Census of India 19B I
Series-3Z Union Territorg. of Pondicherrg
·DISTRICT CENSUS HAND ·BOOK Parts XIII A & B Village & Town Directory and Pnmary Census Abstract
P. L. SAMY 01 tke Illdian Administrative Sen ice Director of,.ens.s Operatins POJld icherrq
UNION TERRI TORY OF PONDICHERRY
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CENSUS OF INDIA 1981
LlST OF PUBLICATIONS
Central Government Publications-Cen~us of India 1981-:Series ·32_:_Union Territory of Pondkherry is being published in the following parts:
S1. Part Subject covered No. No.
1. I-A Administration Report-Enumer.a.tion (For office use only).
2. I-B Administration Re 4. U-B General Population Tables-Primary Censu~ Abstract. 5. III-A General Economic Tabks. 6. Jll-B do. 7. JV-A Social and Cultural Tables. 8. IY-B do. 9. V-A Migration Tables. 10. V-B do. 11. VI-A Fertil,ity Tables. 12. VI-B do. 13. VII Tables on Houses and Disabled popula.tion. 14. VII I-A Household Tables. 15. VIll-B do. 16. VlfI-C do. 17. IX Special Tables on Scheduled Castes and Schedl,lled Trjbe~. 18. X-A Town Directory, Survey Reports on Towns and Villages. 19. X-B do. 20. x-c do. 21. XI Ethnographic Notcs and Special Studies on ~.edllled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. 22. XII Census Atlas. 23. XlH-A* Distl'ict Census Handbook-Village and Town Directory. 24. XIII-B* District Census Handbook:,:-Primary Census Abstra.ct...... Present Publication, . CONTENTS PAGE Pondicherry Union Territory Map Frontispiece. Foreword (i) Preface (iii) Important Statistics (iv) Analytical Note Inset Tables PART XIIl-A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY Section-I Village Directory Notations used in Village Directory 115 Pondicherry District Ariankuppam Commllne 117 Ozhukarai Commune 120 Karaikal District TirunaJ.lar Commune 154 Neravy Commune 160 Nedungadu Commune 163 Kottucherry Commune 168 Tirumalairayanpattinam Commune 171 Appendix (I) Communewise Abstract of educational, medical and other amenities 174 Appendix (If) , Land utilisation data in respect of Non-Municipal Towns (Census Towns) 176 Appendix (Ill) COl1lmunewise list of villages where no amenities are available 176 Appendix (IV) List of villages according to t'he proportion of Sched'uled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to the totaJ population by ranges. A. Scheduled Castes B. Scheduled Tribes 177 Mahe Disldct Mahe Commune 181 Appendix ({) Communewise Abstract of eduCiational, medical and other amenities 184 Appendix (II) Land utilisation data. in respect of Non-Municipal T(ml1s (Cen",ns Towns) 184 Appendix (I i l) COll1mu!1eVvi~ list of villages where no amenities are available 184 Appendix (IV) Li'>t of villages aGcorjing to the proportion of Scheduled Ca<;te::. and Scheduled Tribes to the tot.al population by ranges. A. Scheduled Castes B. Scheduled Tribes 185 YaG::tm District Nil Section-II Town Directory Notations used in To,,(·n Directory 186 Statement I Status and Growth History 188 Statement II Physical Aspech apd 1 >:;ation of Towns. J 979 190 Statement III Municipal Finance-1978-79 191 Statement IV Civic and Other amenities, 1979 193 Statement IV-A Ci"ic and Other amenities in Noti.ned slums, 1979 194 Statement V Medical. Ed ucational, Recreationat and Cultural Fal;ilities, 1979 195 Statement V[ Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking. 1979 197 Appendix. to Town Directory 199 PART XIII~R PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT Pondicheny State Primary Census Abstract 201 Pondicherry District Primary Censm Abstract 204- Urban Primary Census Abstract-Pondicherry 208 Urban PrimalY Census Abstract-Ozhukarai 212 Urban Primary Census Abstract-Kurumbapet 214 \ Appendix-Pondicherry Urban 215 Location Code Numbers for Urban blocks and their jurisdiction-Ponc!ichercy Urban 224 Appendix-Ozhukarai Urban 241 Location Code Numbers for Urban blocks and their jurisdiction-Ozhukzarai Urban Appendix.-Kurumbapet Urban. ~ .. 253 Location Code Nl1mbers for Urban 'blpcks and their juri:.dicti.on-Kurumbapet Urban 253 Village Primary CensLls Abstract-Ariankuppalll 254 Village Primary Census Abstract-Ozhukarai 256 Village Primary Census Abstract-Man.nadipet 257 Village Prj ma~j Census Abstract-Vit1ianur 261 ViIlag" Pri'n!ll'Y Censu') Ab3tract-Bahour , . 265 ,village '"Pri mary C~IlS.US Ab'>i racl-:-Nettapa kkam 269 Kar;;ik.·t[ Di-;l .. ict Pril11cvj O~nsL\s Ab;;tract 271 Urban Pri'n;uy Cen~us Abstract-Karaikal 274 •.Appendlx-J(araikal Urban 276 LXJ.tiOIl Code Num.bers for Urban b\o'.=.k; <\nu their jllfisdictiol1-Karaikal Urban .. 279 Village PrimJiry Census Absi ract-TirU'l,tllar 285 Village Primary Census Ab~tract-Neravy .. 289 Village Prim'lry Cel1~l!s Abstract-Nedungadu 291 Village Primary Ceilsus AbstracL-Kottlucherry 295 VjlJag~ Pri:narj Cen:.us Abst~aCl: - Trumalajrayanpattjnm 297 Mahe District Primary O~n~us Abstr3c 298 Urban Pri'nary CC,lSUS Abstract-Mahe 300 Ap~ndix__:_Mahe Urball 301 LOC'::ltion Cod,'. Numbers for Urban blocks ;].nd their jurisdiction-Mahe Urban 302 Village Primary Cellsm' Abstract-Mahe 303 Yanam District Primary Census Abstract 304 Vrban Primary Census Abstract-Yanam 306 Appendix-Yana'11 Urban 308 LO,).'ltion Code Numbers for Urban blocks and their jurisdiction-Yanam Urban 310 SCHEI)UI,RD CASTES PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT Pondicherry State Primary Cens.us Abstract (SC) .. 31l Pondicherry District Primary Census Abstract (SC) 314 Karaikal District Pr{mary Ceno;us Abstract ( SC) 318 Mahe DistriCt Primary Census Abstract (SC) 321 Yanam District Primary Census Abstract (SC) 322 MAPS Maps in Section-I (Village Directory) PONDICHERRY DISTRICT Pondicherry District Ariankuppam Commune Ozhukarai Commune Mannadipet Commune ViUianur Commune Bahour Commune Nettapakkam Commune KARAIKAL DISTRICT Karaikal District Tirunallar Commune Neravy Commune Neduogadu Commune Kottucherry Commune Tiru malairayanpattinam Commune MAHE DISTRICT Mahe District.. Mahe. Commune . Maps in Section-II. (Town Directory) Pondicher-ry Municipality Karaikal Municipality Yanam FOREWORD The district census handbook (DCH), compiled in broad ranges from the nearest place where' by the Census' Organisation on behalf of the the amenity is available may be given. The State Governments, is one of the most valuable, restructuring of the format of the village direc products of the Census. The DCH is constant tory and incorp6rating more exhaustive data on ly referred to by planners, administrators, infrastructure aspect particularly in relation to academicians and researchers. It is inter alia amenities and land-use pattern is expected to used for delimitation of constituencies, formu further meet the need of micro level planning lation of local level and regional plans and as for rural areas. It is expected to help not only an aid to district administration. The district in local area planning but regulating the provi census handbook is the only publication which sion of goods and services as well so as to provides Primary Census Abstract (PCA) data minimise the regional imbalances in the process upto village level for th~ rural areas and of development.· A few new items of informa wardwise for each city or town. It also pro tion have also been introduced to meet some vides data on infrastructure and amenities in of the requirements of the Revised Minimum villages and towns, etc. Needs Programme. Such new items of infor mation· as adult literacy centres, primary health The district census handbook series was sub-centres and community health workers in initiated during the 1951 Census. It contained the village have beel\- introduced in the village important census tables and PCA for each directory with this objective in mind. The new village and town of the district. During 1961 item on approach to the village is to have an Census the scope of the DCH was enlarged and idea about the villages in the district which are it contained a descriptive account of the district, inaccessible. A new column, "total population administrative statistics, census tables and a .and number of households" has been introduced village and town directory, including PCA. The to examine the correlation of the amenities 1971 nCR series was planned in three parts. with the population and number of households Part-A related to village and town directory, they serve. Addition of two more appendices Part-B to village and town PCA and Part-C listing the villages where no amenities are comprised analytical report, administrativ~ available and according to the proportion of statistics, district census tables and certain scheduled caste and scheduled tribe population analytical tables based on PCA and amenity to the total population has also been made with data in respect of villages. However, in some this view in mind. states it was confined to district census tables and in a few cases altogether given up due to The formats of the town directory have also delay' in compilation and printing. . been modified to meet the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme by providing in 'While designing the format of 1981 DCH formation on a few new items. A new state series some new features along with the re- ~ ment on civic and other amenities in slums in structuring of the formats of village and town Class-I and Class-II towns (Statement IV-A) directory have been attempted. At the same has been introduced with this objective in 1llind. time, comparability with the 1971 data has It is expected that this will help the planners also been kept in view. All the amenities to chalk out programmes on provision of civic _ except power supply in the village have been amenities for the improvement of slums. The brought together in the village directory with columns on Scheduled Castes ,and Scheduled the instruction~liat in case an amenity" is not Tribes population in Statement IV relating to available in the referrant village the distance civic and other amenities and adult literacy .(i) classes/centres under educational. facilities in data in rflation to the infrastructure has been Statement V are also added inter alia with this introduced to enhance its value. The district view. A significant addition is class of town in and Tahsil/Police' Station/C. D. Block etc., level all the seven statements of the town directory. maps depictiI~g th~ boundaries and other The infrastructure of amenities in urban areas important features hcrve been inserted ,at ap of the country can be best analysed by taking propriate places, to further enhance the value the class of towns into consideration. The of the publication. addition of the columns on civic administration status and population in a few statements also This publication is a joint venture of the State serves this purpose. Government and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected ~nd compiled in the State under the direction of Shri P. L, Samy The format of'the primary census abstract LA. S" Director of C:;ensus Operations, for the villages and towns has been formrllated Pondlcherry on behalf of the State Govern in the light of changes in the economic and ment which has borne the cost of printing, The other questions canvassed through the indi task of planning, designing and coordination of vidual slip of 1981 Censlls. this publication was carried out by Shri N. G, Nag, Deputy Registrar General (Social In order to avoid delay in publication of Studies) of my office. Dr. B. K. Roy, 'Deputy 1981 DCH series it has been 'so designed that Registrar General (~ap) provided the technical Part-A of the volume contains village and guidance in the preparation of the maps. Data town directory and Part-B, ~e . PCA of received from Census Directorates have been villages and towns including the Scheduled scrutinised in the Social Studies Division at the Castes and Scheduled Tribes PCA upto Tahsil/ headquarters under the guidance of Town levels. At the beginning of the DCH a Shri M. 1v1. Dua, Senior Research Officer. I am detailed analytical note supported by a number thankful to all who have contributed in this of inset tables based on PCA and non-census project. New Delhi, P. PADMANABHA, the 26th April, 1982. Registrar General, India. (ii) PREFACE The practice of publishing the district census is however, no tribe scheduled for the Union handbook for the Union. Territory of Territory of PondicQerry as per the Presidential Pondicherry started in 1961. This is the 3rd such Order. For the firSt time in the Census tradi issue and besides population data, certain ad tion a separate scheduled caste - primary ministrative statements are included in this census abstract has been prepared - commune volume so that this may be of use to variou's level for rural areas and town level for urban central and state government departments areas - and appended in this volume. A state besides research scholars. As before, the ment containing the jurisdiction of each u:cban district census handbook contains 2 parts viz., . block is also appended for each town. The Part A-Village & town directory and Part B primary census' abstract contains particulars -Primary Census abstract in one single volume. such as area, occupied residential houses, house holds,' sex-wise population, scheduled caste This volum~ contains the particulars of aU population, literacy position, number of workers, the 4 districts viz., fondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe their distribution as cultivators, agricultural and Yanam which comprise the union territory. labourers, those engaged in household industry, other workers, marginal workers and non In the village directory basic information per workers. It may be noted that the incluslon of taining to villages such as educational, medical, particulars of marginal workers in the district drinking water supply, power supply, commU census handbook is a new phenomenon for the nications, post and telegraphs, availability of current census. Besides population particulars, market/hat, staple food besides land-use parti the district maps and commune/municipality culars. etc. are furnished. In the town directory maps are also furnished. information in respect of the towns viz., their classification, status, growth, history, The particulars other than population detail5 physical aspects, municipal finance, civic and presented in this volume had been obtained other amenities besides availability of medical, from the concerned departments of Pondicherry educational, recreational, cultural facilities and state administration. trading activities are furnished. This volume has been prepared under the In the Primary Census abstract part, popQla directions and guidance of Shri D. Sant~am, tion particulars for each village and town are given. In respect of towns, data., are presented B. Sc.. Assistant Director of Census Operations. for each recognised ward. However, an appendix containing urban enumeration block I am thankful to .Shri P. Padmanabha, 1. A. S., wise particulars of scheduled caste population Registrar General, India for his able guidance in and total population are also furnished. There continuing this publication during 1981 Census. P. L. SAMY, Director of Census Operations, Pondicherry. (iii) IMPORTANT STATISTICS. Union Territory District- District- District- District- Pondicherry Pondicherry Karatkal Mahe Yanam Population Total Persons 604,471 444,417 120,010 28,413 11,631 Males. 304,501 226,041 ' 59,367 13,260 5,893 Fl.-males .. 299,910 218,37.6 60,643 15,153 5,738 Rural Persons .. 288,424 192,997 76,602 18,825 Males 145,922 99,044 38,089 8,789 Females .. 142,502 93,953 38,513 10,036 Url-an Persons· .' 316,047 251,420 43,408 9,588 11,631 Males 158,639 126,997 21,278 4,47 1 5,893 ,Females .. 157,408 124,423 22,130 5,117 5,738 Decennial population growth rate 1971-1981 28.15 30.62 19.96 22.82 40.28 Area (Sq. Kms) 492.00 293.00 160.00 9.00 30.00 Density of population (Per Sq.Km.) 1,229 1,517 750 3,157 388 Sex ratio (Number of females per 1,000 males) 985· 966 1,021 1,143 974 Literacy rate Persons " 55.85 54.69 56.43 74.11 49.57 Males 65.84 65.06 67.09 78.02 55.90 Females .. 45.71 43.97 46.00 7.7fY 43.08 Percentage of urban population to total population 52.28 56.57 36.17 33.75 100.00 Percentage to total population : i) Main workers . Persons .. 28.66 29.01 29.08 19.61 33.20 Males 46.02 45.89 48.55 34.93 50.70 Females .. 11.03 11.54 10.03 6.21 J5.21 ii) Marginal workers Persons .. 1.75 1.44 3.20 0.89 0.78 Males 1.06 1.09 0.97 1.37. 0.22 Females .. 2.45 1.80 5.38 1).48 1.36 iii) Non-workers Persons .. 69.59 (1).55 67.72 79.50 66.02 Males 52.92 53.02 50.48 " 63.70 49.08 Females .. 86.52 86.66 84.59 93.31 83.43 (iv) IMPORTA_NT STATISTICS-concld. Break-apofMain Workers: Union Terirtory- District- District- District- District- ~e among main workers Pondicherry Pondicherry Karaikal Mahe Yanam j) Cultivators Persons 9.14 9.32 9.66 1.33 10.66 Males 10.58 to.87 10.75 1.40 12.78 Females .. 3.07 2.91 4.48 0.96 0.46 ii) Agricultural Labourers Persons 31.47 29.84 40.54 8.97 36.03 Males 25.64 23.36 36.67 6.98 27.18 Females 56.16 56.54 58.92 18.81 66.32 iii) Household Industry Persons 2.32 2.60 1.14 3.46 1.81 Males 2.02 2.32 0.92 2.44 1.91 Females 3.56 :'.77 2.20 8.50 1.49 , iv) Other Workers Persons .57.07 58.24 48.65 86.23 52.16 Males 61.76 63.45 51.66 89.18 58.13 Females 37.11 36.78 34.40 '1.71 31.73 Percentage of Scbeduled Castes population to total population ; Persons 15.99 16.66 16.65 0.26 21.90 Males .16.16 16.68 17.16 0.27 21.86 Females 15.81 16.64- 16.16 0.24 21.9~ Percentage of Scbeduled Tribes population to total population .. : Persons Males Females Number of occupied residential houses : "1 • ~ 107,185 78,356 22,860 3,861" 2,108 ..,' Number of villages; Total 292 179 110 3 Inhabited 291 179 109 3 U'1inhabited Number of towns : 6 3 ~- "No tribehas been Scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Presidential Order. (v) ANAL, YTICAL NOTE I. CENSUS CONCEPTS The' following will broadly define the concepts is identified. Therefore, it may not be appro used in this pUblication: priate to treat such areas lying outside the statutory limits of a town as rural Rur91-Urban classi&eation: units; at the same time each such area may not qualify to be an independent urban unit. Such The village or town is recognis~ as the basic areas deserve to be reckoned alongwith the main area of 'habitation. The population is generally town and the continuous spread including such classified into 2 permanent groups viz., rural urban outgrowths would deserve to be treaied and urbNL ,There is no distinct dividing line as an integrated urban area which was being lJeIt_lI' the two. ' identified as urban agglomeration for the first '~~J'( .;'~I>.. . time during 1971 CensUs. This concept has ,. Ita','.1 Census, a strict and uniform definition been adopted for 1981 Census too. The -differ ..., 'urban area was adopted and this has been ent situations in which the urban agglomera followed for 1971 and 1981 Censuses also. The tions would be constituted are as follows :- definition is given below:- (a) a city with a continuous outgrowt:, (the part of outgrowth being outside the (a) All places with a municipality, corpora statutory limits but falling with their tion" cantonment. cantonment-board or boundaries of the adjoining village or notified town area; villages) ; (b) All other places which satisfy the follow (b) one town with a similar outgrowth or two I ing criteria:- or more adjoining towns with their out growths as indicated in (a) above; .·~i) a minimum population of 5,000; (ii) at l.east 75% of male working population (c) a city or one or more adjoining towns . engaged in non-agricultural pursuits; with their outgrowths all of which form a • continuous spread. (iii) a density of population of at least 400 per sq. km. (i. e., 1,000 per sq. mile) Building: The Directors were however, given some dis A building is generally a single structure on cretion in respect of some marginal cases in the ground. Sometimes it i.s made up of more consultation \\1.th the state administration to than one component unit. which are used or Lkely to be used as dwelling (residence) or include some places which had other d~stinct urban characters and to exclude undes'2rving establishment such as shops, business hou1(s, , cases. cffices, factories, worksheds, schools, placef£ of entertainment, places of worship, godowns, Urban' agglomeration: stores, etc. Buildings which have component umts may be used for a combination of purposes In several area~ fairly large colonies might such as shop-cum-residence, workshop-cum have come up around a core city or a statutory res:dence. office-cum-residence, etc. town, though these may be outside the statu Series of different buildings which are joined . tory limits of a corporation, municipality or with one another by common walls on either cantonment. They fall within the revenue side and looking like a continuous structure are bOundary of the place by which the town itself in fact different units practically independent of one another and hence they are separate bUild room, etc., ~lthough the huts are separate ings. Further, a conical roofed structure almost structures they should be collectively regarded touching the ground without any wall, but with as a si.ngle census house. However, the huts an entrance will qualify to be ident~ijed as a which are used as cattle sp_ed, workshed, etc., by building. Open sites, even if. they are enclosed the household should be regarded as separa.te by a combined wall, will not be listed for census houses. census purposes. Pump houses, temples and other similar Census house: structures which are not very small and where people can live in \vill be treated as separate A Census house IS a building or part of a census houses. building having a separate main entrance from the road or common courtyard or staircase, etc., Household: used or recognised as a separate unit. It may either be occupied or vacant. It may be used A household is a group of persons who com for a residential or non-residential purpose or monly live together and \~lould take their food both. from a common kitchen unless the exigencies af work prevented them from doing so. It may If a building has a number of blocks or fiats be made up of related or unrelated which are independent of one another having . persons or a mix of both. A cook or a servant separate entrances of their own from the road or or a driver living in the house of the employer a common staircase or a commOn courtyard and taking his food there is part of that house leading to a main gate, they will be considered hold. Hostels, boarding houses, rescue homes, as separate census houses. jails, ashrams, etc., are examples of unrelated households and are known as institutional If a fiat has 3 rooms each room having direct households. entrance to the common staircase or courtyard and occupied by a single household then apply The important link to find out whether a group ing the general definition, these 3 rooms should of persons belong to a household or not is a not be treated as 3 Census houses but oonsiderin$" common kitchen. If a group of persons unrelat the singleness of use of these rooms, they should ed to each other live in a census house but do all be treated as a single census house. On the not share their food from a common kitchen, contrary if 2 independent households occupied then they would not constitute ftn institutional these rooms, first household living in 2 rooms household but each person will qualify to be and second household liv;ng in one room, then identified as a separate household. in consideration of the use of the rooms, the first 2 rooms should be counted as one Census Houseless household: .house and the third room as another census· In addition to enumeration of all nersons in hou~e. In case each room is occupied by an all households living in census housc·s, the independent household then each such loom census-count should cover houseless population should be treated as a separate census house. also. They are likely to live on the road sides, pavements, in the hume-pipes under staircases in the case of hostels, hotels, lodging houses, or in the open. temple mandapams, platforms etc.; even if the door of each room in which an and the' like. The nomadic population erecting i.nmate Eves opens to a common courtyard, their own tents in the open are also to be verandah, staircase if. a common :oom, as i~' ('overed under the houseless population. happens 21most invanably, the entire hostel/ hotel/lodging house should be treated as a single cenStls. house. Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes: If a 'jTOUP of huts located in a compound, The Constltution of India has provided safe \rhether enclosed or. not, is occupied by a single guards to certain weaker sections of the popu~ household used for sleeping, as a kitchen. bath- lvVon. Article 46 of th~ Constitution lays down 2 that the state shall promote with special care literate. A formal educatiqn or attainment of the educational and economic interest of the minimum ,educational standard is not necessary weaker sections of the people and in particular for classifying a person to be a literate. of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and shall protect them from social injustice and all All children of the age of 4 years or less forms of exploitation. Later in article 341 & should be regarded as illiterates although the 342 of the Constitution the President of India children .may be going to school and may have was empowered to specify the list of scheduled picked up reading and writing a few odd words. castes and scheduled tribes in each state and Main workers: ul}ion territory. Under these prOVISiOns scheduled castes and scheduled tribes are listed Participation in any economically productive u~der a Pres~dential Order for each st~te or activity is defined as work; such' participation local area. Only these communities are entitled may be physical or mental in nature. Work in to be' enumerated as scheduled caste or scheduled volves not only actual but also effecHve super tr~be in these areas at a census. visioi1 and direction of work. Therefore, a v,rorker is a person whose ma:n activity'is par In this union territory there are only ticipation :n any economically productive work scheduled castes and there are no scheduled by his physical or mental activity. tribes. According to 'l:he Presidential Order, ,. no person who professed a religion other than The reference period, for reckoning a person hinduism or si.khism could b2 deemed to be a to be a worker or not, is one year preceding the member of a scheduled caste. The following is date of enumeration. If a person had worked the list of 15 scheduled castes in respect of this for major part of the year i. e., for 183 days or union territory ii.1dicated in . the Constitution more he will be identified as a worker in that (Pondicherry) Scheduled Castes Order, 1964:- activity; if, however, he is engaged m more than one activity during that period then he (i) Adi Andhra will be considered as a worker in the activity (ii) Adi Dravida in which he had engaged himself fOJ' more time during that period; the other activity will be (iii} Chakkiliyan his secondary work. (iv) Jambuv\llu If a person has not at all worked during the (v) Kuravan, Sidhanar year, then he will be classified as a non-worker. (vi) Madiga The activities of work can broadly be classi (vii) Mala, Mala Masti ;led as follows:;- (viii) Paky (ix) Pallan (i) cultivator; (x) Paraiyan, Parayan, Sambavar (ii) agricultural labourer; (xi) Samban (iii) partic~pation in household industry; (xii) Thoti (iv) other workers. (xiii) Valluvan i)fRrginal worker: (xiv) Vetan If a person. has not worked for major part of (xv) Vettiyan the year but worke~l for some time, then h2 will. ce ident~fied as a marginal worker in that Literacy: acLvity. A person who can both read and write with : 4 village in rural areas and only within the during the reference period of one year wili precincts of the house where the household be classified as having been engaged in house lives in urban areas. Such industries which hold duties. are unregistered under the Indian Factories Act alone are qualified to be identified as (ii) Students.-All full .time students and household industries. A person whose main children attending school come under this activity is engagement in some production, category. However, if a student participates processing, servicing or repair of articles or in some economically productive work, then goods such as handloom weaving, dyeing, car he will primarily be treated as a worker. pentry, beedi rolling, pottery manufacture, Further, all children upto 4 years are to be bicycle repairing. black-smithy, tailoring, etc., treated as dependents although they are put as household industry, then he will be treated in schools. as a per-son engaged in household industry. (iii) Dependents.-Infants or children not (iv) Other workers.-All workers who have attending schools or a person permanently been engaged in some economic activity· disabled from work due to illness or old age during the refe.rence period of one year but and even able-bodied persons who do not who are not cultivators or agricultural perform any . work but are depending on labourers or associated in household industry others for livelihood are classified as dep~n . are other workers., i. e. other workers con- dents. stitute those engaged in- (iv) Retired persons or rentiers :-A person (a) Livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, who is retired from service and is not employ and plantations, orchards and allied ed again in any work or one who is thriving activities. on rents received from buildings, et~., is to be classified ,as a retired person or rentier. (b) Mining and quarrying. (c) Manufacturing, processing, servicing (v) Beggars.-This will cover beggars, and repairs - other than household vagrants or those without indication of source industry. of income or with unspecified source of sub sistence. (d) Constructions (e) Trade and commerce. (vi) Inmates of institutions.-Convicts of jails or inmates of penal, mental or charitable (f) Transport, storage and communications institutions, although they are compelled to (g) Other services. do some work, are inmates. of institutions . • Non-workers can be-defined as follows:- (vii) Other non-workers.-All non-workers who do not come under any of the above 6 (i) Household duties.-All persons who are categories will be included in this category. engaged in unpaid home duties and who do Those who seek any employment will be a no other work or having done any work at all non-worker under this section. 5 II. HISTORY OF THE DISTRICTS General: Onion in 1948 after a referendum conducted in October that year and de jure became part of The Union territory of Pondicherry com India with the status of a district within the prises of the former French establishments of State of West Bengal in 1952. Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam which lie scattered in South India. Pondichefry, the On 1st' November 1954, the French govern capital of the territory was once the original ment transferred the other four enclaves to the headquarters of the French in India. Indian Union under a de ,faCto' treaty. :But, t'he ratification of the Treaty of. Cession was delay Historical researches go to show that trade ed and ultimately the territory was merged contact existed 'between the Romans and the with the Indian Union on 16th August 1962. inhabitants in the Pondicherry area in the long ~ven during the de facto period, the representa centuries of the Christian era. The Pallavas tive institutions established by the French who might have ruled this tetritory between the government continued to function in this terri 5th and 8th centuries A. D. were succeeded by tory. . Elections on adult franchise basis were the Cholas, w.!tose prosperous and glorious held in 1955 and 1959 under the State of reign has left their definite and indelible marks Pondicherry (Represeritation of the People) by way of inscriptions on stones, temples "!nd Order, 1955. This Order prescribed the rules archi.tectural monuments. The F'rench like the and regulations for the conduct of elections Portuguese, the Dutch and the B:itish had more or less on the pattern in the Union. Since established their markets at Surat on 'West sovereignty still vested with the French govern Coast in, the 17th century. Their trade wa:s pro ment, both citizens of India and citizens of F'rance were erititi~d to vote. The, erstwhile spetou:s arid each foreign po'W~r was on the lookout {Cif.- expanSIon. The French traders' F'rench establishments in India' were were arranging to open their depot at Ma:stili constituted' into Union Territory of patnam in 1670 when, the Governor of Gudaloor. Pondicherry under the Constitution (Fourteenth Chirkan Lody extended an official invitation to Amendinent) Act, 1962. For the proper admi nistration of the territory, the Parliament ! them "to come to settle in his government where. there are good cloth-manufacturers". On enacted the Pondicherry (Administration) Act, the 4th February, 1673. they landed at· 1962. The people aspired for a popular govern ment and accordingly the Parliament enacted Pondicherr~. Thus began the occupation of French in Pondicherry. The British and the the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 Dutch were also running their depots nearby. and it came into force on 1st July 1963. This In course of time the Dutch left the scene a:i::td territory was given a popular government with the subsequent recorded history unfolds how elected legislature and responsible government the French supremacy held sway over a great through the Council of ministers. In short, the part of India, south of the 1)eccan ahd under pattern of government prevailing in the rest of went rises and falls in fortunes. culminating in India was introduced in this territory subject the Treaty of Paris 1815, demarcating the five to certain limitations. ' major pockets, viz., Pondicherry, Karaikal. The detailed historical account in respect of Mahe. Yanam and Chandernagore and about eac.11 district is as follows:- ten 'loges' (market place) as being the terri tories left for governance by the' French Pondicherry : adm:~nistration. The peri plus of tHe Erythrean sea written in Chandernagore, a small area in West Bengai the first century A. D. and the second century near Calcutta merged de faCto with Indian Geography of Ptolemy mention 'Poduke' as a 6 port town on the coromandel coast. The iden pakkam, Olandai, Pakkamudaiyanpet and Karu tification of a Roman trading centre in the vadikuppam to the French: In 1701 the French immediate vicinity of Pondicherry adds weight government at Paris recognised the importance to the equation of 'Poduke' with Pondicherry. of Pondicherry town and established' a sover Although this equation has been suggested by eign counsel to aid and advise them in the more than one writer, the equation of 'Poduke' administration of the colony. Francois Martin with 'Puduvai' the name by which the town was the virtual builder of Pondicherry town was known in the early days, seems to be more in a span of 33 years of his administra acceptable. tion here. In 1740, Pondicherry provide,d asylum to the royal refugees of the ruler of According to tradition, the town was once the Karnatic when Marattas invaded him. upon a time an abode of scholars well versed in Consequentially, the Marattas attacked the the vedas and hence came to be known as French for this gesture but got defeated. Vedapuri. Interestingly, during the days of In- gratification of the gesture, the sur- Ottakoothar and Kambar in the 11th and 12th o vivors of the Karnatic dynasty gifted centuries, Puducheri is said to have been known Ariankuppam, Theduvanatham, and Villianur in its shortened form as 'Puthuvai'. The hindus to the French. are understood to have called the town Puthuvai or Puthucceri while the musalmans called it Dupleix became Governor of French posses Pulcheri. sions in India on 15_:_1-1742 and brought Madras also under French control in September The Portugese 'Puducheira' became the 1746; Madras was under French regime for Danish 'Polesere' and the butch 'Pollochire' but 30 years from then. The attack of Pondicherry it was the French merthants of St. Male who by the Britishers in 1748 failed~ Dupleix's mixed up the 'U' for 'N' and' transformed help to Chanda Sahib and Musafer Jung in 1750 'Pouducheri' into 'Pondicheri'. This district added Villianur and 36 village group of assumed the name Pondicherry in due course. Bahour to the French rule. This was a peak period of French regime and thereafter there Pondicherry otherwise known as 'Poudoucheri' was a decline in their sovereignty. There was was under Vijayanag~r empire during 14th and internal disturbance in Pondicherry and the 15th centuries. Then it passed hands to Naiks Britisher utilised this opportunity in August 1793 of Thanjavur in the beginning of 16th century, to gain Pondicherry under their control and it and then came under the rule of Bijapur Sultan.· was administered as part of Madras till 1815. By about 16th century, the Portugese and However, the British restored the possession of Danish also used the place as a trap.ing centre the settlements which the French possessed. ()n then. The first Frenchman set his foot in / 1-1-1792 back to the French in 1816 Conse 'Puduchery' on 4-2-1673 and till 1690 the quent upon the Treaty of Paris, 1814 under French were interested mainly in trade and certain terms and conditions which devoted commerce activities. The name of the place was mainly the question of maintenance of troops by changed to 'Pondicherry' from 'Poudoucheri' by the French. Since then the French ruled con the French man 0 In a war between the French tinuously till 31'-10-1954. and the Dutch, the former were defeated and Pondicherry came under Dutch rule between Pondicherry helped in the freedom move 1693 and 1699. In September 1699, the French ment in British India since 1910. Sri Auro became the legal owners of the Pondicherry bindo Ghosh of Bengal came to Pondicherry in town on payment of 16,000 pagodas to the 0 1910 followed by patriots like Poet Subramania Dutch. The N awab Dawood Khan, representa Bharathi, Shri V. V. C. Iyer and others. In 1918 tive of Aurangzeb donated Kalapet village in the Government of India demanded the extra 1703 to Francois Martin for getting supply of dition of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and other timber from the forests surrounding it for freedom fighters of India but this was not construction of houses. In 1706 he had further agreed to by the French government. The ceded 5 more villages viz., Ozhukarai, Murunga- father of the nation Gandhiji visited 7 Pondicherry in 1934 and Nehruji in 1939. In took possession of Karaikal town, the fort of 1946 All French Indian Congress was organised. Karakalacheri and 8 dependent villages. The With India becoming independent in August King of Thanjavur raised the price for the town 1947, the citizens of French India hoisted of Karaikal and the fort of Karakalacheri to Indian national flag all over the settlements. 