CENSUS OF INDIA, 19S1 SERIES 16 ORISSA PART XIII DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK PART A-VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY KENDUJHAR A R. NANDA OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVlO Director of Census Operations, Orissa CENSUS OF INDIA, 1981 ~ DISTRICT CENSUS HANDB09K PART A-VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY KENDUJHAR fOREWORD • The District Ce~sus H~n,d~qo~ (DCH), c0'rBi!_e,d ~'t' the Census ?r&a[)i~ation on ~,e.~a~! of t,he State Governments, is one of t~e rt?0st valuable produc~s o! th~ Census. The DCH is cons~antly refEtrred to by planners, admin istrators, academi- -t J' ~ 1 "I..... f: IL.. <;:ians and researchers. !t is irzt~r qlia used for ,!eJi"?itaii,?n of co~stifuencie~,. form~I~*~.n of Ipca) I~Yl~} and regipnal p.laps a~d as f'1 ~id to District ad!'1i~ist~!ltipn. The Distri~t <:=,ens,us ,H~!ldbo?f is the onJ.y p.!J~I}cati.o,n \Yt]~ch prQvide~ pr,iynary Census Apstract (PCA) q~ta ,~ptp vill~pe level Jor t.h~ (IJr~J !,;[ea,s ~Q!J w~rdwise for .ea~h city pr ,town. It a~,so pro'{id~s gata on i!1frastruc:ture and amenities in villages and towns, et~. The District Census Handbook series was initiated during the 1951 Census. It contained important c~nsus tables a~d PCA for each village and town of t't\e district. During 1961 Census the scope of the DCH was enlarged and it contained .a descriptive account of the district, administra't'ive Statistics, census tables' and a village and town direttory, including PCA. The 1971 DCH series was planned in three parts. Part-A related to village a.nd town directory, Part-B to village and t9wn PCA and Part-C comprised analytical report, administrative statistics, district census tables and certain analytical tables based on P.CA and amenity data ifl,f~spect of villages. However, in some States it was confined to dis!rict census tables and in a few cases altogether given up due to delay in compilation and printing. While designing the format of 1981 DCH series SOl)1e new features alQngwith the restructuring of the formats of village and town directo(y have peen attempted. At the same time, comparability wJth the 1971 data has also been k~pt jr] vi.ews. All the a,menities except power supply in the village have been prought tog~ther in the village directory with the instruction that in case an amenity is not available in the refe~rent village th~ ~:Hstance in broad ranges from the nearest place where the ~me!1ity is available may be given. The restructuring of the format of the village directory anq incorporating more exhaustive data on infrastructure aspect parti­ cularly ilJ rela~ion to amenities and land-use pattern is e;xpected to further meet the need of micro level planning for rural areas. It is expected to help not only in local area planning but regulating the provision of goods and services as well so as to minimise the regional imbalances in the process of development. A few new items of i!1formation have also been introduced to meet some of the requirements of t~e Revised Minimu m Needs Programme. Such new iterps of information as adult literacy centres, primary health sub-centres and community ~ealth workers in the village have been ir:ttroduced in the village directory with this objective in mind. The new item on approacp to the village is to have an idea about the villages in the district which' are inaccessible. A new column, "total population and number of households" has been introduced to examine the corelation of the amenities [vi] 'WIth the pupulation and nu,nber of .households they serve. Addition of two more appendices listing the villages where no amenities are available and accordingly to the proportion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population to the total population has also been made with this view in mind. The formats of the town directory have also been modified to meet the requirement of the Minimum Needs Programme by providing information on a few new items. A new statement on civic and other amenities in slums in Class-I and Class-II towns (Statement IV-A) has been introduced with this objective in mind. Jt is expected that this will help the planners to chalk out programmes on provision of civic amenities for the improvemen t of slums. The columns on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population in Statement-IV relating to civic and other ameni­ ties and adult literacy classes/centres under educational facilities in Statement-V are also added inter alia with this view. A significant addition is class of town in all the seven statements of the town directory. The infrastructure of amenities in urban areas of the country can be best analysed by taking the class of towns into consideration. The addition of the column on civic administration status and population in a few statements also serves this purpose. The format of the primary census abstract for the villages and towns has been formulated in the light of changes in the economic and other questions canvassed through the individual slip of 1981 Census. In order to avoid delay in publication of 1981 DCH series it has been 50 designed that Part-A of the volume contains village and town directory and Part B the PCA of villages and towns including the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PCA upto Tahasil/Town levels. At the beginning of the DCH a detailed analytical note supported by a number of inset tables based on PCA and non-ce nsus data in relation to the infrastructure has been introduced to enhance its value. The district and Tahasil/Police station/Co D. Block etc., level maps depicting the bounda­ ries and other important features have been inserted at appropriate places, to further enhance the value of the publication. This publication is a joint venture of the State Government and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected and compiled in the State under the direction of Shri A. R. Nanda, I. A. S., the Director of Census Operations, Orissa on behalf of the State Government which has borne the cost of printing. The task of plannino, desi ~,ning and co-ordination of this publication was carried out by Shri N. G. NaS, DepuLy Registrar General (Social Studies) of rr.y office. Dr. B. K. Roy Deputy Registrar General (Wap) provided the technical guidance in the preparation of the maps. Data received from Census Directorates have been scrutinised in the Social Studies Division at the headquartNs under the guidance of Shri M. M. Dua Senior Research Officer. I am thankful to all who have contributed in this project. P. PADMANABHA Reg istrar General, India New Delhi The 26th April, 1982 PREFACE It has been the tr.ldition of Indian Census to present derr.ographic data in as detailed a manner as possible so as to serve effectively the interests of the users of Census data. 1981 Census has been completed leaving behind a vast mass of data collected carefully and meticulously on a country-wide basis by an army of trained enumerators. It is need­ less to mention that modern Census is no more confined to mere counting of heads. It is a kind of stock-taking, as it were, of the nation's human wealth. It has collected infor­ mation of every individual, besides a host of other at:tivities, institutions, establishments, services and so on. Thus, it has become an indispensable instrument of policy for development planning-referred to by planners, data users, slholars and people from different disciplines and aims at presenting a complete picture of man in socio-economic and cultural settings. District Census Handbook was first introduced as an auxilliary to 1951 Census and appeared as a State C0vernment publication in more comprehensive and ambitious form in subsequent censuses. Under the existing instruction, the Director of Census has the responsibility of providing the Census data as well as non-census socia-economic and administrative statistics for this publication which IS the responsibility of the State Govern­ ment. In 1951 and 1961, it was published in one volume. During 1971, this publication was proposed to be presented in three parts. Part-A incorporated the Town and Village Directorins, Part-B incorporated the Primary Census Abstract and provided data upto village fevel for the rural are]. and upto enumeration block level for the urban area. Part-C incorporated other Census tables and administrative statistics. According to the publication programme of 1981 Census, it has to be pubilshed in two parts. Part-A will comprise the Village and Town Directory whereas Part-B will contain Village and Town-wise Primary Census Abstract. The first Part_ Part-A consists of important statistical information relating to each town besides an array of statistical data relating to land use and various other amenities available in each village. Part-B ot the present publication contains the essential census data known as Primary Census Abstract which provides demognphic det:lils of elch district, ohl.Sil, police st.1tion and down to each vill'ige and town and within the town, e).ch ward. The aforesaid statistical information is enriched by the administntive map of the administrative units viz., district, tahasil and police station, avail abe in the publication. These maps have been prep:ued in the Directorate of Census on the basis of maps obtained from the competent local authorities.