General Population Tables, Part II-A-Supplement , Series-17, Punjab
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CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 SERIES 17 PUNJAB PART II-A SUPPLEMENT GENERAL POPULATION TABLES (STANDARD URBAN AREAS) P. L. SONDHI H. S. KWATRA OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE OF THE PUNJAB CIVIL SERVICE Ex-officio Director oj Census Operations Deputy Director of Census Operations PUNJAB PUNJAB - 7"" 7i' ',I : N ~------T.I--~--~----~~~·'I------------~----'I----~~---------W--r--'N PUNJAB o ADMINISTRATIVE DJVISIONS - 33 1971- MILES o I. 20 o , 20 40 o - 32 .... I +~ BOUNDARY • INT£RNAT10~"""-L'" _ •..:.. • ..:~- DISTRICT HEADCtUARTEIIS .... i) STA!E/ (I.T.......... /.-__._ t.AHSll HEAOCtUABn;RS..• 0 OrSTRI~T, .............. .,...._._._ DISTRICT KAPUR'n'''LA .•.... K .. \ TAHSIL. j........... -II' DISTiucr flOPAI! ...........• R STA'I\,t: CAPITAL .... _; ..... '" .. ... • H , ... I. pJS'1RI(l H!ADOIJAiIt~'tIR' A.If! ALso 'TAMSH. HEAOQU,lATI"$ . •. ,A1)'MHnSTA ... Th/i. ~~a4,*~~f.;G~-O". PUNJAB' &TATE. IS AT CHANblGAAH (UNION TERr.ttORV) : _. o 1 J ___-:- _____________L_.____=. 29 77° CENS US OF INDIA, 1971 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICAnONS The 1971 Census Reports on Punjab will bear uniformly Series No. 17 and will be published in the following Parts :- PAR T I -A General Report PART loB General Report (Detailed analysis of the Demograhic, Social, Cultural and Migration Patterns) PART I-C Subsidiary Tables PART II-A General Population Tabels PART II-A General Population Tables (Standard Urban Areas) Supplement PART II-B Economic Tables PART II-CO) Mothertongue, Religion and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART II-C(ii) Social and Cultural Tables and Fertility Tables PART III Establishment Report and Tables PAR T IV Housing Report and Tables PART V Special Tables and Ethnographic notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART VI-A Town Directory PART VI-B Special Survey Reports on selected Towns PART VI-C Survey Reports on selected Villages PART VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration (for official use only) PART VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation (for official use only) PART IX Census Atlas PART IX-A Administrative Atlas B-STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS PART X District Census Handbook for each district in three Parts- PART A-Village and Town Directory PART B-ViUage and Townwise Primary Census Abstract PART C-Analytical Report, Administration Statistics and District Census Tables Note.--Parts A and B of the District Census Handbook have been printed in one Volume. PREFACE We have already brought out our Report: General can be conducted over a sizable period of two-three Population Tables, Part II-A Series 17-Punjab, Census decades. All towns (12) with a popUlation of 50,000 of India, 1971, encampassing Tables A-I to A-IV and have been delineated as Standard Urban Areas. This the Primary Census Abstract generated on full count. concept has replaced the Town Group concept of The data on area, houses and population, contained the 1961 Census because the data collected in Table A-I, have been worked out upto district, tahsil for the town groups were rendered incomparable from and town leve1s.~ Table A-II depicts the decadal census to census as the boundaries of the towns variations in population since 1901. In Table A-III got changed and the intermediate areas were even left villages have been classified by population size. Towns out of account . and Urban Agglomerations. classified by population size in 1971 with variations since 1901, have been presen Twentieth century censuses have documented a ted in Table A-IV. Primary Census Abstract presents slow but great increase in numbers of Indian urban information for the State, districts, tahsils and towns population. India is taking part of a world wide tide of on area, number of occupied residential houses, number urban growth. The 'population explosion' is creating of households, total population sex-wise, scheduled the problem of India's increasing urban numbers and caste population sex-wise, literate and educated persons it i, thus necessary to oversee the trends in urban sex-wise and total workers and non-workers ization, over a period of time, in relativdy larger areas, and the break up of the workers by 9 broad industrial territorial jurisdictions of which remain undisturbed categories. The present volume is coming up over a relatively longer period of time. Table A-V as a Supplement to the aforesaid Report-Part II-A General Population Tables, containing Table A-V which will, therefore, meet a long-felt need of our socio economic scientists, planners, administrators etc. ,embodies the basic data like civic status, area, density of population, occupied residential houses, population of the last two censuses etc. relating to the 12 Standard We are grateful to Shri A. Chandra Sekhar, Regi Urban Areas, demarcated in the