50,000 chakras. He also demanded a loan of The Jaipur session of Indian National Congress 1,50,000 chakras without interest repayable in passed a resolution for peaceful and dignified 3 years against the hypothecation of Mayavaram merger of Pondicherry with mother-India. The lands and an annual rent of 4,000 pagodas for Indo-French agreement of June 1-948 was signed 5 villages. The French agreed to all the terms and the French gave freedom to the French except for the payment of 1,50,000 chakras Indian population to choose their political which was reduced to 10 1000 chakras while the status by a referendum. While as already indi annual rental was reduced to two or three cated, Chandernagore merged with India on the thousand chakras. The villages so received basis of ref~rendum, Pondicherry could not were Kilaiyur, Melaiyur, Puduthurai, Kovil enjoy that facility because of different system pathu and Tirumalairayanpattinam. Subse and practice of elections. On 23rd March, 1954 quently 2 villages were ceded to the French. N ettapakkam and Madukarai areas were libera Pratap Singh who succeeded the throne renewed ted and a French-India Liberation government demand for a loan of 1,00,000 chakras and on was set up on 16-5-1954. As per the under receipt of the first instalment of 4,000 chakras standing reached between the Gpvernments of he assigned 8 more villages to the French viz., India and France, the question of merger of Cod ague (Kondagai), Vanjiyur, Arimullimanga Pondicherry with Indian Union was referred to lum, Niravi, Dharmapuram, Uzhiapathu, MaUa the elected representatives of the people for kudi (prohably Mathalangudi) and Polagam. decision and in a secret ballot on 18-10-1954, Then on 12-2-1740 he sold for 60,000 chakras 170 out of 178 elected representatives favoured these 8 villages which he had assigned only the the merger. Thus the de facto-transfer of power the previous year for 40,000 chakras. The same took place on 1-11-1954 and de jure-transfer year he pledged Thirunallar Mahanam for on 16-8-1962., 55,350 chakras and also pledged 33 villages for 60,000 chakras. By a treaty signed on Karaikal: 12-1-1750 Pratap Singh ceded to the French 81 villages around Karaikal anp cancelled the Several explanations are offered 'for the word annual rent of 2,000 pagoda.s payable for the 'Karaikal'. The Emperial Gazettier gives it villages. Th.is was all the territory the French the meaning 'fish pass'. According to Julien possessed around Thanjavur when they surren Vinson the town is said to have known as Karai dered to the British in 1761. The territory then giri in Sanskrit. However, the name Karaikal passed twice to the British control before it was is no doubt a combination of two .. words 'Karai' finally handed over to the French in 1816/1817 and 'Kal'. Both the words 'Karai' and 'Ka1' under the Treaty of Paris, 1814, have several meanings, of which the more acc~table ones are 'lime mix' and 'canal' res The formation of Karaikal National Congress pectively. Hence it has been suggested that the on 13-6-1947 and Students Congress on name may mean a canal built of lime mix. 31-1-1947 symbolised the first concrete ex However, no trace of such a canal is evident pression of popular desire in Karaikal for free now. dom from French rule. The French ruled this In 1738 Dumas, a ~hrewd calculative prudent district till 31st October, 1954 on which date the man and a lover of peace and above all one French flag flying atop the government house at who was anxious to extend the French territory Karaikal was lowered with due military in India by smooth means, negotiated with honours before a large gathering of officials and Sahuji of Thanjavur for possession of Karaikal, non-officials. Thus the de facto-transfer of the fortress of Karakaiacheri and 5 vi1lages for power took place on 1st November 1954 followed 40;000 chakras. On 14-2-1739 the French by de jure-transfer on 16th August, 1962. Mahe: for freedom got an impetus in April-May, 1954. It got intensified with sporadic instances of Originally the name of the district was violence and finally on 1-11-1954 Mahe was 'Mayyazhi' which means black river mouth. The handed over to the Government of India French Commodore De Pardaillan who recap de facto. The de jure-transfer took place on tured Mahe from Vazhunnavar changed the 16th August, 1962. name as 'M-ahe' to perpetuate the memor:y ot French naval captain, Mahe De Labourdonnais Yanam: whose skill and enterprise was mainly the cause of the victory then. The settlement bf Yanam was founded in .1731. The French created a 'Comptoir' at Mahe has a history of 2! centuries commenc Yanam in 1731 and the sovereignty of th,e ing from the visit of the French. The first territory was confirmed by the Nizam who representative of the French East-India handed it over to the French in 1861 under the Mr. Mollandin landed in Mahe in 1721. On Treaty of Paris. In 1948 the Mahajana Party 2nd April, 1721, Mr. Mollandin an~ Vazhunna favoured the merger of Yariam with the Indian var (ruler) of Badagara (kno\vn from the French Union but the )Socialtst' party was against it. records as the Bayanor of Bargaret) entered However, during October, 1948-April, 1954 the into an agreement according to which' the settlement did not witness any significant French were permitted to establish a trading political activity. On 1-11-1954 the region centre in Mahe. The relationship between the merged de facto-with the Indian Union and on French and the Vazhunnavar became strained 16-8-1962 it merged de jure. and in 1725 fight broke out. The French were obliged to retire to Calicut· and in Decem . History of District Census Handb"ook : ber 1725 Mahe was recaptured by the French. This region changed hands before it The compilation of district Census handbooks came into French possession finally during the was initiated for the first time at the 1951 second decade of 18th century. Census. However, Pondicherry commenced its census tradition in 1961 on a scientific basis When the Independence of India became an' . after its merger with the Indian Union. Since accomplished fact on 15th August, 1947, there it 'was felt that the district was the most mana were repercussions here also. On 20th Octo geable rational unit for presentation of census ber, 1948 large scale disturbances took place data, census statistics were also compiled for obvio~sly with the connivance of some local individual villages and towns as ·they constitute officials. . An enraged crowd paraded the streets the basic units of human habitation. Besides, of Mahe, raided government offices and build some other useful information had also been ings and pulled out and burnt records and included in it to make it a self-contained book furniture. On the morning of 23rd October, of reference for the district. The compilation 1948 the Indian Union flag was hoisted over the of district census handbooks was, however, not administrative office in the presence of altogether a new idea, since census data for thousands of people and messengers were sent similar units were published during the, earlier to the Governt;nent of India to say that the censuses also in one form or other. Conse French administration has collapsed and reques quent on the merger of Pondicherry union ting Government of India to take over the territory with the Indian Union, the 1961 administration. However, on 26th October, Census was extended to this territory also and 1948, the Cruiser of the French Navy arrived consistent with the policy of the Registrar off Mahe. He insisted on the lowering of the General, India to bring out a district census 'Indian flag and rehoisting of the French flag. handbook for each state/union territory, the first This was done and the Cruisers which arrived volume of district census handbook was releas for the purpose lett suddenly on 31st October, ed in connection with the 1961 Census for the 194a. Between April, 1951 and March, 1954 no Union Territory of Pondicherry. A similar significant development took place. The fight publication was also brought out during 1971 9 Census. The expenditure on release of the particulars in a single publication no separate district census handbooks is being borne by tHe district census handbooks are being released, Pondicherry state administration. The Union but a single volume contains all the particulars Territory of Pondicherry comprises of 4 relating to the 4 districts during 1961 and 1971 districts viz., Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Censuses. During 1981 Census also, the same Yanam, but in order to prese.nt comprehensive pattern is being followed. III. SCOPE OF VILLAGE DIRECTORY, TOWN DIRECTORY AND PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT The broad contents of the district census Town directory: handbook which are classifiable as Village direc tory, town directory and \ primary census The new coverage' under . town directory abstract had been given in the preface. The statements during 1981 Census as compared to preparation of inset tables based on the main' 1971 Census are:- statements in respect of these items is a new exercise during this census. (i) class of town; (ii) area; (iii) number of households; The salient points are indicated unit wise here below:- (iv) density; (v) . sex ratio; (vi) growth rate of population; Village directory: (vii) system of storage for protected water supply; During 1971 Census, the Village directory did not give tl'\e total population and number of (viii) scheduled caste population; households existing in each village whereas its (ix) working. women's hostel. counterpart in 1981 gives it. Similarly, during 1971 Census; if the important amenities were The items dropped out now are: available within each village,. indications . were (i) functionlil category of towns; made, but, if the same were not available the nearest points of a~ailability were not indicat (ii) sea port; ed. But in sharp contrast, during 1981 Census, (iii) parks. if such amenities are not available within the villages, their availability according to distance The re-grouping of educational standards range are being indicated. Further, the exis according to the general pattern has been taken tence of bus stop' or. railway station within the into account for collection/depiction of particu village or in case of absence, the distance range lars in 1981 town directorYI of availability -is 8,lso being indicated in the. While statements covering the- 1981 directory whereas these details were con .spicuously. absent in 1971 census village (i) civic and other amenities in notified directory. slums in 1979; 10 (li) towns showing their outgrowth with other workers. The collection of partIculars population; for the marginal workers is a new coverage ih arei·new ones during 1981, the statement relat 1981 Census. During 1971 Census the urban ing to population by religion of 1971 Census primary censWl abstract consisted of enUlnera has altogether been dropped out. tion block-wise particulats whereas during 1981 Census the indication starts upwards from ward-level.' However, block-wise figures of Primary census a:hstrad: scheduled caste/scheduled tribe population. as compared to total population are given as an While the primary census abstract of 1971 appendix to primary census abstract this time. was giving the breakup figures for various cate The preparation/recording of primary Census gories under "other workers", the 1981 primary abstract particulars of scheduled caste/scheduled census abstract in this volume gives out only tribe population to the level of towns/communes consolidated primary census abstract figures for is a new phenomenon in 1981 Census. IV. PHYSICAL ASPECTS I Pondicherry : of Ozhukarai commune are found as enclaves in Tindivanam taluk. The bulk of this district Pondicherry district is located on the coro which forms a contiguous area consisting of mandaI coast between 11°46' and 12°03' of Ponclicherry municipality, Ariankuppam com north latitude and between 79°36' and 7bo52' of mune, Embalam area pf Nettapakkam commune, east longitude. It is limited on the east by Villianur area of Wlillianur commune and the Bay of Bengal and on the other 3 sides by Ozhukarai area of Ozhukarai commune is the South Arcot district of Tamil N adu state. bordered by the Bay of Bengal on the east. The This district is di.vided into one municipality and layout of Pondicherry district described above 6 communes. which is enclaved within Tamil Nadu presents a peculiar picture of territorial jurisdiction, This is not a contiguous area but is inter perhaps the only one of its kind in the world. spersed with enclaves of South Arcot district of The historical reasons which prompted the Tamil Nadu. It presents a picture of scattered French and the British to demarcate their parts enclaved within Cuddalore, Villupuram territories in an inter-mingling manner are not and Tindivanam taluks of South Arcot district known. Historical records . do not also throw 2 villages of Cuddalore taluk are enclaved any light in this regard. within this region. The year can be conveniently divided into 4 The southern part consisting of Bahour, seasons :- Manamedu and Kaduvanur areas of Bahour commune and Manakuppam area of Villianur (i) south-west monsoon season ranging commune are surrounded by Cuddalore taluk.' from June to September; The western part which includes Karayambu (ii) north-east monsoon season commencing thur area of Bahour commune, Nettapakkam from October and ending in December; ~rea of N ettapakkam commune and of the 4 areas of Mannadipet commune are enclaved (iii) winter season covering January and within Villupuram taluk. The northern part February ; consisting of Kalapet and Alankut>pam areas (iv) hot-weather season from March to May. 11 171/4-2A Both the winter and summer are not severe on the south. Neravy commune is made up of along the coast but the humidity is high. During two detached portions separated by N annilam the hot season the day temperature ranges taluk of Thanjavur district but aligned to from 31.1° C to 40° C and night temperature Tirunallar . commune with the easterly flow of from 22.9° C to 28.9° C. The maximum and Arasalar river forming the commune boundary. minimum temperature recorded during 1979 3 small isolated enclaves of Thanjavur district are 36° C and 22.9° C respectively. The total are embeded within the detached enclave of rainfall during 1979 was 940 mms. Neravy commune. In Tirumalairayanpattinam commune, the . village of Padudarkollai lies The physiographic map of the district presents detached and enclaved within Nannilam taluk. more or less a flat land. There are no hills or forests in this district. Just like Pondicherry~ the year here also can be divided into four seasons viz., There are 2 main drainage basins, tl?e one of Gingee river which crosses it diagonally from (i) south-west monsoon season ranging north-west to the south-east and the other of from June to September; Pennaiyar which forms the southern border of the district. (ii) north-east monsoon season commenc ing from October and ending in Decem The main soil types met with in this district ber; are red ferrallitic, black clayey and. coastal (iii) winter season covering. January and alluvial. The tentative general fertility status February; is as follows:- (iv) hot-weather season from March to May. Soil reaction in more than 75.7% of soil is neutral, 1.8% alkaline, 21.1 % medium alka Both the winter and summer seasons are not line and 1.4 % medium acidic. The nutrient severe along the coast but humidity is high. The indices reveal that the nitrogen status is low, maximum and minimum temperature recorded available phosperous content is medium and during 1979 are 36.8° C and 28.3° C respectively. potassium low. . The total rainfall during 1979 was 1,443 mms. The district has not experienced any juris The physiographic map of the district pre dictional change during the decade. sents more or less a flat land. There are . no hills or forests in this district. The storm in 1977 covering this district was highly devastating. This district lies in Cauvery delta and is irri gated by canal system. The main source or Karaikal: irrigation is river water from Mettur reservoir. There are a few shallow tube-wells mainly in Karaikal distriCt lies 150 kms. south of Tirunallar commune and partly in Neravy and Pondicherry. I~ is ericlaved by Thanjavur dis Nedungadu communes. trict of Tamil N adu state and is located between 10° 51' and 11° north latitude and 79° 43' and This district consists almost entirely coastal 79° 52' east longitude. The boundaries of this alluvial' soil which is highly suitable for "culti district are the Bay of Bengal on the east and vation of paddy and pulses. Thanjavur district on the other 3 sides. Karaikal district is made up of one municipa There is no jurisdictional chang~ in the lity and 5 communes. The district is so spread district during the decade. out that Karaikal is located at the centre with the communes of .Kottucherry on the north, As in Pondicherry, there was a devastating Nedungadu on the. north-west, Tirunallar on cyclonic storm during 1977. the west, Neravy and Tirumalairayanpattinam 12 Mahe: This district is entirely rain-fed and is covered by typical red laterite soil of Malabar. Mahe is a tiny pocket in the west coast of India situated geographically in Kerala and There is no jurisdictional change in the politically forming part of this Union territory district during the decade. at a distance <;>f 830 kms from Pondicherry. This picturesque little area is bounded on the south Yanam: west by the' Arabian sea, on the north by river Yanam a Iso i.s a tiny pncket . situated on the Ponniyar (Moolakadavu) and on the other sides east coast of Indian Peninsula, geographically by a stretch of calcareous hills of medium in Andhra Pradesh bounded on all sides by the height which are linked to the ghats by a series Eas.t Godavari district and politically forming of wooded hillocks. The River Mahe which part of the union territory at a distance of flows towards the west divides the district into 870 kms, from Pondicherry. It is located at two distinct parts. 16° 43' north latitude and 80° 5' east longitude. It lies on the spot where the Coringa river and The district consists of 3 entities viz., Mahe Godavari river separate. town proper, the small enclave of Kallayi and of N aluthura. The town proper lies south of The entire Yanam district is a munici River Mahe near its hmcture with the sea. The pality. Naluthura lies between the small Ponniyar The maximum and nununum temperature river on the north and the Kozhikode-Tellicherry recorded during 1979 are 43.7° C and 17.7° C road in the south. In between these two lies the respectively. The total rainfall during 1979 was small enclave of Kallayi. 1,309 mms. Mahe town is situated with Badagara ,taluk The physiographic map of the district of Kozhikode district in Kerala as its northern presents more or less a flat land. There are no extremity and the other 2 entities enclaved hills or forests in this district. The irrigation within Cannanore district of Kerala. facilities are much less in Yanam compared to The district will experienc~ rain during Pondicherry and Karaikal districts. However, May-November, with winter season from supply of water is had from Gauthami-Godavari December to February and hot-weather season river by channel system. during March and April. The winter will be The soil is alluvial type suitable. for the severe in this region. During hot season, the cultivation of paddy, tobacco, chilly, etc. maximum anq minimum temperature recorded during 1979 are 34° C and 21.2° C respectively. There is no jurisdictional change in Yanam The total rainfall during 1979 was 3,262 roms. during the decade. V. MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS F ondicherry : Pondicherry district can be proud of its Limestoue.-The limestone belt of Pondicherry I economic resources as discussed herebelow:- can be divided into belts, viz., Tuttipattu-Mettu- Minerals : veli, Karasur':_Kadapperikuppam, Sedarapattu Akasampattu and Turuvai - Rayapudupakkam. Minerals.-Limestone and. .f!!lays form the prin Recent investigations in Tuttipattu and Kara cipal mineral resources. Other' minerals recorded sur. including the intervening areas in South. include lignite and phosphatic rocks. Arcot district, indicate 2.17 million tonnes of 13 limestonE: suitable for manufacture of cement Pondicherry town in a nor;th-northeast-south down to depths of 2.6 to 5.8 ms. and an inferred southwest direction. Lignite seams varying in reserve of 3.94 million tonnes down to 8 ms. thickness from 4.3 to 15 ms. are also reported The inferred :reserves of limestone suitable for to occur at depths ranging from 63 to 122 ms. manu:.:.~ctur€' of 'cement in the adjoining in the area bounded by Bahour, Aranganur, Sedarapattu, earlier estimated at 0.9 million Reddichavady and Kannikovil, but their highly tonne, has proved to be more promising follow variable quality and the high ratio of depth of ing the drilling at Sedarapattu which indicated ever-burden to thickness may render working a 16 ms. thick limestone bed with the top of of these seams uneco:g.omical. 2 ms. suitable for manufacture of cement. This Phosphatic rocks.-Black phosphatised bed which has a strike extension of nearly shells occur in association with limestone near 6.5 kms. between south of Mettuveli and east Karasur. The limestone beds are thin and and north-east of Sedarapattu appears to be impersistent. Phosphatic nodules and marly promising and merits further exploration. phosphorite occur in association with Nerinea Brick clays.-In the alluvial tracts of limestone beds near Tuttipattu. Pondicherry, clays suitable for manufacture of bricks have been located between Muthupil- Building stones.-The she,ll limestone, laipalayam-Arasur; Tondamanatham-Poraiyur, constituting the Trigonoarca beds of Cretaceous Vilhanur-Uruvaiyar and Odiampattu-Pappan- age and occurring between Tuttipattu and north chavadi. Situated within 10 to 15 kms. west west of Sedarapattu and farther to the north south-west of Pondicherry town in the vicinity east, which has been quarried for building of existing briCk kilns, these clays, estimated at stones may also be used as ornamental building 1.64 million tonnes, can meet the growing stone after sizing and polishing. Pebble bearing demand for bricks including that of the inter grits from the lower beds of the Cuddalores in national township of AurQville. the 'Red Hills' and Kalapet areas. The pebbles, mostly of half quartz and quartzite, measure Tile clays.-The fine red clayey silt, from upto 4 cms. across and can be used after sort the Kanakaneri, about 0.4 km. north of ing for architectural facades and gravel packing Reddiarpalayam, is being used in the manufac in tu bewells. ture of 'Mangalore' tiles. The lake silt, about . 15 cms. thick is- annually replenished by the Marine shells.- In the backwaters about streams that drain the 'Red Hills' to the 'north. 0.8 km south of Pondicherry town and in the Possibilities of locating similar red silt exist in Ariankuppam river farther south, bivalve shells the bed cf the much larger Oussoudu eri tank and rarely gastropods are collected for use in which is also fed by streams draining the making lime. The shells are found down to an 'Red Hills'. average depth of 7.5 cms in the lake and 15 em Other clays.-Variegated and white at tpe confluence of the river with the sea. The plastic clays and .loam also occur lake to the south of Pondicherry yields about 1,000 tonnes of shells annually and the Arian in the Pondicherry territory. The red loam, kuppam river relatively much less. largely exposed in the 'Red Hills' and Kala pet areas, is widely used in colour washing. Electricity and power.-The first decade The variegated and white plastic clays of this century witnessed the advent also reported from boreholes, lying of electricity in Pondicherry. Initially above the lignite-seams as in the Bahour. a 524 KW DC power house was set up in 1909. area, may not. be economically exploitable in This was provided with diesel motors and pro view of the high ever-burden ratio and presence duced an uninterrupted electricity supply at of shallow water-table. 220 volts. The power supply produced was just Lignite,";_Seams of lignite have been sufficient for consumption in Governor's reported in boreholes in the Seliamedu and nsidence, some pffices and a few houses on the N~nankuppam areas, The borehole' data indi eastern part of Pondicherry town known as cate that the lignite field extends upto "White town". This was maintained originally 14 by the Pondich~rry municipality but perhaps As already indicated there is no forest area due to paucity of funds the responsibility for in the district. The percentage cultivable area running the unit passed on 'hands to the public to total area and percentage of irrigated area works department. The electricity produced to total cultivable area are 78.62 and 54.27 res was hardly sufficient to meet the requirements pectively. This proves that Pondicherry is a of the whole town and to the 3 textile mills. In pre-dominantly agricultural area and also that 1941, this unit was replaced with 2 diesel gene- . ~rrigation facilities require / much better atten rating sets of 375 KWA each. The energy pro tion. duced was initially extended to the southern Tenancy.-The local names of tenancies part of the Pondicherry town and later to the under different rights of holdings are indicated whole town. Subsequently a 10 year agreement here below :- I with the British India was executed and supply of power had in 1944 from a point at Thiruvan S1. Nature of rights Local darkoil. In 1945, the colony was authorised to No. in land name build its own net work and to ensure supply (1) (2) (3) of high tension power to the textile mills in the ------With right of permanent, heri· Sontham town and the pumping station and low tension table and transferable possession power for agricultural purposes. 2 With right of permanent and (i) Kuzhikanarn heritable possession but with- (ii) Anuboga With the expiry of the 10 year agreement out right of transfer. Swathinam with the British India on 31-12-1953, Govern 3 Mortgagees in possession. (i) Kaivasam ment of Madras had expressed their inability Kanam to continue supply beyond that date. In the (ii) Bogyam meantime the French administration construct (iii) Adamanam (iv) Erratu ed a thermal pov\'er station and commissioned Kiravam it in May, 1951. Soon after merger, power (V) Panayam supply was restored to Pond~cherry and the 4 Holding free of rent 'or on (i) Manyarn ~perational maintenance of electrical instal nominal rent in lieu of or not (ii) Panakuthagai lation was facilitated by the expansion of Indian in lieu of servicef EI,=ctri.city Act, 1910 and the Electricity 5 Ordinary tenants paying fixed (i) Kuthagai (Supply) Act, 1948 with effect from 1-11-1954. cash rent. (ii) Sagupadi (iii) Yela Subsequently in 1955 the administration was Kuthagai authorised to purchase power from Tamil Nadu 6 Ordinary tenants paying rent Thaniya Kuthaga state. Gradually installation of underground as share of produce. cables \vas taken up and all villages were elec 7 Ordinary tenants paying fixed Panakuthugai tr~fied in a phased r::anner. produce rent. Land and land-use pattern.-The total geo 8 Crop sharers without tenancy (i) Bogyarn rights. (ii) Waram graphical rural area of the district comprising 9 Sub tenants or tenants of sub Keezhkuthagai of.179 villages is 24,642.57 hectares. The classi tenants. fication of the area by different types of land-use, 10 Unclassified Vagupillatha available therefor is indicated herebelow:- 11 Conditional or temporary (i) Nibandanai lessees or assigne~s of Govt. Kuthagai land. (ii) Kalakedu SI. No. Land-use Area Kuthagai (hectares) (iii) Tharkaliga (I) (2) (3) Kuthagai (iv) Oppadai (i) Irrigated by source 10,515.11 Nilam (ii) Un-irrigated 6,674.12 12 Encroachers and trespassers.' (i) Aackirurnippalar (iii) Culturable waste 2,185.60 (ii) Athumeeruba- (iv) Area not available for cultivation 5,267.74 var 15 171/4--2B Agriculture: The anicuts serve the fields by feeding chan nels and canals. The staple food of the district is rice. Agri culture is the most important economic activity The crop calendar showing sowing and har in the district both in terms of employment and vesting periods in respect of important crops is out-put. The higher productivity is due to furnished herebelow:- superior cropping pattern dominated by 'high value crops' such as rice, sugarcane, groundnut, st. No. Name of Sowing Harvesting coconut, betelvines, high yielding varieties of crop period period millets, etc. In some parts of the district, cotton (1) (2) (3) (4) and also flowers such as jasmine, rose, merri gold, cresandra, chrysanthamum, etc., are (i) Paddy (Kuruvai) May-july Aug.-Oct. grown. (ii) Paddy (Samba) Aug.-Nov. Dec.-Mar. (iii) Paddy (Navarai) Feb.-Mar. May-June. Pondicherry has been almost a cradle of (iv) Ragi Jan.-Feb. Apr.-May civilisation for not less than 2,000 years. During (v) Bajra June~July Sept.-Oct. Pallava regime there were special committees (vi) Plantain July-Aug. Jan.-Feb. known as Eri Variya Perumakkal for manage (vii) Redgram July-Aug. Jan.-Feb. ment of irrigation tanks. The origin of the Bahour lake may be traced fo the Pallava ( viii) Greengram Jan.-Feb. Apr.-May period. .The largest irrigation lake in Villianur (ix) Blackgram Jan.-Feb. Apr.-May commune 'oussoudu eri' is said to have been built (x) Sugarcane Jan.-Apr. Dec.-May during the days of Vijayanagar rulers. The (xi) Tapioca Dec.-Jan. Nov.-Dec. French administration had realised the import (xii) Cotton Dec.-Feb. June-Aug. ance of agriculture and had provided irri (xiii) Groundnut July-Aug. Dec.-Jan. gation facilities by construction of tanks, (xiv) Groundnut Jan.-Feb. July-Aug. feeding channels and other diversion works. (xv) Gingelly Jan-Feb. Mar.-Apr. They had also constituted the famous institu tion known as 'Syndicate Agricole' similar to the one in France for better maintenance of ~gricultural implements: irrigation works, canals, roads, etc., and to take The implements available with the farmers effective measures against floods. The follow are mostly of the older types like manvetti, ing are the main anicuts/regulators meant kalakottu, aruval, er-kalape, parambu and pala mostly for agricultural purposes of kai alavangu. However, the labour saving Pondicherry :- devices adopted are:- (i) Vidur anicut (i) Bose ploughs (li) Suthukeni anicut (ii) Iron ploughs (iii) Pillaiyarkuppam anicut (iii) Intercultivators (iv) Vikravandy anicut (iv) Burmese set turnband tramplers (v) Sornavur ani cut (v) Ridge ploughs (vi) Kizhur anicut (vi) Groundnut decorticators, etc. (vii) Mangal~ anicut Pump sets have almost gradually taken the (viii) Thirukkanji anicut place of Kavalai for water purposes. This is (ix) Edaiyar anicut evident from the fact that power connections (x) Sellancheri anicut for ag~icultural purposes had increased multi (xi) Kumaramangalam regulator. fold of late. Of the above, Vidur, V-ikravandy, Edaiyar and The marginal farmers agricultural landless Sellancheri anicuts are located in Tamil Nadu. labourers development agency was set up in 16 1970 for supply of agricultural implements, The mobile veterinary dispensary at the head fishing implements, livestock, etc., at subsidis quarters covers remote areas according to ed rates to people below the poverty line. The routine schedule. ageacy also subsidises for sinking bore-well, community-well, etc. Functions remaining the Apart from common grazing grounds in many same, the name of the agency was changed to villages there are small pieces of single crop small farmers development agency in 1978 and lands which are kept fallow between harvest then to dlstrict rural development agency in and transplantation to allow cattle-grazing. 1981. The department of agriculture also pro Apart from grass, paddy, ragi and cholam, straw v~des agricultural implements, seeds, fertili is also used as cattle feed. During the dry sers, etc., at subsidised rates to needy farmers season straw becomes an indispensable feed. in an effort to boost up agricultural production. There is a co-operative milk supply society Animal husbandry: and also a dairy existing here. On the milk front, Pondicherry has enough production for The agricultural economy of the territory is consumption as well for supply to nearby areas based on the system of mixed farming under in Tamil N adu. which the cultivable land is utilised for produc tion of foodgrains while its bi-products such as Good quality meat is available for local con straw, etc., are used for feeding the cattle sumption after being certified fit for the pur attached to the farm. They also help to produce poses by veterinarians specially appointed for farm yield manure. The agro-climatic condi the purposes on duty at slaughter houses, loca tions of the territory are very much similar to ted in - Pondicherry. municipal area. Raw the one prevalent in adjoining states. materials such as hides, skin, bones, horns, etc., are sold to dealers in Tamil N adu for further pro The livestock sector contributed very little cessing. The slaughter of young, very old and towards income generation as compared to ad pregnant animals is not permitted. jacent Tamil N adu state. The "poor man's cow" viz., sheep and goats Prior to merger there was no outfit to deal exist in low quality with poor yield and growth. with livestock services and this has contributed to poor quality of local cattle. There were no The stock of pigs available is mainly local qualified persons to man the services in the non-descript variety. The population consuming initial stages and all that existed was a skeleton pork is very little. Pig breeding steps were staff attached to the public health services. It taken in 1961 and initially exotic breeding male was in 1948 that concepts of breed development, stock was supplied to pig-rearing farmers free preventive inoculation, etc., were gammg of cost. Modern methods of pig-rearing are ground all over India. It was in 1955 that much being taught by the pig-breeding unit establish attention was pa~d to veterinary services in this ed as an adjunct to the state poultry farm. region. More key-village centres, veterinary dispensaries and artificial insemination cE.ntres, The common species of poultry found are etc., were opened in a phased manner. Th~' fowls and ducks. The production of high communicable diseases are foot and mouth yielding strain of birds is in the hallds of pri disease. rinderpest, haemorrhagic, septicaemia, vate firms 'Nhich mainly produce cross breeds. black-quarter and anthrax. The non-communi The number of poultry farmers in private cable diseases are dyspepsia, enteritis, bronchi sector is never constant as all those who take tis, bloat. urinary calculi, etc. Worm infesta active interest do not subsist for long in the tion is also very common. field as such efforts call for diligent attention and the introduction of techniques of scientific The veterinary hospital in Pondicherry is management. The open market fluctuations in provided with all modern equipments, including the price of poultry feed is another threat X-ray facilities for treatment of the livestock. facing poultry farmers. 11 The government had set up a poultry farm, The fishermen were also supplied with feed mixing and grinding plant as adjunct to synthetic fish net twine at subsidised rates. the state poultry farm to attend to poultry Motor vans were introduced in Pondicherry for maintenance. quick transport of fresh fish from landing centres to marketing places. During the III five Fowl-pox, cocceidiosis, paralysis, coryza and year plan period the scope of the above schemes diarrhoea are the diseases which attack the 'vvas enlarged by increasing number of mechani fowls in an epidemic form. sed boats supplied to fishermen on loan-cum subsidy basis, setting up of an ice plant-cum The veterinary hospital in Pondicherry and cold storage unit in Pondicherry for preserva mobile veterinary unit serve the poultry. tion of fish and by hiring out more vehicles for transport of fish from landing centres to market Cattle shows, calf rallies, milk yield competi ing places, etc. The Indian' Fisheries Act, 1897 tion and fodder yield competition are held every • was extended to this union territory on year and this helped increase in milk produc 1-10-1963 under the Pondicherry (Extension tion which has trebled since 1956. of Laws) Regulation Act, 1963. A dressing plant with cold storage facilities The inland fishermen mostly depend upon was set up in Pondicherry town on 16th Novem fish in ponds, tanks and in the estuarine waters ber, 1971. The plant ensures regular supply of of Ariankuppam river, Chunnarribar, etc. The wholesome poultry meat to the consuming Bahour and Oussoudu lakes are the two biggest ones in Pondicherry district for fishing purposes. public. The society for the prevention of Most of the tanks of this district are either cruelty to animals was inaugurated on owned by public works department or by agri 22 January, 1972 under the patronage of the culture syndicates or by the ~ocal bodies of the Lt. Governor and the affairs of the society are respective communes or by private piscicul looked after by an executive committee. The turists. The rivers get dried up during summel society receives financial assistance from the All season and hence riverine fishery is only India Animal Welfare Board for carrying on its seasonal during rainy season ann floods. The activities. estuaries afford rich fishing grounds for inland fishermen in the surrounding villages of Murun Fisheries : ' gnpakkam, Ariankuppam, :Nonanknppam, Except for framing the rules for disposing of Thengathi~tu, Chinna VeerampattinaII). and the inland water fishing rights, no significant Purnankuppam. The fishery is freely enjoyed by development had taken place in fisheries sector them without any licensing system. before merger with Indian Union. As part of the efforts to demonstrate the utility of pisciculture and to meet the shortage After merger process, a rapid survey of the of fish seeds in this territory an estuarine fish fishery res_ources of the territory was conducted. farm was established in the year 1960 at Then Then, in a phased manner the development of gathittu village in an area of 2 hectares. marine and inland fishery resources covering the following schemes were taken up:- In order to meet the demand for fast growing qU9.lity fish seeds, seed collecti.on centres were (i) bringing the inland water areas under developed at the fonowing places:- fish-culture; (i) Thengathittu (ii) stocking the water areas with fast (ii) Murungapakkam growing fish seeds; (iii) demonstrating the advantages of mech (iii) Chunnambar. anised fishing; The district is mari-time by character, which (iv) training fishermen in mechanised fish affords great possibilities for marine food pro ing. duction in general. The varieties which appear 18 in fairly large numbers are ribbon fish, sardine ranean sea since the first century A. D. The and silver belly, sharks, perches and scians jew exports from here include muslin, silk, pearls, fish. Sharks are reported to be abundant at 40 gem stones, ivory, etc. It is significant that the to 60 fathoms. The flying fish fishery which excavations at Arikamedu near _Pondicherry lasts from May to July is probably the most have brought to light the existence of tanks and important seasonal fishery of the district. The court yards which, it is conjectured, were used catch per fisherman comes to about 900 kgs. per in the preparation of muslin cloth in ancient month. times. Amungst the other industries which flourished in the town then was that of bead In Pondicherry the best part of the catch is making; gold, semi-precious stones and glass consumed locally. Fresh fish is moved to inte were used for this purpose. The area also had rior villages by cyclists and to big markets by a textile manufacturing centre even as early as fish vans. A good proportion of the catches is ill the 12th century. About the beginning of sold to the consuming public and the surplus is 18th century, a very lucrative trade in cotton either kept in the cold storage or diverted for manufacture was in force. curing purposes. A good number of prawns are also exported from here. The catches are sold Present day industries: soon after landing to merchants not only of Pondicherry tmm but also to those who come Before merger with Indian union, there were from adjacent places of Tamil Nadu viz., only three large textile mills and four small Cuddalore, Nellikuppam, Panruti, Villupuram scale i.ndustries. The three textile mills are,- and Tindivanam. The major fish markets in Pondicherry are at Pondicherry,_ Muthialpet and (1) Swadeshi Cotton Mills Ltd. Nellitope within Pondicherry municipal area (ii) Sri Bharathi Mills Ltd. and Ariankuppam in Ariankuppam commune, Madukarai in Nettapakkam commune and Villi (iii) Anglo-French Textiles Ltd. anur in Villianur commune. The sale of fish is in baskets or by counts and of prawns is by Swadeshi Cotton Mills Ltd: weight. In 1828/1829 a businessman settled in With a view to encouraging mechanised as Fondiche!'ry and a businessman of Bordeaux well as deep sea fishing and improving the wel together came forward to start a spinning mill fare of the fishermen of the fishermen commu in Mudaliarpet now within Pondicherry muni nity, mechanised boats were introduced:;in this cipal area, under the name and style Savana district in 1958. Boats of larger size c6Uld not :ivlills. They asked for certain concessions from be put into operation due to lack of suitable the administration to face the challenge of the harbour facilities. Alongwith mechanised boats, British textile industry which controlled the synthetic fish net twine is given at subsid~sed market in India. In 1956 i. e., two years after rates for making necessary nets. Accessories merger, the unit was sold to a Kanpur firm and such as floats, cotton yarn, synthetic twine and eame "tCJ be known as "Swadeshi Cotton Mills". ropes are also distributed to fisJ:lermen through This is a composite unit manufacturing cotton .the Pondicherry state fishermen co-operative yarn and fabrics. federation and fishermen co-operative societies. at subsidised rates in order to develop marine Sri Bharathi Mills Ltd: fisheries. A textile mill was established by Frenchmen INDUSTRIES: during 1892 in Mudaliarpet known as 'Gaebele Old time industries: Mills'. After several changes in ownership and The classical geographers and the tamil name this is now known as "Sri Bharathi sangam literature have left us details of the Mills". The mill is engaged in production of trade links which existed between the ports popular and controlled cloth and blended situated on the coromandel coast and mediter- fabric. 19 .