CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 SERIES - 23 TAMILNADU DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK TIRUNELVELI KATTABOMMAN DISTRICT PART XII- A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRE.CTORY K. SAMPATHKUMAR of The Indian Administrative Service Director of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu. CONTENTS Page: Foreword v vii Preface District Map Facing ?age xi Important· Statistics of the District 1 Analytical Note: i) Census concepts-Rural and Urban areas. Urban Agglomeration, Census 3 Houses, Households, Scheduled Caste. / Scheduled Tribe'. Literates, Main Workers. Marginal workers, Non-wokers etc: ii) History of the District Census Hand Book including scope of Village and 6 Town Directory and Primary Census Abstract. iii) HIstOry of the District and its formation. Jurisdictional changes, Physical Fea­ 13 tures. Hills. Rivers. Forest. Flora and Fauna. Climate and Rainfall Land and Land use pattern. Irrigation and Agriculture. Animal Husbandry, Fisheries. Minerals. Industries. Trade and Commerce, Transport and COlllmunication. Electricity. Education. Health. Ot her Faci lides. Place of Tour­ ist importance. iv) Briefanalysis of the village and Town Directory data based on Inset Tables. 24 PART - A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY SECTION - I VILLAGE DIRECTORY Note explaining the codes used in Village Directory I. Vasudevanallur CD. Block 49 i) Alphabetieallist of villages ii) Village Directory Statement 2. Sankarankovil CD. Block 55 i) Alphabetical list of villages ii) Village Directory Statemcnt 3. Kumvikulam CD. Block 61 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directory Statemcnt 4. Melaneclithanallur CD. Block 69 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directory Statcment 5'. Shcncottah CD. Block 75 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Dircctory Statcmcnt () Tcnkasi CD Block 81 i) Alphabctical list of Villagcs ii) Villagc Directory Statcmcnt Page: 7. Alangulam C.O. Block 87 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 8. Keelapavoor C.O. Block 95 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 9. Kadaiyanallur C.O. Block 101 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 10. Manur C. O. Block 107 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 11. Palayankottai C.O. Block 119 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 12.Ambasamudram C.O. Block 131 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 13. Kadayam C.O.Block 137 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 14. Pappakudi C.O. Block 143 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 15. Cheranmahadevi C.D. Block i49 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 16. Nanguneri C.D. Block 157 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directocy Statement 17. Kalakadu C.D. Block· 165 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directory Statement 18. Radhapuram C.D. Block 173 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ii) Village Directory Statenl:nt 19. Valliyoor C.D. Block 179 i) Alphabetical list of Villages ij) Village Directory Statement Annexe - Statement showing the C.O. Blocks coming under each taluk 185 Appendix - C. D. Llockwisc Abstract of Educational, Medical and other amenities t.86 ii Page Appendis - II Land utilisatiolil data in respect of Non-Municipal towns 190 Appendis - III C.D. Blockwise list of village where no amenities are available 191 Appendis - IV List of Villages according to the proportion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to the total population by ranges 192 SECTION - II - TOWN DIRECTORY Note explaining the codes used in the Town Directory 208 Statement - I Status and Growth History 210 Statement - II Physical Aspects and Location of Towns 1989 214 Statement - III Municipal Finance, 1988-89 218 Statement - IV Civic and other amenities, 1989 220 Statement - IV-A Civic and other amenities, in notified slums, 1989 224 Statement - V Medical, Educational and Cultural facilities, 1989 226 Statement - VI Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking, 1989 230 Appendis Towns showing their outgrowths with population 234 iii FOREWORD Publication of the District Census Handbooks (DCHs) was initiated after the 1951 Census and is continuing since then with some innovations/modifications after each decennial census. This is the most valuable district level publication brought out by the Census Organisation on behalf of each State Government! Union Territory administration. It inter-alia provides datal information on some ofthe basic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and on availability of certain important civic amenities/facilities in each village and town of the respective districts.' This publication has thus proved to be· of immense utility to the planners, administrators, academicians and researchers. The scope of the DCH was initially confmed to certain important census tables on population, economic and socio-cultural aspects as also the Primary Census Abstract (PCA)of each village and town (wardwise) of the district. The DCHs published after the 1961 Census