajpur Road are : Besides this it halts for a few seconds at Anuppur station for trains like Garib rath, Utkal Express, Hirakud Express, New Delhi Sampark Kranti, Bilaspur - Rewa Etc.

Gaytri Mandir is one of the famous and oldest temples, situated on the bank of river Rihand at Gayatri Nagar west in Surajpur.

Many people around Surajpur and other surrounding districts gather on the eve to celebrate Lord Shyama's Birthday.

This waterfall is created by various water sources from deep green forests of Ketka range.