\.nglo-French Textiles:' mg, limestone production, handprinting and dying of textiles, borewell pipemaking, bee The Rodier mill was established in 1898 by a keeping, bronze image-casting are the cottage British firm in Mudaliarpet which had its cen industries and handicrafts which are spread tral office in London. Raw materials for the mostly over the rural areas of the region. Cast mill were secured from the Indian union and ing works, cane-works, chappals making, ready- .. from the United States of America. The mill made garments, handmade paper, bathi making, came to be officially known as "Anglo-French hosiery, embroidery, saree-printing, etc., are Textiles Ltd" in 1924. This unit is engaged in some of the cottage industries found within the the manufacture and sale of cotton yarn, staple urban limits. Some of the industrial activities fibre yarn and fabrics. ' of this district are connected directly or indirec In addition to the above three mills there are tly with the Aurobindo ashram which had' its two large scale industries existing now - one adherents with specialised skill. The industrial is Pondicherry distillery ltd. in Pondicherry activities of the ashram which were initially town and the other is New horizon sugar mills organised to utilise the skill of its inmates and ltd. in Ariyur in Villianur commune. The dis to meet the requirements of the ashram have tillery was established by the Ex-french regime grown into industrial enterprises. The hand and it was run as a gov~rnment department till made paper produced in asnram unit is famous 14-5_:_1972 producing 3,000 litres of arrack for its quality and varieties. daily. The available molasses from the New J Following merger, the All India Khadi and horiz6n sugar mills ltd. is consumed by the Village Industries Commission evinced interest government distillery. These large industries to extend its sphere of its activity in this region. provide more than 75 % of industrial employ ment in the region. The government renders help to the industrial Since Pondicherry was a .free port before unit by grant of- 1954, there was rigorous customs control by the (i) Financial assistance to small scale in Indian union at the state borders. As a conse dustries under the State Aid to Indus quence, industries in Pondicherry had only a tries Act and loan assistance to rural limited home market. To add to tpis, local industries project. industries had to compete with forei.gn goods imported. After merger, Pondicherry was no (ii) Sales-tax holiday for the initial 5 years longer' a free port and customs barriers were for the small scale industrie5. removed. This change opened up new markets. (iii) ~xemption from payment of earnest The stilte government also took efforts to help money deposit and grant of price pre the growth of industries in the region. Oil ference to small industrialist in regard mills are concentrated in Pondicherry munici to the supply of products to Govern pal and Ozhukarai commune panchayat areas. ment departments. Rice mills show more or less an even distribu (iv) Reimbursement of sales-tax paid by tion in the entire length and breadth of the tiny sector industries on purchase of district indicating that paddy processing takes capital goods and raw materials. place very near to paddy fields. Manufacture (v) Concessional rate of stamp duty for the of steel furniture, wooden furniture, baby cycles, mortgages to be executed under the dry cells, cosmetics, powerlooms, stainless steel Pondicherry State Aid to Industries utensils, french poli,sh, polythene products, Act, 1970. cement products, steel rolling and boat blJ,ilding etc. etc. etc. are some of the prominent small industries pre vailing in this region. Trade and commerce: Pottery, carpentry, blacksmithy, gold smithy, The diary of Ananda Rangapillai provides coir-making, mat weaving, clay-toy-making,' some clues about the system of banking existing basket weaving, handloom weaving, brick mak- in the 18th century in Pondicherry. Sowcars 20 were leading bankers in those days and were With the extens_ion of Banking Companies carrying on money-lending business against Act, 1949 and the Foreign Exchange Regulation security of jewels and on promissory notes Act, 1947 to Pondicherry in 1954, the stage was through their gumastas (agents) in Pondicherry. set for Indian Banks to open their branches in In 1754, when Dupleix refused to honour a bill this territory. The banks established in and for a lakh of rupees drawn on him by Bussy, the around Pondicherry town confined their opera sowcars recalled their agents from Pondicherry tions in transactions on profit motive basis. and further resolved that no more bills should Under the lead bank scheme sponsored by the b~ drawn on Pondicherry nor should any drawn Reserve Bank of India, Pondicherry union here be honoured. They had also been offering territory is assigned to Indian Bank. With loan without any security based on the confi the nationalisation of banks scheme, many dence and relationship of the lender with branches were establilshed in rural areas for borrower. This system had its own shortcomings, extension of credit to meet the needs of various in that the urgent and unforeseen needs of the sectors of economy. There is approximately one borrowers and their inability to provide suffi bank functioning for every 10,000 population. cient security was capitalised by the anti-social bankers for charging interest at usurious rates. The co-operative movement also Contribu The borrowers were driven to.obtain loan when ted to business by establishment of banking prices were high and consequently, the money institutions and also credit societies. These banks value was less and to repay the same with and 'institutions operated jewel loan faci heavy interest after harvest when money value lities also with the result that the would be more and prices of' commodity would greedy pawn brokers who. were charging heavy be less. Thus the agriculturists gradually lost interest were pulled down. their wealth which passed on hands to the anti social money:-lenders. Insurance: Pawn office by government: The district had attracted the attention of With a vew to remedying these social evils, several insurers even before the formation of the French administration had set up a pawn Life Insurance Corporation of India following office in Pondicherry on 1-5 ... 1827, which was the nationalisation of Life Insurance in 1955. known as 'Mont-de-Piete'. Nominal interest was collected from the borrO\vers. A decree was Small savings: passed on 22-2-1906 providing, the licensing of private banks which wanted to enter into the After merger the mobilisation of small pawn broking business. The Pondicherry savings became the responsibility of national Pawn Brokers Act based on the Madras Pawn savings organisation headed by the national Brokers Act, 1943 was passed in 1966 with savings corrunissioner with the headquarters at minor amendments to suit the local conditions Nagpur. and was' brought into force with elfect from 15-10-1966. With the establishment of bank Chit funds: branches to facilitate the people to obtain. jewel loans, the pawn office was closed. Auction chit has gained much importance and popularity in the past two decades. It is Joint stock banks: regarded with appreciation and respect by mer chant community and also enjoys the whole The first bank on mo-dern lines to be esta hearted support of enterprisers, business mag blished in Pondicherry was ,the 'Banque de l' nates, officials, workers, etc. The chit fund is very Indochine (Indochina Bank) which had its useful even as a long term saving as small head office in Paris. The branch was established monthly contributions accumulate into a sub under the Presidential Decree of 21-1-f875. stantial amount after. a specified period. Sub- 21 scribers enjoy a lucrative profit by means of trading companies. Although many personalities dividends. They get the triple benefits viz., contributed for the trading activities in Pondicherry the period of Governor Richemont (i) not paying the interest for the prized was significant in that he encouraged the textile money; industry and agriculture and established the (ii) the profit to be gained by the invest central bazaar. During 1908-1914 the French ment of the prized money in business; establishments participated in the general ex (iii) the dividend (Kasar) declared and pansion of Indian sea-borne trade and had a availed every month. larger foreign trade than at any other time in their history. Ground-nut export consisted of In order to have effective control over the stripped nuts or with husks. Special facili functioning of chit fund companies and to safe ties were given by the Bank of Indo guard the interests of the subscribers, the China for ground-nut export. Next in Pondicherry Chit Funds Act, 1966 modelled importance to ground-nut was the export after the Tamil Nadu Chit Funds Act, 1961 of cotton fabrics. Two other important was passed. exports were rice and fish. The main import items were cotton, arecanuts. Subsequently Coins and currencies: hides and skin came to be exported to . France, Japan and the British ports in south-east Asia; The erstwhile Pondicherry Mint is knmvn items of handicrafts and pottery were exported to have resorted to the manufacture of· 2 types to Singapore and, Sri Lanka. The entry of local of coins, viz., the French type an'd the local products into British India became difficult, type. The manufacture of French type of coins whereas Pondicherry being a free port foreign was started in 1700 while that of native type luxury items and Equor flooded its market, began only in 1736. However, as early as in 1817 leading to large scale smuggling. Even the free the Madras government had declared that trade policy followed by the . French Indian Pondicherry rupee would not be accepted by administration did not help -to resolve the inter British treasury officials. This mint was forced nal economic crisis. With the establishment of to close down in 1830 following a decline· in the a customs union with British India on 28-1-1941 minting of coins precipitated by the steps taken consequent upon negotiation between French by the British to paralyse minting operations Indian adm~nistrat:on and British government, here. the textile products of Pondicherry came to enjoy a ready market in the ~ast British India. With the suspension of minting operations But with abolition 01 customs union in 1949, 111 Pondicherry, British coins became legal customs barriers were once again placed around 1ender here. While Indian rupees were regard Pondicherry subjecting to marketing difficulties. ed as legal tender, the local branch of the In the early fifties the bulk of imports consisted 'Banque de l' Indochine' also issued paper of luxury goods of French or continf'utal origin currencies C'f denominations of one rupee,· five such as silk, artificial silk, piece goods, diamonds, rupees and fifty rupees under the authority of watches, gold, silver, perfumes, playing cards, the French government. These notes were in motorcars, liquor, etc., the import of which was circulation only in Pondicherry. A little later either restrictedilor totally banned by the Import the United commercial bank took possession of Trade Control in India. the 'Banque de l' Indochine' with its assets and liabilities and got the latter mArged within it. Pondicherry slowly developed into an inter national trading centre. Gold which fetched a Trading commodities: much higher price in India than in French India was taken to the frontier in large quantities. The commercial history of Pondicherry for Gold and diamond were imported to Pondicherry almost 2 centuries f?etween 1675-1875 was through official channels on payment of customs closely linked to the activities of the French duty. Indian currencies became very scarce whilp 22 fle value of French currencies declined. Some Pondicherry. With the de facto merger, a Col lIne by the end of 1952 France decided to stop lectorate of Customs and Central Excise was he import of goJrl. set up in Pondicherry and a Customs Advisory Committee was also constituted. Pondicherry being comparatively an under leveloped area, additional licences were' grant ~entres of trade; d especially with a view to compensating the nerchants for loss in turn-over in business due Paddy, groundnut, sugarcane, cashewnut, o the imposition of the Import Trade Control tapioca and betel leaves grown here find tegulations. Those who produced satisfactory a ready market from traders both inside and vidence of past imports were given additional outside Pondicherry. There are many godowns lcences which were then converted as a quota. and warehouses for the storage of the items :xport licences were also granted to intending such as foodgrains! fertilisers1 etc., including rivate exporters and co-operative societies for those maintained by the Food Corporation of nion and dried chillies. India, Co-operative SOCieties, etc. A regulated market set up at Thattanchavady helps the :ustoms and central excise: . farmers to get reasonaqle . price for their The system ~ levying custOIIl5 duty to produce. egulate the movement of goods across the bor The vegetables grown mostly in Ariankuppam ers was in force in Pondicherry from very commune cater to the needs of not only arly times. However in later years, the Pondicherry but also adjacent areas of Tamil ;overnment of Madras had agreed to allow N adu viz., Cuddalore and Tindivanam. Milk oods into this territory on certain concessions and fish are also items which are locally con s indicated herebelow:- sumed and also lifted to adjacent areas. The (i) all livestock and articles of provisions co-operative sector also contributes to trading actually required for consumption of activities, in that grocery co-operative society French settlements to pass the frontier and milk co-operative society take active role in free of duty; Pondicherry. (ii) articles other than foodgrain and provi Rationing : sions such as local clothes, drugs, curry stuffs, etc., to the extent of actual Through fair price shops, the supply of essen requirement for consumption in the tial commodities such as rice, sugar, ravat maida, French settlements on payment of duty vegetable oil, etc., is managed by the govern of 8 per cent; ment with the issue of family identity cards. Supply of kerosene, cloth, wheat is also made (iii) all articles imported at any British through fair price shops as and when occasion port, which have paid full duty as demands. The distribution of cement is regu required by regulation, to be allowed lated by the government to pass free of all further duty into the French settlements. Weights and measures! , " However; customs checkposts were set up Previously for weighing operations ,round Pondicherry: Government of India took rathals and kundus and in textile measurement teps to tighten the, customs cordon. However, transactions plUzham and yard were used. The he customs rules were, relaxed for avoiding un- , petroleum products and the like were measured !ue suffering to bona fide residents. Smuggling in gallons. Paddy, rice, pulses, etc., were mea vas however rampant both ways. Essential sured in marakkals and padis. After merger, the ommodities from adjacent districts for export Madras Standards of Weights and Measures Act, Ibroad and gold, diamond and manufactured 1956 was extended to this territory with effect Irticles from abroad for smuggling outside the from 13-8-1958. A tolerance period of 2 years 'rench settlements for gain poured into WE!S allowed to switch ov~r to metric system of 23 weights and measures with effect from Public transport: 1-10-1958. However, the Pondicherry In early days dholis, pallakku, horses and Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Rules elephants were the modes of transport. Slowly were brought into force with effect from hand-pulled rickshaw and cycle-rickshaw made 10-8-1968 replacing the Madras Weights and their a{>pearance. With the on-set of automobiles Measures Rules till then in force. at the end of 19th century, the old modes of transport slowly went away off the road and The Chamber of Commerce exi!ting in automobiles took their place. Even at the time Pondicherry looks to the welfare of the trading of merger there were regular transport facili community. The bureau of economic and statis ties from Pondicherry to other states. \ tics, Pondicherry has set up a wing for collec Originally the motor transport subject was tion of retail and wholesale prices of commodi also attended by the public works department ties since 1958. This department communicates but then it transferred hands to the police the prices of essential commodities to the All department and finally to the transport India Radio, Pondicherry and All India Radio, department. Many buses having registration at Trichy for broadcast and also to the Ministry Pondicherry and at Madras both government of Agriculture, New Delhi for comparative owned pnd private-owned J'ty in and from study. The wholesale and retail prices of almost Pondicherry. These include short-distance and all commodities ruling every • week are printed long-distance buses. The Andhra Pradesh trans and published as a supplement to the official port department also operates a solitary bus to gazettee once in 4 weeks. Tirupathi and back. The town buses became ordinary mode in Pondicherry during the Roads: sixties. Before their appearance, cycle-rickshaw pullers made good money, but even after town Roads are the veins which connect the buses startedI plying, . cycle-rickshaws were villages into the main stream of national deve popular. The most popular public transport lopment. No progress in any field is possible available is the tempo operated by the private in villages unless they have good and all-wea parties. But however, they prefer and make ther approach roads. Very little information journeys to and from Danvantri Nagar (Gori about the system of roads existing in medu) because of the existence of Jawaharlal Pondicherry prior to the arrival of French, is institute of post-graduate medical education available. However, during \" French regime and research which is one of the leading hospi roads were laid and were maintained tals in the country. Taxies and auto-rickshaws by 'Service des Travaux Publics' (Public are also available in this district in plenty. Works Department). The construction! maintenance of roads now-a-days is the Rail line: responsibility of both the public works depart There is a metre-gauge railway line be ment and the municipality/commune panchayat tween Villupuram and Pondicherry and its concerned. The roads are classified as:- origin may be traced back to 1869. The first passenger train steamed in at Pondicherry on (i) state highways; 14-10-1879. There is only one railway station (ii) major district roads; between Pondicherry and Villupuram exist ing in the district viz., Villianur. However, (iii) other district roads; journey by train to and from Madras is not very (iv) village roads. popular as people prefer bus journey as the former takes long hours. The outward and in The type of roads are:- ward movement of goods by rail are as follows :- cement, concrete, black top and watet bound macad.am constituting s.urfaced roads, soled and (i) Outward.-Chemical . fertilisers, wheat earthen roads constituting unsurfaced roads. products, cotton piece goods, cotton mill sweep- ·24 ings, groundnut oilcakes1 ~mpty barrels and proved a grand success. From then on, ships duck eggs; were regularly nominatl;!d to this port. (ii) Inward.-Coal, grains and pulses, This is a minor sea port. eotton bales, cement, iron billets, urea, insecti- There is no air-port in this district. cides, sulphur and arecanuts. Lig'ht house: Ports : With the advent of French in 1673, In early days; the red hills about 3 kms. Pondicherry became an important trading port north of the town and more than 30 mts. above and trade by sea grew steadily with many . sea level served as a guide to sea-farers approa French and foreign ships arriving at the port. ching Pondicherry Port. A light house existed On 15th August, 1866, a pier built of iron cover since 1st July, 1836, but however this is not in ing a distance of 192,mts. was inaugurated. use consequent upon the construction of a new However, in 1881-82 it was extended by 64 mts. light house in U ppalam grounds which serves and in 1908-1909 by another 80 mts., thus as a guide to sea-farers and it also gives indica re'aching out a total length of 336 mts. On tion about the roughnes&, of the sea for users. 17-11-1862 steamer ship service between Pondicherry and France was inaugurated and Post, telegraphs and telephones: this has marked a big stride towards moderni Since the arrival of French in Pondicherry sation of Pondicherry's overseas communica some arrangements or other existed for despatch tion. Pondicherry very soon became a of official correspondence. In later years the port of call for all ships sailing from French postal system and the British France to the Far-east. With the introduction of postal system functioned side by ~ide. But railways in British India, a noticeable decline only limited functions were to be performed by in trade through this French port was felt. The the French post office. Soon after merger, many port at Pondicherry is a open road-stead and ships anchor a couple of kms. offshore. During more post office branches were opened the French regime there was movement of both in Pondicherry to cater to the needs of the passengers and cargo through the port. After public. As far telephones, it may be mentioned merger there is only cargo movement. With that in 1887, Banque de l' Indochine was autho merger in 1954 the import of consumer goods rised to instal a telephone exchange in and export of textiles to the French colonies in Pondicherry. Then it passed on hands to the Africa practically disappeared. Pondicherry government, chamber of commerce and finally to which had been enjoying speci.al privileges as a the British post and telegraphs authorities. The free port and flourished as a centre of inter local telephone exchange system is known to national trade and commerce began to lose have gone into operation on 16-9-1947. The much importance. The cyclone in 1952 'Own Your Telephone Scheme' was introduced destroyed the metallic pier built and on 16-7.;_1968. The Pondicherry trunk tele extended by French. With the col- phone exchange was established on 1-4-1957. lapse of this pier, the traffic WaB '. handled with the help of country boats. A new On 1-1-1966 an automatic telephone pier was constructed in January, 1963 under the exchange havinq a capacity of 25 lines was dec- direct supervision of Ministry of Transport at 1ared ope,n in Kariamanickam village of a cost of Rs. 48 Iakhs. The port is provided with Nettapakkam commune. This was the first of its adequate space for stocking goods. Godowns . kind set up in this district. belong to the Chamber of Commerce are also situated nearby. The regular port traffic was KARAIKAL DISTRICT continued since 1963 by handling general During 1900, richly fossiliferous marine beds cargo. After persistent request by the Govern of millions of years of age were located and ment of Pondicherry, the Government of India th~y were.. , called as Karaikal beds and these have nominated a fertiliser vessel in 1966 as an marked, ari 11nr10rtant horizon in the coastal experimental measure and this experimj?nt terl;itory - sed~entaries. The geophysical 25 studies conducted by the Geophysical Survey of Electricity and power: India and the Oil and Natural Gas Commission during 1954-65 revealed promlsmg structures Karaikal town came 'to enjoy the benefit of following which the Oil and Natural Gas Com electricity since 1935 following the agreement mission took up detailed investigations including laId between one Shri Gopalakrishna Iyer, and deep drillIng. the Karaikal municipality on 6-3-1933. The power was supplied to Tirumalairayanpattinam Geological formations: in 1937 following an arrangement made by the municipality with him on 21-11-1936. The The Karaikal area is completely covered by a Karaikal Electricity Supply Company came to ~;hick mantle of alluvium and no exposures are be formed after Gopalakrishna Iyer's demise met with anywhere. The following is the in 1940. geological succession of the formations:- At the time of merger only 2 communes, viz., Recent and Sub-recent. .. Blown sands, alluvium Karaikal and Tirumalairayanpattinam had the Pliocene . . . . Karaikal beds. benefit of power. After merger,. licences were issued to extend supply to the remaining 4 Mio-pliocene .... Cnddalorc formation. COinmunes. The electrification work was com pleted during '1958-59. Alluvium : The Karaikal Electric Supply Company was The entire region is completely under the taken over by the government with effect from cover of alluvium of variable thickness. 1-12-1967 on payment of compensation of Towards the western portion the alluviu~ is Rs. 7.7 lakhs. This step helped to achieve more clayey while in the area around Nagore rapid pr9gress in the electrification of villages Tatangambadi road it is more sandy. in Karaikal district. The progress of electrifi cation was appreciable during 1971-72 since Cuddalore formatidns: while only 56 per cent of villages had power supply in 1971, all villages enjoyed this facility This group of r6cks is met within the area in in 1972. Karaikal district contiguous to the area in Thanjavur district. Land and land-use pattern: The total geographical rural area of the dis Mineral wealth: trict compriEing of 110 villages is 14,035.56 The following are the minerals met with hectares. The classification of area by different here :- types of land-use available therefor is indicated herebelow:- (i) Brick clays (ii) Kankar '. Sl. No, .Land use Area (hectares) (iii) Sea shells (1 ) (2) (3) (iv) Ilmenite and garnet sands. (i) Irrigated by source 9,873.90 (ii) Unirrigated 1,690.24 Oil: (iii) Culturable waste 355.12 (iv) Area not available for The prospects of oil find are bright in as much cultivation 2, 1]6.30 as favourable structures and thick sediments were deciphered first by the geophysical divi siGn of the Geologieal Survey of India and sub There is no forest area in this district. The sequently by the Oil and Natural Gas Commis percentage cultivable area to, total area and sion. percentage of irrigated area to total cultivable 26 area are 84.Y2, 82.84 respectively. This goes In the early days agriculturisti in Karaikal to say that Karaikai also is predominantly an district had to depend on inundation following agricultural area. floods in Cauveri or local rainfall. The main branches of Cauveri below the grand anicut Tenancy: are the Kodamurutti, Arasalar, Virasolanar and Vikramanar. In . their tail-reaches, they break The local names of tenancies under different again into a riumber of distributaries and some rigMs of holdings are indicated herebelow:- flow across Karaikal district before entering the Bay pf Bengal. The ;rrigation in Karaikal S1. No. Nature of rights in land Local name is exclusively carried out by canals. The fol lowing are the main units. responsible for (1) (2) (3) , water for agricultural purposes:- With right of permanent, Sontham heritable and transferable (i) Arasalar possession (ii) Nular - an irrigation supply carrier 2 With right of perm~l1ent Anuboga receiving its supply from Arasalar. and heritable possession pathathar but without right of transfer (iii) Vanjiar - an irrigation-cum-drainage carrier fed by Arasalar. 3 ~ortgagees in possession Bogyam 4 Holding free of rent or on Manyam (iv) Nattar - an irrigation supply carrier nominal rent in lieu of or fed by ,Arasalar. not in lieu of service (v) Nandalar - which receives supply 5 Ordinary tenants paying (i) Kuthaga from Virasolanar. fixed cash rent (ii) Kuthagai (vi) Pravadayanar - fed by Kodamurutti. Sagupadi (vii) Tirumalarajanar - an irrigation-cum (iii) Yela drainage carrier receiving supply from Kuthagai Kodamurutti. 6 Ordinary tenants paying Waram' rent as share of produce There are a few shallow tube wells mainly iI1 7 Sub-tenants or tenants of VII Kuthagai Tirunallar commune and partly in Neravy and sub-tenants Nedungadu communes respectively for agricul 8 Conditiorial or temporary Assignment tural activities. lessees or assignees of and leasing of Government land Government poramboke Pulses, cotton, chillies, coconuts, g,roundnuts, land to vegetables and sun flower are the other popular ex-service items grown in the district. The paddy grow men under ing seasons are popularly known as kuruvai, Land Grant (June-Oct.), samba (Aug-Feb.) and thaladi Rules 1976. (Nov.-March). Soon after the closure of the 9 Encroachers and Aackirumip south-west monsoon, groundnut is being culti trespassers pallar. vated utilising available moisture. The major S l'oundnut growing centre is Kottucherry com Agriculture: mune. Pulses are grown in summer followjng harvest of samba paddy. The staple food of the district is rice. Just as in Pondicherry, agriculture is the most im The department of agriculture and the district portant economic activity in the district, both rural development agency supply' agricultural . in terms of employment and output. .. Higher implements, seeds, fertilisers, etc.. -at subsidised production is due to the existence of the coast rates to needy farmers in the interest of agri al alluvium soil very suitable for the CUltiva- cultural production in this district also as in' tion of paddy and pulses. . Pondicherry. 27 Ammal husbandry: In Karaikai municipal area- The position in this sector in Karaikal is (vi) Kllinjaimedu almost similar to the one prevailing in (vii) Karaikalmedu Pondkherry. In 1948 a veterinary hospital was In Tirumalairayanpattinam commune. opened for treatment of animal and to attend to the duties of slaughter house here. The (viii) Karakalachery in Neravy commune communicable and non-communicable diseases (ix) Keezhaiyur Pattinacherry are the same as at Pondicherry and the veteri (x) North Vanjore nary hospital, dispensaries and mobile dispen saries. cater to their needs and necessities. The grazing facilities are extremely limited as most The inland fishermen are mainly spread over of the area is under paddy cultivation. In the Karaikal municipality, Neravy and Tiruma between harvest and transplantation, lands are lairayanpattinam communes. A large number of :;;ome times utilised for grazing purposes. inland tanks are available over the entire district. Many mechanised fishing boats are in The milk supply position in Karai.kal is opetation here. Inland fishermen of Karaikal, satisfactory. There is a chilling plant located 'l_ irumalairayanpattinam, Melavanjiyur and here. Besides the co-operative milk supply Keezhavanjiyur enjoy the fishery rights of the society which was established in 1955, a' large estuarine portion of Arasalar, Tirumalarajanar number of private vendors also eater to the and Pravadayanar. needs (')f the public. The conditions of inland fishermen in Karaikal Good ~uality meat is available to the public; differ much from those in Pondicherry. The on hygienic conditions. The slaughter house is rinTS of Karaikal are rich in fishery generally located at Thomas Arul street in Karaikal throughout the year and especially during municipal area. In Karaikal also' a good number cf sheep and goats are of low quality with poor floods as most of the river banks remain open throughout the year except for onp or two yield. This district is not suitable for rearing wool' quality sheep. A separate poultry farm months.' As all the rivers flowing in this region are distributes of river Cauveri the fish variety also exists here. Poultry keeping is popular common in Cauveri are found in: the rivers of among the rural folk as a subsidiary occupa Karaikal. tion. Karaikal town is situated on the northern Fowls and ducks are the common species of bank of Arasalar which has a fairly wide and poultry in this district. Th.~ cattle and poultry deep estuary. Though the channel is shallow, shows are held here also every year and these the mouth of the river is almost permanently efforts help to increase the milk production. connected with the sea. The sea fisheries of Fisheries: the Thanjavur district in the coastal periphery of which Karaikal is situated are the richest in Karaikal is a good fishing centre with the Tamil Nadu state yielding more than double following 10 marine fishing villages spread the catch of any other district in the state. along the coast:- There are more chances for development of fish In Kottucherry commune- ery opportuni!ies in this district. (i) Mandabathur During the earlier period, in the absence of (ii) Kalikuppam guidance of modern fishing methods, traditional (iii) Akkampettai fishing modes with nets of cotton yarn and (:y) Kottucherry~edti catamaran Wf4re followed. Subsequently, (v) Kasakudymedu nylon nets arid mechanised fishing boats were 28 distributed so that the fishermen wno were Trade and commerce; . operating by indigenous cotton nets with much Anti-social bankers were mobilising the efforts and less catch were b~nefit~by increas poverty of the public and were advancing money ed substantial return. Subsidy and loans were for exorbitant interest. The borrowers were liberally granted to the needy fishermen com greatly handicapped because of this. Hence. in munity by Fisheries department and also agencies thereunc;cr. as much as the 'Mont-de-Piete' (Pawn office) ~et up earlier in Pondicherry ~as successful, a Dawn office was set up in Karaikal under an Service-cum-maintenance unit, fish landing Arrete of July, 1907. The coming up of bank jetti, ice plant-cum-cold storage plant and fish branches, providing jewel loan facilities render auction sheds are in existence here. The follow ed closure of the 'Mont-de-Piete' '.vhich was no ing are the major fish markets in this distrIct: longer required. (i) Karaikal Joint stock banks: (ii) Tirumalairayanpattinam After the nationalisation of banks many (iii) Neravy branches of commercial banks were opened in (iv) Tirunallar this district which cater to the needs of the public. There are many credit societies and (v) Nedungadu co-operative banks contributing their mite to Around Karaikal in Tamil Nadu state the the ceneral public. major fish markets are in Mayuram, Peralam Small savings: and Thittacherry. Fresh and dried fish are both consumed locally and the excess sold in The small savings scheme operated by banks outside market. Prawns are also exported from and post offices also need mentian at this point. here. Chit funds: Good quality chanks (conch shells) are also There are a few chit funds existing in this available here in the sea off Karaikal. The district rendering helping hands to the popula right to collect chanks is leased out for a period tion in general and to the merchant community of 3 years by sealed tender system. in particular. Ind ustries : Trading commodities : The one large scale ind ustry in this district Rice and fish are the two important items is a textile unit named "Mis. Soundararaja exported from Karaikal. A small quantity of Mills Ltd." located in Nedungadu. There are [roundnut and cotton fabrics is also exported, many small scale industrial units here and but thi.s is insignificant. The most important ther::'. ReglstraLon with the Industries depart items imported are arecanuts and petroleum. ment benefit them multifold. The rural indus trial estate in Karaikal established in 1968 Customs and central excise: caters to the needs of industrialists. 25 factory The position regarding customs and central sheds \'iere constructed and allotted to entrepre excise and trade control are the same as at neurs. Handloom weaving is also prevalent Pondicherry. here. There are a few soap manufacturing . units exIsting here. The service-com-common The Karaikal co-operative marketing soc:ety facility workshop set up here caters to the needs established on 23-6-1955 face a leading role cf agriculturists and artisans. There is an in the procurement of paddy during harvest industrial training institut~ located in Tiruma season on behalf of the Food Corp'Jration 0: lairayanpattinam. Ind:a and on its own behalf. 29 Weights and measures: pathll are the stations in this district. After merger the ownership and administration of the The Act and Rules passed in Pondicherry and line came to vest with the Government of India in force are applicable to this district also. and its operation controlled by tJ1e southern rflil The branch of" bureau of economics and statis way. The train services in this line always face tics, Pondicherry collects the retail and whole cancellation due to shortage of coal for economy sale prices of commodities and forwards the reasons, but resume after representations from same to its main office at Pondicherry. the public very frequently. The train services are often utilised for transport of goods to and Roads: from this district, the main outward movement being fish and prawns. Whatever applies to Pondicherry in regard to the construction and maintenance of roads' either during th~ Ex-french regime or in the Ports: post merger period and the classification and The Karaikal port also is road-stead. Load types of roads existing applies to Karaikal as ing and unloading of goods were usually carried well. on with the help of boats whenever water level Public transport: was high in the river. The goods used to be brought to the warehouses without difficulty. Cycle rickshaws are the common mode of There are storage facilities in the warehouses conveyance in this district. A few town buses situated not far from Arasalar and Vanjiar. are in operation in this district. They connect However, in view of existence of a port in also places like N agore and N agapattinam in N agapattinam, this minor port does not have Tamilnadu state. Many private and public much importance. route buses with registration of this union There is no air-port in this district. territory and also Tamilnadu state are plying in this district. Long distance buses operated Light house: by Tamilnadu government from Nagapattinam to Madras via. Pondicherry, pass through this A lantern situated at 10° 55' north latitude place. Regular private and government control and 79° 24' east longtitude serves as a light led buses are plying between Pondicherry and house for the port of Karaikal. It was placed Karaikal. upon a masonry tower of 13 mts. height to the north of Arasalar. Rail line: Post, telegraphs and telephones: The construction of a branch railway line b,t'anching off from the main Mayiladuthruai During pl'emerger days French post-offices Muthupetta line and connecting Peralam with and Indian post-offices ,vere functioning side Karaikal ':'las authorised by the French govern by side. The first branch of the Indian post ment in December, 1895. This railway line own office can be dated back to 1890., The oldest ed by the French government was operated by post office at Karaikal municipal area became South Indian Railway in accordance with the lower selection grade office in 1945. The service t<:rms of agreement reached in 1902. The through post offices had grown very much alter company had to remit to the French government merger. All the post offices in this district are the net profit arrived Ht after deducting the provided with savings bank facilities. ThE-se are me-intenance cost. Built at a cost of 12 lakhs under the control of Senior superintendent of franc, the line was opened to traffic on 14-3.,.1898. post offices having headquarters at Nagapatti It covered a distance of 23.5 kms. within whi.h nam. The t.elegraph office located in this district about 16 kms fell w~thin Karaikal. Ambagara are connected to Mayiladuthura;. telograph thur, Paruthikudi, Tirunallar and Karaikovil- office. 30 l.'elephone exchange: types of land-use available therefor is indicated herebelow:- The telephone exchange was commissioned in Karaikal on 11-11-1956. Originally it was Sl. No. Land-use Area (hectares) working in auto-system which ,was converted (1) (2) (3) into a manual which again was re-converted into automatic· system as at present in force (i) Irrigated by source 18.00 now. (ii) Unirrigated 33.00 (iii) Culturable waste 556.00 MARE DISTRICT (iv) Area not available for cultivation 115.17 Minerals.-The recent and sub-recent forma tions in the diStrict are laterite and beach sand. There is no forest area in this district. The percentage cultivable area to total area and There is no other mineral worth-mention percentage of irrigated area to total cultivable ing in this district. area are 84.05 and 2.97 respectively. This indi cates that Mahe is also predominantly an agri Electricity and power.