District Handbook Bilaspur
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HIMACHAL PRADESH DISTRICT HANDBOOK BILASPUR RAM CHANDRA PAL SINGH of the Indian Administrat1ve Service S"petintendent of Census Operations Himachal Pradesh CON'tEN'tS PAGES Preface (ix) Acknowledgement • (xi) Map of the district PART I 1. The district 1-30 Introducing the District, Physical features, District Administration, Popul~- tion, the People, Medical and Publio Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Industries, Communications and Road Development, Local Self Government, Panohayats, Co-operative Societies, Banking, Price Trends, Community Development,. Land Revenue and Land Tenure. 2. Appendix I-Gazetteer of important place names 3 t-33 3. Appendix II-Extra-;ts from PunJab State] Gazetteer, Simla Hills States 3 1-38 4. Appendix III-Punjab States Gazetteers, S~mla Hills States, 1910-Bila"pur State Gazetteer . 3 )-44 5. APP9ndix IV-Flora and Fauna 45-59 6. Appendix V-History of Punjab Hill States by J. Hutchison & J. Ph. Vo;scl GO--68 PART II SERIES I-POPULATION GENERAL POPULATION TABLES Explanatory Notes to Census Table3 69-88 1'1 A-I Area; houses and population 89 1· 2 App. I" Stat~m'ent showing 1951 territorial units ,constituting the present set up of the di~trict . 89-92 1· 3 App. II Numh2r of villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population unde! 5,000 93 1·4 App: III Houseless aud institutional population '93 1·5 A-II yariation in population during the 'sixty years 93 1·6 A-III Villages classified by population 94 1·7 A·iv Towns (and town-groups) olassified by, population in 1961 with variation since 1941 94 GENERAL ECONOMIC TABLES 1· 8 B-I Workers and Non -Workers olassified by sex and broad age-:_groups " 95-96 1· 9 B-III Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by eduoational-levels III Part A urban areas only • 97-98 1·10 B-III Industrial classifioation of workers and non-workers by educational levels in Part B rural areas only 99-100 1·11 'B-IV Industrial classification by sex an<! class of workers· of persons at work at house- Part A hold, industry ~ 101-102 1·12 B-IV Indus,trial classification by sex and class of workers of persons at worlf in non- Part B household-industry, trade, business, profession or ~crvice . 103-105 1·13 B-IV Industrial classification by sex and divisions, major groups and minor groups of Part C persons !lot work other than cultivation . 106-109 1·14 B-V Occupational classification by sex of persons a't work otKer than cultivation 110-119 M/B(D)13HPGovt-2 (i) • ~AIjE l'llS B-VI Oocupational divi3iom of persons at work other than cultivation classified by aex, broad age-groups and educational levels in urban areas only . 120-]22 1·16 B-VII Pers~ms working principally (i) as oultivators (ii) as agricultural labourers or Part A (iii) at household industry classified by sex and by seconriary work (i) at house hold industry (ii) as cultivator or (iii) 35 agriculturallabomer . 123 ]24 1·17 B-VII Industrial classification by sex of persons working in non-household industry, Part B tra.de, business, profession or service who are also engaged in household in dustry 125-127 1·18 B-VIII Persons ~nemployed aged 15 and above by sex, broad age-groups and educational Part A levels in urban areas only 128- -129 1·19 B VIII Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex and educational levels in "ural Part B areas only ]30 1·20 B-IX Persons not at work classified by sex, broad age-groups and type of activity 13]--132 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC TABLES 1·21 B-X Sample households (i) engaged neither in cultivation nor household industry (ii) engaged either in oultivation or household industry but not in be th and (iii) engaged both in cultivation and household industry for all areas 133 1·22 B-XI Sample households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in rural and urban areas separately 133 1·23 B-XII Sample households engaged in cultivation only classified by size of land cultivat ed and number of family workers and hired workers in rural and urban areas separately 134-135 1·24 B-XIII Sample households engaged both in cultivation and household industry show ing size of land cultivated classified by principal household industry in rural and urban areas separately . 136-137 1·25 B-XIV Sample homeholds engaged only in household industry classified by principal Part A household industry in all areas-Households classified by major groups of principal household industry and nurnper of persons engaged ]38 1·26 B-XIV Sample households enga.ged only in household industry classified by principal Part B household industry in all ar2a'3-Households classified by minor groups of principal householc!..industry . 