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CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 Series - 33 Union Territory of Pondicherry DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK Part XII A & B Village & Town Directory and Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract Directorate of Census' Operations Pondicherry CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 List of Publications Central Govt. Publicat10ns - Census of India 1991 - Series 33 - Union Territory of Pondicherry is being published in the following parts:- Sl. Part Title No. No. 1. I-A Administration Report - Enumeration (For office us~ only) 2. I-B Administration Report - Tabulation (For office use only) 3. II-A General Population Tables - A series 4. II-B General Population Tables - Primary Census Abstract 5. III-A General Economic Tables 6. III-B General Economic Tables 7. IV-A Social and Cultural Tables 8. IV-B Social and cultural Tables 9. V-A Migration Tables 10. V-B Migration Tables ll. VI Fertility Tables 12. VII Household Tables 13. VIII Special Tables on Scheduled Castes 14. IX-A Survey Report on Selected Towns 15. IX-B Survey Report on Selected villages 16. x Ethnographic NotQS and Special Studies on Scheduled Castes 17. XI Census Atlas 18. XII-A* District Census Handbook - Village & Town Directory 19. XII-B* District Census Hand~ook Villag~ and Townwise Primary Census Abstract * Present Publication CONTENTS Page 1. FOREWARn 1 2. PREFACE 5. 3. PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY MAP 7 4. IMPORTANT STATISTICS 9 5. ANALYTICAL NOTE i) Census Concepts 13 ii) Br~ef Histor~ of District and the District Census Handbook 19 iii) Scope of Village Directory and Town Directory Statements 25 iv) Physical Aspect of Districts 26 v) Major Characteristics of Districts 33 vi) Major Social and Cultural Events, Natural and Administrative developments and Miscellaneous activities of note during the decade 51 vii) Brief Description of Places of Religious, Historical or Archaeological Importance in Villages and Places of Tourist Interest in the Towns of the District 52 viii) Br~ef Analysis of the Village and Town Directory Data based on Inset Tables 59 PART A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY 6. Section I Village Directory ... 109 (a) For each C.D. Block • i) C.D. Block Map ii) Alphabetical List of Villages iii) Note explaining the codes used in the Village Directory iv) Village Directory (b) Appendix (I - IV) to the Village Directory 7. Sectl.on II Town Directory ... 249 (i) Note Explaining the Codes Used in the Town Directory (ill Town Birectory statements (I to VI and IVA) (iii) Appendix to the Town Directory PART B PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT A. U.T. PCA - Total, Rural, Urban 324 B. Distrl.ct PCA - C.D. Block-wise - Total, Rural, Urban 328 C. C.D. Block-wise 378 For Each C.D. Block-wise (i) Commune-wise Village-wise PCA (ii) Town-wise PCA(within the town, ward-wise PCA) D. Appendix-I Commune-wise PCA E. Append1x-II Name of Communes and C.D. Blocks F. Appendix-III Total, Scheduled Castes population Urban Block-wise G. District PCA of SC/ST - C.D. Block/Town level 518 H. L~st of Revenue Villages alongwith their constitutent Census Villages 551 FOREWORD Publ ication 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 Govt. /Union Territory administration. It inter-alia provides data/information on some of the. basic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and on the 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 confined to certain important census tables on population, economic and socio-cultural aspects as also the Primary Census Abstract (PCA) of each village and town (ward-wise) of the district. The DCHs published after the 1961 Census contained a descriptive account of the district, administrati ve 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 Handbooks comprising administrative statistics and district census tables, which was also to be brought out, could not be published in many States/UTs due to considerable delay in compilation of relevant material. In 1981, some new features alongwith the restructuring of the formats 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 peA of villages and towns (ward-wise) including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes PCA upto tehsil/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 place 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 of the Revised Minimum Needs Programme. Similarly, information on approach to the village was also provided for the first time in the Village Directory so as to give an idea about the number of inaccessible villages in each district. In 1 case of Town Directories also, keeping in view the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme a Statement IV-A on slums wa~ provided so as to enable the planners to chalk out the ~rogrammes for providing better civic and other ameIJit:. es in the slums. In this statement details on civic and other amenities were reported for the slums of class I and Class II towns. Apart from this, one column on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population and another on adult literacy classes/centres were added in Statements IV and V respectively. The manner of presentation of the DCHs for the 1991 Census is by and large the same as followed in 1981. However, the format of PCA has been restructured slightly in the 1991 Census for the benefit of data users. Nine-fold industrial classification of main workers has been given as against four-fold industrial classi~ication 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 illiterate 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 Tahsi/l/Taluk/PS 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 lowest administrative unit for developmental planning. In order to facilitate the task of administrators, planners and researchers intending to use village Directory/PCA 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 Govt. of Pondicherry and the Census organisation. The data have been collected and compiled under the direction of Shri R. S. Chari, Director of Census Operations, Pondicherry on behalf of the Govt. of Pondicherry which has borne. the cost of printing. The task of planning, designing and coordination of the publication was initiated by Dr. K.P. IttamaD, former Deputy Registrar General' (Social Studies) and Shri M. M. Dua, Joint 2 Director. For the sake of uniformity in presentation of information/data and for preparation of analytical note depicting the salient features emerging from a micro-level analysis of Cerisus/non-Census data, a model District Census Handbook from each State and Union Territory was thoroughly s~rutinised in the Social Studies Division under the guidance of Dr. M.K. Jain, the present Deputy Registrar General(S.S.) This task was carried out by Dr. I . C. Agarwal, Senior Research Officer (88) who was assisted by Shri Mahipal Singh, Junior Investigator (SS) 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, t'he present Deputy Registrar General (Map) . I am thankful to all those who have contributed to this project. New Delhi A.R. NANDA June 11, 1992 Registrar General, India 3 PREFACE District Census· Handbook(DCH) 1s the most valuable district level'publ~cation brought out by the Census Organisation on behalf of the Govt. of Pondicherry. It provides very useful data/information on some o£ the basic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and on the availability of certain important civic amenities/facilities in each village and town of the respective districts besides census statistics. pub].ication of the District Census Handbooks (DCHs) was initiated after the 1951 Census and is continuing since then with some innovationsl modifications after each decennial Census.