-The West Coast Elec cultural area. tric Supply Company Limited was issued a licence in 1955 to organise the supply and distri Tenancy: bution of electricity in this district. The company obtained power from the Kerala state electri The local names of tenancies under different city board and distributed it. On 1-10-1968 the rights of holdings are indicated here below :- undertaking was paid a compensation of Rs. 2.7 lakhs and power distribution system SI. taken over by the administration. The power No. Nature of rights in land Local name requirements of Mahe' are now met by the (1) (2) (3) Kerala state electricity board' at 2 points J. With right of permanent, (i)Sontham(Jenmam) of supply viz., Palloor and Mahe. The sub heritable and transferable pos- (ii) Kanam Kuzhi- station commissioned by the Kerala session. kanam state electricity board at Badagara helps 2. With right of permanent and Kuzhikanam not only the growing demand for power in the heritable possession but without district, but also to eliminate the low voltage right of transfer. conditions and frequent interruptions. The take 3. Mortgagees in possession. Kaivasapanayam over of the administration of the electricity undertaking paved way for rapid electrification 4. Holding free of rent or on Charthu nominal rent in lieu of or not in of villages and settlements inhabited by the lieu of service. weaker sections of population in the district. As regards rural electrification, it may be men 5. Ordinary tenants paying fixed Kudiyayma . cash rent. tioned that the three villages in this district had 'no power supply even by 1961, whereas, they 6. Ordinary tenants paying rent (i) Waram . had been electrified during the decade 1961-71. as shares of produce. (ii) Kozhu right 7. Sub-tenants or tenants of sub- Kudiyan Land and land-use pattern: tenants. \ 8. Conditional or temporary lessees Pattam The total geographical rural area of the or assignees of Government land.. district comprising of 3 villages is 722.17 hect 9. Encroachers and trespassers. Anniya Kayettam ares. The classification of area by different 31 171/4-3B Agriculture: Mahe is at the centre of a prawn ground ... which stretches from Quilon to Mangalore. The The staple food of the district is rice. The Mahe catches are purchased, by the Tellicherry extent of wet land is limited and is entirely merchants and taken to Kozhikode and Cochin rain fed. Since this is adjacent to Kerala on for further processing. The major fish market the Malabar coast, the district is covered by ing centres in and. around Mahe are Mahe, typical red laterite soil of Malabar. Paddy is Cannanore, Kozhikode and Tellicherry. Prior to cultivated only in a few patches. The number 1961, the fishermen used to cure fish in their huts . of crops raised are 3, two of which are of and under very unhygienic conditions as a short duration and one of long duration. Tapio result of which the cured fish has always been ca, banana, arecanut, pepperl coconut, etc., are found tb be dirty, ill-dried and foul smelling. grown in this district widely. The government However, subsequently a fish curing yard was extends its assistance for supply of agricultural established in Mahe thereby enabling scientific implements, etc.,. at subsidised rates here also. curing of fish varieties. Necessary accessories Animal husbandry: for fishing are distributed to fishermen at sub sidised rates by the government. Prior to merger there was no regular system of dealing with livestock services here also. Industries: However, after merger services in this sector had been established by the administration. '. Industrial units have concentration only in Pondicherry and Karaikal and Mahe to its The diseases mainly prevalent among the goats credit has only a very few of them. The only in Mahe are Mastitis (wet gangrene), retained one large scale industry functioning in, this placenta, etc. Bovine and canine are the same district is the Cannanore spinning and weaving as in other districts. Fowl-pox cocceidiosis, mills. paralysis, etc., are prevalent here. The non communicable diseases are dyspepsia, enteritis, Trade and commerce: bronchitits, bloat, urinary-calculi, etc. These are attended to effectively by the veterinary Highly money minded bankers were exploit units. An artificial insemination centre and ing the public by charging usurious interest for poultry farm also exist here to cater to the money advanced. In order to remedying the needs of the livestock. There are no lands suit grievances of the public a branch of 'Monte-de able for fodder cultivation in this district. piete' (pawn office) was set up in Mahe under River beds are generally' used as grazing the Arrete dated 9th October, 1929. This does centres. Cattle shows are conducted annually not however exist now. and this provides incentive for those who rear good quality cattle. J oint stock banks : There is a milk supply co-operative society The people enjoy limited banking facilities as functioning here to serve the public. also service by co-operative societies. Fisheries: Small savings: The river Mahe runs for a distance of about 2 kIns. in Mahe district- before it joins the The banks and post-offices also contribute to Arabian sea. The fishery Of this portion of the the mobilisation of small savings from the river comprises mostly of estuarine varieties and public. forms only a small portion of the total fish pro duction of the district. The coastline here Trading commodities : lies between the richest fishing belt between Ponnahi and Mangalore on the west-coast. It A small quantity of fish is exported from brings a rich harvest of pelagic fishery. Mahe. 32 Customs and central "excise : tioning in Mahe with one departmental sub post office and 3 extra departmental branches. Mahe carried on coastal trade . with customs The post offices come under the jurisdiction of port as defined lll;der section 12 of Sea Cust~ms Superintendent of post offices, Badagara division, Act, 1878. Mahe is not a developed marketmg Badagara. centre and hence the nearby towns of Tellicherry, Kozhikode and Cannanore serve As for telegraph, the new Mahe central Mahe. office was opened on 15th September, 1953 and Weights and measures: Public call office on 25th October, 1953. The telegraph units' are connected to Calicut. Mahe The Act arid rules passed for implementation has telephonic link too. of proper weighing and measuring operations are applicable to this district also. Y ANAM DISTRICT The retail and wholesale of commodities are Minerals: arranged to be collected and communicated to This district lies in the Godavari deltaic the bureau of economics and statistics, region and is completely covered by recent de Pondicherry to facilitate publication. posits viz., soil and alluvium. There is no Roads: mineral of economic value here. The construction .and maintenance of roads Electricity and power: during the Ex-french regime and post-merger The benefit of electricity was available to period as also the classificatfon and types of this district since 1956. The Andhra Pradesh roads are the same as existing in Pondicherry. state eletcricity board maintained a unit of their Public transport: office in Yanam and controlled the supply and distribution of electricity. However, with effect Due to many ups and downs in the . road from 7-6-1976 the distribution of power was system in the district, rickshaws or cycl#rick taken over' by the Pondicherry administration. shaws do not exist here. The commonest mode The power requirements of this district are of public transport is the autorickshaw and this obtained in bulk from the Andhra Pradesh is very liberally used by the public. A few state electricity board in accordance with the town buses are in operation. Long distance terms of agreement reached with the Govern buses operated by the Government of Kerala ment of Andhra Pradesh. pass' through this place. Land and land-use pattern: Rail line : Mahe has a railway station also to its credit. The entire district is treated as urban area. However, it may be mentioned that the extent Ports: of cultivable land.. is approximately 1,060 hect There is a minor port in Mahe, but this is ares--450 dry and 610 wet. There is no forest not in use now. area here. Light house: Tenancy: The light house located therein had been in existence since premerger period. The local names of tenancies under different rights of holdings are as may be seen here There is no air-port in this district., below:- Post, telegraphs and telephones: Sl.No. Nature of rights in land Local name The Indian post and telegraphs office in Mahe (1) (2) (3) is known to be one of the oldest of its kind in India. In 1882 with the introductio~ of savings With right of permanent, herit- (i). Swarjitam able and transferable possession (it) Sontham bank scheme in Indiat the office started func- 33 (iii) Kothapeta (1) (2) (3) (iv) Mettak'ur 2 With right of permanent and Poorvarjitam (v) Kanakalapeta heritable possession but without (vi) right of transfer. Kursampeta (vii) Padvarevupeta 3 Mortgagees in possession. Swadinathanka (viii) Sangadirevupeta 4 Holding free of rent or on Manyam nominal rent in lieu of or not in lieu of service. One of the tributaries of river Godavari viz., Gauthami which is the biggest estuary in India S Ordinary tenants paying fixed Lease cash rent. is flowing on the southern side of Yanam. The length of the estuary is 15 kms. in Yanam dis 6 Ordinary tenants paying rent Lease as share of produce. trict. All the fishermen depend upon the fishery of the estuary for their livelihood. The Shoe 7 Crop sharers without tenancy Kavulu rights. dhony (canoe) is the commonest fishing crafts here. Padnoa is another kind of boat in use. 8 Sub-tenants' or tenants of Adde sub-tenants. Nylon drift gill nets and drag nets are being operated with nava boats in the estuary. The 9 Encroachers and trespassers. Anyakrantham catches consist mostely of mullets, hils a, prawns, cat :fish, cl upeoids, etc. This is mainly a fishing Agriculture: area which is proved by the fact that the The staple food of this district is rice. The average annual, fish production is more than 1,000 soil is very fertile, but irrigation facilities are metric tonnes valued at over Rs. 60 lakhs. The very poor as compared to Pondicherry and fishermen of this district are of migratory type. Karaikal. However, two crops are raised annu During the summer. months, they will be enga ally. The crops of this district are coconut, paddy, ged in fishing in the upper reaches of Godavari. jowar, cumbu! ragii groundnut, pulses, corian In' addition to. the estuarine fishing there exists der, fenugreek, -etc. and the existence of alluvial about 30 fresh water tanks and ponds with an soil is best suited for their cultivation. Water extent to 50 hectares in private and public for the lands is got from Gauthami-Godavari sector from which about 200 metric tonnes of river through provision of channels. The fresh water fish is being produced every year. government arranges supply of agricultural Since there is no fish curing ,yard here the implements, seeds, fertilisers, etc., at subsidised fishermen still resort to the traditional method rates towards increase in agricultural produc of fish curing viz., curing fish in their own huts tion. ander very unhygienic conditions resulting in fish being found very dirty, ill-dried and in Animal husbandry: adequately salted and smeiling foul.· The The cattle population in Yanam is very poor important marketing centres in and around as compared to Pondicherry and Karaikal. How YaLam are Yanam and Kakinada. The govern ever, conspicuous veterinary services are avail ment are implementing various development able in this district after merger. schemes to increase fish production and to im prove the socio-economic condition of the fisher Fisheries: men here. Fishing nets,: floats, ropes, etc.,. at Yanam is situated about 10 kms away from subsidisEYl. rates are also being distributed by the sea at the confluence of mighty Godavari the government. and Coringa river. The district comprises of the following fishing units:- Industries: (i) Guerirnpeta There is ·no industrial unit worth-mentioning (ii) Agraharanl in this district. 34 Trade and commerce: Roads: To relieve the public from paying exorbitant The responsibility to construct and maintain interests to avaricious money lenders, the roads rests with the public works department 'Monte-de-piete' (pawn office) was set up here and municipality as in other districts. cn 14-6-1946. However, this has been closed later with the advent of bank branches. Public transport : Joint stock banks : Buses and mini-buses are plied in this dis trict by private operators. Some autorickshaws This district is serviced by branches of com can also be seen. The nearest linking town to mercial banks. Yanam is Kakinada. Small savings: Rail line : In additj,on to banks the post-offices also help There is no rail link to this place. The near the people to participate in the small savings est rail point is Kakinada. scheme. ' Ports : T.J:ading commodities: :.. I There is no sea/air-port here. The major export from Yan'UYl is fish. Other Post, telegraphs and telephones : exports are either marginal or insignificant. Yanam has not developed into a' marketing Yanam is provided with one tA' class sub-post centre and hence Kakinada and Rajamundry in office placed under the control of Kakinada Andhra Pradesh serve it. head post office. There are some branch post Weights and measures: offices functioning under this. There is a tele graph office here working on morse system The Weights and Measures Act and Rules connected to Kakinada. There is an automatic applicable to other districts hold good here also. telephone exchange here. VI. MAJOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVENTS, NATURAL AND ADMINIS TRATIVE DEVELOPMENTS AND MIS CELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES OF NOTE DURING THE DECADE General: in view. In physical terms . also, the contribu tion of each department towards welfare No major, social or cultural events took measures is sizeable as may be seen herebelow:- place in any of the 4 districts of this union Tenures of executive head of the state: territory. During the decade in question, the administrative machinery has been strengthen Immediately after merger in 1954, the repre sentative of the Government of India, in ed in all the 4 districts with a view to providing Pondicherry known as "Consut General of India" greater service and amenities to the general was appointed as chief commissioner. pUblic. The activities of the various depart Shri Kewal Singh, I. C. S. was the first chief ments have increased multi-fold With this end commissioner in Pondicherry followed by 35 Shri M. K. Kirpalani, 1. C. S., Shri L. R. S. Singh, Second legislative assembly: 1. C. S. and Shri S. K. Datta, 1. C. S. However, since 14-10-1963, the union territory continued to With a view to giving the Union Territory be headed by Lieutenant-Governors. The of Pondicherry a popular Government based on tenures of the Lt. Governors are as follows:- adult franchise, the General Elections, the first of its kind in this territory under the provi SI. Name Tenure sions contained in the Representative of the No. r- From To People Act, 1950 and Representation of the (1) (2) (3) (4) People Act, 1951 were held in August 1964. On SIS the eve of the General Elections in 1964, the constituencies were delimited by the Delimita 1 S.L. SHam 14-10-1963 13-10-1968 tion Commission and the ¢ntire territory was (Shri T. Sivasankar functioned as Lieutenant divided into 30 single member constituencies - Governor during the leave period of about 20 for Pondicherry district, 7 for Karaikal dis 3 months ofShri S.L. Silam from 31-10-1966) trict, 2 for Mahe district and 1 for Yanam 2 B.D. Jatti 14-10-1968 7-11-1972 district. 3 Chhedilal 8-11-1972 29-8-1976 As a result of the elections held on 23rd 4 Bidesh Tukkaram August, 1964, 22 members belonging to the Kulkarni 30-8-1976 31-10-1979 Indian National Congress, 4 to the People's (Shri Prabhudas B. Patwari, GovernQr of Tamil Front and 4 Independents were returned. nadu functioned also as Lieutenant-Governor of Pondichcrry during the leave ·period of Shri Defections from the ruling party took place in Bidesh Tukkaram Kulkarni from 8th to 22nd the year 1967 and consequently the:r;e was a July, 1978) change over of the Ministry and the formation (Shri L.S. Lulla functioned as Lieutenant-Governor of a new party known as United Democratic of Pondicheriy during the leave period of Shri FroM. The floor crossings continued till Bidesh Tukkaram Kulkarni from 20-4-1979 to September, 1968 giving rise to unstable political 10-6-1979) situation. On September 11, 1968 the Chief 5 R. K. Vyas 1-11-1980 15-4--1981 Minister tendered the resignation of his 6 Sadiq Ali (Governor of Ministry to the Lieutenant-Governor. Acting. on Tamilnadu held additional the advice of the Lieutenant-Governor the second charge of the post) 16-4-1981 26-7-1981 Podicherry Legislative Assembly was dissolved 7 R.N. Haldipur 27-7-1981 14-5-1982 on 18th September, 1968 and President's rule was imposed with immediate effect. 8 K.M. Chandy 15-5-1982 Till date , Council of ministers: The details since the first legislative assembly The union territory is having its sixth legis are as indicated herebelow:- lative assembly now. First legislative assembly-(July 1963 to First legislative assembly: August 1964): By virtue of section 54 of the Government of Union Territories Actl the members of the then HOll. Thiruvalargal Representative Assembly of Pondicherry were deemed to have been elected to the Legislative E. Goubert (Chief Minister) Assembly of Pondicherry. Thus the first Legis V. Vengadasubba Reddiar lative Assembly of Pondicherry was constituted K. M. Gurusamy Pillai ami its term was fixed to expire on 24th, Mohamed Ismail Maricar August, 1964 under section 54 of the Govern ment. of Union Territories Act, 1963. This· M. K. J eevarathna Odayar assembly functioned as such till that date. V. M. C. Varadha Pillai 36 Second legislative assembly-(August 1964 to Fifth legislative assembly-(July 1977 110 September 1968): November 1978): September, 1964 to April, 1937: Hon. Thiruvalargal . S. Ramassamy (Chief Minister) Hon. Thiruvalargal D. Ramachandran (Upto 9-10-1978) V. Vengadasubba Reddiar (Chief Minister) S. Sivaprakasam (From 9-10-1978) A. S. Kankeyan V. M. C. Varadha Pillai (From 9-10-1978) P. Shanmugam N. Venkatesarny (From 9-10-1978) V. M. C. Varadha Pillai S. Susairaj (From' 9-10-1978) April, 1967 to March, 1968: Sixth legislative assembly-(From January Hon. Thiruvalargal 1980} : M. O. H. Farook (Chief Minister) Hon. Thiruvalargal M. K. Jeevarathna Odayar D. RamElchandran (Chief Minister) (ceased to be a Minister in 1/68) S. Savarirajan (Home Minister) Manickavasaga Reddiar G. Perumal Raja (PW Minister) Subramaniya Padayachi Tmt. Renuka Appadurai SHealth Minister) G. Nagarajan V. M. C. Sivakumar (Agriculture Minister) March, 1968 to Septerpber, 1968: V. Kathirvel (Co-operation Minister) Han. Thiruvalargal Medical: V. Vengadasubba Reddiar (Chief Minister) After merger, the state family planning office A. S. Kankeyan was created in recognition of the importance of P. Shanrnugam family planning, tuberculosis control pro gramme was launched,' state leprosy control V. M. C. Varadha Pillai programtne was started and Filaria control", pro- P. Rattinavelu gramme was intensified. Third legislative assembly-(March 1969 to Activities during 1971-81 : January 1974): A supplemental feeding programme for the Hon. Thiruvalargal pre-school children or family welfare acceptors was implemented with the assistance of M. O. H. Farook (Chief Minister) Co-operation for American Relief Everywhere, S. Rrunassamy Tamilnadu. The children received 100 grams. V. Kailasa Subbiah (Upto 3/73) of nutritious grains daily besides growth and S. Arumugarn weight observations, ' deworming etc. The D. Ramachandran Employees State Insurance scheme was exten ded to additional sectors of employment. Fourth legislative assembly-(March, 1974) : Specialist services are being taken to rural Hon. Thiruvalargal areas according to a schedule. All primary health centres are provided with laboratory S. Ramassamy (Chief Minister) facilities; vehicle, telephone, etc., to offer com D. Ramachandran prehensive medical care and referal service. In addition, the Indian system of medicine was V. Subbiah established in all the general hospitals with V. M. C. Varadha Pillai the functioning of Ayurveda and Siddha clinics. N. Venkatesamy Maternity and Child health services are offered . 37 t6 mothers and children through special clinics the implementation of the five year plans. in the rural centres and at the door steps of There was' a rapid pace of development in the the people. Smallpox had been eradicated and field of agriculture with the expansion of the the union territory was declared smallpox-free department and its activities. in 1977 by the World Health Organisation. Training of traditionpl birth attendants was The union territory has attained self-sufficien conducted to provide scientific natal care to cy in foodgrains production and hence the rural mothers. Training of uni-purpose work strategy adopted. since the V five year plan ers as multi-purpose workers to provide package period is to maintain the production of food of welfare services to the people was conducted. grains at the level of 1,,20,000 tonnes by The scheme of monthly assistance to poor intensive cropping and increase the production Hansen's patients has been launched. This is of commercial crops by diverting more area. the first of the kind in the country. The bene Sugarcane, groundnut, cotton and coconut crops ficiaries receive rice, oil, dhal and soap worth figure prominently under the commercial crops Rs. 40 a month besides yearly supply of 2 sets proposed to be developed. of dhoties and towels/sarees and blouses and The various development measures adopted micro-cellular rubber sandals worth Rs. 120. by the government to boost agricultural produc The regularity in taking treatment is watched tion in the 4 districts under this sector are and 775 persons are being benefited till 198L dealt with in detail in the district chapters The total number.of medical officers during concerned. 1971 and 1980 are 153 and 230, of staff nurses Ind ustries : 128 and 333, of maternity assistants 93 and 135 Industries on its part also gained the attention and of pharmacists 55 and 109 respectively. 229 of the administration after the de facto trans community health visitors had been trained and fer of power of this union territory in general deployed to render simple medical treatment. and during 1971-81 in particular. Prior to 1971 All the general hospitals are located in govern and after merger the following schemes were ment-owned buildings. Some of the ancillary implemented :- institutions are housed in government-owned buildings, while speedy action is being taken to (i) Exemption of sales tax for local pro locate i1he rest under their own roofs. ducts. Electricity and power: (ii) State aid to Industries. (iii) Concessional rate of stamp duty fOl' Prior to merger; the position of electricity the mortgages to be executed under the and power in all the 4 districts of this union Pondicherry State Aid to Industries territory was far from satisfactory. However, Act, 1970. after merger and in phases, a conceivable improvement has been noticed in this sector ip (iv) Price preference for supply of stores to aU the 4 districts. The note under this sector government departments by local small scale industrial units. under each district explains the position. (v) Interest subsidy for ~ the prompt re Agriculture: payment of loans. There were no developmental activities during The details of incentives now offered by the the French regime as it was a Government for Pondicherry administration are as follows :- keeping law and order. After merger, the union territory administration paid greater (1) Sanction of term loan for the acquisi emphasis on agricultural sector. The establish tion of the land, building, machinery ment of the Agricuture department in 1955 and equipment and concessional rate of provided for the overall development of agri interest of 12.8% under the Industrial ~Uural activities in the union territory and Development Bank of India refinance has brought about beneficial changes through scheme for the eligible projects. 38 (2) Allotment of developed plots and (16) A sales rebate of 5 % is allowed for all ready built industrial sheds. tiny sector units started after 1-1-78, (3) Consumer goods of the small scale in whose products are sold through re dustries are marketed through the cognised emporia. sales emporia. (17) Management training is imparted to (4) Sanction of financial assistance for entrepreneurs of small scale industries. transport industry. (18) Seed capital assistance for technically (5) Sanction of financial assistance for qualified entrepreneurs and others who hotel industry. are considered suitable. (6) Special assistance scheme for artisans, (19) Redu<;ed margin for scheduled castel ·village and cottage industries for loan scheduled tribe entrepreneurs. upto Rs. 25,000. (20) Sales tax reimbursement for tiny and (7) Special assistance scheme for cottage cottage industries against the purchase industries for purchase of machinery of raw materials, tools, plant and and tools at 3 % interest. machinery. (8) 15% outright grant/subsidy on the capital investment on fixed assets. A state owned finance corporation namely (9) All new industries are exempted from Pondicherry Industrial Promotion Development payment of sales tax for a period of 5 and Investment Corporation Limited was set up years for the end products. in 1974 with headquarters in Pondicherry. The (10) Exemption of stamp duty for the mort Corporation's main activities are to develop the gage deed executed' by small scale infrastructure facilities and render financial industries under the Pondicherry State assistance to small or medium industries. Aid to Industries Act. Government has also invested a sizeable sum towards the share capital contribution in this (11) Price preference of 15 % is accorded to corporation. Industries enrolled with 'Pipdic' as small scale industries in this territory a 'business associate' are being assisted by the for purchase of stores by government State Industries department in procuring departments in Pondicherry adminis government orders. 'Pipdic' has also a scheme tration .. to participate in the private ventures in medium (I?) New high tension/low tension consumer and large scale industries. started production on or after 1-4-75 are eligible for power subsidy. 'ihe D:str:ct Industries Centre set up in 1978 (13) The small scale industries registered is an institution at the district level which pro with the department of industries, vides the' required services and support to the Pondicherry are exempted from pay entrepreneurs at one place for setting up small ment of sales tax for the materials village and cottage industries. Unlike in other purchased from raw material depot of states, the entire Union Territory of National Small Industries Corporation. Pondicherry is considered to be one district and the District Industries Centre covers' the entire (14) Security deposit and earnest money de union territory comprisIng of Pondicherry, posit are exempted for tenders quoted by Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. The very purpose small scale industries for the supply of of setting up of District Industries Centre by goods to government departments of the Government of India is to avoid entrepre Pondicherry administration. neurs to travel to the capital of the state for (15) Reduction of central sales tax to the getting the requirements of licensed permis extent of 50% has been made available sions, raw materials, etc. and by effective for existing industries for a specified management in the union territory, this object period. i.s being achieved. 39 Following merger, although the All .India existing in other advanced states of the country. Khadi and Village Industries Commission evin This union territory is 7th in terms of literacy ced interest to extend its sphere of activity in percentage in India. this territory,' it was however, considered necessary to set up a separate Khadi Board for Bearing in mind that education is the bed implementation of the programmes of the rock of all social, economical, industrial and Khadi commission and accordingly, Khadi and cultural developments, that sector is being given Vil.12.'-~e Industries Board had been opened in the best attention in this union territory. this union territory in 1979. Audio visual education also plays an impor The educated unemployed are being imparted tant role in the teaching and learning process. training in various trades such as radio Under this scheme, children education tours mechanism, auto-mechanism, etc., so as to equip are conducted and children film festivals are themselves for self-employment. organised. The recreational activities for the children are also taken care of by establishment Education: :. of bal bhavans, etc. Libraries play an impor The arrival of the French in the 17th century tant role in the inculcation of education and paved way for the beginning of modern educa this sector also is well looked after by the tion in Pondicherry with influence of foreign administration. missionaries. Eventhough the system of edu catic·n was in: favol,lr of French lan~uage, the The children are taught the need for enrol ment under Bharat scouts and guides, National stud:' of local languages was not neglected. The cadet corps, National social service league and collegiate education on Indian university pattern the response is very good. was made available to this territory after merger. During 1978-79, the 10 + 2 + 3 pattern of The education expansion in this union terri education has been adopted by this administra tory, compares favourably with the position tion. The statement herehelow indicates the existence of educational institutions since 1973 in this Union territory. J979-80* Type of institutions 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80* r------"------, G(lVer,l- Private ment , (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) -~-~--.~------....A. GENERAL EDUCATION: Colleges For boys 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 2 For girls 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ----~- Total .. 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 7 ~ ~ Higller Secondary Schools For boys 10 10 7 -' For girls 2 5 3 2 Total .. 12 15 10 5 H igh School~ For boys 43 44 45 4'i 47 4[' 39 3n 3 For girls 17 18 19 19 19 17 17 14 3 Total .. 60 62 64 65 66 57 56 50 6 40 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Middle Schools For boys 60 71 69 67 68 68 73 67 6 For girls 16 15 15 15 15 IS 14 6 8 Total 76 86 84 82 83 83 87 73 14 Primary Schools For boys 273 269 265 265 263 266 263 250 13 For girls 21 22 21 23 23 23 22 17 5 Total .. 294 29] 286 288 286 289 285 267 18 Nursery Schools For boys 55 56 54 51 52 54 60 37 23 For girls Total .. 55 56 54 51 52 54 60 37 23 Total institutions for general education (Total-A) 494 504 497 495 496 504 512 444 68 B. PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL AND SPECIAL EDUCATION: Medical college for boys and for girls L<"w colle3e I. School for nursing Teachers training centre 2 2 2 2 2 2 Polytechnic for boys .1 Junior technical school for boys School for embroidery, needle work and dress making for girls Pre vocational training centres 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 School for the blind School for the deaf and dumb School for adults 49 42 21 24 34 154 517 457 o~ Total institutions for professional, technical and special education ·Total-B) .. 63 56 35 38 48 168 529 468 61 Grand total 557 560 532 533 544 672 1,041 912 129 ----_. .. PWV!SiOllaJ. Survey activities: (iii) Matrice cadastral (iv. Fiche A detailed survey was done by the French administration during 1889-1912. The follow- (v) Commune maps ing land records were prepared during the (vi) Section maps course of that survey:- (vii) Modification plans (i) Village map ·The land records prepared did not contain (ii) Tableau synoptique measurements and topographical details and 41 hence, 1:.. md ow'ners were put to hardships to allotted to them, they may build house/huts settle land disputes. They had therefore to thereon and this protects them from threats of seek the help of qualified surveyors for settle eviction . by land owners. Under this scheme, ment of disputes. However, the resurvey was since 1975 and till 31-12-1981, 11.983 families done and settlement introduced in all the four had been benefited (Pondicherry-8,691, Karai districts of the union territory during 1974 and kal-2,671, Mahe-l56 and Yanam-465). 1975 in accordance with the Pondicherry Survey and Boundaries Act, 1967 and the Pondicherry Land taxation and tenancy provisions: Settlement Act, 1970. After completion of re survey and settlement of agricultural lands, an The system of levy of land tax followed by initial survey was done in respect of pre merger administration was not with refer habitations in rural areas under nomenclature ence to the scientific process of classification of "Natham survey" for demarcating individual soil and its productive capacity. In course of holdings of house sites and appurtenances time the old land tax system became out-of separately. The "Natham survey" had been date and resurvey of lands was conducted and completed and settlement introduced during taxation policy revised. During the pre merger 1977-78. After completion of Natham survey period no separate tenancy legislation was in settlement, another scheme under the name force and only French Civil Code was applic Town survey and settlement has been carried able for lease of lands. During 1954-70, on in Pondicherry, Karaikal and Yanam and Tenants Protection Order was brought in force settlement introduced during 1.979-80. The \vhereby the tenants could not be evicted from two major schemes brought into force in this the lands unless they became wilful defaulters union territory after merger under this sector of rent. During 1971-81, Legislative measures are~ to protect interests of tenants were implement ed whereby tenants can move the revenue (i) Kudiyiruppu scheme cOllrt for relief from the harassment of big (ii) Distributes of free housesites to the land lords. landless labourers in rural areas. Hoads, dl·inking water and drainage: .(i) Kudiyiruppu scheme.-The Pondicherry Occupants of Kudiyiruppu (Conferment of The roads in Pondicherry were well laid even Ownership) Act, 1973 came into force on during the pre merger regime.; The unique 1-12-1973. The aim of the Act is to confer feature of the roads especially at Pondicherry home-stead rights of the site of any dwelling and Karaikal is that they are all parallel to house or hut occupied on private lands either each other cutting at perpendicular. as a 1ennnt or as licensee by any agriculturist or any agricultural labourer on 27-3-1972 The drinking water supply was also adequate without any dwelling house, housesite or hut of even during the pre merger regime. However, his own and such kudiyiruppu shall vest on erection cf more public taps. distribution of him absolutely free from all encumbrances potable water by overhead tanks etc., had been v:ith fITed from the bringing into force of the the priorities of the government after merger. Act (i.e.) 1-12-1973. Since 1975 and till 31st December, 1981, 3,456 title deeds were distri The drainage however was an open system of buted in this union .territory. (Pondicherry- drainage which is subsequently and gradually 1.154, Karaikal-2,287 and Yanam-15) being converted into pucca drainage system a llttle later after merger. (ii) Distribution of free housesites to the land less labourers in rural areas.-This'scheme aims The surfaced roads consist of a higher per at providing house sites free of cost to families centage of black topped ones followed by water incl~ding scheduled castes who do not own a' bound macadam and a: minim}lm length of con hOllse or housesites. When once housesites are crete road. 42 'the responsibility of laying down roads and the rich fishing grounds, the Union Territory of their maintenance in . .this union territory is i Pondicherry offers vast scope for the develop now shared by public works.. department. and ment of' marine fisheries - both inshore and municipalities or commune panchayats as offshore. During the pre merger period, in the the case may be. The supply of drinking water - absence of guidance on marine fishing methods, and maintenance of drainage facilities are the fishing was operated by traditional methods combined responsibility of the government and with nets made of cotton yarn and catamarans. local bodies. The development of fisheries was taken up gradually after the de facto merger of the settle Housing: n{ents. With a coastline of 45 kms. and 675 sq. kms. of 'inshore waters, the fishing Next to food and •clothmg, • the people are industry supports a sizeable population of 34,000 after shelter. Many new colonies have sprung marine and inland fisher-folk scattered over 27 up in the recent past. A liberal grant of house marine and 18 inland fishing villages, with building advance to government servants, bank 300 mechanised boats, 2,500 country crafts and employees account for increased habitations. 15,000 fishing nets. Various development This phenomenon is conspicuous in Pondicherry. schemes were implemented in the union terri Co-operation: tory for the increase in fish production and upliftment of the status of fishermen. Nearly No co-operative movement existed during the 350 fishermen candidates were trained in the pre-merger period. During 1971-81 this union various States and Central Fisheries Training territory had its own Pondicherry Co-operative Institutions in modern techniques of fishing and Societies Act and Rules. All co-operative maintenance of diesel engines. societies were strengthened/improved to the maximum extent possible. The village agricul Labour and employment: tural credit societies in addition to issue of loans to farmers, started rendering services to During the pre merger period the department the general public as contemplated in the 20 of labour was known as "Bureau de Inspection point programme. The co-operative marketing du Travail". societies located in Pondicherry and Karaik~ll started purchase of agricultural produces on It was in 1963 that most of the Indian labour behalf of government. Controlled commodities laws were extended to this union territory under were distributed to the public through co-ope the Pondicherry (Extension of L';ws) Regula rative marketing societies and village co-opera tions, 1963. Some of the benevolent legislations tives. Many student co-operative societies were so extended include the Industrial Disputes organised in educational institutions' under 'Act, 1947; the Factories Act, 1948; the the 20 point programme. Employees State Insurance Act, 1948; the Work mens Compensation Act, 1923; the Trade Unions Animal husbandry: Act, 1926; the Employees' Provident Fund Act, The veterinary services improved' greatly in 1952, etc. The union territory itself enacted this union territo:t:y after its merger in 1954 and three benevolent pieces of legislations viz., the with gr~ater emphasis during 1971-81. In fact, Pondicherry Shops & Establishment Act, 1964; attention to livestock in the treatment of dise the Pondicherry Catering Establishments Act, ases and'breeding of good quality cattle was 1964 and the Pondicherry Industrial Establish paid only after merger in 1954. ments (National and Festival Holidays) Act, 1964 with corresponding rules. Fisheries: On 2-10-1966, the Employees' State Insu Having 3 of the 4 districts viz., Pondicherry, rance scheme was e:x;tended to some portion of Karaikal ,and Mahe naturally situated on the Pondicherry district viz., Po n die her r y, coa:rt-line, with immense fishery resources and Mudaliarpet and Ozhukarai and following it 43 171/4-4A E. S. L dispensaries were opened at many points. from 1-5-1976. The rates were revised up An E. S. 1. dispensary" was opened at· PaUoor wards with effect from 24-1-1981 for village in Mahe on 15-8-1970. Pondicherry and Karaikal districts. Industrial housing coloniesl. labour welfare The E. S. I. scheme was extended to Karaikal, centres and child welfare. centres were also Bahour and VilliaQur Communes of established. Pondicherry district during this period and The Apprentices Act, 1961 was also taken up following it some dispensaries were set up. for imp~ementation. Commercial taxes: The recruitment rules for the post of Lower Division Clerk's had been amended for provid Commercial tax is a sizeable revenue for any ing 80% recruitment through apprentices selec state/union territory. ted under the Apprenctices Act, 1961. The commercial taxes department set up in this In 1977, a new scheme was taken up for pro union territory during 1966-67 administers the viding apprencticeship training to the Central Sales Tax Act,: 195~ aI;ld Pondicherry unemployed educated youth of this union terri General Sales Tax Act, 1967.. While offices at tory in the central sector establishments Pondicherry and Karaikal had been function situated outside the union territory in the ing from the beginning, the divisional offices at southern region due to limited ~ scope in the Mahe and Yanam were established in 1971 and union territory. Under this scheme various 1981 respectively. Prior to this, the affairs of central government establishments viz., N eyveli these two districts were . managed from Lignite Corp~ration, Neyveli; Indian Oil Corpo Karaikal and Pondicherry respectively. The ration. Madras; Hindustan Teleprinters, Madras; revenue recovered under both the sectors since Bharath Heavy Electricals Limited, Trichy; 1966 is indicated herebelow and it may be seen Indian Tel~phone Industries, Bangalore, etc., were persuaded to allot certain percentage of that the collection has increased multifold year seats while recruiting apprentices in the various after year except small decrease in some years. trades in the establishments. Sl. Year POST CST The Employment Exchange facilities were No. (in lakhs of rupees) also given a· face-lift. The· sub-employment (I) (2) (3) (4) . exchange in Karaikal. was strengthened in May, 1980 and employment information bureaux 1 1966-67 22.68 3.83 were opened in Yanam and Mahe on 3rd April,- 2 1967-68 8.91 1.98 1981 and 18th June, 1981 respectively. 3 1968-69 34.67 5.25 The Industrial Training Institute at Karaikal 4 1969-70 41.93 6.05 inaugurated in 1968, developed into a fullfledged 5 1970-71 57.86 6.37 one and also moved to its own premises in 6 1971-72 72.06 7.22 Tirumalairayanpattinam. 7 1972-73 . 94.02 5.86 An Industrial Training Institute was started 8 1973-74 116.58 10.96 in August, 1978 in Pondicherry. 9 19J4-75 162.47 10.54 10 1975-76 191.89 6.68 ..The Factory Inspectorate was strengthened 11 1976-77 158.83 9.80 with the introduction of industrial hygiene, 12 1977-78 196.38 11.13 occupational health unit in 1980-81. 13 1978-79 312.18 10.84 Minimum wages to agricultural workers under 14 1979-80 315.80 13.20 the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 was fixed for the. 15 1980-81 486.50 21.40 first. time in this uni,on territory with effect 44 Imports: village housing project schemei irtcentive award scheme to Mahila mandals, promotion and An office of th~ Controller of Imports and strengthening of mahila mandals/yuvak man- Exports functions in the union territory head . daIs, training of associate women workers, quarters viz., Pondicherry and it is controlled pilot projec~ for compost making, cluster de by Government of India, Ministry of Com monstration housing scheme etc. merce, Office of the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, New Delhi. Transport: The total nwilber and value of imports licen The following Acts and rules are administrated ces issued in the union territory since 1971 are~ by the transport department. as follows:- (i) The Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (Central Act IV of' 1939) and Delhi Motor S). Year No. Value in lakhs No. (Rs.) Vehicles Rules, 1940 as applicable 'to the LJnion Territory of Pondicherry. (1) . (2) (3) (4) (ii) The Pondicherry' Motor Vehicles T-axa 1 1971-72 479 20 tion Act, 1967 and Rules framed there 2 1972-73 382 12 under. 456 39 3 1973-74 There are 12,613 driving licences in force, 487 4 107 18 1974-75 conductors licence in force and 10 recognised 288 10 5 1975-76 driving schools. 108 stage carriages with pri 6 1976-77 340 135 mary permits of this union territory are in 7 1971-78 1,038 327 operation. To cater to the needs of inter-state 8 1978-79 45 63 traftic of passengers, temporary permits are 9 1979-80 33 50 also being issued depending upon necessity. 10 1980-81 19 38 The Government of India had initially allot..; ted 50 numbers of national permits to goods Company registration: vehicle of this union territory which was sub 1'he Government of India, Ministry of law, sequently raised to 100 numbers and then to 150 numbers. justice and company affairs hav~ established an • Office of the Registrar of Companies at 180 composite permits had also been granted Pondicherry for the purpose of· company regis by the Government of India to this union tration. territory. National extension service: The 'quota fixed for the Union Territory of Pondicherry in respect of All India Permit The" National exfunsion service scheme was buses is 25 and all 25 permits had been issued. inaugurated in this union territory on 15-5-1955. 