DRUG, a district and town of British India in the Chhattisgarh division of the Central Provinces. The district was formed in 1906 from portions of the districts of Bilaspur and Raipur (qq.v.) . It has an area of 4,645 sq.m. and at that time the population, 676,00o, showed a large decrease on the preceding census, but by 1931 it had recovered to 817,924. The district belongs to the Chhattisgarh rice plain and has the same undulating character, but contains more wheat land than its neighbours. Several irriga tion storage reservoirs and the Tandula canal have been con structed by Government since the great famine of 1900. There are nine Zamindari estates in the district covering an area of 1,80o sq. miles.
Drug, the capital of the district, is the only town among villages. Its population has greatly increased since it was made a district headquarters, namely, from 4,033 in 1901 to 13,172 in 1931. It is a station on the Bengal-Nagpur railway and a rice market has been established there, but its local industries are petty.