139 1·27 B-XV Sample households enga.gad both in cultivation and household industry classified by size of land in rural and urban areas separately 140-143 1·28 B-XVI Sample principal household industry classified by period of working and total number of workers engaged in household industry in all areas 144--152 1·29 B XVII Sample households, classified by (i) number of male a:ld female members by size of households and (ii) engagement (a) neither in cultivation nor in indus try (b) in household industry only and (c) in cultivation sub-classified by size ofland cultivated 153-154 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES 1·30 C-I Size & Composition of sample households 155 1·31 C-II Age and marital status ]56-158 1·32 C-III Ag'3, sex and education in all areas 159 Part A 1·33 C-III Age, sex and education in urban areas only 160 Part B l' 34 C-HI Age, sex and edurst;on in rural areM only • 161 Part C (iii) PAGES 1·34 C-V Mother-tongue (alphabetical order) ]62- 165 ] '35 C VII Religion . ] 66 1·36 C-VIII Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes- -Classification by literary and industrial Part A category of workers and non-workers among soheduled oastes ] 67 1·37 C-VIII Scheuuled castes and scheduled tribes-Classification by literacy and industrial Part B category of workers and non-workers among soheduled tribes ] 68 HOUSING TABLES 1·38 E-I Census houses and the uses to which they arc put 169 1·39 E-II Tenure status of sample census households living in Cen'lU3 houses used wholly or partly as dwelling; IG9 1·40 E-III Census houses used as factories awl workshop3 classified by industry, power and no power used and size of employment . 170 -174 1·41 E-IV Distribution of Rample households living in oensus houl:les used wholly or partly as dwelling by predominant material of wall and predominant material of roof 175 1·42 E-V Sample houseliolds classified by l1umbllr of 1U0mbers and by number of rooms occupied 175 SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCBEDFLED TRIBES 1·43 SCT-I Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sex for scheduled Parts A & B castes and scheduled tribes ]70- ·183 1·44 SCT-II Age and marital status for scheduled castes and soheduled tribes ]84 -191 Parts A & B 1· 45 SCT-III Education in urban areas only for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes 192 - ]94 Part A 1·46 SCT-III Education in Rural areas only for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes 195 lU7 Part B 1·47 SCT-IV Religion for scheduled tribes 198 Parts A & B 1·48 SCT-V Sample households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size Parts A & B of land cultivated in Rural areas only for 8cheduled castes and ~cheduled tribes 199 1·49 SC-I Persons not at work classified by sex, type of activity and educational levels for scheduled castes . 200 ·201 1·50 ST-1 Mother Tongue and Bi-lingualism for scheduled tribes. 202 1·51 ST·II Persons not at work classified by sex and type of activity for soheduled tribes 203 PAltT III SERIES 2-PRICES OF STAPLE FOOD 2·1 Whole ,ale prices of staple..food stuffR month by month, 1956-60 207-210 SERIES 3- -VITAL STATISTICS 3·1 Birth record, 1951-52 to 1960-61 211 3·2 Death registered from various oauses, 1951-52 to 1960-61 211 {iv} SERIES 4-AGRICULTURE 4·1 Rainfall and ra.iny days, 1954-60 2]2-216 4·2 Normals of rainfall . 216 4'3 Mean maximum and highest, mean minimum and lowest temperatures, 1956-60 4·4 Normals of temperature and relative humidity 217-220 4·5 Number of foggy days and number of days with snow, 1956-60 221 4·6 Number of days with thunder and dust storm, 1956-60 222 4·7 Mean wind speed, 1956-60 222 4·8 Land utilisation statistics, 1931-61 . 223 4·9 Area under different crops, 1931-1961 224-226 4·10 Production of different orops, 1951-1960 227 4·11 Gross irrigated area (source-wise) 1931-1961 228 4·12 Gross irrigated area (crop-wise), 1931-1961 228 4·13 Souroes of irrigation, 1951-1960 229 4·a Medium and minor irrigation projects . 229 4·15 Yield rates of principal crops, 1953-60 230-231 4·16 Agricultural wages, 1956-60 232-233 4·17 Crop cutting experiments . 234-236 4,·18 Progress report of silt ob ;ervation laboratories in Bhakra Catchment Areas 237-239 4·19 Gratuitous relief provided by the Revenue Department from 1955-56 to 1960-61 240 SERIES 5-INDUSTRY 5·1 Growth of factories, 1959-60 240 5·2 Labour working in factories, 1959-60 .