125 All India Tourist Taxis had been allotted to this union territory, Pondicherry is having a community' develop ment double block, Karaikal a single block, With a view to promoting tourism, taxi per Mahe a half block and Yanam a one-third block. ,- mits are issued by the State transport authori ties. There are 215 tourist taxis, 30 mini-omni . The activities of the block are in the spheres and 28 big omni buses in this union territory. of agriculture, animal husbandry, education, civil construction uniots, industries, fisheries, The receipts on account of levy of taxes and applied nutrition programme and embraces also fees on motor vehicles under the provision of other schemes such as model village scheme, Pbndicherry Motor Vehic~e Taxation Act, 1967 45 Motor Vehicle Rules applicable to and Delhi (1) (2) (3) this union territory year-war are as indicated herebelow :- 5 1972-73 26,41,354 6 1973-74 29,16,179 Sl. Year Amount realised 7 1974-75 41,42,913 No. (in rupees) 8 1975-76 48,46,526 (1) (2) (3) 9 1976-77 50,49,067 10 1977-78 65,06,261 1 1968-69 18,93,312 11 1978-79 83,11,734 2 1969-70 19,63,855 12 1979-80 98,82,850 3 1970-71 21,79,407 13 1980-81 1,12,56,434 4 1971-72 23,62,300 The number of motor vehicles registered (taxed/tax exempted) as OD 31-3-1981 is as indicated herebelow!- Sl. District/Union Goods vehicles Passenger veheciles No. Territory ,-----"----, ,- Four Three Buses Cars and Taxis Jeeps Three Two Tractors Trailers Others Total all wheelers wheelers stationary wheelers vyheelers vehicles and above (includ- wagons (trucks) ing • tempos) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. PONDICHERRY (a) Tax d 559 3 18Q 4,335 187 44 434 16,532 283 289 147 22,993 (b) Tax exempted (i) Government 48 7 190 95 4 134 ,44 32 14 568 (ii) Non-Government 218 98 316 2. KARAIKAL (a) Taxed 8 21 118 23 962 42 42 1,217 (i) Tax exempted Government .. 3 9 9 11 5 5 42 Ci) Non-Government 15 .15 30 3. MAHE: a) Taxed 6 2 34 3 28 74 b) TlPC exempted i) Government .. 3 3 4 11 ii) Non-Goverrunent I. Union territory of Pondicherry : (a) Taxed 573 3 203 4,487 213 45 435 17,522 325 331 147 24,284 (b) Tax exempted (i) Government .. 51 7 200 107 4 148 49 31 18 621 . (ii) Non-Government-- 233 113 347 Total 624 3 210 4,867 213 153 439 17,670 607 481 165 25,252 .46 Port : works and major over-haul works annually. The Government of Pondicherry has formulated the There are three minor ports in the Union development of Ariankuppam river near the Territory of Pondicherry, one each in existing port so that it can be made to work Pondicherry, Karaikal and Mahe of which throughout the year and develop commercial Pondicherry in the west coast is the only work and fisheries operation to a great extent. The ing port. 'The principal trade at the Pondicherry project has been found technically feasible by port consists mainly of imports of wheat, ferti the Ministry of Shipping and Transport but is lisers and cement. All the ports are owned and yet to be cleared by Government of India for governed by the Government. From 1971 execution. onwards the traffic· of the port has considerably increased by way of transhipment of wheat and Po:ice deplirtment : import of fertiliser etc. However, the minor port of Pondicherry is only provided with re The Pondicherry police is headed by the inforced cement concrete pier in the open sea Inspector General of Police, assisted by Senior for handling traffic. The development of traffic Superintendent of Police, Superintendents of is greatly hampered in the absence of any Police etc: The Union Territory of Pondicl).erry sheltered haven for the crafts and vessels is considered as a single district for police during the non-working period and monsoon administration. The location of Circles/Police seasons. This again hampers day to day repair stations/Police posts is as indicated herebelow:- District with Sub-division with Circle with Police station Police post Headquarters Head quarters Head qUllrters (1 ) (2) (3 ) (4) (5) Pondicherry SP North Grand Bazaar Circle Grand Bazaar Pondicherry Pondicherry Odiansalai Muthialpet Circle Muthialpet SoJai Nagar, Ka!aret Orleanpet Lawspet Danvantrinagar ~P South Mudaliarpet On:le M udaliarpet Pondicherr} Ariankuppam ReddiarpaJayam Tavalakupparn Kirumampakkam Bahour Circle Bahour Karayambuthur Nettapakkam Madukarai SP Traffic . Traffic circle TI affic (Pondicherry) SP Karaikal Karaikal Circle Karaikal Town Kottucherry Ned ungad u Traffic (Karaikal) T.R. Pattinam T.R. Pattinanl. Circle Nera"y Tin:nallar Ambagarathur SP Karaikal Mahe Circle Mahe Pandakkal Palloor SP North Yanam Circle Yan'am Pondicherry Villianur Circle Vi1lianur, Thirubuvani Mangalam, Korkadu. Thirukkanur Katterikuppam There are 342 quarters attached to the police personnel under the police hou'ii.g scheme. 47 I 71/4-4B· The comparative statement of crimes in the union territory since 1955 category wise may be seen indicated herebelow:- Sf. Year No. Heads of offences ,-- -, 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) I (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17 1. Murder 4 10 4 3 5 7 3 5 3 3 4 5 9 4 2. Culpable homicide amount ing to murder 3. Dacoity 4. Robbery 6 2 3 2 2 3 4 5. Rioting 18 5 3 3 9 5 2 3 3 33 63 31 15 29 75 6. Kidnapping 4 2 2 5 3 15 4 8 7. Burglary 214 159 147 134 145 167 132 137 136 195 165 139 133 140 132 8. Theft 527 600 462 415 389 432 348 362 . 348 498 365 499 485 440 529 9. Cheating 5 13 18 13 2 8 14 6 7 15 17 24 20 37 27 10. Criminal breach of trust 35 49 28 28 14 25 26 14 27 59 43 42 34 33 45 11. Counterfeiting 6 2 2 2 1 2. Road accident 13. Othercognizable[PC .. 121 532456391 571 369 514 521 571 346444413 257448 631 Total 935 1,364 1,133 989 1,135 1,015 1,047 1,048 1,097 1,156 1,103 1,170 954 1,143 1,455 51. Year No. Heads of offences r- 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 (18) (19) .-0) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) 1. Murder 4 9 7 6 8 5 12 11 8 13 11 2. Culpa{,le homicide amounting to murder 3. Dacoity 5 2 3 4 4. Robbery 2 2 2 3 8 6 6 3 7 6 6 5. Rioting 48 105 124 142 106 64 35 68 136 290 224 146 6. Kidnapping 6 6 5 11 18 17 18 21 24 28 34 13 7. Burglary 137 145 171 173 164 268 218 234 311 288 266 237 8. Theft 636 549 460 612 935 935 714 1,435 1,889 1,618 1,415 1,273 9. Cheating 20 16 25 15 28 66 52 41 42 23 24 23 10. Criminal breach of trust 33 53 38 41 51 41 31 56 96 80 38 42 I J. Counterfeiting 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 12. Road accident 208 . 141 142 260 226 258 464 384 380 305 13. Other cognizable IPC 960 827 866 1,422 1,901 1,704 1,079 1,138 1,510 1,183 1,364 856 Tobll .. l,aS3 1,717 1,908 2,S69 3,463 3,372 2,385 3,270 4,489 3,910 3,769 2,914 48 All India Radio ~ by day and 56 kms. by night. However, The Union territory of ,Pondicherry has the Karaikal district of the union territory is able privilege of having a Radio broadcast station to pick up this station at times although the located in Pondicherry district. The station was distance is about 150 kms. established in 1967 with 1 kw. transmitter capacity (Pilot station). Originally, the total There is no television station in this union broadcast hours was 4~ hours at the time of territory. establishment and now it is 10 hrs. 07 minutes per day. The programme includes specific items The following statement indicates total set up by Pondicherry station besides receipt number of broadcast/television licences issued and broadcast from other stations also. The (including renewals as on 31st December· every station is clearly audible at a distance of 30 kms. year) :- 1978 1979 Sl. District! 1973 1974 ~1975 1976 1977 No. Union Tctritory BRL BRL BRL BRL BRL (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) 1. Pondicherry 18,40·8 12.187 22,530 18,366 29,024 24,091 376 14,926 438 17,930 198 . 38 2. Karaikal 6,125 4,129 6,618 7,064 7,792 6,888 6,693 38 7,537 80 3. Mahe 577 663 945 903 995 I ,52:? 1,470 1,251 2 4. Yanam 633 353 1,054 1.171 1,494 1.19" I, '238 943 I. Union Territory of Pondicherry 25,743 17,332 31,147 27,504 39,305 33,694 415 24,327 476 27,661 280 NOTF: BRL-Broadcast receiver Licence. TV - Television Licence la Provisional Post, telegraphs and telephones: Health Centre at Karikalampakkam village in N ettapakkam commune has been upgraded into The Union territory of Pondicherry has an 30 bedded hospital to benefit the rural people I excellent net work of post, telegraphs and in 1981. In 1981 the total number of medical telephone facilities. institutions is 83 with 1,032 beds in the 5 hos pit."ls. 72 beds in the 7 primary health centres PONDICHERRY and 62 beds in 20 subsidiary health centres. Medical: A mobile dental van was pressed in service in Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical December. 1975. An intensive coronary care Education and Research: unit was added to General Hospital, Pondicherry Besides the above state government institu- in October, 1978. This is a major break through tions a central government institute viz., in the treatment of heart patients. The Primary ,Tawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical 49 Education and Research financed and adminis 16,020 kw. by the end of 1970. During the above tered by the Government of India, Ministry of period there had been a tremendous expansion Health and Family Welfare is located in Ozhu in electrification. House·' service connection rose karai town about 6 kms f!om Pondicherry. The from 2,825 numbers to 18,027, agriculture ser origin of the institute traces back to November, vices from 267 to 4,512, indtistrial iow tension 1956 when the erstwhile French medical school services from 63 to 622, industrial high tension known as "Ecole de Medicine de Pondichery" services from 5 to 19, street lights from 798 to was taken over by the Government of India in 9,521. There were only 42 ~lectrified villages at the wake of the de facto tra,nsfer of Pondicherry the end of 1954. Rural electrification was inten to the Indian union and was set up as a medical sified and 320 villages were electrified by the college on line with other medical colleges in end of 1970. the country. This was upgraded in July, 1964 as a regional post-graduate centre. The attached During 1971-81, a tremendous progress in hospital has started functioning from April, electrification. has been achieved. All the villages 1966. The instirtute celebrated its silver jubilee had been electrified in 1972 itself. Now there are year in 1981. The institute had so far graduated 33,725 numbers of domestic and commercial ser 1,144 students and post-graduated 764 students. vices, 7,609 numbers of agricultural services, The hospital provides a comprehensive medical 36 numbers of high tension industrial services, c~re through out-patients department as well as 1,445 numbers of low tension industrial services special clinics and in-patient services with and 10,929 numbers of street lights. The demand 750 beds. of the district has grown up to 38,000 kw. from 19,100 kw. during 1971. To meet the growing Electricity 'and power: demand in electricity extra high tension (EHT) sub-station have been energised at Thirubuvanai Prior to 1943, the Pondicherry municipality in Mannadipet commune and works were in pro had diesel sets of total capacity of 524 kw. opera gress at Marapalam in addition to the existing· ting at direct current. In 1943, in order to meet sub-station at Villianur. Two more EHT sub the increasing demand, the supply was taken station are being constructed at Kurumbapet from MadrCls state at 22 kilo volt ampere. In 1946, (Villianur commune) and Bahour to meet the the French administration had taken over the industrial lqads. A portion of the over head power house and distribution. The demand then lines of the boulevard area in the Pondicherry was only 300 kw. on D. C. and 1,800 kw. on Municipality had been converted to under Alternate current. In 1951, the French adminis ground cable system in order to improve the tration had set up a thermal power station with working system and to reduce line losses. At a capacity of 4,900 kw. This station was used present the power is purchased from Tamil as a stand-by to the supply from Madras state. Nadu electricity board. During 1981, 883.94 lakhs At the end of 1954, there were only 5,746 con units were purchased and during 1981, 1,574.36 nections. lakhs units were purchased. The progress in The demand of the district which was electrification during the periods 1954-70 and 2,202 kw. at the end of 1954 had grown up to 1971-81 is given herebelow:- 50 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1954-70. S1. Item Units As on No. 1-11-54 1955 1956 ~57 1958 1959 1960 1961 (1) (2) (3) (4) , (5) (6) (7) , (8) (9) (le) (In H.T. line Kms. 37.290 37.51 47.35 52.51 75.38 84.27 104.88 151.8& 2 L.T. line .. Kms. 155.88 160.85 242.13 267.10 327.92 388.93 481.15 617.00 3 Transformer .. Nos. 26 26 29 37 50 58 73 105 '1 4 Insialled capacity of trarisformer " KVA 2,900 3,200 3,800 5,250 6,050 7,550 10,600 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electrified .. Nos. 42 42 55 59 80 84 104 138 6 House service connection Nos. 2,746 2,825 3,319 3,860 4,790 5,228 5,525 6,495 7 Agricultural connection Nos. 267 267 282 339 ~52 662 828 1,345 8 Industrial connection ., Nos. 561 +3* 63+5* 79+5* 87+5* 91+5* 125+5* 144+5* 161+5* 9 Street lights .. Nos. 534 798 2,069 2,699 3,953 4,207 4,700 5,415 10 Maximum demand KW 1,675 2,202 2,334 2,769 3,520 4,680 7,026 * H.T. Industries Sl. No. Item Units 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) H.T. line .. Krns. 178.70 197.65 219.29 245.54 256.64 273.90 293.19 295.60 300.18 2 L.T. line .. Kms. 747.23 827.74 883.77 973.87 1,072.36 1,135.78 1,182.18 1,204.16 1,218.43 3 Transformer .. Nos. 130 159 180 191 211 236 267 274 285 4 Installed capacity of transformer .. KVA 13,000 15,750 18,900 20,350 21,650 22,950 25,300 26,000 27,100 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electri- fied .. Nos. 149 161 169 177 177 177. 267 269 269 6 House service connection .. Nos. 7,556 8,253 10,045 11,342 12,810 14,060 15,239 16,571 18,027 7 Agricultural connection Nos. 1,691 2,060 2,342 2,844 3,286 3,570 3,843 4,162 4,512 8 Industrial connection .. Nos. 185+6* 212+7* 240+9* 264+11* 362+13* 422+14* 482+14* 541+16* 622+19* 9 Street lights .. Nos. 6,212 6,675 8,200 9,237 9,412 9,438 9,465 9,496 9,521 10 Maximum demand KW 9,027 9,360 10,813 11,883 12,462 11,296 11,18 1 15,500 J6.020 .. H.T. Industries 51 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1971-81 S1. Item Units 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1 H.T. line .. Kms. 306.60 312.67 31').86 326.73 334.75 347.09 362.35 388.29 415.04 425.41 430.26 2 L.T. line Kms. 1,348.73 1,389.95 1,427.S() 1,469.82 1,488.28 1,519.49 1,563.18 1,621.85 1,673.03 1,722.93 1,770.25 ,. 3 Transformer Nos. 303 316 335 353 315 402 424 450 478 500 518 4 Installed capacity of tramformers KVA 30,200 32,550 34,750 36,650 39,200 42,200 44,150 47,000 51,130 51,525 54,305 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electrified Nos. 269 269 269 269 269 269 269 269 269 269 269 6 House connection Nos. 19.603 21,215 22,797 24,596 26,257 28,096 29,770 11,979 34,549 36,212 38,725 7 Agricultural connection Nos. 4,900 5,301 5,637 5,966 6,249 6,565 6,889 7,128 7,334 7,486 7,609 8 Industrial L.T. Nos. 707 773 836 910 958 1,034 1,094 1,164 1,258 1,360 1,445 connection H.T. NOi. 17 20 21 21 22 23 25 27 29 34 36 9 Street lights Nos. 9,557 §,578 9,624 9,662 9,7i8 9,773 9,8!7 9,861 10,310 10,507 10,929 10 Maximum demand KW 19,110 18,810 21,096 24,985 25,414 25,414 24,928 27.670 29,090 28,840 28,1140 ------~- ---~------.------~--.-- Agriculture: Pulses are grown mainly as a mix~d crop and T9 black gram is the important pulse vaj:iety Pondicherry the' largest district of the union now. territory is benefited both by the south-west as well as north-east monsoon though to a larger Among the commercial crops, sugarcane, extent by north-east monsoon only. groundnut and cotton are the most important. Su"arcane which '.'.ras grown over an area less The main soil types found in this district are than 100 hectares in the fifties is now grown in sandy loams, clay and clay loams. about 2,000 hectares. It is generally grown in rotaLon with paddy/tapioca and banana. [:>ver;::;e under high yielding varieties: CO 6304 is the most popular variety in this dis trict now followed by COC 777, cac 778 and High yielding. varieties became very popular cac 779. The area under sugarcane is proposed in this district during the seventies. 90 % of the to be further increased with the setting up of paddy crops raised in this district are high one more sugar factory under the co-oper~+ive yidding varieties and the yield ranges from 5 sector. to 5.5 metric tonnes/hectare. Cotton is the main fibre crop grown in this district as irrigated crop from December to July. Bajra (1,000 hectares) and ragi (3,200 hectares) MCU 5 is the popular variety now. MCU 7 and are the important millets grown in Pondicherry MCU 9 are the other important varieties grown. district. Many hybrid varieties had been intro duced since the beginning of the seventies and In coconut cultivation the hybrid TXD and at present hybrid varieties like KMl and KM2 DXT varieties are becoming very popular among 'in bajra and C07, saradha and AKPI under ragi the farmers. Tapioca is the major crop grown are popular varieties. here mostly. Local varieties occupy a larger 52 area. H 226 and H 165 having higher starch con Irrigation: tent are the hybrid varieties grown in a smaller area. (i) Tanks 4,902 hectares. (ii) Tube wells 10,954 hectares. The developmental schemes implemented by the Agriculture department, Government of (iii) Others 43 hectares. Pondicherry cover all facets of agriculture and endeavour to benefit the farming community to Crops and seasons: the fullest extent with special emphasis on the uplift of small and marginal farmers and· the Paddy is the main crop grown in 15,100 hect downtrodden. The salient features in all deve ares in four seasons viz., lopmental schemes are as follows;- (i) Sornavari 2,100 hectares. (i) Increasing crop production at all levels; ". (ii) Educating the farmers on scientific ~ (ii) Early samba 6,500 hectares- agriculture by conducting demonstra- (iii) Late samba 3,500 hectares. tions in farmers hQJdings; (iv) Navarai 2,000 hectares. (iii) Providing essential inputs at costprice/ subsidised rates; Area qnder other crops in a normal year:- (iv) Ensuring the supply of good quality seeds, fertilisers, pesticides to the (i) Groundnut· - 5,400 hectares. farmers; (ii) Millets 4,200 hectares. (v) Crop protection; (iii) Pulses 3,400 hectares. (vi) Maintaining soil fertility; (vii) Hiring out agricultural machinery; (iv) Cotton 2,500 hectares. (viii) Development of horticulture; (v) Sugarcane 1,900 hectares. (ix) Providing marketing infrastructure; (vi) Tapioca 1,100 hectares. Agricultural education, information and (x) (vii) Coconut 700 hectares. communication; - (xi) Conducting adaptive research to evolve Industries: better cropping pattern and varieties suited to the varied agro-climatic con During 1971-81, 779 small scale industries ditions; were started in Pondicherry with an employment opportunity for 5,985 persons. (xii) Ensuring the judicious utilisation of ground water and maximum economic exploitation of ground water resources. Pondicherry Distilleries Limited: With a view to achieving the above objects The Pondicherry Government Distilleries was the Agriculture department during the seven run as a government department till 14-5-1972 ties implemented 35 development schemes in producing 31°00 litres of arrack per day. With Pondicherry district. the development of alcohol-based industries and due to increase in consumption of arrack in this The following gives some statistical details union territory, it was decided to extend the about agricultural sector;- distillery and produce industrial alcohol by in stalling modern plants and machineries. Accord (i) Net cropped area 19,000 hectares. ingly' the distillery was expanded into one (ii) Gross cropped area. 32,000 hectares. producing 6,000 litres of industrial alcohol per (iii) Area sown more day and under instructions of Planning Com than once 13,000 hectares. mission it was converted as a government 53 company under the name and style "Pondicherry looms. The mill works 3 shifts a day employing distilleries limited". It started production with 3,000 persons and spinning about 30 lakhs kgs. an installed capacity of 6,000 litres of industrial of yarn per year for own consumption in the alcohol daily with facilities' to manufacture weaving department and producing cloth of Indian made foreign liquors. The main raw material required for production of alcohol is about 160 lakhs metres per year. The mill molasses which is supplied by Mis. New' Horizon supplies about 85 % of the total production to Sugar Mills located in Ariyur village of the government for use in defence and civil Villianur commune. The. company now also pro departments. duces rectified spirit, denatured spirit and arrack. Sri Bharathi Mills: New Horizon Sugar Mills Private Limited: I'~ This mill was taken over by the Central The New Horizon Sugar Mills Private Limited located in Ariyur village of Villianur commune Government under section 18(A) of the Indus started its production on 7-9-1960 with original tries Development and Regulation Act, 1951 on licensed crushing capacity of 1,200 million 5th May 1966. However,- under the Sick Textile . tonnes a day which was increased to 1,500 Undertaking Nationalisation Act, 1974, this was million tonnes a day from 1965 onwards. The season-wise figures of production of sugar and taken over by the Government of India on molasses are as follows:- 1st April, 1974 and was allotted to the National Textile Corporation located at Coimbatore. This Sl. No. Season Sugar Molasses is the only unit of its subsidiary i..e. National (I) (2) (3) (4) Textile Corporation (Tamil N adu and Tonnes (Nett.) Tonnes (Nett.) Pondicherry) Limited having a process house. ------Under the modernisation programme high· pro 1 1970-71 17,774.791 8,187.096 2 1971-72 22,620.332 11,194.473 duction machines like Tandom Cards and Auto 3 1972-73 18,515.339 8,934.135 matic Looms were installed. The prime objective 4 1973-74 25,796.350 12,802.89:) of the national textile corporation was to clothe 1974-75 11,553.783 5 24,132.600 the millions of our countrymen at affordable 6 1975,76 16,532.100 ., 7,200.214 price. As times changed and after modernisa 7 1976-77 26,111.500 12,516.172 8 1977-78 22,522.400 11,476.110 tion the mill was ~ntrusted with the task of 9 1978-79 26,140.600 14,035.485 manufacturing sophisticated blended suiting for 10 1979-80 16,182.800 9,052.558 defence personnel. The mill produce is cloths 11 1980-81 21,335.100 12,540.044 for the jetage and uniform for Air India and ------Indian Airlines. The social objective of provid ing employment to the weaker sections was also The Swadeshi Cotton Mills: taken care of and the mill was selected as the This unit has been taken over by the Govern best public sector undertaking to offer employ ment of India under the Sick Textile ment for handicapped persons in 1980 and the Ul1dertaking Nationalisation Act, 1974 with President's award was presented in a colourful effect from 14-4-1978 and appointed the ceremony at Delhi. The particulars of the utili National Textile Corporation Limited, New sation of machinery in the. spinning and Delhi. as authorised person. This has got an weaving units starting' frnm 1974-75 -'lre a.<: installed capacity of 22,768 spindles and 682 follows :- 54 Capacity utilisation Spinning Weaving ,- ,- SI. No. Year Utilisation No. of days Average Utilisation No. of days Average worked Spindlage worked Loomage shifts % shifts per day % per day (1) (2) (3) (4) , (5) (6) (7) (8) 1974-75 76.93 313 37.095 67.19 313 546 2 1975-76 61.02 304 29.249 59.65 304 497 3 1976-77 52.78 304 . 26.846 69.13 304 574 4 1977-78 63.75 308 37,080 73.46 308 521 5 1978-79 81.39 3()() 47.338 77.76 3()() 551 6 1979--80 71.27 259.6 41,452 59.01 253.3 441 1 1980-81 78.41 304.83 45.618 71.75 288.5 616 Anglo-French Textile Limited: Education: The mill established in 1898 has presently got A law college on French pattern which an installed capacity of 62,240 spindles and existed since 1838 ceased to function in 1958. 1,613 looms as against the licensed capacity of However, a law_ college on Indian pattern had 73,681 spindles and 1,695 looms. The quantum of subsequently been establisher. The french production during 1971-81 is indicated here school of medicine' existing since 1863 was up below:- graded to the level of medical college after . de facto transfer. Other institutions which came SLNo. Year Cloth Yam up after merger include school for nursing,: poly (Million metres) (Million kgs. ) technic, junior technical school, etc. The distri (1) (2) (3) (4) bution of institutions for general education during 1979-80 (provisional) is as follows:- 1 1971 44.623 8.099 SI. Type of institutions Govern- Private 2 1972 43.250 7.767 No. ment 3 1973 46:10 8.78 (1) (2) (3) (4) 4 1974 39.41 7.07 5 1975 44.0S 8.12 1 Colleges for boys 1 2 girls 1 6 1976 45.93 9.22 7 1977 39.31 7.96 Total 2 2 8 1978 39.64 7.80 9 1979 35.30 7.32 2 Higber secondary 10 1980 40.84 8.27 schools for boys 5 3 girls II· 1981 35.73 7.70 2 2 Total 7 5 Industrial estates set up by the State Indus tries Department and Pondicherry Industrial 3 High schools for boys 21 1 Promotion Development and. Investment· Corpo girls 7 2 ration are functioning in the state catering to the Total 28 3 needs of the industrialists. 55 3. Low'cost houses at Madagadipet and Ariyur: (1) (2) (3) (4) .__ ._--_.- Twenty-four low cost rural houses (twin type ... Middle schools for boys 52 6 of houses) have been constructed for the landless girls 5 8 labourers on patta sites assigned to them in Total 57 14 Madagadipet village in Mannadipet i commune on hire-purchase basis at a cost of Rs., 4,200. The plinth area is 19.73 sq. m. The Board has also 5 Primary schools for boys 161 9 &irls 10 3 constructed another 20 low cost houses on the patta sites at Ariyur village in Villianur com Total 171' 12 mune at a cost of Rs. 5,000' each having a plinth area of 19 sq.m. 6 Nursery schools for boys 28 18 girls 4. Low cost houses for conservancy staff of Total 28 18 Pondicherry municipality: Six' blocks each consisting sixteen tenements 7 Total institutions for boys 268 39 were constructed for conservancy staff of girls 25 15 Pondicherry municipality by this Board at Vazhakulam and allotted to the conservancy Total 293 54 staff. The cost of each unit is Rs. 5,000 and plinth area 18 sq.m. Housing : 5. Composite httusing scheme for SoJai nagar, The Pondicherry Housing Board came into Pondicherry ; existence in June, 1975 and successfully comple- ted/executed a number of housing schemes in A major Composite housing scheme at Solai Pondicherry under rental/hire-purchase scheme. nagar in Pondicherry municipal area (with 'c The activities of the board.. during 1975-81 are the loan assistance from Housing Urban Deve as .follows:- lopment Corporation) comprising of 22 M. 1. G., 74 L. 1. G. and 54 E. W. S. houses in all have been completed and allotted. The' total cost of 1. ·Indira nagar shopping complex, Pondicherry: the project is Rs. 24.25 lakhs and HUDCO loan Six middle-income group, 6 low-income group assistance is Rs. 17.37 lakhs. flats, a restaurant, a lodge, 14 shops, 12 bachelors 6. Low cost houses for fishermen at Kuruchi quarters and two garages were constructed at a kuppam: CJst of Rs. 9.07 lakhs on a piece of land taken on long lease, to cater the needs of the residents Fifty low cost houses have been constructed :::,~ Indira nagar, and to ease out the housing for fishermen at a cost of Rs. 5,250 each at problems of the doctors and staff members of Kuruchikuppam \vith subsidy of Rs. 2,775 and Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical interest free loan of Rs. 925 from Fisheries Education and Research at Gorimedu. department and the balance by way of loan from State Bank of India e.nd Housing Board. 2. Demonstration houses at Nethaji nagar: The plinth area of each unit is 22.00 sq.m. 7. Low cost houses for fi~hermen at Pudukuppam: Six low cost demonstration houses at a cost of Rs. 3,670-each having plinth area of 22.15.sq.m. Fifty-five low cost houses have been con were put up in Nethaji nagar, Pondicherry and structed and handed' over to the fishermen at they were sold' to Scheduled Castes/Economically Pudukuppam in Ariankuppam commun~ at the 'Veaker Sections on hire-purchase basis. rate of Rs. 5,600 each. 5G Besides the Housing Board, the Co-operative as 'Amudasurabi Super Market' with its many . house building society and many leading private branches and also Pontex otherwise known as contractors also contribute to the increased Pondicherry State Co-operative . Weavers' housing activities in Pondicherry.. Society Limited, which extensively' serve the public under the co-operative sector. Co-operation: The Pondicherry co-operative sugar mills The Pondicherry milk supply society is the limited and Pondicherry co-operative spinning first society under the co-operative sector' organi and weaving mills limited are the two units sed during 1955. Since then, the co-operative under cp-operative sector which came into exis movement has 'spread in every walk of life of tence during the decade 1971-81. the people. The following statement indicates the existence of various types of societies in June, (i) The Pondicherry co-operative sugar mills 1970 as compared to June, 1981:- limited. The Pondicherry Co-operative Sugar Mills Limited was registered as a co-operative SI. Type of societies No. of societies in society on 21-7-1975 under the Pondicherry Co No. June 1970-June 1981 operative Societies Act, 1972 and started func (1) (2) ~3) (4) tioning from 21-2-19~6 with the object of setting up a sugar factory of a daily crushing capacity' 1 State co-operative bank 1 of 1,250 tonnes at LingareQdipalayam in 2 Central land dsvelopment bank 1 1 Mannadipet commune. The project is estimated 3 Primary agricultural credit to cost Rs. 850 lakhs which is proposed to be societies. 79 53 raised in the form of 60:40 debt equity ratio. The 4 Primary co-operative bank 1 financing will be by investment from the 5 Primary non-agricultural co-operative societies, individual members and credit society II 23' from the state government as also by availment of 6 ; Marketing societies I subsidy through'industries department and term 7 Co-operative milk societies 44 loans from various financial institutions. This 8 Fishermen co-operative societies 23 22 mill with an employment potential of about 9 . Consumer co-operative stores 11 28 600 is proposed to be run by the end of 1983 and 10 Co-operative housing societies 3 its production capacity will be 12,800 tonnes ot 11 Weavers, co-operative societies 11 13 sugar. 12 Labour societies 1 . 3 (ii) The Pondicherry co-operative spinning 13 Industrial co-operative societies 8 15 14 Lift irrigation societies 21 and weaving mills limited. This was registered IS . Co-operative spinning mills 8S a co-operative society under the Pondicherry 16 Co-operative sugar mills Co-operative Societies Act, 1972 on 28-12-1979 17 Other non-agricultural and for manufacture of cotton yarn for the benefit non-credit societies 5 18 Other iivestock societies 1 of hand loom industry. The mill is set up on 19 Farming societies 1 a 25 acre site at Thirubuvanai village in Manna 20 State co-operative union dipet commune.· The mill is run on share 21 Other miscellaneous types capital contribution by the government and of societies 7 from co-operative societies and individual Total number of societies 159 237 members. This proposed mill with 25,080 spin dles capacity will produce yarn of different The statistics above include the Pondicherry counts. Firm orders for the supply of machin Co-oJr.. ative Wholesale Stores otherwise known eries have been placed, the delivery of 57 machineries will commence from January, 1983 estuarine fish farm at Thengaithlttu, in the and will be completed before June, 1983. The Pondicherry municipal area. To increase marine trial production is proposed in October, 1983 fish production by covering the inshore and off with commercial production in March, 1984. The shore waters. 124 mechanised boats were distri spinning mill project has the potential to pro buted by the Fisheries department to the fisher vide gainful employment to about 800· persons. men on hire purchase basis with subsidy benefits. In addition, one service-cum-mainten Animal husbandry: ance unit is rendering its assistance to mecha nised boat owners to repair and service their The following statement indicates the compa mechanised boats. To develop small scale marine r~tive position of existence of veterinary units, fisheries, 5 numbers of fibre glass reinforced etc., in 1970 and 1981:- . plastic boats fitted with marine diesel engines were distributed. Sl. Items Position in No. r A..~ 1970 1981 One inshore fishing survey station is function (1) (2) (3) (4) ing since 1975 and the survey results are being communicated to fishermen for their benefits. In 1 Veterinary hospitals 1 1 order to preserve the fishes, an ice plant-cum 2 Veterinary dispensaries 4 7 cold storage unit with the capacity to produce 3 Mobile veterinary dispensaries 1 2 2 tonnes of ice and 5 tonnes of cold storage was 4 Veterinary assistant surgeons 10 11 commissioned during III five year plan period. 5 Village scheme Two fish vans were engaged for the transport of (i) Centres 2 2 fish from the landing centre to the fish markets. (ii) Units 17 32 In order to provide hygienic condition in the (iii) Artificial insemination fish market, assistance was also rendered to the centre local bodies/commune panchayats to construct modern fish market& at 75% subsidy and 25% 6 Total bovine According According to loan. Fishing implements like nylon nets, twines, to 1966 1977 live- floats, sail cloth and salt were provided to fisher livestock stock census men at subsidised rates through fishermen census co-operative societies. One fishermen co-opera (i) Males 25,871 23,569 tive federation and a little over 20 fishermen (ii) Females 36,569 48,447 co-operative societies are functioning at present. (iii) Total 62,440 72,016 So far 1,008 houses were constructed for the 7 Sheep 7,P2 4,225 .:J. fishermen under housing and colonisation 8 Goats ~ 19,235 21,988 scheme. Pondicherry has been selected as one 9 Total livesto.ck 90,962 1,00,615 of the centres to set up a fishing harbour by 10 Total poultry 71,491 1,03,415 Government of India. Efforts are being taken up for the early setting up of the fishing harbour:. The total fisQ. production is 6,758 metric tonnes Fisheries: during the year'198l. The following is the account of activities during the decade 1971-81:- Company registration: ;In order to increase inland fish production The statement herebelow indicates the details swift growing quality fish seeds were procured! of companies at work in Pondicherry under th~ collected and supplied to commune .panchayats Compa1)ies Act, 1956 from 1973 to 1981 (as or!' to take up intensive piscicultural programme. 31st March) under the public and priv~. Demohstration of pisciculture was done in the :'iectors :- 58 Post, telegraphs and telephones: Sl. Year No.,-__ of companies.A.. ______Total No. Public Private The automatic telephone exchange installed (1) (2) (3) , (4) (5) on 1-1-1966 with a 25 lines capacity in Karia manickam village of Nettapakkam commune 1973 3 37 40 has been expanded to an exchange of 50 lines 2 1974 3 39 42 initially and then one of 100 lines with effect 3 1975 4 44 48 from 30-3-19',6. On 20-9-1974 an automatic telephone exchange was opened at Villianur 1976 7 49 56 4 with 25 lines capacity which was expanded to S 1977 54 62 ;)0 lines on 1st March, 1976. 6 1978 10 58 68 The following table indicates the total num 7 1979 11 61 72 ber of post offices, telegraph offices, telephone 8 1980 II 62 73 connections, telephone exchange and public call 9 i981 11 67 78 offices in existence In this district year-war since 1971 :- Post offices Sl. No. Year r--~--..A------, Telegraph Telephone Telephone Public call Rural Urban offices connections exchanges offices (1 ) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 1971 36 20 J3 1,033 2 11 2, 1972 38 20 I.:l 1.075 .3 19 • 3 1973 38 21 14 1.235 :I 18 4 1974 38 24 14 1,576 4 20 5 1975 38 24 15 1,611 5 23 6 J976 38 24 16 2,009 5 23 7 1977 38 24 18 2,249 6 24 8 1978 41 24 18 2,386 6 26 9 1979 42 24 18 2,610* 7* 33* 10 198) 43* 24* 18* 2698* 5* 46* "Provisional Telex exchange: one rose to a 225 bedded one in 1971 and 280 bedded one in 1981. An operation theatre and The telex exchange with 20 lines capacity was a X-ray plant were added after merger in 1954. commissioned on 29th March, 1976 and 12 telex There are 31 medical institutions with 280 beds subscribers were provided access to both .nation in General Hospital, -Karaikal as already indi al and international telex exchanges. cated, 29 beds in four primary health centres and 32 beds in 7 subsidiary health centres in 1981. KARAIKAL DISTRICT During 1971-81 health and medical facility Medical: registered an impressive growth, utilisation of welfare services increased tremendously and The General Hospital, Karaikal which was there were phenomena] achievements in the con small with three medical officers and 50 bedded trol of various communicable diseases and in 59 l7If4-SA the :field of family welfare activities. During Electricity and power: 1971-81, a 25 bedded T.B. ward, 10 bedded iso lation ward with separate rooms for Tetanus The distribution of electricity was initially taken by the Kariakal electric supply company and Hydrophobia patients and 10 bedded post limited purt:basing power from South Madras partum ward are the additions with the follow electric supply corporation limited in Madras. ing additional facilities :- The demand in the area was only 352 kilo watt. During the first and second five year plans no 1. Operation theatres - 2. major development had been contem plated. 2. Generator 45 kilo volt costing Rs. 1,64,180 During the third five year plan, provision was made to change the 3.3 kilo volt disttibution 3. An air-conditioned· post operative ward. system into 11 KV. system. Rural electrifi 4. Air-conditioned intensive coronary care cation was intensified and 51 villages and one unit with cardioscope and monitor. town had been electrified by the end of 1970. The demanp of the district had reached 1,172 5. A new out-patient block kilo watt against 352 kilo watt at the end of 6. A central ;:;pacious pharmacy stores. 1954. The total service connections as on March, 1970 are given below:- 7. A second overhead water tank with sepa rate motor. (i) House service 4,238 nos. 8. A new laundry section. (ii) Agricultural service 19 nos. 9. Hearse van. (iii) High tension industries 2 nos. 10. A new X-ray plant costing Rs. 1,37,116.50 (iv) Low tensi~n industries 206 nos. 11. A modern mortuary with cold storage (v) Street'light 2,780 nps. facilities. The distribution of supply from Karaikal 12. A separate physiotheraphy unit and occu-- electric supply company limited had been taken pation theraphy unit. over by the Electricity depaprtment of 13. Separate siddha unit. Pondicherry Administration during 1967. Since then power had been purchased from Tamil 14. Two electro cardiogram instruments. N &du electricity board for distribution in this 15. An additional matador ambulance. district. All the villages in Karaikal had been electri-, Special health eamps, free eye-camps and fied by 1972. Now, there are 9,327 dbmestic special children camps were conducted. The and commercial services, 223 agricultural decade also saw inauguration of subsidiary health services, 4 high tension industrial services! 302 centres at Nallathur in Nedungadu commune and low tension industrial services and 5,405 street at Kovilpathu in Karaikal municipal area, lights. The demand of the district has grown medical depot in Pattinacherry of Tirumalai up to 4,140 KW from 1,229 KW. It has been rayanpattinam commune and upgradation of dis proposed to erect a 66/11 KV sub-station during pensary into maternity· and child welfare the VI five year plan period to meet the grow centre in Tirumalairayanpattinam in Tiru ing demand. The power for this district is malairayanpattinam commune with additional purchased from Tamilnadu electricity board for beds for confinement. All primary' health cen distribution. The power purchased during 1971 tres which were having three sub-centres was 61.33 lakhs units and during 1981 it was earlier got one more. Ambulance and phone 141.97 lakhs units. The progress in electrifi facilities were provi!led to a majority of rural cation during the periods 1960-70 and 1971-81 health institutions. is given in the appended statements:- 60 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1960-70 SI. Item Units' 1960 1961 1962' 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) I (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) ------~------~,------1 H.T. line " Kms. 20.24 21.06 26.06 35.99 40.61 40.89 40.89 41.32 40.22 46.87 54.99 2 L.T. line " Kms. 71.33 76.96 84.06 90.02 100.48 102.91 107.73 111.64 114.01 128.14 152.32 3 Transformer Nos. 13 14 15 18 21 22 22 22 22 25 30 4 Installed capacity of transformer .. KVA 1,200 1,250 1,300 1,800 1,950 2,050 2,100 2,100 2,100 2,250 2,600 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electrified Nos. 15 15 19 21 26 28 30 30 35 42 51 6 House service connection Nos. 1,215 1,405 1,566 1,974 2,421 2,506 2,797 3,044 3,335 3,726 4,238 7 Agricultural ... connection .. Nos. I 4 8 9 15 19 8 H.T. industrial service connection Nos. -/ 2 2 9 L.T. industrial connection Nos. 39 41 42 109 119 130 145 160 174 190 206 10 Street lights Nos. 1,399 1,520 1,679 1,826 2,144 2,193 2,166 2,263 2,261 2,487 2,780 11 Maximum demand KW 416 426 489 588 556 625 8,26 905 1,114 1,120 1,172 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION'. AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1971-81 SI. Item Units 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (l3) (14) H.T. line Kms. 68.78 90.93 92.09 100.12 101.73 109.39 117.29 117.54 117.74 119.01 119.41 2 L.T. line Kms. 184.24 237.55 277.05 307.87 344.37 362.82 376.25 382.71 391.90 396.73 399.62 3 Transformer Nos. 41 52 54 59 62 70 72 72 73 75 76 4 J nstalied ca pacity of transforme: .. KV A 3,425 4,025 4,225 4,675 6,750 5,475 5,575 j,575 5,675 5,800 5,900 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electri- fied " Nos. 73 119 ·119 119 119 119 119 119 119 119 119 6 House service connection Nos. 4,761 5,292 5,779 6,320 6,750 7.112 7,415 7,723 8,322 8,799 9,327 7 Agricultural connection Nos. 32 49 89 115 160 172 182 197 212 219 223 8 H.T. industrial service connection Nos. 