contained a descriptive account of the district, administrative statistics, census tables and Village and Town Directories, including PCA. After the 1971 Census, two parts of the District Census Handbooks (part-A comprising Village and Town Directories and Part-B comprising Village and Town PCA) were released in all the States and Union Territories. The third Part (C) of the District Census H~dbooks comprising administrative statistics and district census tables, which was also to be brought out, could not be published in many StateslUTs due to considerable delay in compilation of relevant material. In 1981, some new features alongwith the restructuring of the f<?rmats of Village and Town Directory were introduced in the DCHs. These were published in two parts for each district after. the 1981 Census. While Part-A comprised Village and Town Directories, the PCA of villages and towns (wardwise) including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe peA upto tehsiV town level were provided in Part-B. To illustrate, all the amenities except electricity, were brought together -in the Village Directory and if an amenity was not available in the referrent village, the distance in broad ranges from the nearest plac~ having such amenity was given. Information on some new items such as adult literacy centres, primary health sub-centres and community health workers in the village were provided so as to meet some of the requirements ofthe Revised Minimum Needs Programme. Similarly, information on approach to the village was also provided for the first time during 1981 Census in the Village Directory so as to give an idea about the number ofinaccessible villages in each district. In case of Town Directories also, keeping in view the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme; a Statement IV-A on slums was provided so as to· enable the planners to chalk out the programmes for providing better civic and o~her amenities in the slums. In thi3 statement, details on civic and other amenities were reported for the slums of Class I· and Class II towns. APru1 from this, one column on the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population and another on adult literacy classes/centres were added in Statement IV and V respectively. 3 The manner of presentation ofthe DCHs for the 1991 Census is by and large the same as followed in 1981. However, theformat of PC A has been.restructured slightly in the 1991 Censusfor the benefit of data users. Nine-fold industrial classification of main workers has been given as against four-fold industrial classification presented in the 1981 Census. In addition to this, the sex-wise population in the 0-6 age-group has also been included in PCA for the first time with a view to enabling data users to compute more realistic literacy rate as all children below 7 years of age have been treated as illiterates at the time of the 1991 Census. It is expected that the above mentioned modifications will help the planners in chalking out more effective developmental programmes. One of the most important innovations in the 1991 Census is the Community Development Block level presentation of data in the Village Directory and PCA instead of the traditional TehsiVTaluklPS level presentation. It is· expected that the presentation of Village Directory and PCA data at C.D. Block level will help the planners in formulation of micro-level developmental plans, as the C.D. Block is the lowe~t administrative unit for developmental planning. v In order to facilitate the task of administrators, planners and researchers intending to use Village DirectorylPCA data, either from the magnetic tapes/floppies or from the published records, both the computer and manual codes for each village have been provided for the 1991 Census alongwith the corresponding codes of 1981. This publication is a joint venture of the State GoyernmentfUT administration and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected and completed under the direction of Shri K. Sampatli Kumar, Director of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu, on behalf ofthe State Government which has borne the cost of printing. The task of planning, designing imd co-ordination of the publication was iilltiated by Dr. K.P. Ittaman, former Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies) and Shri M.M. Dua, Joint Director, for the sake of uniformity in presentation ofinformationldata and for preparation of analytical note depicting the salient features emerging from a micro-level analysis of cens_us/non-census data, a model District Census Handbook from each State and Union Territory was thoroughly scrutinised in the Social Studies Division under the guidance of Shri M.K. Jain, the present Deputy Registrar General (S.S.). This task was carried out by Shri AK. Singh, Deputy Director who was assisted by Shri N. S. Soam, Assistant Director and his staff Technical guidance in the preparation of the maps was initially provided by Dr. B.K.Roy, former Deputy Registrar General (Map) and later by Mrs. Minati Ghosh, the present Deputy Registrar General (Map). 3 I am thankful to all those who have contributed to this p~oject.