State of Punjab, and strar General, India and his successor, Shri R.B. Chari for each of their component units. Primary census data all the help given to us in the completion of tbis project. for each of these units have also been presented. Maps In an equal measure we are indebted to Dr. B. K. Roy of aU the Standard Urban Areas have also been incor Burman, Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies) and porated in this part. Shri K. K. Chakravorty, Assistant Registrar General for their guidance, l1elp and cooperation in their res A new concept that has been developed for the 1971 pective fields in the accomplishment of this task. Our Census for the tabulation of certain urban data is the thanks are also due to the Compilation and Cartogra Standard Urban Area. The essentials and raison phic Sections of our Directorate in the production of detere of a Standard Urban Area have been given this Part and to Shri Gurpartap Singh Srao, Deputy in th~ introductory part. By marking out such Controller of Printing and Stationery, Union Territory Standard Urban Areas, meaningful demographic study Chandigarp_ in arranging for the excellent printing. Chandigarh H.S.KWATRA. 29-1-76 Deputy Director of Census Operations Punjab. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Staff deployed on the preparation of the Tables:- 1. Shri D. P. Jain, Tabulation Officer 2. Shri Vishwa Mitter, Statistical Assistant 3. Shri Pawan Kumar, Computor 4. Shri Vasu Dev, Assistant Compiler 5. Shri Shyam Sunder, Assistant Compiler 6. Shri Satish Kumar. Assistant Compiler 7. Shri Varinder Singh Assistant Compiler MAPS 1. Shri Madhav Shyam, Cartographer 2. Shri Surinderjit Singh, Geographer 3. Shri Gurbachan Singh, Economic Investigator 4. Shri Jiwan Singh Gill. Artist 5. Shri Kulbir Singh, Draftsman PROOF READING 1. Shri Vishwa Mitter, Statistical Assistant 2. Shri H. S. Sudan Comput~r STENOGRAPHER 1. Shri Krishan Chand Pardesi iv CONTENTS Page Preface .. iii Fly-leaf to Table A-V 1 TableA-V 4 Appendix to Table A -V 30 MAPS: Administrative Divisions of State Facing Inner Title. Standard Urban Area Maps of : 1. Batala 83 2. Pathankot 85 3. Amritsar 87 4. Abohar 89 5. Firozpur 91 6. M)ga 93 7. Ludhiana 95 8. Jullundur 97 9. phagwara 99 10. Hoshiarpur 101 11. patiala 103 12. Bhatillda 105 STANDARD URBAN AREAS It was recognized in India as also in various 4. The Standard Urban Area represents the ~tornational forums that the 1 area constituting an "projected growth area" as in 1991 of a city or town 'urban agglomeration'is subject to change from time having a population of 50,000 or more in 1971. The to time depending on the spread of boundaries of the area of each Standard Urban Area has been delineated statutory core urban unit and the;continuous out in such a manner that not only would the towns and growths. A new concept that was developed for the villages get merged into it but so also the inter the 1971 Census, to meet this situation, for the tabu vening areas which are potentially urban. The utility lation of certain urban data is the Standard Urban of this concept lies in the fact that even when statutory Area. The essentials of a Standard Urban limits of existing towns are changed that area will Area are (i) it should have a core town of a minimum remain . a fixed geographical entity. The Standard population size of 50,000 ; (ii) the contiguous areas Urban Areas thus carved by us have clearly demar made up of other urban as well as rural administra cated boundaries with a large core town Ol' a city as tive units should have close mutual socio-economic their nuclei aIongwith the adjoining areas which may inter-dependence with the core town and (iii) the be rural or urban. The Standard Urban Areas usually probabilities are that this entire area will get fully have any or all of the following characteristics : urbanized in a period of three decades. The idea - (a) Permanent urban land use ; behind this is that it should be possible to provide comparable data for a definite area of urbanization (b) Intensive inter-action with the urban centres continuously for three decades which would give a as reflected in commutation for the purposes meaningful and comprehensive picture. of work and secondary education facili ties ; extension of city bus service ; sale of 2. This new concept replaces the concept of commodities like milk, dairy products, 'town group', that was adopted at the 1961 Census. vegetables (other than those transported The 'town group', was made up of independent urban by rail or truck-haul) and purchase of units not necessarily contiguous to one another but food grains, clothes and general provisions were to some extent inter-dependent on the socio etc., by the consumers directly ; economic plane. The data for such "town groups" was rendered incomparable from census to census (c) Anticipated urban growth as a result of as the boundaries of the towns themselves changed locational decisions relating to industry, and the intermediate areas were left out of account.