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 '4 4 9 L.T. industrial service connection Nos. 220 227 240 257 267 274 279 280 285 291 30 10 Street lights Nos. 3,403 4,199 4,615 4,803 4,964 5,044 5,150 5,150 5,227 5,306 5,321 11 'Maximum demand KW 1,229 1,608 2,345 2,292 2,373 2,489 2,595 3,640 ~,892 3,932 4,140 61 Agricuhure : the Government of Pondicherry during the seventies, implemented 15 development schemes . Karaikal the second largest district of the in this district. The important among them union territory is benefite'd by the south-west are:- monsoon and north-east monsoon at different proportions. Major part of the precipitation is (i) Seed multiplication and distribution recorded during the north-east monsoon \ as in scheme. the case of Pondicherry. (ii) Compact block demonstration scheme. Alluvium containing de~p clayey and clay (iii) Pilot project for integrated nutrient loams occur in the Cauvery delta. supply and fertiliser use efficiency. (iv) High yielding varieties programme. Crops and seasons: (v) Integrated plan protection scheme. Karaikal. district is mainly irrigated through (vi) Intensive coconut development. canals from the Mettur irrigation system, (vii) Horticulture development scheme. paddy is the main crop grown in this district (viii) Farmers training programme. in three seasons viz., (ix) Multiple cropping programme. (i) Kuruvai 3,600 hectares Some salient figures about the agricultural (ii) Thaladi 3,600 hectares sector are as follows:- (iii) Samba 6,300 hectares (i) Net area sown 11,000 hec. (iv) Pulses 5,500 hectares (ii) Total gross cropped area 22,000 hec. Coverage under high-yielding varieties : (iii) Area sown more than once 11,000 hec. The high yielding varieties have become Irrigation: very popular with the farmers of this district (i) Canals 10,.395 hec. during the last decade and have contributed in very large measure to the increased foodgrain (ii) Tube wells 60 hec. production. About -90 % of the area is covered (iii) Others 12 hec. under high yielding varieties and the average yield ranges from 4.5 to 5 metric tonnes/hect Area under main crops: are. Newer high-yielding varieties have (i) Paddy 13,500 hec. replaced the traditional high yielding varieties (ii) Pulses 5,500 hec. in vogue in the area. Varieties like NLR 9672, Puthuvaiponni and ASD 15 have replaced the (iii) Groundnut 280 hec. conventional varieties like ASD 5, BCP 1 and (iv) Coconut 250 hec. CO 25 in the samba season. TKM 9~ ADT 31 have replaced varieties like ADT 27 and Karuna Industries: which were popular varieties cultivated in the Kuruvai season. During 1971-81, 223 small scale industries were started in Karaikal providing employment ADT 1 and ADT 2 blackgram and ADT green to 1,598 individuals. gram are the important pulse· varieties grown in this district. Groundnut is raised under Shri Soundararaja Mills Ltd.: rainfed conditions in Karaikal district. Coconut There is one large scale industry in this dis is grown over a lesser extent than Pondicherry. trict engaged in textile manufacture known as The TXD variety has become very popular "Shri Soundararaja Mills Ltd." located in among the farmers. Nedungadu, Nedungadu commune. The spindl As against 4 development schemes implemen age in this cotton spinning mill was 12,000 ted before 1971, the Agriculture department of during 1971 which was increased to 28,000 62 during 1981. As against 171 workers in 1971, (1) (2) (3) (4) the number of workers in 1981 was 342. The Service-cum-Common Facility Workshop in this 5 Primary schools for boy; 71 3 district ·caters to the needs of the agriculturists girls 5 2 and artisans. The Rural Industrial Estate at Total 76 Kottucherry established in 1968 had demar 5 cated 24 plots and allotted to prospective entre preneurs. A land and building covering an 6 N~rser)' ~hools for boys 8 5 girls area of 23A-ll Ca. in Keezha Oduthurai in Neravy commune was acquired during this Total 8 5 period for setting up an industrial estate. Under the purview of Khadi and Village Total institutions for boys 105 10 • 12 Industries, the industries functioning in this girls 3 district include Khadi spinning centre, bee Total 117 13 keeping, lime, pottery, carpentry, black-smithy .. and village leather 'units giving employment Housing: about 400 persons. Handicraft items like cane and bamboo products, incense and perfumeries, The Pondicherry Housing Board which came palmleaf articles and mat . weaving are also into existence in June 1975 also successfully common industries here. ) completed and executed housing scheme in Karaikal. Education: Slum clearance scheme at Keezhavely, In Karaikal also the education pattern is the same as in Pondicherry. The following state Karaikal.-20 low cost houses as a first phase ment indicates the distribution of institution!! in Keezhavely, Karaikal have been constructed for general education during 1979-80 (provi for slum dwellers at a cost of Rs. 4,000 eat!h sional) ;- with plinth area of 19 sq.m. The scheme for the construction of different Sl. Type of Institutions Government Private No. categories of 141 dwelling units has been taken up in an area of 2.11 hectares in Puliankottai (3) (4) (I) (2) salai, Karaikal. The project has been prepared 1 Colleges for boys 1 at a cost of Rs. 23.23 lakhs and this is partly girls I financed by Housing Urban Development Cor poration i. e., to the extent of Rs. 16.90 lakhs. Total 2 The complex is expected to be completed by this year end. 2 Higher secondary schools for boys 2 There is .one co-operative house building girls 1 society in Karaikal contributing its mite as also Total 3 in this sector. Co-operation: 3 High schools for boys 9 2 girls 4 1 The first co-operative society to function in Total 13 3 this district immediately after merger in 1954 was the Karaikal co-operative milk supply 4 Middle schools for boys 14 society. It was registered on 5-4-1955 and girls 1 started functioning on 1-5-1955. Subsequently many societies were formed to help the Total 15 people of this district. Village co-operative 63 171/4-5B credit societies were formed in villages which Animfll husbandry: got subsequently amalsamated into a limited number of societies to help the people in a The statement below indicates the position viable way. After merger and before 1970 the during 1970 and 1981 regarding the existence of Urban co-operative bank, Irrigation co-opera veterinary units, etc.:-- tive societies, Fishermen co-operative societies, one Co-operative marketing society and one Sl. Items Position in Co-operative building society were also formed. No. r--....A..~ As already indicated, with the implementation 1970 1981 of the 20 point programmei many societies were (1) (2) (3) (4) strengthened to serve the public more effective 1 Veterinary hospital 1 ly. It was during 1971-81 that the' Karaikal Co-operative Wholesale Stores was started for 2 Veterinary dispensaries 2 4 supply of consumer goods, household articles, 3 Mobile veterinary dispensaries 1 1 stationery items, etc., under the name 'Mangani' 4 Veterinary assistant surgeon 5 super market the name derived from the famous 6 mangani festival related to Karaikal Ammaiyar 5 Village scheme: temple located in- the Karaikal municipal area. (i) Centres I (ii) Units The following is the list of existence of the 6 10 co-operative societies of various types in (iii) Artificial insemination centre June 1970--June 1981 :-- 6 Total bovine Accord- Accord- ing to ing to S1. Types of societies "'No. of societies in . 1966 1977 r- No. June '70 June '81 ~ivestock livestock census census (l) (2) (3) (4) (i) Males 12,814 11,592 {ii) Female!! 13,175 1 Primary agricultural credit 14,835 societies 13 6 (iii) Total 25,989 26.427 , 2 Primary co-operative bank 1 7 Sheep 732 291 8 Goats 13,466 15,523 3 Primary non-agricultural credit society 9 Total livestock 40,303 42,433 4 Marketing society 10 Total poultry 37,173 37,309 5 Co-operative milk society I"isheries : The activities during 1971-81 are narrated Fishermen co-operative societies 6 6 6 herebelow :- Consumer co-operative stores 2 11 7 The district comprises 10 marine and 6 8 Co-operative housing society inland fishing villages, with a popUlation of 7,386 and 545 marine and inland fisherfolk. 1 9 Industrial co-operative societies 3 To increase the fish. seed production and to 10 Lift irrigation societies 3 make available the quality seeds for stocking and to take up piSCiculture, the setting up of 11 Other non-agricultural & non Induced Breeding Centre was taken up at credit society Tirunallar. One estuarine fish farm esta 12 Other miscellaneous type of blished in 1972 is also functioning to demon societies 2 strate pisciculture activities. To increase the marine fish production so far 64 Nos. ,of Total No. of societies 30 32 mechanised boats were distributed to the 64 fishermen on hire purchase b~sis with 12~% Company registration: subsidy. During 1980-81 a new scheme namely "Introduction of fibre glass reinforced There is no public company registered in plastic boats to fishermen" was implemented this district under the Companies Act, 1956. under which 3 boats were distributed to However, the existence of private companies develop small scale marine fisheries. One year-war from 1973 to '1981 (as on 31st March) i service-com-maintenance unit is rendering may be seen herebelow:- assistance' for the repairing and servicing of the mechanised boats. Sl. No. Year No. of private companies In order to preserve fish from spoilage (I) (2) . (3) before marketing and to enable the fishermen to selL their catches in good condition /and 1 1973 15 earn better prices, one ice plant-cum-cold 2 1974 15 storage unit with 1 tonne ice and 2 tonnes 3 1975 15 cold storage facilities is functioning. In addi 4 1976 14 tion, two fish vans are run by the Fisheries 5 1977 13 12 department through fishermen co-operative 6 1978 1979 13 societies and hire charges are being collected 7 8 1980 14 at concessional rates to transport fish from. 9 1981 14 landing centre to the fish markets so as to in crease their income. At present 5 fishermen co-operative societies and one fishermen Post, telegraphs and telephones: marketing union is functioning in Karaikal, The entire district has very good coverage constructed under housing and colonisation of post, telegraphs and telephone services as scheme. The total fish production is may be seen from the statement given here 4,248 M. T. in 1981. below:- Post offices SI. Year r------A- Telegraph Telephone Telephone Public call Nc. Rural Urban offices connections exchanges offices (l) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) . (8) 1971 2] 4 5 194 8 2 ]972 2] 4 6 2]4 8 3 ]973 21 4 7 2]5 9 4 ]974 2] 4 7 252 9 5 1975 2] 4 7 263 9 6 1976 21 4 9 287 9 1 1977 21 4 9 296 2 9 8 1978 21 4 10 296 2 9 9. 1979 21 4 10 319- 2* 14* ]0 ------1980 21- 4- 10· 344* 3- 12- -Provisional 65 The telephone exchange originally commis No major development scheme was contem sioned in 1956 has an auto system which got plated in the III five year plan. Provision converted into a manual one and again recon had been made in the subsequent plan year for verted into an auto system on 1~1l-1973 power development of the district. Mahe dis accommodating 200 lines ,However, the ex trict got cent per-cent electrification by the end change has an installed capacity of 300 lines as of 1970 and the demand reached to 363 KW. on date. The total service connections at the end of 1970 are given below:- During 1971-81 small automatic telephone exchanges were commissioned at Ambagarathur (i) House service 763 nos., in Tirunallar commune and NeduJ;1gadu in Nedungadu commune. The A~bagarathur (ii) Industrial service 26 nos.: exchange which has a capacity of 21 lines caters to the needs of Ambagarathur village while the (iii) Street lights 467 nos. Nedungadu exchange which has a capacity of 23 lines serves Karaikal municipal area besides Nedungadu commune. During 1969 the distribution of supply from west coast electric supply corporation had been taken over by this electricity department of Pondicherry administration. The power for this district has been purchased by this department Medical: from Kerala state electricity board for distri bution. Mahe being a small area is served by medical facilities in a well-knit manner. There are 7 medical institutions here, with 135 beds in the general hospital and 22 beds in the sole pri The district is fully electrified; and there are 2,941 domestic and commercial services!' 4 mary health centre. There is, however, no bed agri~ cultural services 1 high tension industrial facility in the subsidiary health centre there. i service, 50 low tension industrial services and The hospital in Mahe is provided with X-ray, 1,520 street lights. The demand of the district phone, ambulance,_ isolation ward, theatre facili has grown up to 2,791 KW from 346 KW. To ties. A separate tuberculosis ward also exists meet the growing demand, it is proposed to con here. struct a extra high tension sub-station at Mahe during the VI five year plan period. The power Electricity and power: is purchased from Kerala state electricity board for distribution in this district. The power pur The west coast electric supply corporation chased during 1971 was 18.72 lakhs and during which bought power from the Kerala state was . 1981 was 75.85 lakhs units. The progress in the distributing licensee to this district. The electrification during the periods 1960-70 . and demand of the district was only 56 kilo watt. 1971-81 is given herebelow:- 66 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1960-70 S1. Item Units 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1 H.T. line Kms. 0.67 0.69 0.69 1.65 • 1.67 1.67 1.67 5.54 5.54 5.54 5.54 2 L.T. line " Kms. 11.25 11.25 12.73 12.73 12.81 12.81 13.89 24.14 24.43 26.26 28.72 3 Transformer Nos. 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Installed capacity of transformer .. KYA 50 100 100 150 200 200 250 250 325 325 325 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electrified Nos. 3 3 4 4 6 House service Nos. 203 233 261 319 372 455 475 615 6 3 684 763 7 Agricultural Nos. connection 8 H.T. industrial Nos. connection 9 L. T. industrial connection Nos. 2 3 4 6 9 10 14 18 21 21 25 10 Street lights Nos. 234 235 255 276 354 370' 405 423 423 467 467 to 11 Maximum demand KW 56 57 45 50 .' 45 330 438 546 514 453 363 PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1971-1981 SI. Item Units 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) H.T. line Krns. 6.34 6.34 6.47 7.03 7.40 7.40 8.68 10.73 11.49 11.84 13.14 2 L.T. line Kms. 32.28 43.63 51.57 58.74 62.98 74.35 89.71 98.74 104.51 117.91 134.41 3 Transformer Nos. 4 4 6 7 9 9 10 12 13 15 19 4 Installed capacity of transformer .. KYA 325 325 450 475 625 625 950 1,150 1,250 1,650 2,050 5 Towns, villages & hamlets electrified Nos. 4 444 4 444 4 4 4 6 House service connection Nos. 892 996 1,171 1,387 1,560 1,580 1,948 2,141 2,394 2,697 2,941 7 Agricultural connection Nos. 2 2 3 4 4 4 8 H. T. industrial connection Nos. 9 L.T. industrial connection Nos. 27 27 30 31 33' 38 40 42 47 47 50 10 Street iights Nos. 593 755 978 1,103 1,103 1,131 1,236 1,440 1,432 1,500 1,520 11 Maximum demand KW 346 499 814 . 826 895 1.306 1,032 1,214 1,287 2,709 2,791 67 Agriculture: Area under difierent crops: Mahe district is mainly benefited by the (i) Coconut 536 hectares south-west monsoon unlike Pondicherry and (ii) Paddy 139 hectares ' Karaikal districts of the union territory which (iii) Betel nut 69 hectares ax;e benefited by north-east monsoon. Mahe (iv) Fruits and district is tot~lly rainfed. vegetables '" 36 hectares (v) Pulses hectares Only laterite soils are seen in this district. I? (vi) Tapioca 15 hectares Coconut is the major crop grown in this dis (vii) Pepper 12 hectares trict. As the chances of bringing more area under coconut is remote in this district because Industries: of the high intensity of the crop, efforts are During 1971-81, 60 small 'scale industries were being made to rejuvenate .the old plantations started in Mahe providing employment to 436 especially affected by "Bud Rot Disease". persons. The Cannanore spinning and weaving Next to coconut, paddy is the main crop. It mills in the rural area of Mahe is providing em is sown in 2 seasons viz., May-June and Octo ployment to about 1,000 hands. ber-November. Education: The following 8 development schemes were The patt~rn of education is as prescribed by implemented for the alround development of the board of education and university of Kerala agriculture in Mahe district:- state. The following is the existence of institu tions for general education during 1979-80 (pro (i) Seed multiplication and distribution visional) as indicated herebelow:- scheme. Sl. Type of institutions Govern- Private (U) High yielding varieties programme. No. ment I (iii) Integrated plant protection scheme. (\) (2) (3) (4) (iv) Pulses development scheme. Colleges for boys girls (v) I~tensive coconut development scheme. Total 1 (vi) Horticulture development scheme. (vii) Special area development scheme for 2 High shcools for boys 4 Mahe district. girls 2 (viii) SoH conservation scheme. Total 6 To bring up the development of agri~ulture to the level of that in other districts and to 3 Middle schools for boys 1 formulate schemes suited to the district a special girls area development scheme was formulated and Total implemented in this distriCt since the V five year plan. 4 Primary schools for boys 8 1 The statistical contents under this sector are g~rls 1 as follows:- Total 9 1 I (i) Net area sown 735 hectares boys 14 (ti) Total cropped area 825 hectares Total institutions for girls 3 (iii) Atea sown more Total than once 90 he,ctares 17 68 Housing: 0) (2) (3) (4) In as much as all are more or less permanent 4 Total bovine residents there ,is not much of housing activity Accord- Accord- ing to ing to here. The activities of the Pondicherry Housing 1966 1977 Board had not been extended to this district so livestock livestock far. census census (i) Males 177 167 A co-operative housing society exists here Oi) Females 1,032 1,085 serving the public. (iii) Total 1,209 1,252 S Goats 1,282 1,386 Co-operation: 6 Total livestock 2,491 2,639 The co-operative movement has benefited 7 Total poultry 4,241 4,486 Mahe also' with the existence of various types of societies as indicated herebelow :- Fisheries : S1. Types' of societies No. of societies in No. June '70 June '81 The account of the developmental activities (1) (2) (3) (4) in relation to Mahe district is given herebelow:- The district has a population of 3,818 fisher 1 Primary agricultural, credit society 1 men. To increase marine fish production by 2 \ Primary non-agricultural covering inshore and offshore waters mechanis credit society ed boats are being distributed to fishermen on . 3 Co-operative milk society 1 1 hire purchase basis with 12!% subsidy. So far 12 mechanised boats were distributed in this 4 Fishermen co-operative society 1 1 disttict. One service-cum-maintenance unit is 4 5 Consumer co-operative stores 8 rendering its assistance to the mechanised boat 6 Co-operative housing society 1 1 owners. \7 Weavers' co-operative society 1 8 Industrial co-operative societies 2 Housing and colonisation scheme was taken up for implementation to ameliorate the lot of 9 Labour society 1 fishermen who are poor and reside near the sea Total No. of societies 12 14 shore and. facing many difficulties during ad verse weather conditions. So far 116 houses Animal husbandry: were constructed in Mahe district. Under this scheme 25% loan (Interest free) and 75% sub The following is the comparative statement of sidy are being granted to fishermen possessing existence of veterinary units, etc., in 1970 and patta of their own for the construction of pucca 1981 :- houses. From 1980-81 onwards, a total sum of Rs. 7,000 (3,700 + 3,300) is granted to fisher S1. Items Position in men availing a sum of Rs. 3,300 from low No, 1970 1981 income group housing scheme of the Co-opera (1) (2) (3) (4) tive department in view of the hike in the cost of building material. The interest free' loan is 1 Veterinary dis'pensaries 1 1 repayable within a period of five years. One 2 Veterinary assistant surgeon 1 1 fish curing yard is also functioning at Mahe to 3 Village sch~me: cure surplus fishes. In order to transport the (i \ Centres fishes from the landing centre to the marketing (ii) Units 1 places one fish transport van is run by the Fishermen co-operative society. The total fish (iii) Artificial insemination centre 1 1 produ_s:tion during "l ~81 is 1,276 M. T. 69 Company registration: (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) The statement here below gives out the de- 4 1976 tails of companies at work in Mahe under the 1 2 3 Companies Act, 1956 from 1973 to 1981 (as on 5 1977 2 3 31st March) under the public and private 6 1.978 1 2 3 sectors :- 7 1979 1 2 3 8 1980 Sl. Year No. of companies Total 2 3 No. ~ __.A. __ ----.. 9 1981 2 3 Public Private (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Post, telegraphs and telephones: 1973 1 The small pocket of Mahe is connected by 2 1974 2 2 post, telegraphs and telephone services as indi- 3 1975 2 2 cated herebelow:- Post offices SI. Year r- Telegraph Telephone Telephone Public call No. Rural Urban offices connections exchanges offices (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 1971 3 3 21 1 2 1972 3 3 22 3 1973 3 3 27 4 1974 3 3 38 2 5 .1975 3 "I 3 40 2 , 1976 3 3 51 2 1 1917 3 J 61 2 a 1978 3 3 80 2 9 1979 3 3 96* 1" 2"' 10 1980 3'" 1· 3'" t96* tl· 3* .._-- ,. Provisional t Relates to the year 1978-79. YANAM: Electricity and power: Medical: Yanam got electricity in 1956 from Andhra Pradesh state. This district, although bigger in size to Mahe has a comparatively lesser population. The The distribution of power was taken over by public are well served by the general hospital, the electricity department of the Pondicherry -which has a bed' strength of 50 and 2 medical administratioq only in June 1976 from Andhra depots. The general hospital has facilities of Pradesh state electricity board. Till then, the X-ray, phone and ambulance to cater to the Andhta Pradesh state electricity board was needs' and necessities of the public. supplying the power. 70 Since taking over of Yanam district from order to meet the growing demand of the indu.s~ Andhra Pradesh state electricity board, a major trial loads. The power is now purchased from development had been achieved. The demand of Andhra Pradesh state electricity board for dis the district has grown up to 625 kilo watt from tribution. The power purchased during 1976 165 KW. There are 726 domestic and commer cial services, 18 industrial services, 268 street was 4.41 lakhs and during 1981 was 7.75 lakhs lights. It is also proposed to erect a 33/11 KV units. The progress in electrification during the sub-station during the VI five year plan in period 1976-81 is given herebelow:- PROGRESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AS ON 31st MARCH DURING 1976-81 S1. Item Units 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) ~---~~-~--.. - -~-~- .~-----,------ H.T. line Kms. 2.75 2.775 4.01 4.45 4.47 13.437 2 'L.T. line " Kms. 8.75 8.75 13.92 16.21 18.74 20.34 3 Transformer " Nos. 3 3 4 5 6 9 4 Installed capacity oftransforrner KVA 225 225 300 350 450 750 5 Towns, villages and hamlets electrified .. Nos. 6 House service connection .. Nos. 497 544 603 644 709 726 7 Agricultural connection .. Nos. Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 8 H.T. industrial connection .. Nos. Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 9 L.T. industrial connection .. Nos. 9 9 11 15 16 18 10 Street lights .. Nos. 147 147 225 243 264 268 II Maximum demand KW ]65 166 168 210 312 432 Agriculture: (i) Seed multiplication and distribution scheme. Yanam district is benefited by the south-west monSOon and north-east monsoon at different (ii) Compact block demonstration scheme. proportions. (iii) Pilot project for int~grated nutrient The soil. is alluvial in this district. supply and fertiliser use efficiency. The major crops during 1955-1967 were (iv) High 'yielding varieties prograJ;I1IIle. only dry paddy,' tobacco, chillies and groundnut. Due to the construction of Adivipolan channel (v) Integrated plant protection scheme. in 1967 the entire cropping system in this dis trict changed. This channel receives water (vi) Intensive coconut development scheme. from Godavari channel. 460 hectares net area (vii) Horticulture development scheme. is irrigated by this channel. Paddy is the principal crop grown in 2 (viii) Special area development scheme for seasons in this district viz., Kharif (June-July Yanam district. to October-November) and Rabi (December April). As in Mahe district, a special area develop The following 8 development schemes were ment scheme was formulated and implemented implemented for development of agriculture in in this district since the V five year plan for this district during the past decade:- meeting the speci~l needs of the district. 71 The details of agricultural statistics are as (1) follows :- (2) (3) (4) (i) Net area sown 793 hectares 4 Nursery schools boys 1 for girls (ii) Total cropped area ... 1,061 hectares Total (iii) Area sown more than once 268 hectares Total institutions boys 15 for girls 2 Area under different crops: Total 17 (i) Paddy 500 hectares Housing: (ii) Pulses 158 hectares In as much as all are permanent residents in (iii) Groundnut 125 hectares Yanam, -the housing activity in this district is (iv) Coconut 120 hectares nil. The Pondicherry Housing Board had not been extended its activities to this district so (v) Condiments and spices 60 hectares far. (vi) Millets 22 hectares No co-operative housing society exists here. Industries: Co-operation: During 1971-81, 58 small scale industries were This part also is served by the co-operative started in Yanal!J. providing employment to movement with existence of the societies as 395 persons. There is no major industry in may be seen herebelow:- this district. Education: SI. Types of societies No. of societies in No. June'70 June'S I The pattern of education is as prescribed by 1) (2) (3) (4) the board of education and university of Andhra Pradesh. The existence of institutions for Primary agricultural credit general education during 1979-80 (provisional) society is as follows:- 2 Primary non-agricultural credit society SI. Type of institutions Government Private No. 3 Marketing society (1) (2) (3) (4) 4 Co-operative milk scciety Colleges for boys 2 5 Fishermen co-operative girls societies 2 2 Total 2 6 Consumer co-operative stores 1 2 High schools for boys 2 7 Labour societies 3 girls I Total number of societies 6 9 Total 3 -_. -- .. -_----._._-- Animal husbandry: 3 Primary schools boys 10 for girls 1 The following is the statement of existence of Total 11 veterinary units, etc., in 1970 and 1981 in a comparative manner;- 72 Sl. Items Position in Society in order to transport the fish from the No. 1970 1981 landing centre to the marketing places. One fish (1) (2) (3) (4) landing jetty is established for landing the fish catches in an easy manner. Under the scheme 1 Veterinary dispensaries 1 housing and colonisation so far 137 fishermen 2 Veterinary assistant surgeon 1 had been benefited. The total fish production 3 Village scheme during the year 1981 is 3,032 M. T. (i) Centres (ii) Units 1 Company registration: (iii) Artificial insemination centre There is no public company registered in this 4 Total bovine district under the Companies Act, 1956. How Accord- Accord- ever, the existence of private companies year ing to ing to 1966 live 1977 Jive war from 1973 to 1981( as on 31st March) may stock stock be seen here below :- census census (i) Males 901 829 (ii) Females 1,~39 1,062 (iii) Total 2,140 1,891 5 Sheep 42 87 1973 2 6 Goats 180 361 2 1974 2 7 Total Iivest,)ck 2,419 2,426 3 1975 3 8 Total poultry 4.756 3,019 4 1976 3 5 1977 3 Fisheries: 6 1978 4 The activities during the decade 1971-81 in 7 1979 5 relation to Yanam district comes as follows:- 8 1980 5 This district supports a sizeable population of 9 1981 5 4,788 marine and inland fishermen. Two in land fish farms are functioning to increase the Post, telegraphs and telephones: inland fish production and also to supply fish seeds to the pisciculturists. So far 12 numbers of Yanam which is treated as an urban area is mechanised boats were distributed to the fisher sufficiently provided with post, telegraphs and men on hire purchase basis. One fish van is' telephone facilities. The figures indicated here run through the Fishermen Co-operative below category-wise explains the position:- Post offices S1. Year ,-__------A- Telegraph Telephone Telephone Public call No. Rural Urban offices connections exchanges offices (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 1971 1 17 1 2 1972 1 1 18 1 3 1973 1 1 23 1 4 1974 1 35 1 5 1975 40 1 6 1976 41 1 7 1977 1 38 1 8 1978 1 33 9 1979 39* 1* 1* 10 1980 2* 1* 45* 1* 1* *Provisional 73 VII. PLACES OF RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN VILLAGES AND PLACES OF INTEREST IN TOWNS The Union territory of Pondicherry has grant memories of a sweet mixture of 'Bouquet sev:ral !,laces of religious, historical or archaeo de France' and 'Manoranjitham'. logIcal Importance and tourist interest. PONDICHERRY: Religious institutions, etc. : . Pondicherry is eVen today the window of (i) Chengazhunir Amman temple in Viram a French-culture in India as desired by Pandit pattinam: Jawaharlal Nehru. Pondicherry was called in Chengazhunir Amman temple at the coastal ancient times 'Poduke' in 'The Peri plus of the village of Virampattinam in Ariankuppam Com Erythraean Sea' of the I century A. D. mune about seven kms. to the south of Pondicherry was a well laid out town Pondicherry is popular for the annual car fes during French rule. One part of the town,. tival that takes place on the fifth Friday in the • was European quarters, the ~ther being tamil month of Adi or in the following month the quarters for natives. The first of Avani (August). part of the town was beyond the grand canal towards the beach. It reposes in the eter (ii) Eswaran temple in Madagadipattu : nal embrace of the foam flecked waves, holding out hope and happiness to all alike. The 'virgin' Madagadipattu is a village in Mannadipet town at once possesses the mysteries of the commune, 25 kms. away from Pondicherry. The Orient and the glamours of the Occident. village has got a famous temple dedicated to Pondicherry town has developed into a Lord Siva constructed during the Rule of Raja city, beautiful in its own fashion re Raja Chola. It is one of the ~arliest of the tem flecting the charms of a continental ples built by Raja Raja Chola. Although ruined city. Oval-shaped and clean with' uniquely and reconstructed, it is worth seeing. aligned streets, it is a model of skilful town (iii) Siva temple in: Thiruvandarkoil: planning with parallel streets running criss-' cross, mutually cutting each other at right This ancient temple of eleventh century in angles and an esplanade about three kms. in Thiruvandarkoil also of Mannadipet commune IE'ngth skirting the town. dedicated to Lord Siva, lies about eight kms. People speaking fifty five different languages away from Villianur on the road to Villupuram. of the world live here adding a new character (iv) Thirukameswarar temple in Villianur: and dimension to its vibrant cosmopolitanism. Pondicherry beach is useful for walking and This temple in Villianur is worth seeing. It doing exercises. Sri Aurobindo Ashram is was built during the 12th century. The annual an attraction for people all over India. The car festival of the temple attracts thousands of Soldiers' monument on the beach road. the pilgrims. statue of Joan of Arc, the several temples and (v) Lord Gangai Varahamudeeswarar temple medieval churches are other attractions. The botanical garden is yet another place worth in Thirukanji: seeing. A temple dedIcated to Lord Gangai Varaha Any visitor during his brief sojourn here mudeeswarar is situated in Thirukanji village would certainly be impressed by some of the of Villianur commune. Every year Masimagam unique features of this land and carry home fra- festival is celebrated with great fan fare. 74 (vi) Varadaraja Perumal temple in· Thiru go~hic architecture. The stained glass panels buvanai: therein depict some events from the life of Jesus Christ. The temple of Varadaraja Perumal in Thiru buvanai village is situated about 23 kIns. west of Pondicherry. It is one of the famous temples (iii) Eglise de notre dame de la Conception: of the Chola period. There e»isted a college of A church originally built by the Jesuits in Sanskrit attached to the temple. 1691, it was finally completed in its present (vii) Srimoolanathar te~ple in Bahour: shape in 1765. The most historically famous temple in (iv) Eglise de notre dame_d~s Anges: Pondicherry is the Srimoolanathar temple in Bahour. The temple was constructed by the In typical Roman style, this church in Dumas Pallavas and further improved by the Cholas. street was built in 1856 by Louis Guerre. A The unique feature of this temp1e is that the large size oil portrait of Our Lady of Assump 'Karanas' of Bharata N atiyam could be seen in tion presented by Emperor Napoleon III is still the temple walls like the Chidambaram temple. preserved here. It had a 'Katika' which is a college for Vedic studies. - The following festivals in Pondicherry deserve special mention:- (viii) Eglise de notre dame de Lourdes, Villianur: (i) Masimagam festival:_ This was constructed in Villianur in 1876 on On the full-moon day of the 'Magam' asterism the model of the Basilica at Lourdes in Southern in the tamil month of Masi (February-March) France. The Statue of 'Our Lady' was brought thousands of people in good faith go to the sea from France and was installed in 1877. The shore in the early morning hours to have a holy festival of 'Our Lady of Lour-des' celebrated in dip in the sea for ablution of their sins. the month of June every year attracts people of all religion. This is perhaps the only Catholic Deities from as many as fifty -temples in church in India. with a 'Teppakulam' within its Pondicherry and from the outlying areas of precincts in the traditional pattern of hindul Tamil Nadu are brought in ceremonial proces temples. sion to the sea-shore with accompaniment of nadhaswaram, near Kuruchikuppam in In addition to the above, there are other tem Pondicherry municipal area for the symbolic tples with fine architectural structure and immersion. rhistorical importance located in the various com munes of the district worth-seeing. The pious and well to do people of Although situated in Pondicherry municipal Pondicherry encouraged the celebration by area the following temples/churches also heavy donations to meet the expenses for bring deserve mention:- ing the deities and for making other arrange ments. Pondicherry wili wear a festive galore (i) Manakula Vinayagar temple: from the early morning to the late night of the day. The deities which are taken to the sea It is situated near the Rajnivas. Devotees who shore early morning make their return journey throng in hundreds, specially on Fridays, believe to their respective places in procession along that the reigning deity favours them with suc the streets of Pondicherry in the even cess in all their new ventures. ing. The deities of Mailam. (Shri SUb - , (ii) Eglise de sacre coeur de Jesus: ramaniar), Gingee (Shri' Ranganathar) and Theevanur (Shri Poyya Vinayagar) stay in This church in South Boulevard is dedicated the town for 2 or 3 more days for worship by to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is noted for its the public. 75 171 !4-6A (ii) Fir~-walking and sedal festivals: ment at the centre. It i.i a popular evening re sort for the young and the old alike. There is a Pondicherry district is an abode of temples cpildren's corner on the southern end of the dedicated to· Lord Subramaniar and various park. At the centre'of the monument is a colour forms of ammans viz., Ml1thumariamman, Anga ful fountain that belongs to the period of lamman, Muthalamman, :phrowbathiamman, etc. Napoleon III. ) The famous fire-walking and sedal festivals are generally the most important festivals of these (iii) The coastline and beach: temples. The 1500 metre-long promenade edging the Fire-walking.-Those who vow to take part in coast is an ideal rendezvous alike for the the fire-walking ordeal observe 40 days fast and sprightly youth and aging souls. In the close wear saffron coloured cloths and after a puri summer evenings, a stroll in the Goubert Avenue ficatory bath, walk through the fire-stretch to to breathe the cool sea-breeze will be a pleasant the astonishment of the spectators. experience. Sedal.-The famous sedal is understood to mean Midway on the road stands majestically the self-imposed physical torture undertaken by Gandhi statue! 14 feet tall, surrounded by eight devotees who pi~rce small silver hooks and exquisitely hewn monolithic pillars facing the spears in their body or tongues in fulfilment of sprawling Gandhi square. Facing the sea to the some vow. It is said that as many as 100 needles right is the "Hotel de Ville" (Town Hall). To are pierced over their body. They then go in a its left! the War Memorial erected by the procession after a bath clad in turmeric strained French in memory of the soldiers who laid cloths. down their lives in the first world war may be seen. (iii) Mascarade festival: A couple of hundred metres away to the south Mascarade or Situated at the eastern end of the Jawaharlal Known as 'Institut Francaise', it was establish Nehru street (formerly rue Dupleix) is Raj ed in March; 19?5 by Dr. J. Filliozat, the Nivas-the official residence of the Lieutenant Indologist. .It has since grown into one of the Governor. . A few monolithic sculptures adortl. endurii{g enterprises of Indo-French co-operation the garden in front. The. best hewn sculpture is in the realm of science and culture. It is primarily that of 'Varaha Avathar' (Lord Vishnu) in the a Research Centre of Indian Culture to which posture of fondling Bhoomidevi (Lakshmi) the was added the scientific and technical section in Goddess of Earth. 1956. The results of its research of indology are . published\. in what is known, as the 'Publica (ii) The government park: tions de 1;' Institut Francaise d' Indologie'. Spreading out just opposite to Raj Nivas is a The scientific and techllical section com well laid greenary beautifully designed with prises the laboratory of ecology and carto flower paths, lawns and fountains and a monu- graphy engaged in. tl\e preparation of vegetation 76 maps, the laboratory of palynology engaged in which he devoted so much of his affection. His the collection and classification of pollen grains house at No. 69-C, Rangapillai street, is itself a and the laboratory of pedology engaged in the piece of art that bears testimony to the skill of preparation of inset maps of soil types, geology Indian craftsmanship. As a piece of 18th century and lithology. The vegetation maps prepared architefture it synthesises architectural features here have won universal recognition. of both the East and the West. (v) Alliance francaise : It is yet another centre dedicated to the pro (viii) Poet BharathidasaD: pagation of the french language and culture in . Pondicherry. It has a well-equipped library of Poet Bharathidasan (1891-1964) is known to french books and journals. The centre also the Tamil World as 'Paventhar' or 'King of arranges cultural.programmes and talks from Poems'. This true son of the soil donned the time to timQ. name of 'Bharathidasan' as a mark of his devo tion to Subramania Bharathi, his guru. His (vi) Poet B!tarathi: original name was Kanakasubburathinam. While poems like the 'Puratchi Kavi', 'Veerathai' and Born in Ettayapuram in 1882, Poet Subra 'Kathala Kadamaiya' bear eloquent test~ony mania Bharathi sought political asylum in to his revolutionary fervour, other pieces such as Pondicherry in 1908 and heralded a new era in 'Kudumba Vilakku' depict the picture of an ideal . the world of tamilliterature. From'here through Tamil home. His play 'Pisirandayar' won him the medium of his glowing and evocative songs posthumously the Sahitya Academy Award in on Mother India he inspired the freedom 1969. movement in Tamil N adu. His literary master':" pieces such as the 'Kannan Pattu', 'Kuyil Pattu' rhis house he lived in at 95, Perumal koil and 'Panchali Sapatham' which he wrote during street has been converted into a 'Memorial' his 'self-imposed exile in Pondicherry, bear the now a centre of pilgrimage for lovers of Tamil. imprint of a new poetic vision. Under the mag {I , netic spell of Sri Aurobindo, he sang of the (ix) (a) Sri Aurobindo : . glori 77 The Ashram runs a number of institutions above sea level, command a panoramic view of which aim at givlng shape to the ideal of 'Life Pondicherry and the coast. The campus com Divine' on earth. Notable among them are Sri prises the main JIPMER buildings (for under Aurobindo International Centre of Education, graduate and post-graduate medical education), Sri A-urobindo Society, The World Union, etc. an attached modern teaching hospital with 600 Veritably has it been described as a vast human beds, students' and nurses' hostel, residential laboratory seeking to discover the secrets of quarters for the staff and playground. 'Integral Yoga'. (xii) Romain Rolland library: (x) Auroville: Founded as early as in 1827, it is the biggest Eight kms. north of Pondicherry is located public library in the territory. Housed in a 'Auroville'-the City of Dawn-invitjng all spacious building at th.e e~stern end of Ranga men who thirst for progress and aspire to a pillai street with over 60,000 volumes, it is a higher and truer life. According to the Mother great attraction to the scholars. A large 'Auroville' wants to be a universal town where number of periodic'als in English,. Tamil and men and women of all countries are able to live French a'J.e ·made . available to the reading in peace and progressive harmony above all public. It has a very good collection of rare creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The pur books. pose of Auroville is to realise human unity. (xiii) Pondicherry museum: Construction work s~arted with the laying of the foundation stone on 28th February, 1968. Here we may see on display the findings of On this occasion young people came from all Arikamedu, priceless Chola bronzes and sculp over the world bringing love in their hearts tures, glimpses of. the French heritage, speci and soil of their country in their hands which mens of modern, and traditional handicrafts, they placed in a lotus-shaped marble urn, sym paintings, armouries,. wood carvings, etc. bolic of their support for the project. (xiv) Botanical garden: There are more than a thousand people en . Conceived and· established by C. S. Perrotet gaged in giving shape to this project. On in 1826, it is situated at the junction of West 'completion, 50;000 people will reside here. The Boulevard and Lal Bahadur street. It preser town will be divided into four zones - resi ves a large variety of exotic spe<;ies of plants dential, cultural, international and industrial. collected from all over India and abroad. There will also be an International University perhaps the first in the world. Permanent (xv) Aquarium : pavilions of various countries and the states of India reflecting the cultures of those countries This modern aquarium is maintained by the and states are to be established in Auroville. Fisheries department. It gives an idea of tbe Life in Au}oville is simple with emphasis on plscicultural methods and coastal fishing of world unity. Pondicherry. There are also a few rare orna mental fish varieties here, (xi) Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research: Karaikal: Popularly known as the 'JIPMER', this Ins Religious institutions, etc.: titute inaugurated on 13th July, 1964, is one Right from the ancient times Karaikal is of the six regional post-graduate education and considered to be a pilgrimage centre. research centres of medicine in India. Five kms. away from Pondicherry on the road to (i) Sri Darbaranyeswarar temple in Tirunalla... : Tindivanam.7 , it is located at Gorimedu, now known as 'Danvantri Nagar' in ideal surround- Situated about 5 kms. from Karaikal, a temple ings. The clean and artistically designed build d.edicated to Sri Darbaranyeswarar constructed ings o'f the institute situated at about 100 feet during the Chola period exists in Tirunallar village of . Tirunallar ~ommune. Althou~h the fruits, flowers, pulses! etc. After the 3 days fes . presiding deity is Sri Darbaranyeswarar, Lord tival, the idol is dismantled part by part and Sane.eswara Bhagavan who has a separate apart kept back in the box to be opened after another ment in this temple is very famous. This is the 5 years only. place from wRere N alachakravarthy got relieved (iv) Others: :f1.om the evil influence of saturn. Once in 2! years a great Sanipeyarchi festival is celebrated Fire-walking and sedal festivals are also the and attended by many lakhs of pilgrims from all commonest annual features of temple./ of this over India. district. (ii) Badrakaliyamman temple in Ambagarathur:' On the full moon day of the tamil month Masi, the Masimagam festival is celebrated in To the west of Karaikal in Ambagarathur the sea-shore of Karaikal. The most important village of Tirunallar commune, there exists a Badrakaliyamman temple. The temple assumes deity which takes part in the festival is. Sowri the name of Goddess Parasakthi who is told to raja Perumal of Thirukannapuram village in have killed a rakshasha by name Ambaran who Tamil Nadu area. The saying goes that Sowri was killing people day-in and day-out. At the raja Perumal married a fishermen community time of the killing (vadham) Ambaran was in buffalo form. The place plas initially knQWll as woman and hence the moment the deity enters Ambaran-urandha-oor. meaning victory over Tirumalairayanpattinam village of Tirumalai Ambaran, which has subsequently become rayanpattinam commune for this festival, the Ambagarathur. In the tamil month of Vaikasi fish~rmen take charge of the deity and charges on every second Tuesday at 1.00 p.m. a buffalo was killed in proof of this event. However, are replaced after the festival is completed i. e., buffalo killing was discontinued since 1965, but after the holy bath, etc. This festival is held the pomp and glory of the festival still continue. with all pomp and glory although it cannot be (iii) Ayiramkaliyamman temple in Tirumalai- compared to the degree of celebration in , rayanpattinam : ..... Pondicherry. . This temple exists in Tirumalairayanpatti Although situated within Karaikal muni nam village of Tirumalairayanpattinam cipality, Karaikal Ammayar temple which commune. It is said that a pious person of holds the annual 'Mangani' festival which is a sengunthar community had a dream to collect a .,. Goddess Amman in a silver box floating in s~a. well attended 'Mela', as also Kandoori festival The next day himself alongwith his friends had celebrated by Karaikal Darga and the Feast gone to the sea-shore and in accordance with the of Our Lady of Lourdes celeb~ated by Our dream found the box and in it contained the Lady of Lourdes Church deserve menEon. image of Goddess Amman with inscription in palm leaf to indicate that this deity has to be There are many other temples also in Karai worshipped with 1.000 itpms daily. Perhaps a kal having architectural and historical impor person who was not able to do this ritual accord ingly got rid of the idoL Even after collection tance. from the sea, since such an observance of pooja with 1,000 items could not be conducted daily, Places of interest: the pious people of the locality decided to have The religious institutions in this district are the pooja conducted once in 5 years. Accord ingly, even today during the tamil month of regarded as tourist attractions. Karaikal town Vaikasi, the festival is conducted for 3 days area is endowed with a sea beach where'-some when the worship is done with thousands of people relax. 79 171 !4-6B Mahe: architects of those days in Kerala who were experts in the construction of both temples and Religious institutions, etc.: mosques. The Mahe district contains temples mostly dedicated to Kuttichathans and Bhagavatly.s. Places of interest: Although located in Mahe town, the The entire M.ahe stretch with its ups and downs is a sight-seeing place with excellent St. There~a· Church which celebrates vegetation. St. Theresa festival in October every year which is attended by even non-christians and Puthalam Bhagavathi temple which conducts 'Thiraiyattam' which is a kind of dance of Yanam: ancient art coupled with divinity are worth Religious institutio~, etc.: mentioning. This is wholly an urban unit. Sri Vishnu The famous fairs/festivals in Mahe are Putha temple and Pillaraya temple are worth-mention~ lamthira, Mandolilthira,. Koyodan Koroththira, ing here. Pandokuloththira, Mandalam Vilakku, Guruva The festivals of celebration are Vishnu theer':' yur ekadesit Vaikunda ekadesi, Onam, Vishu and Sri Krishna J ayanthi. tham, Swamikalyanam and Vinayagar Chathur thi. There are some mosques also of which Puzha kal Juma Musjidh is the oldest one standing o.n Places of interest: the bank of the Mahe river and constructed in 16th century. A peculiar feature of this musjidh This is a calm place presenting mostly rural is that its frontal will have the appearance of atmosphere and does not possess the hustle hindu temple. This is because it was designed by bustle characteristics of the town. VIII. BRIEF ANALYSIS OF VILLAGE DIRECTORY DATA With Yanam district having been classified as important amenities, the only exception purely urban, the analysis about village direc of non-existence being market/hat which tory rests on villages' of 3 districts viz., cannot be construed to be a deciding Pondicherry, Karaikal and Mahe. The exist factor of status of communes as in the" case of ence of various amenities viz., education, medi other amenities since these communes also have cal, drinking water supply, post and telegraph, petty shops, bunkst etc. It may also be said that most of the villages contained in the various market/hat, communications, approach by pucca communes ,have the existence of important road and power supply decides the status of amenities. rural areas, since only if villages improve in" living standards, the natiOQ. improves. A nota The following statement indicates the decadal able . feature in the Union Territory of comparative position of amenities in the dis Pondicherry is that all communes have tricts since 1961:- 80 Decadal distribution of villages according to the availability of different amenities No. (with percentage) of villages having one or more of the following amenities S1. Union Territory fDistrict Year No. of r- No. inhabited Education Medical Drinking Post and Communi- Power villages Water Telegraph cations Supply / (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) I. Pondicherry Union Territory 1961 387 188(48.58) 24(6.20) 83(21.45) 49(12.66) 269(69.51) 237(61.24) 1971 333 212(63.66) 48(14.41) 333(100.00) 60(18.02) 137(41.14) 268(80.48) 1981 291 236(81.10) 98(33.68) 291(100.00) 58(19.93) '181(62.20) 291(100.00) 1. Pondicherry District 1961 267 130(48.69) 14(5.24) 66(24.72) 36(13.48) 239(89.51) 229(85.77) 1971 213 139(65.26) 32(15.02) 213(100.00) 34(15.96) 113(53.05) 210(98.59) 1981 179 144(80.45) 66(36.87) 179(100.00) 38(21.23) 129(72.07) 179(100.00) 2. Karaikal District 1961 117 55(47.01) 8(6.84) 17(14.53) 11(9.40) 27(23.08) 8(6.84) 1971 117 70(59.83) 15(12.82) 117(100.00) • 24(20.51) 21(17.95) 55(47.01) 1981 109 89(81.65) 30(27.52) 109(100.00) 17(15.60) 49(44.95) 109(100.00) 3. Mahe District 1961 3 3(100.00) 2(66.67) 2(66.67) 3(100'00) 1971 3 3(100.00) 1(33.33) 3(100.00) 2(66.67) 3(100.00) :(1 ('().OO) 1981 3 3(100;00) 2(66.67) 3(100.00) 3(100.00) 3(100.00) 3(100.00) It may be seen from the above statement that percent facilities 'even since 1961. Further, there is a definite and marked improvement in in this district all the 3 villages possess cent per ". regard to the provision of amenities in 1981 as cent facilities of all types of amenities except compared to the previous years. It is also medical aid. The following is the ranking of the worth-mentioning that all villages have the various districts in respect of existence of each benefit of power supply and pro type of amenity contained in the villages during tected water supply during 1981. On 1981:- the education front, Mahe has cent 51. Education Medical Drinking Post and Marketl Communi- Approach Power No. Water Telegraph Hat cations' by Pucca Road supply (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) 1. Mahe Mahe Pondicherry Mahe Exists Mahe Mahe Pondicherry f Karaikal and only ~Karaikal ~ 2. Karaikal Pondicherry i Mahe have 1Pondi- in Pondicherry Pondicherry and Mahe the same J cherry Pondi- ' have the 3. Pondicherry Karaikal l ranking Karaikal chrry Karaikal Karaikal l same rankingJ Except in the case of market/hat and in the people who do not have the amenities within case of inhabitants of Keezhaputhagaram village their village need not go beyond 5 kms. to have (L. C. No. 22) in Nedungadu commune of Karai ka1 district for medical aid, even such of those the said benefits. 81 Out of 179 inhabited villages in .. Pondicherry Brief analysis of town directory data: district, 11 are located within a distance of 5 kms., 100 at a distance range of 6-15 kIllS. and As regards Pondicherry and Karaikal, the area 68 are located in the distance range of 16-50 kms of the then urban units i:A. 1961 viz., Pondicherry from the nearest town. As regards Karaikal, out town and Muthialpet· town works out to 2.69 sq. of 109 inhabited villages, 11 are located within kilometres and Karaikal town works out to a distance of 5 kms. and 98 at a distance range 6.68 sq. kms. Based on this the density works of 6-15 kms. from the neares:t town. Regarding out to 19,242.38 and 3,331.14 respectively. These Mahe, of the 3 inhabited yillages, one is within figures did not agree with the ones appearing 5 kms. and 2 are within 6-15 kIns. distance from in the inset tables since the mode of working the nearest town. of the area figures in 1961 is not clear. While as already indicated, Mahe dominates In Pondicherry district, . the density has fallen in having all types of amenities in all villages, down' steeply in 1971 as compared to 1961 since it may be mentioned that the viliages in more units had been brought into urban fold Pondicherry and Karaikal although located at a which were thinly populated. The density in considerable distaQ.ce from the nearest to"Nn, are 1981 is slightly lesser as compared ·to the ·figure, not lost sight of for the provision of amenities. in 1971. Reckoned by population size also, all villages are better provided with basic amenities in the In Karaikal district, the density in 1971 has sense that one need.,. not travel longer distan slightly increased as compared to 1961. In 1981, ces to have services of any type. the figure had gone dovvn considerably due to bringing of more areas which are thinly popu- The staple food of all the 4 districts of union lated into urban fold. - territory is rice and rice only. In Mahe, the figures show a downward trend Pondicherry, Karaikal and Mahe districts are in 1971 and a much higher upward trend in 198!. predominantly agricultural areas. More than The urban units sinc~ 1961 remain the same. 78% of the total area of the districts accounts for cultivi'ble areas. Ozhukarai commune in In Yanam. the area figures adopted ~!l 1961, Pondicherry district and Mahe account for poor 1971 and 1981 are 17.28. 20.00 and 30.00 sq kIns. irrigation facilities - percentages of irrigated respectively. Adopting these figures, the d''llsity area to total cultivable area are 4.46 and 2.97 registers an increase in 1971 and I a decrease in respectively. All communes except those of 1981. Ariankuppam. Ozhukarai and Nettapakkam have more than 50% irrigation facilities ;n The statement herebelow indicates distribu Pondicherry district; in Karaik81 district all the tion of urban population district-wise (with per 5 communes have more than 65 % ir:r:igation centage of district urban population to total facilities with one commune touching 97%. urban population of the union territory) :- Di~ribution of t'rhm population'district-wise (" ith percentage of district urban population to total nrban population of the union territory) , . "II. Year Total urban population Pondicherry Kanlikal Mahe Ya'lam No. of the union territory (1) (2) (3) (4) (5 ) (6) ('7) 1961 88,997 51,762(58.16) 22,252(25.00) 7,951(8.94) 7,032(7.90) 2 1971 198,288 154,')45(78.14) 26,080(13 .15) 8,972(4.53) " 8,291(4.18) .3 1981 316,047 251,420(79.55) 43,408(13·.74) 9,588(3.03) 11,631(3.68) --- 82 The sex ratio (number of females per 1000 All local' bcdies except Kurumbapet have males) has registered an appreciable decline in institutions affording education beyond primary 1971 as compared to 1961 and a small decrease school stage. The existence of primary schQols in 1981 as compared to' 1971 in the union and junior secondary/middle schools is more in territory. , number in all areas. , In Pondicherry, the sex ratio figures of all the All towns except Kurumbapet have bed faci": 3 decades are lower than the corresponding lities in the medical institutions existing within union territory's figures. In Karaikal and Mahe, their jurisdiction. Of all the towns,' Mahe has they are higher. In ¥anam, they are lower in the privilege of enjoying highest number of bed 1961 and 1981 and higher in 1971. During the facilities in th,~ medical institutions located current census; Mahe has the highest sex ratio there. followed by Karaikal, Pondicherry and Yanam in the order. During the previous decades, the There is no slum population in the first 2 order was Mahe, Karaikal, Yanam and classes of towns. Pondicher;y in 1971 and Mahe, Karaikal, . . Pondicherry and Yanam in 1961. It may there The most important commodity manufactured and exported in Pondicherry and Kurumbapet fore be noted that the sex ratio has always been ~ are textiles. Being major rice producing centres, the highest in Mahe immediately followed by Ke>.raikal and Yanam engage in export of rice. Karaikal and then by Pondicherry and Yanam Cotton yarn is both exported from and manufac excepting that the latter two exchanged places tured in Mahe. While major manufacture in in 1971. Yanam is cement pipes and in Xaraikal and There is no declassification of towns during Ozhukarai they' are household steel and alumi 19S1 Census. Kururnbapet in Villianur commune nium articles. The most important commodity of Pondicherry district is a newly added town imported is fertiliser for agricultural purposes during this census. in Pondicherry and cement for manufacturing units in Yanam. Of all the districts, Mahe tops in per capita receipts as well as expenditure during 1978-79. Brief analysis of primary census abstr'act: As regards per capita receipts, Mahe is followed by Kara~kal, Yanam, Pondicherry, Kurumbapet The followinj t2,ble iJldicates the percentage and Ozhukarai whereas, on expenditure side it of rural and urban population to total popula is ,followed by Karaikal, Pondicherry, Yanam, tion of. the concerned unit viz., district/union Ozhukatai and Kurumbapet. territory:- Percentage of rural and urban population to total population of the concerned unit V:7 .• DistdctjUnion Territory 1961 1971 1981 81. No. Name of the District/Union Territory ,-_ ____A_ ~ ______.A_ ,-~ ___A_ __~ Rural Urban Rnral Urban Rural Urban (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) ,8) 1. . Pondic~erry 79.98 20.02 54.46 45.54 43.43 56.57 2. Karaikal 73.51. 26.49 73.93 ~r,.r17 63.83 ~6,17 3. Mahe 59.19 40.81 ~1.22 38.78 66.25 33.75 4. Yanam 100.00 100.00 100.00 I. Pondicherry' Union Territory 75.89 24.11 57.96 42.04 47.71 52.28 83 The rural-urban classification of areas re 1971, the percentage strikes the same with a mained the same in respect of Karaikal district downward trend in rural population during in 1961 and 1971 whereas more area has J?een 1981 and a consequential upward trend in brought into urban fold in l~81. The rural urban population. There is no appreciable change urban classification in respect of Mahe remained in respect of Mahe. No mention need be made the same i during the 3 censuses while Yanam about Yanam for obvious reasons. With major was completely treated as urban right from districts registering higher percentage of urban 1961. Coming into examination of figures of population and lower :percentage of rural popu rural and urban population! a dO\\TIlward trend lation, the union territory figures' also follow is noticed in the rural population of Pondicherry suit.• in 1971 and again in 1981 w,ith a consequentipl ,The following table gives the percentage of upward trend in the urban population. As rural and urban population sex-wise to total regards Karaikal" since there was no change in population of the concerned unit viz., district! the rural-urban classification during 1961 and union territory in 1981 :- Percentage of rural and urban population sex-wise to total population of the concerned unit viz., District/Union Territory 1981 '. r_,------~------~ St. No. Name of the District/Union Territory Rural Urban r------~------~r_------A------~ Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1)------(2) (3) (4), (5) (6) (7) (8) 1. Pondicherry 43.43 22.29 21.14 56.57 28.58 27.99 2. Karaikal ..~ 63.83 31.71 32.09 36.17 17.73 18.44 3. Mahe 66.25 30.93 35.32 33.75 15.74 18.01 4. Yanam 100.00 50.67 49.33 1 I Pondicherry Union Territory 47.71 24.14 23.57 52.28 26.24 26.04 It has been indicated in the analysis of town Census only 2. revenue villages are treated as directory that Pondicherry and Yanam had rural and all other units treated urban which registered existence of more males than females includes conversion of more rural units into and Karaikal and Mahe more females than urban ones during the current census. The ~owth males. This pOSition holds good in respect of rate of population in Mahe rural is more than Pondicherry, Karaikal and Mahe with separate its urban unit rate whereas the position is just rural-urban classification also i. e., to say the the reverse in respect of Pondicherry and distribution of male, female population of the Karaikal. VArious areas in the union territory, is uniform. Since the pUblication has been prepared for The 1971-81 percentage decadal vadation of census village, more villages are indicated to population registers a minus figure under rural exist with highly lower population ranges. and an exorbitantly inflated figure under urban There are many villages with population less ,u. _res'pect of Ozhukarai,' since during 1981 than 200 and also between 20{)-499. It may be 84 mentioned that Andiarpalayam village. in· Man highest in Kurumbapet town of P~dicherry nadipet commune of Pondicherry t'ilstrict with district and it is the lowest in Mahe. The 4 inhabitants only is the lowest of the lot. The Kurunibapet figure is more than 3 times that of highest populated villages in Pondicherry, union territory figure or the Pondicherry Karaikal and Mahe are Ariankuppam village in district figure; the Mahe figure is less than 1/20th. Ariankuppam commune, Tirumalairayanpatti:- ' of the union territory figure. The Yanam figure. nam village in Tirumalairayanpattinam is more than tw:ce the union territory figure. commune and Palloor village in Mahe commune with population figure!; of 9,409, 8,841 and 8,525 respectively. The literacy rate registered is the highest for villages of population size 5,000-9,999 in res pect of the Union Territory of Pondicherry ~d In Pondicherry and Karaikal, more number also Pondicherry district. As regards Karaikal, of villages are identified in the density range the rate registered for villages with less than of population 501 + per sq. km. In Mahe, all the 200 population is the highest. In regard to 3 villages are covered in that range only. In Mahe, the rate is more or less the same for the density range upto 50 % population only 2 both the population ranges of ?,000-4,999 and villages exist and that too in Pondicherry 5,000-9,999. The order of literacy in rural district only. areas is Mahe, Karaikal and Pondicherry. The rates registered in Karaikal and Mahe distriCts are more than the union territory's rate while In the Union Territory of Pondicherry there it is lesser in Pondicherry district. ar~ 73 villages with no scheduled caste popula tion contained thereint the figures for Pondicherry and Karaikal being 50 and 23 res As regards towns, tIle ranking in literacy pectively. 5 or lesser percentage of scheduled rates is Mahe, Pondicherry, Karaikal, Ozhuka caste population to total population is no!iced rai, Yanam and Kurumbapet. Mahe and in 33 villages in the union territory, 22 in Pondicherry have higher percentage of literacy \ Pondicherry, 8 in Karaikal and 3 (Mahe has in the order as compared to the union territory only 3 villages) in Mahe. The percentage range figure with the rest lower than that.. beyond 31 exists in 97 villages in the union territory with 58 in Pondicherry and 39 in Karaikal and it may be said that there are The literacy rates in urban areas are higher ::nore villages in this range as compared to other than their corresponding :qgun's in rural areas . ranges. at the level of union territory and districts. There is no scheduled tribe in this union The statement· here below indicates the sche territory. duled caste population, literates, workers of :v-arious categories, main workers and non-work Among the towns, the percentage of schedul ers to the total population reckoned at the 1,000 ed caste population to total population is the f 35. Distribution of 1,000 persons among main workers, marginal \vorkers and non-workers at union territory level SI. Union TerritoryjDistrict Total Scheduled Liter- Total Culti- Agricul- Household Other Marginal Non No. popula Castes ates Main vators tural Industry, Workers Workers Workers tion workers (I) Labourers Manu- (III, IV, (II) factur V(b) & , ing, VI to IX) Processing, Servicing & Repairs [V(a)} (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) I. Pondicherry Union Territory T 1,000 159 559 286 27 90 6 163 18 696 R 477 103 229 151 23 77 2 49 12 314 U 523 56 330 135 4 13 4 114 6 382 1. Pondicherry District T 735 12~ 402 214 20 64 6 124 11 510' ., R. 319 76 139 107 18 56 ,- 31 7 205 U 416 46 263 107 2 8 4 93 4 305 2. Karaikal District T 199 33 112 57 6 23 N 28 6 136 R 127 27 67 38 5 20 N 13 5 84 u 72 6 45 19 N 15 52 3. Mahe District T 47 N 35 9 N N 8 37 R 31 N 23 6 N N 5 N 25 U 16 N 12 .. N N N 3 12 4. Ya~lU District T 19, 4 10 6 N 3 N 13 u 19 4 10 6 1 2 N 3 N 13 N: Negligible. The statement indicates that the schedultd e&t literacy rate is recorded in Mahe town fol caste population exists more in rural areas, than lowed by Pondicherry 'town, Karaikal town in urban areas. In Mahe however, their figure and Yanam town in the order. is negligible. As regards literacy, F'ondicherry As regards sex-wise literacy, it may be men district rural presents a low figure bringing tioned that males dominate in all areas, '!rhe down the total rural literates at union territory highest male and female literacy among di.stricts level. More than 50 % of the population are recorded in Mahe only, More than 50 % of except in the rural areas of the Pondicherry the males are literates while only in. some cases dLstrict and consequently in the rural areas of females cross that level. . Excepting in the Pondicherry Union Territory are literates - case of Mahe in accordance with normal pattern, (Yanam town records nearly 50%). The high- rural literacy is lower tban the urban literacy. 86 Coming to the distribution of main .workers, More than 60 % of the population either at all urban areas and Mahe rural record highest rural or urban or at the total in all-the districts percentage of existence of other workers. .f\.s and union territory , are non-workers. The per- regards· other rural areas, agricultural labour centage of non-workers is the highest at Mahe ers dominate. Persons engaged in household followed by Pondicherry, Karaikal and Yanam. industry are minimal or negligible at both the The figures of marginal workers are either rural and urban level in all the districts and minimal or negiigible. Wherever they exist consequently at the union territory lev~l. At they aJe comparatively in more numbers in the union territory level, while urban records rural areas than in urban areas. highest percentage of other 'Yorkers and rural highest percentage of agricultural labourers, .Females contribute more as compared to the total reflects .existence of more 'other males. towards marginal workers and non workers'. This position holds good in respect workers. of sex-wise engagement also. 87 TABLE: 1 Population, Dumber of WIages 'and tOWDS, 1981 Population SI. Union Territory/District/.- -, No. Commune Total Rural Urban No. of villages No. r- r- r- .-~ r-___.-\..---. of P M F P M F P M F Total Inhabi- town. ted (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) Pondicherry Union Territory 604,471 304,561 299,910 288,424 145,92t 142,502 316,047 158,639 157,408 292 291 6 District Pondicherry .. 444,417 226,041 218,376 192.997 99,044 93,953 251,420 126,997 1~4,423 179 179 3 Pondicherry (M) 162,639 81,666 80,973 162,639 81,666 80,973 2 Ariankuppam 34,107 17,526 16,581 34,107 17,526 16,581 20 20 3 Ozhukarai 95,491 48,805 46,686 8,503 4,377 4,126 86,988 44,428 42,560 5 5 4 Mannadipet 39,321 20,168 19,153 39,321 20,168 19,153 40 40 5. Villianur 50,836 26,063 24,773 49,043 25,160 23,883 1,793 903 890 45 45 6 Bahour 37,289 19,093 18,196 37,289 19,093 18,196 42 42 7 Nettapakkam .. 24,734 12,720 12,014 24,734 12,720 12,014 27 27 District Karalkal 120,010 59,367 60,643 76,602 38,089 38,S13 43,408 21,278 22,130 110 109 1 Karaikal (M) 43,4Jl8 21,278 22,130 43,408 21,278 22,130 2 Tirunallar 24,751 12,238 12,513 24,751 12,238 12,513 38 38 3 Neravy 12,587 6,242 6,345 12,587 6,242 6,345 13 13 4 Nedungadu 11,580 ~,852 5,728 11,580 5,852 5,728 33 33 5 Kottuchcrry 13,703 6,856.. 6,847 13,703 6,856 6,847 16 J5 6 Tirumalairayanpattinam 13,981 6,901 7,080 13,981 6,901 7,080 10 10 District Mahe 28,413 13,260 15,153 . 18,825 8,789 10,036 9,588 4,471 5,117 3 3 I Mahe(M) 28,413 13,260 15,153 18,825 8,789 10,036 9,588 4,471 5,117 3 3 District Yanam 11,631 5,893 5,738 -/ 11,631 5,893 5,738 t 1 Yanam(M) 11,631 5,893 5,738 11,631 5,893 5,738 1 19 TABLE: 2 Decadal f,:hange in distribution of population Population Percentage decadal r- (1971-81) variation I Union Territory/District/ 1971 i981 Commune r- r- ;- -. Total Rural Urban Total Rural Urban Total Rural Urban (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (1O) Pondicherry Union Territory 471,707 273,419 198,288 ~,471 288,424 316,047 28.15 , 5.49 59.39 District Pondicherry 340,240 185,295 154,945 444,417 192,997 251,420 30.62 4.16 62.26 Pondicherry (M) 134,222 652 13~,570 162,639 162,639 21.17 21.76 Ariankuppam 26,269 26,269 34,107 34,107 29.84 . 29.84 Ozhukarai 57,785 36,410 21,375 95,491 8,503 86,988 65.25 (-)76.65 306.96 Matma~pet 32,133 32,133 39,321 39,321 22.37 22.37. Villianur 39,134 39,134 50,836 49,043 1,793 29.90 25.32 :8ahour 30,312 30,312 37,289 37,289 23.02 23.02 Nettapakkam 20,385 20,385 24,734 24,734 21.33 21.33 r DistrIct Karaikal 100,042 73,962 26,080 120,010 76,602 43,408 19.96 3.57 66.44 Karaikal(M) 36,152 10,072 26,080 43,408 43,408 20.07" 66.44 Tirunallar 20,445 20,445 . 24,751 24,751 • 21.06 21.06 Neravy 11,117 11,117 12,587 12,587 13.22 13.22 Nedungadu 9,846 9,846 11,580 11,580 17.61 17.61 Kottucherry 10,949 10,949 13,703 13,703 25.15 25.15 Tirumalairayanpattinam 11,533 11,533 13,981 13,981 21.23 21.23 District Mahe 23,134 14,162 11,972 28,413 18,825 9,588 22.82 32.93 6.87 Mahe(M) 23,134 14,162 8,972 28,413 18,825 9,588 22.82 32.93 6.87 District Yanam 8,291 8,29l 11,631 11,631 40.28 40.28 Yanam(M) 8,291 8,291 11,631 11,631 40.28· 40.28 90 TABLE: 3 Distriblltion of villages by population ranges No. of villages Percentage of villages Range of population in each range in each range (1) {2) (3) Union Territory of Pondicherry 200 48 16.50 200 499 78 26.80 500 1,999 131 45.02 2,000 4,999 28 !'J.62 5,000 9,999 6 2.06 10,000 + Total 291 100.00 District Pondicberry 200 17 9.50 200 499 46 25.7G 500 1,999 92 51.40 2,000 4,999 21 11.73 5,000 9,999 3 1.67 10,000 + Total 179 100.00 District Karaikal 200 31 28.44 200 499 .32 29.36 500 1,999 , 39 35.78 2,000 4,999 6 5.50 5,000 9,999 0.92 10,000 + ---- Total 109 100.00 District Mahe 200 200 499 500 1,999 2,000 4,999 33.33 5,000 9,999 2 66.67 10,000 + Total 3 100.00 91 171/4-7A (1) (2) . (3) District Y..... 200 200 499 500 1,999 2,000 4,999 5,000 9,999 10,000 + Total TABLE: .( Distributilin of villages by density Total No. of villages Percentage of villages Range of density (per Sq.K.m.) in each density in each density range range (1) (2) (3) Pondicherry Union Territory 10 0.34 11 20 21 50 0.34 51 100 4 1.38 lor 200 17 5.84 201 300 27 9.28 301 500 57 19.59 501 + 184 63.23 Not known Total 291 100.00 District Pondicherry 10 0.56 11 20 21 50 1 0.56 51 100 0.56 101 200 4 2.23 201 300 8 4.47 301 500 33 18.44 501 + 131 73.18 Not known Total 179 100.00 92 (1) (2) (3) District IUlridkal - I 10 11 20 21 50 51 100 3 2.75 101 200 13 11.93 201 300 19 17.43 301 500 24 22.02 501 + 50 45.87 Not known --- Total 109 100.00 District Mahe 10 11 20 21 50 51 100 101 200 201 300 301 500 501 + 3 100.00 Not known Total 3 100.00 District Ysoam 10 '11 20 21 50 51 100 101 200 201 300 301 500 501 + Not known Total ---_ 93 (1) (2) (3) District Mabe Nii 5 or_" less 3 100.00 6 10 11 15 16'- 20 21 - 30 31 and above --- Total 3 100.00 District Yanam Nil 5 or Jess 6 10 11 15 16 20 21 30 31 and above Total TABLE: 6 Proportion of Scheduled Tribe Population to total population in the Villages Percentage range of Scheduled No. of villages Percentag~ of Tri be Population to total in each range villages in ,'each population ranae (1) (2) (3) Union Territory of Pondicherry Nil 5 or less 1 6 15 16 25 Nil Nil 26 35 36 SO 51 and above , Total 171/4-7B (1) (2) (3) District Pondicberry Nil 5 or less 1 6 IS 16 25 Nil Nil 26 35 36 SO 51 and above Total DIstriet Karaikal Nil ") 5 or less I 6 IS 16 25 .~ Nil Nil 26 35 36 SO j 51 and above Total District Malle Nil 5 or ICIIS (» 15 16 25 1 Nil Nil 26 35 36 SO 51 and above J Total District Yaaam Nil 5 or less 6 15 16 25 Nil Nil 26 35 36 50 ., 51 and above Total NOTE :-No tribe has been Scheduled in the Union territory of' Pondicherry as per Presidential Orde~. % TABLE: 7 Proportion of Sdaeduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes population in Towns Total ·Total Percentage of Percentage of Union Territory/District/Commune Total Scheduled Scheduled Schedllied Scheduled tribe population Caste Tribe Caste population population to population population to total total population population (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Union Territory of Pondicherry (All towns) 316,047 34,110 10.79 District Pondichet;ry (All towns) 251,420 28,063 11.16 Kurumbapet 1,793 678 37.&1 Ozhubrai 86.988 10,127 11.64 Pondicherry 162,639 17,258 10.61 District Karaikal (All towns) .. 43,408 3,459 7.97 Karaikal 43,408 3,459 7.97 District Mahe (All tow~ 9,588 41 0.43 Mahe 9,588 41 0.43 District Yanam (All towns) 11,631 2,547 21.90 Yanam 11,631 2,547 21.90 ·No tribe has been Scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Presidential Order. TABLE: 8 Uteracy rates by populati~D ranges of villages Range of population No. of villages Literacy in each range rate (1) (2) (3) Union Territory of Pondicberry 200 48 59.92 200 499 78 48.58 500 1,999 131 40.49 2,000 4,999 " 28 50.56 MOO 9,999 6 63.06 JO,OOO + Total 291 47.98 97 (I) (2) (3) District Pondicherry 200 .. 17 44.28 200 499 46 42.22 500 1,999 92 39.71 2,000 4,999 21 45.60 5,000 9,999 3 56.17 10,000' + Total 179 43.54 District Iaralkal 200 31 68.53 200 499 32 58.43 500 1,999 39 42.75 2,000 4,999 6 ,58.73 5,000 9,999 62.98 10,000 + Total 109 52.80 DistrictMahe 200 200. 499 500 1,999 2,000 4,999 75.38 5,000 9,999 2 73.44 10,000 + Total .. 3 73.94 District Yanam 200 200 499 500 1,999 2,000 4,999 5,000 9,999 10,000 + Total. TABLE: , Literacy rates for to..... Union Territory/District/Town Litera.cy ra.te Union Territory of Pondicherry (All Towns) 63.04 I District Pondicherry (All Towns) .. '63.26 ICurumbapet 37.87 Ozhuk-arai 60.82 Pondicherry 64.84 District Karaikal (All Towns) 62.85 Karaikal .. 62.85 District Mahe (All Towns) 74.45 Mahc 74.45 District ¥al-lam (All Towns) 49.57 Yanam 49.57 99 TABLE: 10 Literates, Workers, Non-workers, Scbeduled Castes/Tribe Population in the Union Territory Total Percentage of Union Territory/Districtj Ruralj Total popula.tion r- Comniune Urban Scheduled Scheduled Literates to Caste Tribe total popu ladon population population to total to total population population· (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) PONDICHERRY UNION Total 604,471 304,561 299,910 15.99 55.85 65.84 45.71 T£RRITORY Rural 288,424 145,922 142,502 21.68 47.98 59.39 36,30 Urban 316,047 158,639 1~7,408 10.79 63.04 71.77 54.23 District PGlldicberr)' Total 444,417 226,041 32i8,376 16.66 54.69 65.06 43.97 Rural 192,997 99,044 . 93,953 23.82 43.54 55.76 30.66 Urban 251,420 126,997 .124,423 11.l6 63.26 72.30 54.02 Pondichcrry (M) Total .. {62,639 81,666 80,973 10.61 64.84 73.34 56.27 Rural ., Urban 162,639 81,666 80,973 10.61 64.84 73.34 56.27 Ariankuppam Total 34,107 17,526 16,581 14.27 jQ.70 63;04 37.65 Rural 34,107 17,526 16,581 14.27 50.70 63.04- 37.65 Urban 'Ozhukarai Total 95,491 48,805 46,686 11.13 58.80 69.14 . 47.98 Rural 8,503 4,377 4,126 5.90 38.10 52.02 23.34 Urban 86,988 44,428 42,560 11.64 60.82 70.83 50.31 Mannadipct Total 39,321 20,168 19,153 26.21 41.33 54.27 27.71 Rural 39,32J 20,168 19,153 26.21 41.33 54.27 27.71 Urban Villianur Total 50,836 26,063 24,773 23.14 43.72 55.36 31.47 Rural 49,043 25,160 23,883 r 22.61 43.93 55.50 31.74 Urban ).793 903 S90 37.81 37.87 51.50 24.04- Bahour Total 37,289 19,093 18,196 32.92 40.97 52.60 28.76 Rural 37,289 19,093 18,196 32.92 40.97 52.60 28.76 Urban Nettapakkam Total 24,734 12,720 12,014 28.03 42.14 54.62 28.92 Rural 24,734 12,720 12,014 28.03 42.14 54.62 28.92 Urban 100 TABLE 10 , Literates, Workers, Non-workers, Scheduled Castes/Tribe Population in the Union Territory-concld. ------,------Percentage of Union Territory Total ,---- ~------~ District/ Rural/ Main workers to Marginal workers to Total workers to Non workers to Commune Urban total population total population total population total population P M F P 'M F P M F P M F (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) 09) (20) (21). (22) PoNDiCHBRRY Total 28.66 46.02 11.03 1.75 1.06 . 2.45 30.41 47.08 13.48 69.59 52.92 86.52 UNION TERRITORY Rural 31.63 48.50 14.36 2.46 1.21 3.74 34.09 49.71 18.10 65.91 50.29 81.90 Urban 25.95 43.74 8.02 1.10 0.93 1.28 27.05 44.67 9.30 72.95 55.33 90.70 District Total 29.01 45.89. 11.54 1.44 1.09 1.80 30.45 46.98 13.34 69.55 53.02 86.66 PoadidIerry Rural 33.24 49.22, 16.38 2.02 1.26 2.83 35.26 50.48 19.21 64.74 49.52 80.79 Urban 25.76, 43.28 7.88 0.99 0.~6 1.02 26.75 44.24 8.90 73.25 55.76 91.10 Pondichorry(M) Total 25.07 42.48 7.50 0.78 0.95 0.62 25.85 43.43 8.12 74.15 56.57, 91.88 Rural . Urban 25.07 42.48 7.50 0.78 0.95 0.62 25.85 43.43 8.12 74.15 56.57 91.88 Ariankuppam Total 26.22 42.10 9.45 0.86 1.00 0.71 27.08 43.10 10.16 72.92 j6.90 89.84 'Rural 26.22 42.10 9.45 0.86 1.00 0.71 27.08 43.10 10.16 72.92 56.90 89.84 Urban Ozhukarai Total 26.96 44.83 8.27 LS8 1.10 2.09 28.54 45.93 10.36 71.46 54.07 89.64 Rural 28.27 47.25 8.14 3.52 2.01 5.12 31.79 .49.26 13.26 68.21 50.74 86.74 Urban 26.82 44.59 8.28 1.40 1.01 1.80 28.22 45.60 10.08 71.78 54.40 89.9~ Mannadipet Total 37.96 52.09 23.07 1.89 1.03 2.80 39.85 53.12 25.87 60.15 46.88 74.13 -' Rural 37.96 52.09 23.07 1.89 1.03 2.80 39.85 53.12 25.87 60.15 46.88 74.13 Urban Villianur Total 32.67 49.14 15.33 ' 2.33 1.28 3.44 35.00 50.42 18.77 65.00 49.58 81.23 Rural 32.52 49.07 15.06 2.41 1.32 3.57 34.93 50.39 18.63 65.07 49.61 81.37 Urban 36.81 50.94 22.47 O.II 0.11 0.11 36.92 51.05 22.58 63.08 48.95 77.42 Bahour Total 33.67 51.26 15.22 1.85 1.49 2.22 35.52 52.75 17.44 64.48 47.25 82.56 Rural 33.67 51.26 15.22 1.85 1.49 2.22 35.52 . 52.75 17.44 64.48 47.25 82.56 Urban' Nettapakkam Total 37.88 52.40 22.50 2.83 1.25 4.50 4).71 53.65 27.0) 5~.2~ 45.35 73.0 Rural 31.88 52.40 22.50 2.83 1.25 4.50 40.71 53.65 27.00 59.29 46.35 73.00 . Urban 101 (I) . (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Di.trid Karaikal Total .. 120,010 59,367 60,643 16.65 56.43 67.09 46.00 Ruiili 76.602 38.089 ·38,513 21.58 52.80 64.42 41.31 Urban 43.408 21,278 22,130 7.97 62.85 71.87 54.17 Karaikal '(M) Total 43.408 21,278 22,130 7.97 62.85 71.87 54.17 Rural Urban 43,408 21,278 22,130 7.97 62.85 71.87 54.17 Tirunallar Total 24.751 12,238 12,513 21.49 55.26 ti7.22 43.57 Rural 24.751 12,238 12,513 21.49 55.26 67.22 43.57 Urban. Neravy Total 12.587 6,242 6,345 22.05 53.05 65.28 41.01 Rural 12,587 6,242 6,345 22.05 53.05 65.28 41.01 Urban Nodunpdu Total 11,5S0 5,852 5,728 27.14 50.98 61.14 40.61 Rural 1l,580 5,852 5,728 27.14 50.98 61.14 40.61 Urban Kottucberry Total 13,703 6,S56 6,847 20.34. 47.S1 5~.9! 35.69 Rural f3,703 6,856 6,847 20.34 47.81 59.92 35.69 Urban Tirumalairilyanpattimim Total 13,981 6,901 7,080 17.90 54.60 65.92 . 43.57 Rural 13,981 6,901 7,080 17.90 54.60 65.92 43.57 Urban 1 .. Distrid Mabe· Total 28,413 13,260 15,153 0.26 74.11 78.02 70.70 . Rural 18,825 8,789 10,036 0.17 73.94 78.50 69.96 Urban 9,588 4,471 5,117 0.43 74.45 77.07 72.15 Mahe(M) . Total . , 28,413 13,260 15,153 0.26 74.11 78.02 70.7(} Rural 18,825 .8,789 10,036 0.17 73.94 78.50 69.96 Urban 9,588 4,471 5,lI7 0.43 74.45 77.07 72.15 District Yanam Total 11,631 5,893 5,738 21.90 49.57 55.90 43.08 Rural Urban 11,631 5,893 5,738 21.90 49.57 55.90 43.08 Vanam (M) Total 11,631 5,893 5,738 21.90 49.57 55.90 43.08 Rural Urban 11,631 5,893 5,738 21.90 49.57 55.90 43.08 "'No tribe bas been Scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per PrCliidentiat Order. 102 (11) (12) (13) {14) (15) (16) (17) . (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) District 'Total .. 29.08 48.55 10.oz 3.20 0.97 5.38 32.28 49.52 15.40 67.72 50.48 84.60 Karaikal Rural .. 30.70 50.05 ll.57 3.94 1.06 6.78 34.64 5U1 18.35 65.36 48.89 81.65 Urban 26.22 45.86 7.33 1.90 0.82 2.95 28.12 46.68 10.28 71.88 53.32 89.72 Karaikal (M) Total 26.22 45.86 7.33 1.90 0.82 2.95 28.12 46.68 10.28 71.88 53.32 89.72 Rural Urban 26.22 45.86 7.33 1.90 0.82 2.95 28.12 46.68 10.4.8 71.88 53.32 89.72 Tirunallar ,:otal .. 30,86 50.66 11.50 3.28 0.64 5.87 34.14 51.30 17.37 65.86 48.70 82.63 Rural 30.86 50.66 11.50 3.28 0.64 5.87 34.14 51.30 17.37 65.86 48.70 82.63 Urban· Neravy Total 29.59 50.08 9.44 . 3.41 0.74 6.04 33.00 50.82 15.48 67.00 49.18 84.52 Rural 29.59 50.08 9.44 3.41 0.74 6.04 33.00 50.82 15.48 67.00 49.18 84.52 Urban Nedungadu Total 35.24 52.89 17.20 4.41 1.19 7.70 39.65 54.08 24.90 60.35 45.92 75.10 Rural 35.24 52.89 17.20 4.41 1.19 7.70 39.65 54.08 24.90 60.35 45.92, 75.10 Urban Kottucherry Total 29.00 49.93 8.05 6.12 1.57 10.66 35.12 51.50 18.71 64.88 48.50 81.29 Rural 29.00 49.93 8.05 6.12 1.57 10.66 35.12 51.50 18.71 64.88 48.50 81.29 Urban Tirurnalaitayan Total 29.34 46.67. 12.46 3.05 1.48 4.57 32.39 48.15 17.03 67.61 51.85 82.97 pattinam Rural 29.34 46.67 12.46 3.05 1.48 4.57 32.39 48.15 17.03 67.61 51.85 82.97 Urban District Mabe Total .. 19.61 34.93 '6.21 0.89 1.37 0.48 20.50 36.30 6.69 79.50 63.70 93.31 Rural 18.89 33.55 6.06 0.97 1.41 0.58 19.86 34.96 6.64 80.14 65.04 93.36 Urban 21.02 37.62 6.51 0.75 1.30 0.27 21. 77 38.92 6.78 78.23 61.08 93.22 Mahe (M) Total .. 19.61 34.93 6.21 0.89 1.37· 0.48 20.50 36.30 6.69 79.50 63.70 93.31 Rural 18.89 33.55 6.06 0.97 1.41 0.58 19.86 34.96 6.64 80.14· 65.04 93.36 Urban 21.02 37.62 6.51 0.75 1.30 0.27 21. 77 38.92 6.78 78.23 61.08 93.22 District Yanam Total 33.20 50.70 15.21 0.78 0.22 1.36 33.98 50.92 16.57 66.02 49.08 83.43 Rural Urban 33.20 50.70 15.21 0.78 0.22 1.36 33.98 50.92 16.57 66.02 49.08 83.43 Yanam (M) Total 33.20 50.70 15.21 0.78 0.22 1.36 33.98 50.92 16.57 66.02 49.08 83.43 Rural Urban 33.20 50.70 15.21 0.78 0.22 1.36 33.98 50.92 16.57 66.02 49.08 83.43 103 'TABLE : 11 Distribution of villages according to tbe availability of difl'ereDt amenities Union No. of No. (with percentage) of villages having one or more of the following amenities SI. Territoryj inha- r- Na. District! bited Education Medical Drinking Post and Marketl Communica- Approach by Power Commune villages water Telegraph Hat tions pucca road supply (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) UNION TERRITORY OF PONDICHERRY 291 236 (81.10) 98 (33.68) 291 (100.00) 58 (19.93) 2 (0.69) 168 (57.73) 181 (62.20) 291 (100.00) District Pondicberry 179 144 (80.45) 66 (36.87) 179 (100.00) 38 (21.23) 2 (l.I2) 127 (70.95) 129 (72.07) 179 (100.00) 1 Ariankuppam 20 16 (80.00) 8 (40.00) 20(100.00) 6 (30.00) II (55.00) 13 (65.00) 20(100.00) 2 Ozhukarai 5 5 (100.00) 3 (60.00) 5 (100.00) 1 (20.00) 5 (100.00) 5 (100.00) 5 (100.00) 3 Mannadipet 40 33 (82.50) I? (47.50) 40(100.00) 9 (22.50) (2.50) 29 (72.50) 30 (75.00) 40 (100.00) 4 Villianur 45 40 (88.89) 14 (31.11) 45 (100.00) 9 (20.00) 38 (84.44) 33 (73.33) 45 (100.00) 5 Bahour 42 29 (69.05) 15 (35.71) 42 (100.00) 8 (19.05) (2.38) . 19 (45.24) 23 (54.76) 42 (100.00) 6 Nettapakkam 27 21 (77.78) 7 (25.93) 27 (100.00) 5 (18.52) 25 (92.59) 25 (92.59) 27 (100.00) District Karaikal 109 89 (81.65) 30 (27.52) 109 (100.00) 17 (15.60) 38 (34.86) 49 (44.95) 109 (100.00) Tirunallar 38 29 (76.32) 12 (31.58) 38 (100.00) 7 (18.42). 12 (31.58) 13 (34.21) 38 (100.00) 2 Neravy 13 12 (92.31) 3 (23.08) 13 (100.00) 1 (7.69) 7 (53.85) 7 (53.85) 13 (100.00) 3 Nedungadu 33 25 (75.76) 6 (18.18) 33 (100.00) 4 (12.12) ·s (24.24) 8 (24.24) 33 (100.00) . 4 Ko~tucherry 15 14 (93.33) 6 (40.00) 15 (100.00) 4 (26.67) 8 (53.33) 11 (73.33) 15 (100.00) 5 Tirumalairayan- Pattiqam 10 9 (90.00) 3 (30.00) 10 (H).O.OO) (10.00) 3 (30.00) 10(100.00) 10(100.00) District Mabe 3 3 (100.00) 2 (66.67) 3 (1oo.oo) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.\)0) 3 (loo.OO) 1 Mabe 3 3 (100.00) ;2 (66.67) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) District Yanam 1 Yanam 104 TABLE: It Proportioll of rural popuIatioB 8e"ed by different .....Id. Union Total Proportion of Rural Population served by the. amenity of 81. Territory! popula- r- No. District! tion of Educa- Medical Drink- . Post Marketl Communica- Approach Power Commune inhabited tion ing and Hat tion by supply villages water Tele- pucca road in tne graph commune (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY 288,424 96.30 64.94 100.00 49.55 0.76 81.07 84.21 100.00 Distric:t Pondicherry 192,997 95.65 64.57 100.00 44.37 1.13 84.26 85.92 100.00 1 Ariankuppam 34,107 97.88 70.13 100.00 63.31 79.80 90.04 100.00 2 Ozhukarai 8,503 100.00 72.12 100.00 42.89 100.00 100.00 100.00 3 Mannadipet 39,321 95.10 69.64 100.00 36.55 3.81 77.69 79.94 100.00 4 Villianur 49,043 97.10 57.12 100.00 36.89 93.46 87.08 '100.00 5 Bahour 37,289 91.95 63.62 100.00 45.52 1.84 70.69 75.89 100.00 6 Nettapakkam 24,734 94.65 62.45 100.00 44.29 97.70 97.70 100.00 District Karaikal 76,602 97.03 63.69 100.00 50.20 68.35 76.05 100.00 Tirunallar 24,751 96.48 64.38 100.00 50.10 62.16 65.49 100.00 2 NerayY 12,587 98.58 55.36 100.00 34.26 .. 76.19 76.19 100.00 3 Nedun~adu 11,580 90.75 43.14 100.00 38.56 53.19 53.19 100.00 4 Kottucherry 13,703 99.48 77.56 100.00 61.59 83.39 89.89 100.00 5 Tiruma.lairayan- pattinam 13,981 99.40 73.38 100.00 63.24 70.08 100.00 100.00 District Mahe 18,825 100.00 73.83 100.00 ~ 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 Mahe 18,825 100.00 73.83 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 District Yanam 1 Yanam os TABLE: 13 Distribution of villages not having certain amenities, arranged by distance ranges from the places where these are available Number of villages where the amenity is not available and available at distance of Village not having the amenity of ,------______-A______--, -5 Kms. 5-10 Kms. 10+ Kms. Total (Cols. 2-4) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) UNION TERRITORY OF PONDICHERRY 1. Education 55 55 2. Medical 192 , I 193 3. Drinking Water 4. Post and Telegra 233 233 5. Market/Hat 44 21 112 177 6. Communication 123 123 \ District Poodicherry 1. Education 35 35 2. Medical 113 113 3. Drinking Water 4. Post and Telegraph 141 141 5. MaFket/Hat 44 21 112 177 6. Communication 52 52 District Karaikal 1. Education 20 20 ) 2. Medical 78 79 3. Drinking Water 4. Post and Telegraph 92 92 5 MaFket/Hat 6. Communication 71 71 District Mahe 1. Education 2. Medical 3. . Drinking Water 4. Post and Telegraph 5. Malket/Hat 6. Communication District Yansrn 1. Education .. 2. Medical 3. Drinking Water 4.' Post and Telegraph 5. Market/Hat 6. Communication .. 106 TABLE: 14 Distribution of villages according to the distance from the nearest town and availablity of different amenities Distance range No. of No. (with percentage) of villages having the amenity of from the nearest inha-,- town (in Kms.) bited Education Medical Drinking Posts and Marketl Communica- Approach py Power villages . water Telegraph Hat tion puccaroad supply in each range (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Pondicherry Union Territory 0 -, 5 .. 23 . 19 (82.61) 8 (34.78) 23 (100.00) 3 (13.04) .' 1 (4.35) 13 (56.52) 17 (73.91) 23 (100.00)' 6 15 200 159 (79.50) 65 (32.50) 200 (100.00) 44 (22.00) 1 (0.50) 104 (52.00) 113 (56.50) 200 (100.00) 16 50 68 58 (85.29) 25 (36.76) 68 (100.00) 11 (16.18) 51 (75.00) 52 (76.47) 68 (100.00) 51 + Unspecified ------Total .. 291 236(81.10) 98 (33.68) 291 (100.00) 58 (19.93) 2 (0.69) 168 (57.73) 182 (62.54) 291(100.00) ---- District Pondicherry 0 - 5 11 7 (63.64) 3 (27.27) 11 (100.00) .'. J (9.09) ·4 (36.36) 8 (72.73) 11 (100.00) 6 - 15 .. 100 79 (79.00) 38 (38.00) 100 (100.00) 27 (27.00) t (1.00) 72 (72.00) 70 (70.00) 100 (100.00) , 16 50 68 58 (85.29) 25 (36.76) 68 (I00.00) II (16.18) 51 (75.00) 52 (76.47) 68 (100.00) 51 + Unspecified ---- _------Total .. 119 144 (80.45) 66 (36.87) 179 (100.00) 38 (21.23) 2 (1.12) 127 (70.95) 130 (72.63) 179 (100.00) District Karaikal 0 5 11 11 (100.00) 4 (36.36) 11 (100.00) 2 (18.18) 8 (72.73) 8 (72.73) J 1 (100.00) 6 15 98 78 (79.59) 26 (26.53) 98 (100.00) 15 (15.31) 30 (30.61) 41 (41.84) 98 (100.00) 16 50 51 + Unspecified ----- Total " 109 89 (81.65) 30 (27.52) 109 (100.00) 17 (15.60) 38 (34.86) 49 (44.95) 109 (100.00) ------District Mahe 0 5 1 (100.00) (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) (100.00) t (100.00) (100.00) 6 15 2 2 (100.00) (50.00) 2 (100.00) 2 (100.00) 2 (100.00) 2 (100.00) '2 (100.00) 16 50 51 + Unspecified Total 3 3 (100.00) 2 (66.67) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 107 171J4-8A (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) District Yanam o 5 6 15 16 50 51 + Un specified , Total .. TABLE: 15 Distribution of villages according to population range and amenities available No. of Number (with percentage) of villages having the amenity of Population range inha- r- bited Ed~ation Medical Drinking Post and Marketl Communica- Approach by Power villages Water Telegrapgh Hat tion Pucca Road Supply in each range (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Pondicherry Union Territory - 499 .. 126 74 (58.73) 10 (7.94) 126 (100.00) 2 (1.59) 43 (34.13) 50 (39.68) 126 (100.00) 500-1,999 .. 131 128 (97.71) 57 (43.51) 131(100.00) 29 (22.14) 2 (1.53) 93 (70.99) 98 (74.81) 131 (100.00) 2,000-4,999 · . 28 28 (100.00) 25 (89.)'-9) 28 (100.00) 22 (78.57) 26 (92.86) 27 (96.43) 28 (100.00) 5 (83.33) 6(100.00) 6 (100.00) 6 (100.00) 5,000+ 6 6 (100.00) 6 (100.00) 6 (100.00) ---- Total 291 236 (81.10) 98 (33.68) 291 (100.00) 58 (19.93) 2 (0.69).. 163 (57.73) 181 (62.20) 291 (100.00) District Pondicherry - 499 .. 63 31 (49.21) 5 (7.94) 63 (100.00) 35 (55.56) 35 (55.56) 63 (100.00) 500--1,999 · . 92 89 (96.74) 39 (42.39) 92 (100.00) 21 (22.83) 2 (2.17) 70 (76.09) 71 (77.17) 92 (100.00) 2,000-4,999 .. 21 21 (100.00) 19 (90.48) 21 (100.00) 15 (71.43) 19 (90:48) 20 (95.24) '21 (100.00) -' 5,000+ 3 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 2 (66.67) . 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) Total 179 144 (80.45) 66 (36.87) 179 (100.00) 38 (21.23) 2 (1.12) 127 (70.95) 129 (72.07) 179 (100.00) District Karaikal - 499 63 43 (68.25) 5 (7.94) 63 (100.00) 2 (3.17) 8 (12.70) 15 (23.81) 63 (100.00) 500-1,999 39 39 (100.00) 18 (46.15) 39 (100.00) 8 (20.51) 23 (58.97) 27 (69.23) 39 (100.00) 2,000-4,999 · . 6 6(100.00) 6 (100.00) 6 (100.00) 6 (100.00) 6 (100.00) 6(100.00) 6 (100.00) 5,000+ 1-(100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) .~ ------17 (15.60) 38 (34.86) 49 (44.95) 109 (100.00) Total 109 89 (81.65) 30 (27.52) 109 (100.00) ----- 108 (1) (2) (3) (4) (S) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) District Mahe - 499 SOO-I,999 ., 2,~,999 1 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) 1 (100.00) S,OOO+ 2 2(100.00) 2 (100.00) 2 (100.00) 2(100.00) 2 (100.00) 2 (100.00) 2 (100.00) Total 3 3 (100.00) 2 (66.67) 3 (100.00) 3(100.00) 3 (100.00) 3 (100.00) 3(100.00) District Yanam - 499 SOO-I,999 2,000-4,999 5,000+ Total TABLE: 16 Main staple food in the majority of villages in Union Territory/District/Commnne SI. No. Union Territory/District/Commune Main staple food (1) (2) (3) Pondicherry Union Territo~ Rice District Pondicherry Rice 1. Ariankuppam Rice 2. Ozhukarai Rice 3. Mannadipet Rice 4. Villianur Rice 5. Bahour Rice 6. Nettapakkam Rice District Karaikal Rice 1. Tirunallar Rice 2. Neravy Rice 3. Nedungadu Rice 4. Kottucherry Rice S. Tirumalairayanpattinam Rice District Mahe - Rice 1. Mahe Rice District Yanam Rice 1. Yanam Rice 109 TABLE: 17 Distribution of villages according to land use No. of Total Percentage Percentage of 81. No. Union Territory/District/Commune in...;abited area cultivable irrigated area villages area to to total cultivable total area area (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Pondicherry Union Territory 291 39,400.30 80.97 63.97 District Pondicherry .. 179 24,642.57 71i.62 54.27 1. Ariankuppam" 20 2,436.15 75.71 34.36 2. Ozhukarai 5 888.51 81.75 4.46 '. 3. Mannadipet 40 6,443,38 80.48 57.86 4. Villianur 45 6,373.37 77.85 61.87 5. Bahour .. 42 5,481.65 75.81 61.85 6. Nettapakkam 27 3,019.51 82.84 48.32 District Karaikal 109 14,035.56 84.92 82.84 1. Tirunallar 38 4,580.08 84.70 88.68 2. Neravy 13 2,005.10 86,73 81.55 3. Nedungadu 33 2,587.12 91.31 96.41 4. Kottucherry 15 2,750.83 84.56 65.15 5. Tirumalairayan- pattinam 10 2,112.43 76.34 75.80 District Mahe 3 722.17 84.05 2.97 I. Mahe 3 722.17 84.05 2.97 District Yanam 1. Yanam 110 TABLE: 18 Growth, density and sex ratio of urban population in the district in'relation to the union territory District Union Territory Cemus ..- ..- Year Total Urban % Urban Decadal Density Sex Total Urbar % Urban Decadal Density Sex ratio population populatioPl popula- percent- (population ratio population population popula- percent- (population (No.of tion age varia- per (No. of tIon age varia- per females tion in sq. km.) females tion in sq. km.) per 1,000 urban per 1 ,000 urban males) population males) population (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) Pondicherry Union Territory District Pondidlerry 1951 1961 258,561 51,762 20.02 13,005.53 1,025 369,079 88,997 24.11 3,793.56 1,053 1971 340.240 .154.945 45.54 199.34 5,252.37' 977 471,707 198,288 42.04 122.80 3,424.66 996 1981 444,417 251,420 56.57 62.26 5,075.09 980 604,471 316,047 52.28 59.39 3,158.26 992 Dktrlct XaraikaJ 1951 1961 84,001 22,252 26.49 27,815.00 1,095 369,079 88,997 24.11 3,793.56 1,053 1971 100,042 26,080 26.07 17.20' 3,892.54 1,057 471,707 198,288 42.04 122.80 3,424.66 996 1981 120,010 43,408 36.17 66.44 2,284.63 1,040 604,471 316,047 52.28 59.39 3,158.2' 992 District Mahe 1951 . 1961 19,485 7,951 40.81 5,679.29 1,150 369,079 88,997 24.11 3,793.56 1,053 1971 23,134 8,972 38.78 12.84 5,271.65 1,148 471,707 198,288 42.04 122.80 3,424.66 996 1981 28,413 9,588 33.75 6.87 6,266.67 1,144 604,471 316,047 52.28 59.39 3,158.26 992 District Yanam 1951 1961 7,032 7,032 100.00 406.94 1,021 369,079 88,997 24.11 3,793.56 1,053 1971 8,291 8,291 100.00 17.90 414.55 1,024 471,707 198,288 42.04 122.80 3,424.66 996 1981 11,631 11,631 100.00 40.28 387.70 974 604,471 316,047 52.28 59.39 3,158.26 992 111 171/4-8B TABLE: 19 New towns/towns declassified in,1981 Census "Name of town' Population 1931 Census (1) (2) Pondicherry Union Territory a. Added 1. Kurumbapet 1.793 b. Declassified Nil District Pondicherry a. Added 1. Kurumbapet 1,793 b. Declassified Nil District Karaikal . Nil District Mahe Nil District Yanam Nil TABLE: 20 Per capita receipt and expenditure in towns Per capita Class, name and civic status r- of the town Receipts Expenditure (Union TerritoryjDistrict/ r- r- Town) Total Receipt Receipt Total General Expenditure Public Expenditure Other through from all expendi- admini- on public works on public aspects taxes other sources ture stration health and institutions conveniences (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Pondicherry Union Territory 41.31 20.96 20.35 35.61 9.68 6.47 11.75 7.71 District Pondicherry .. 34.33 20.29 14.04 32.28 6.49 7.16 9.88 8.75 VI KURUMBAPET (G.P) 24.65 8.20 16.45 6.47 0.84 5.13 0.50 II OZHU~ARAI(C.P) .. 18,46 9.16 9.30 12.93 2.84 0.06 8.06 1.97 I PONDICHERR Y (M) .. 42.93 26.39 16.54 42.93 8.51 11.04 10.91 12.47 District Karaikal 63.79 l7.27 46.52 47.52 21.76 0.16 21.35 4.25 HI KARAIKAL (M) 63.79 17.27 46.52 47.52 21.76 0.16 21.35 4.25 District Mabe 109.19 55.11 \ 54.08 84.17 34.49 17.46 29.45 2.77 V MAHE(M) 109.19 55.11 54.08 84.17 34.49 17.46 29.45 2.77 District Yanam 52.36 21.18 3\.18 23.02 13.08 6.14 1.61 2.16 IV YANAM (M) .. 52.36 21.18 31.18 23.02 13.08 6.14 1.64 2.16 112 TABLE: 21 Schools per' ten thousand population in towns No. per ten thousand population Oass name and civic status of the town r- (U;Uon Territory/District/Town) Higher SecondalY/ Junior Primary Secondary! Matriculation Secondary/ Inter(PUC! Middle Junior College (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Pondicherry Union Territory 1 3 6 District Pondicherry 1 '3 5 VI KURUMBAPET(G.P), , 11 II OZHUKARAI (C.P) 1 3 5 I PONDICHERRY (M) 3 5 District Karamt 2 4 6 III KARAIKAL (M) 2 4 6 District Mahe 1 3 4 12 V MAHE (M) 3 4 12 District Yanam 3 3 11 IV YANAM(M) 1 3 3 11 TABLE: 22 No. of beds in medical institutions in towns Class, name and civic status of the town No. of beds in medical (Union Territory(District/Town) institutions per 1,000 population (1) Pondicherry Union Territory 1 District Pondicherry 1 VI KURUMBAPET (G.P) II OZHUKARAI (C.P) ., 11 I PONDICHERRY (M) .. 5 District Karaikal 6 III KARAIKAL (M) 6 District Mahe 12 V MAHE (M) 12 District Yanam 3 IV YANAM (M) 3 113 TABLE: 23 Proportion of slums population tn towns Class, name and civic status of the town· Proportion of the slums Density in slums (Union Territory/District/Town) population to total (per sq. km.) population of the town (1) (2) (3) Pondicherry Union Territory District Pondicherry II OZHUKARAI (C.P) I PONDICHERRY (M) District Karaikal District Mahe District Yanam • For Class I and II towns only . TABLE: 24 Most important commodity manufactured. imported and exported in towns Most imilortant commodity Class, name and civic status o~ihe town r------A.------~--, (Union Territory/District/Town) MaHufactured Exported Imported (1) (2) (3) (4) Pondicherry Union Territory District Pondicherry VI KURUMBAPET (G.P) .. Textiles Textiles Cotton II OZHUKARAI (C.P) Household steel and alUminium Household aluminium and steel Petrol, oil utensils, tin contaIners vessels, tin containers, ground- nut. I PONDICHERRY (M) Textiles Textiles Fertilizer District Karaikal III KARAIKAL (M) Household steel and aluminium Rice Liquor articles District Mahe V MAHE (M) Cotton yarn Cotton yarn Liquor District Yanam IV YANAM (M) Cement pipes Rice Cement 114 PART XIlI-A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY ," SECTION-I VII.. -----======l,AGE DIRECTORY NOTATIONS USED IN VILLAGE DIRECfORY EDUCATION P Primary or Elementary School M Junior Secondary or Middle School H Secondary or Matriculation School PUC Higher Secondary/Intermediate/Pre-University/JuItior College C College (Arts, Science, Commerce) I Industrial School TR • Training School AC Adult Literacy Class/Centre .0 Other Educational Institutions MEDICAL H Hospital MCW Maternity and Child Welfare Centre MH Maternity Home CWC Child Welfare Centre PHC Primary Health Centre PHS Primary Health Sub-Centre D Dispensary FPC Family Planning Centre RP Registered Private Practitioner CHW Community Health Worker o Others DRINKING WATER T Tap W Well TK Tank TW Tube Well HP Hand Pump R River 0 Others NA Information not available 115 NOTATIONS USEDINVILLAGEDIRECTORY--<;oncld POST AND TELEGRAPH PO Post Office TO Telegraph Office PTO Post and Telegraph Office Phone Telephone connection COMMUNICATIONS BS Bus Stop RS Railway Station APPROACH TO VILLAGE PR Pucca Road KR Kaccha Road POWER SUPPLY ED Electricity for domestic purpose EA Electricity for all purpose EAG Electricity for Agriculture EO Electricity for other purpose like industrial, commercial, ctc. LAND USE (Irrigated by source) TW Tubewell (without electricity) TWE Tubewell (with electrcity) TK Tank R River L 'Lake o Others Remarks: (Including any place of religious, historical or archaeological interest) N Copies of the newspaper coming in the village M Motor cycles/Scooters available in the village C Cars, Jeeps available in the village T Tractors available in the village Nil particulars 116 · PONDICHERRY DISTRICT PONDICHERRV DISTRICT ,....~ I '} T.lMIL HAOlJ If -"-.. ! i (.\...... :OZHIJt(ARAI "..' , ! t ; - '. .~_ •. I • ) , ~'._.J··OlHtlKARAI t' TAMIL Tn ...... ~YQfIo" ...... J ~~2HUtcAAkl :_,,-.f B A " 011 ISIHeAL. COrfWll'1.tft. H.oclquar\l:rI 'O\ttl'-Itt. C.OfI\ItIUfI. .0 ""',"OFtll"t Mnaitcd Rood _._ Rollwo)! IlAc .IUI 5totlon Metre gO\l9_ River and Stream ~ ~ "mog, !'IOVIn<] 5000 and abovc pOP1Jlo\lOn witt1 nellie TAMIL NAOU U~ban a~rCl ... ,th ""0plll-o\lo,, ,II. Clou.!.". Vi Ra., o ... d TIrI.,naJ'" OUlce •••PTO D~9"e Cotlr,_ ornt tcctmlcol In.tlt\rtlon~[D Tranllcri '"",eno. l' e PONDICHEFIRY -Clo. I,OZHUKA.lIIiAI ·eM.. It L_. K URUM8A.P(T· Cion· VI ...4 ...... y Of trtMo fIIOp """ th. p.rmls.Jon of.tfl. SWY'e-,or ~l of ... ,.. "'"&01''01 .ot.n IOf fr,(I,o erKC.enc:l .,.to ll\ ARIANKUPPAM COMMUNE DISTRICT PONDICHERRY KILOMETRES o 1 2 SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT TAMIL NADU BAY o F BE N G A I.. I I SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT TAMIL NADU r-- I State Boundary I Commune Boundary V,lloge With Location Code number .2 Commune Headquarters @ Villages With Population Size: Below 200; I 200-499; 500-999:1000-4999; 5000 So Above 0 •••• Important ~Mtall.,d Rood Unmetalled and othqr roads RIVH and Stream =:s:=:: Lake c;> Post Office PO Police Stotion PS PrimaI)' Health Centre, Oispensary, Maternity @+4 and Child Wetfare Centre Bo,«d upon 511v~ at IndiO map With the pc.rmission or the Surveyor Gen.ral or IndIO © GovHnmc"t of Indio COPYf'i9ht~ 1963 Th .. tc rritorlQ l wot~r~ of Indio tl(tf'nCl into the SCG to Q dlst®cc 01 twelve noutlcot mitlfs rnCQst.lr~d from th~ appropriate bOIl' linc. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES ARIANKUPPAM COMMUNE Location Code No. SI. No. Name of the village ,-- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. AbJhegapakkam 13 13 2. Andiarpalayam 17 17 3. Ariankuppam 5 5 4. Edayarpalayam 6 6 5. Kakayantope 4 4 6. Kasanthittu 16 16 7. Korkamedu is 15 8. Manavely 20 20 9. NaJlavadu 18 18 10. Manarnedu 7 7 11. Nonankuppam 19 19 12. Odaively l 3 13. Periavirampattinam .. 1 1 14. Pudukuppam 11 11 15. Pumankuppam 10 10 16. Sinnavirampattinam 2 2 17. Tavalakuppam 8 8 18. Thanampalayam 9 9 19. Theduvanatham 12 12 20. Thimmanayakellpalayam 14 14 117 1981 CENSUS - VILLAGE DIRECfORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE" District: Pondicherry ARIANKUPPAM COMMUNE Loca Total Total Amenities available [if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown Approach tion area of popula- in the column and next to it in brackets, the distance in broad ranges viz., to Code Name of the the tion and -5 KIns; 5-10 Kms. and 10 + Kms of the neaerst place where the facility village No. village village No. of available is given] (in house- ~------'---~--,--.------___--., hectares) holds Educational Medical Drinking Post and Day or Communi- water Telegraph days of cations (Bus (potable) the mar- stop, rail ket/hat, way station if any waterway) , (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Periavirampattinam 105.45 3,235(557) P(2), M(2), 0(1) T,TW PO, Phone BS PR AC(2) 2. Sinnavirampattinam 292.20 395(72) PCI) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR,KR 3. Odaively 86.06 711(141) 0(1), AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T. TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) PR, KR 4. Kakayantope 109.20 1,463(271) P(1), AC(1) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR 5. Ariankuppam 148.55 9,409(1,716). P(2), M(I), MCW (1). T, TW PO, Phone BS PR 0(5), AC(6) D(1), RP(4). CHW(4) 6. Edayarpalayam 101.11 728(137) P(1), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T,W -(-5 Kms) BS PR 7. Manamedu 106.68 242(49) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, W -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 8. Tavalakuppam 109.86 1,096(192) P(1), AC(I) PHC(1), T, TW Phone BS PR RP(l) 9. Thanampalayam 66.22 435(92) P(l) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 10. Purnankuppam 382.05 2,781(518) M(!), H(l), RP(I) T, TW PO, Phone -(-5 Kms) PR AC(2) 11. Pudukuppam 7.09 782(136) PO). AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5Kms) KR 12. Theduvanatham 57.76 71(13) -(-5 KIDS) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 13. Abishegapakkam 199.38 2,951(521) PC!), MO), DO) T,TW PO BS PR H(I),AC(I) 14. Thimmanayakcnpalayam 450.12 2,121 (403) PO), AC(I) PHS(1) T, TW PO, Phone BS PR 15. Korkamedu 30.04 260 (52) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T. TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5KIns) KR 16. Kasanthittu 15.76 149 (23) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 17. Andiarpalayam 26.71 646 (131) P(1), M(!), PHS (1) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR AC(I) 18. Nallavadu 17.36 1,679 (323) P(1), AC(l) PHS (1) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR 19. Nonankuppam 50.55 1,458 (267) PO), M(1), -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR AC (I) 20. Manavely 74.00 3,495 (649) PC!). M(l), -(-5 Kms) T. TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR H(I), AC(I) Commune total .. 2,436.1534,107(6,263) P(16), M(8). MCW(I), H(3), AC(21), PHC(I), 0(6) PHS(3), D(2), RP(6), CHW(4), 0(1) 118 11)81 CENSUS-VIJ-LAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE ARIANKUPPAM COMMUNE-concld. District: Pondicherry Land use (i.e. area under different types of land Remarks including Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) any place of religious, tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply foo~ ,.~ historical-or archae-- Code Forest Irrigated Unirri- Cultur- Area not ological interest No. by source gated able waste available (includ- for culti- ing vation gauchar and groves) (1) (2) (12) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) . (19) (20) 1. Periavirampattinam Pondicherry (8) EA Rice 57.08 36.40 11.97 NI08;M4* 2. Sinnavirampattinam Pondicherry (9) EA Rice 149.73 7.00 135·47 NSO,MIO 3. Odaively Pondicherry (8) EA Rice TWE 16.06 50.00 9.50 10.50 NI0 4. Kakayantope Pondicherry (7) ED, EAg Rice TWE 9.79 36.20 58.25 4.96 N96; M3** 5. Ariankuppam Pondicherry (6) EA • Rice TWE. 2.82 96.57 21.20 27.96 N404; M20;C7;T4 6. Edayarpalayam " Pondichcrry (10) ED, EAg Rice TWE 75.2? 2.06 20.74 3.02 N6; M4; T2 7. Manamedu Pondicherry (9) ED, EAg Rice TWE 27.49 59.98 0.27 18.94 8. Tavalakuppam' Pondicherry (10) ED, EAg Rice TWE 71.47 6.00 8.75 20.63 NSO; MS; C2 L 3.01 9. Thanampalayam Pondicherry (lO) ED, EAg Rice TWE 46.49 6.53 3.49 9.71 10. Purnankuppam Pondicherry (11) EA Rice TWE 20.08 138.03 111.68 112.26 NI0; MS; Cl; Tl 11. Pudukuppam ' Pondicherry (18) ED, EAg Rice 3.74 1.25 2.10 N2; Ml 12. Theduvanatham Pondicherry (12) ED, EAg Rice TWE 14.61 37.10 5.40 0..6.5 N7 13 Abishegapakkam Pondicherry (11) ED, EAg Rice TWE 106.27 52.82 0.88 39.41 N5!); M7; TIl ( 14. 'rhimmanayakenpalayam Pondicherry (12) ED, EAg Rice TWE 44.33 116.46 17.75 156.40 N36; M6; Cl; T2 L 115.18 15. Korkamedu Pondicherry (11) ED, EAg Rice TWE 21.27 3.00 1.52 4.25 16. Kasanthittu Pondicherry (11) ED, EAg Rice TWE 7.04 7.35 1.37 17. Andiarpalayam Pondicherry (11) ED, EAg Rice TWE 13.02 11.43 2.26 N2 18. Nallavadu Pondicherry (U) ED, EAg Rice 3.60 3.40 10.36 N2; Ml; Cl 19. Nonankuppam Pondicherry (8) EA Rice TWE 24.50 ] 0.50 5.45 10.]0 N20; MI5; Cl;Tl 20. Manavely Pondicherry (7) EA Rice TWE 15.00 24.50 25.00 9.50 NlOO; MlS;Cl;Tl Commune total TWE 515.53 853.90 356.71 591.82 N953; M96; C14; L 118.19 T22 T 633.72 .. The famous eighteenth century Sengazhuneeramman temple dedicated to Mariam--nan is located in this village. .. * Arikamedu revealed the remains of a fourth town dating back to the first and second centur> A.C. Tho.:: C1incsc calado!1 were found in the area point to the close association between this place and Chinese parts between X and XII ce"turies. 119 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES OZHUKARAI COMMUNE Location Code No. SI. No. Name of the village r- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Alankuppam 4 32 2. Ganapathychettykuiam 1 1 3. Periakalapattu 2 2 4. Sanjeevarayanpet •• S 33 5. Sinnakalapattu 3 3 120 OZHUKARA' COMMUNE DISTRICT PONDICHERRY KILOMETRES 1'-•• , : '-"." o .I i i I TAMIL NADU . BAY I OF BENGAL To Morlandi ::; c:g BOUI\qary. State A .,. Commuoor o Villagi" witt'l toc Pondlcherry PON01CHERRY MUNICIPALITY NOTE:- The boundary of urban erN Is only approximate. Ba.otd Upon Surv.,y 01 India map with permission 01 the Surveyor Generol of Indio. Government of India Copyright,.1983 The territorial waurs of India ul"nd into the sea to a dislanct of tw"ln lIQutic:a\ miles measured from thlt appropriate base line. 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECI'ORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE OZHUKARAI COMMUNE District: Pondicherry Amenities available (if not available within the village. a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz .• -5 Kms; 5-10 KIllS and 10+Kms tion area of popwa- of the nearest place where the facility a vailable is given). Approach Code Name of the village the tion and No. of r-.------A.------., to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Day or Communi- village (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ketfhat, Railway if any station. waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (1) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Ganapathychettykulam 138.10 1,336 (262) P(2), AC(I) PHS(I) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR 2. Periakalapattu 405.41 3,647 (694) P(3), M(I), PHC(I) T, TW PO, Phone BS PR H(I),O(2) 3. Sinnakalapattu 196.41 1,391 (262) P(l), 0(2) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 KIllS) BS PR 4. Alankuppam 108.95 1,-l49 (205) P(l), M(n, 0(1) T, TW -(-5 KIllS) BS PR 0(1), AC(l) 5. Sanjeevarayanpet 39.64 980 (177) P(I), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kros) BS PR Sellaperumal pet Kottupalayam Thattotukalavapet Sittankudisai Sinnayenpet Pazhayasaram Karamanikuppam Sinnakosapalayam Poomianpet Pavazhakaranchavady Reddiarpalayam Ozhukarai Mulakulam These villages are wholly merged in the Ozhukarai town. Arumathapuram Muthupillaipalayam P itcharampet Ayenkutti palayam Dharmapuri Muthirapaiayam Kondupet Mettupalayam Shanmugapuram Sokkanadanpet Meenatchipet Kadirkamam I Vimakavundanpalayam Kavundanpalayam J Kundupalayam Commune total 888.51 8,503 (1,600) P(8), M(2) , PHC(I), H(I), AC(3), PHS(I), -- 0(5) O(t) 121 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE OZHUKARAI COM MUNE--concld. District: Pondicherry Land use (i.e., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rOllnded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in KIDs) supply food ,------"------, any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (IS) (16) (17) (18) (9) (20) 1. Ganapathychettykwam Pondicherry (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE8.00 107.10 15.00 8.00 N5; M3;CI 2. Periakala pattu Pondichelry (13) ED, EAg Rice TWE2.06 160.20 183.11 60.04 NIO; M3; Cl 3. Sinnakalapattu Pondicherry tI2) ED, EAg Rice TWE 1.35 54.10 110.96 30.00 N2; Ml 4. Alankuppam Pondicherry (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE20.99 44.59 5.29 38.08 NI0; M2 ;CI ;TI S. Sanjeevarayanpet Pondicherry (14) ED, EAg Rice 9.23 4.37 26.04 N3;M2 Sellaperumalpet "\ Kottupalayam Thattotukalavapet I Sittankudisai Sil\nayenpet Pazhayasaram Karamanikuppam Sinnakosapalayam Poomianpet Pavazhakaranchavady Reddiarpalayam I Ozhukarai Mulakulam Arumath upuram , l These villages are wholly merged in the Ozhukarai town. Muthupillaipalayam I I Pitcharampet I Ayenku ttipalayam I Dharmapuri I M uthirapalayam Kondupet i I Mettupalayam I I Shanmugapllram I I Sokkanadanpet I Meenatchipet I Kadirkamam I I Vimakavundanpalayam I Kavundanpalayam I I Kundupalayam J Commune lotal TWE 32.40 375.22 318.73 162.16 N30; Ml1; C3; TI 122 MANNADIPET COM'MUNE DISTRICT PONDICHER RY KILOMETRES o I 2 3 4 N .,.. \ 1 o I c .~. I 40 -. .• 39 L i.. .. .,., .. •/ .' .. J" Pondlcherry T A o u \ .~ .~}( : · ...... ··~Q/:1 ~. 26. I' .. I , .25.'_. '_" -\ PS ~. PO [ -----;----'.~ Y ------'1 .. 23 : ~~__,..-=-=-=-.-----' .21 ") t Q I Boundary, Sjaje~-'~ _ •• _ .• _ I • 22.: J I " Commune... _._.- From PO I To I Commune Headquarters @ Villupur'am Pondlcherry Village with LOcahon Code Number • I "'f' Villages with population size: 1 Below 200.200 - 499.500·999, 0 ••• 1000-4999 ~- Important Village Markel ~ Important metalled rood .. ~ Unmetalled and other roods Post Office ...... , .. PO \ Police Sta t,on PS M Primary Health Centre ~ D,spensar y + Maternity &. Child Welfare Centre .. Higher Secondary School River &. Siream '" ... Based upon Sur"ey of Indio mop with the permission of the Government of IndiO Copyr'9"',1983 Sur veyor Generol of 'ndiQ ® ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES MANNADIPET COMMUNE Location Code No. S1. No. Name of the village r- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. . Andiarpalayam (Kalithirthalkuppam) 14 14 2. Andiarpalayam (Vadanur) 9 9 3. Chettipet .. . 2 2 4. Kaiklapet 38 38 5. Kalithirthalkuppam 15 15 6. Katteri 34 34 7. Kodathur 39 39 8. Kondareddipalayam 4 4 9. Kottapurinatham 23 23 10. Kumarapalayam 31 31 11. Kunichampattu 3 3 12. Kuppam 33 33 13. Kutchi pal ayam 13 13 14. Lingareddi palayam 35 35 15. Madagadipattu 16 16 16. Madagadipattupalayam 19 19 17. Manalipattu , 1 1 18. Manavely 40 40 19. Mannadipattu 6 6 20. Montbrunpet 10 10 21. Nallur 17 17 22. Nallurkutchipalayam .. 18 18 23. Pidarikuppam .. 25 25 24. Pudukuppam 36 36 25. Puranasingapalayam 11 11 26. Sagadapet 24 24 27. Sannasikuppam 26 26 28. Sellipattu 30 30 29. Silkaripalayam 12 12 30. Sompattu 7 7 31. Sorapattu 27 27 32. Suthukeny 37 37 33. Thetf,ampakkam 32 32 34. lJlirubuvanai ., 21 21 35. Thirubuvanaipalayam 20 20 36. Thirukkanur 5 5 37. Thiruvandarkoil 22 22 38. Vadanur 8 8 39. Vamtupet 29 29 40. Vinayagampet 28 28 123 171/4-9A 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTOIU' AMENITIES lAND LAND USE MANNADIPET COMMUNE Dis trict: Pondicherry Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash{-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz .• -5 Kms; 5-10 Km.. and 10+Kms tion area of popula- of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the tion and No. of r- _., to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Day or Communi- village' (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway , if any station, waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Manalipattu 108.91 563 (l08) P(2), AC(2) CWC (1),0(1) T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 2. Chettipet 252.52 1,473 (291) P(I), M(l), CWC(I) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR AC(2) 3. Kunichampattu 408.00 2,496 (506) P(1), M(I" PHS(l) T,TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR H(!), AC(4) 4. Kondareddipalayam 132.04 361 (70) PO), AC(l) CWC(1) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 5. Thirukkanur 195.48 2,545 (444) P(2), M(I), 0(1) T,TW PTO, -(-5 Km,) BS PR AC(4) _ Phone 6. Mannadipattu 76.56 1,830 (368) P(2), AC(3) PHC(I) T, TW PO, Phone -(-5 Kms) BS PH.. 7. Sompattu 117.74 878 (188) P(2), AC(2) CWC(l) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR 8. Vadanur 136.75 576 (II9) P(1), AC(3) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS '\ PR 9. Alldiarpalayarr, 10.50 4 (1) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 K..ns) -t5-10 Km~) BS PR (Vadanur) 10. Montbrunpet 16.17 168 (30) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T. TW -(-5 Kons) -(5-IO Kms) BS PR 11. Puranasingapalayam.. 203.28 817 (165) P(2), M(I), -(-5 Kms) T, W, PO, Phone -(-5 Kms) BS PR H(1), AC(l) TW 475 (91) P(2), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR 12. Silkaripalayam ~6.52 ,,; 13. Kutchipalayam 57.50 371 (70) PO) -(-~ll1s) T, TW -(-5 Kms) ...:.(-5 Kms) BS PR f 14. Andiarpalayam 54.60 701 (132) P(2) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR (Kalithirthalkuppam) 15. Kalithirthalkuppam.. 378.96 2,373 (471) P(4), M{l), PHS (1) T,W, -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR AC(6) TW 16. Madagadipattu 196.94 1,497 (300) P(l), M(l), 0(1) T, TW PO, Phone Tuesday BS PR H(J), PUCCI), market AC(4) 17. Nallur 95.22 531 (107) pel), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T,TW PO -(-5 Krris) BS PR 18. Nallurkutchipalayam 11.20 191 (44) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR 19. Madagadipattupalayam 65.26 804 (169) PO), Mm, .-(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms)-(-5 Kms) AC(2) KR 20. Thirubuvanaipalayam 97.50 368 (64) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(10+ Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 21. Thirubuvanai 230.49 2,758 (5417) Pc!), M{l), 0(1) T. TW PO, Phone -(-5 Kms) BS PR AC(?) 22. Thiruvandarkoil 250.82 1,851 (366) P(3), M(l) PHS(l) T, W,TW . PO, Phone -(5-,10 Kms) BS PR AC(3) 124 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE MANNADIPET COMMUNE-contd. District: Pondicherry Land use (i:e., area under different types ofland Loca Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food ,. • any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his- No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) ,(15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) ------1. Manalipattu Pondicherry (29) ED, EAg Rice TWE 40.19 9.40 12.05 • 30.92 N2 L 16.35 2. Chettipet Pondicherry (27) ED, EAg Rice TWE 87.03 70.75 15.20 47.96 N2; M1; T1 L 31.58 3. Kunichampattu Pondicherry(26) ED, EAg Rice TWE 116.1,0 58.74 15.89 9,0.14 N4; M3; C3;T4 L 127.13 4. Kondareddipalayam Pondicherry (25) ED, EAg Rice TWE 125.,04 5.,01 1.99 N2 5. Thirukkanur Pondicherry(26) ED, EAg Rice TWE 45.14 1.08 1.60 54.27 N3D; M13; C3;Tl L 93.39 6. Mannadipattu Pondicherry (25) ED, EAg Rice TWE 49.,04 1.00 15.46 N5;M2;C3;T3 L 11:,06 7. Sompattu Pondicherry (25) ED, EAg Rice TWE 45.24 7.45 ,0.29 32.26 N3; Ml ; T2 L 32.5,0 8. Vadanur Pondicherry (23) ED,-EAg Rice TWE 26.,06 63.96 1.99 11.47 N2;M1 L 33.27 9. Andiarpalayam Pondicherry (21) ED, EAg Rice TWE 1.7J 2.8,0 ,0.31 N2; (Vadanur) L 5.68 10. Montbrunpet Pondicherry (22) ED, EAg Rice TWE 15.25 0.92 N3; Ml 11. Puranasingapalayam.. Villupuram (l2) ED, EAg Rice TWE 49.24 76.06 3.04 28.08 N6; M3; Cl; T2 Tamilnadu L 46.86 12. Silkaripalayam Villupuram (12) ED, EAg Ri ce TWE 25.02 9.46 p.70 11.67 N2 Tam.ilnadu L 13.67 13. Kutchipalayam Villupuram (12) ED, EAg Rice TWE 38.29 8.73 2.15 8.33 N3; Ml; Tl Tamilnadu 14. Andiarpalayam . . Villupuram (11) ED, EAg Rice TWE 26.64 6.75 4.86 15.77 N5; Tl (KaJithirthalkuppam) Tamilnadu L ,0.58 15. Kalithirthalkuppam.. ViIIupuram (10) ED, EAg Rice TWE 230.46 29.42 24.60 57.83 N15; M4; Cl; Tl Tamilnadu L 36.59 16. Madagadipattu Villupuram (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE 61.64 6.62 14.4,0 46.15 N7; M3; C1* Tamilnadu L 68.13 17. Nallur ViIIupuram (15) ED, BAg Rice TWE 3.31 1.,05 32.73 N2;Tl Tamilnadu L 58.13 18. Nallurkutchipalayam Villupuram (14) ED, EA~ Rice TWE 3.11 1.61 1.02 N2;Tl Tamilnadu L 5.46 19. Madagadipattupalayam Villupuram (16) ED, EAg Rice TWE '\ 3,0.46 1.67 5.82 13.99· N4; Ml Tamilnadu L 13.32 2(}. Thirubuva:naipalayam ViIlupuram (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE 52.33 3.09 2.32 11.19 N3 Tamilnadu L 28.57 . • 2.1. Thirubuvanai Villupuram (15) ED, BAg Rice TWE 157.14 4.62 15.86 39.47 N7; M4; Tl Tamilnadu L 13.4,0 22_ Thiruvandarkoil Villupuram (22) ED, BAg Rice TWE 35.90 83.05 9.91 53.73 N5; M4' T5** , Tamiinadu L' 68.23 C1;' 125 126 tnt CENSUS-VILLAGE ·DlRECfORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE District: Pondicherry MANADIPET COMMUNE-Co'!("ld. (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 23. Kottapurinatham Villupuram (21) ED, EAg Rice L 8.50 102.73 10.83 11.14 N2; T2 Tamilnadu 24. Sagadapet Villupuram(20) ED, EAg Rice TWE 2.02 5.01 9.37 1.31 N2 Tamilnadu 25. Pidarikuppam Villupuram (19) ED, EAg Rice TWE 22.36 67.20 0.63 10.35 N8 Tamilnadu L 3.51 26. Sannasikuppam ... ViIlupuram (18) ED, EAg Rice TWE 32.50 140.64 18.90 28.24 N5; Cl; Tl Tamilnadu L 5.07 27. Sorapattu Pondicherry (24) EA Rice TWE 21.97 127.51 11.46 75.35 N5; M2; T3 L 76.98 28. Vinayagampet Pondicherry (19) ED, EAg Rice .. TWE 15.35 73.14 2.80 8.65 N5; Ml; Cl; Tl L 22.33 29. Vambupet Pondicherry (22) ED, EAg Rice . . TWE 53.98 95.43 5.24 29.70 N5; Ml; C2;T3 30. SelJipattu Pondicherry (17) ED,EAg Rice .. TWE 10.67 182.78 4.09 77.40 N5; Ml 31. Kumarapalayam Pondicherry (20) ED, EAg Rice .. L 9.43 5.67 13.40 11.10 N3; M2; C3; T4 32. Thethampakkam Pondic~erry (21) ED, EAg Rice TWE 14.86 38.51 26.13 31.19 N4; Ml; Cl; Tl L 13.41 33. Kuppam Pondicherry (21) ED, EAg Rice .. TWE 202.55 15.09 10.05 70.75 N6; Ml; T1 L 7.00 34. Katteri Pondicherry (21) ED, EAg Rice TWE 21.05 18.05 25.31 68.30 N5; Ml; Cl; Tl L 65.29 35. Lingareddipalayam Pondicherry (22) ED, EA~ Rice TWE 20.31 126.10 15.24 7.15 N4; Ml; Tl.~ 36. Pudukuppam Pondicherry (26) ED, EAg Rice TWE 53.02 188.65 15.95 20.82 N3; M5;T4 37. Suthukeny Pondicherry (24) ED, EAg Rice TWE 245.02 53.89 6.32 122.78 N5; M2; Cl ; T3 38. Kaiklapet Villupuram (20) ED, EAg Rice TWE 19.30 87.12 2.40 12.60 N4 Tamilnadu L 46.06 39. Kodathur Villupuram (18) ED, EAg· Rice L 38.15 51.93 4.90 60.49 N5; C2; T2 Tamilnadu 40. Manavely Villupuram (15) ED, EAg Rice TWE 1.10 32.00 ,1.90 5.00 N4 Tamilnadu Commune total TWE 2,000.40 1,855.10 330.27 1,257.98 W 6 ;M60; L 999.63 ,;T51 T 3,000.03 • The historical Madagadipattu temple dedicated to Lord Easwara was constructed during the regime of Raja Raja Chola. Later it was ruined and rebuilt by a committee appointed by the Ex~French Government. The Architectural statues and art are said to be one of the best of the three Chola temples in South India .. • * A historically famous temple dedicated to Lord Easwara exists here. Saint Thirugnanasambandar visited the place and sang a Pathigam in praise of the reigning deity of the temple. .. , 127 171/4-9B ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGIrS VILLIANUR COMMUNE Location Code No. Sl. No. Name of the village r- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Agaram 9 9 2. Anandapuram 44 48 3. Arasur 19 19 4. Ariyapalayam 14 14 5. Arugur 43 47 6. Arumathapuram 20 24 7. Attuvaikalpet 17 17 8. GuruvappanaickenpaJayam 21 25 9. Kanuvapet 25 29 10. Karasur 2 2 11. Karayanpattu 28 32 12. Kizhagaram 31 3S 13. Kizhasathamangalam 37 41 " 14. Kizhur 41 45 15. Konerikuppam 8 8 16. Koodapakkam 7 7 17. Kottamcdu IS 15 18. Manakuppam 39 43 19. Manavely 22 26 20. Mangalam 35 39 21. Melasathamangalam 38 42 22. Odiampattu 24 28 23. Oussudu ,.. 11 11 24. Pangur 45 49 25. Periapattu 29 33 26. Perungalur 33 37 27. Pillaiyarkuppam 6 6 28. Poraiyur 12 12 29. Ramanathapuram 5 5 30. Sangarampct 40 44 31. Sedarapattu 32. Sendanatham 13 13 128 VILLIANUR COMMUNE DISTRICT PONDICHERRY KILOMETRES o 2 3 4 rJ" _,. .. J TAMIL NADU To Poodichcr"y TAMIL NADU From . Pondlcherry TAMIL NADU NETTAPAKKAM .' "'VI COMMUNE ARIANKUPPAM POFldicherry ~ COMMUNE ",0 : TAMIL :, \ NADU R5 Boundory, Stoll' RaHway IIn~ with Stotlon,Metre gou'le I I I [jJ I I I Communt R~vcr and Stream Com mUOt Hcadquorter. Pa.t Oftfc£ PO Village with Location Code Number P5 Villages .. lth population size: 8£low 200} • Dispensory + 200'499, 500-999, 1000 '4999, Abo •• 5000 0 ••• High.r S.condary School s Important metolled rood Tonk UMutaHed ond other rood. Urban AreD .,.ith LO(.Q\ion Codl n\lmb«" Bo ....upon :UfVCY of IndIo map with thor perm~'ion of the Surv£yor Gcnorral of India. © Gcwtrnmorn' ot Indoo CopvroCJht IQ8~ (1) (2) (3) (4) 33. Sivarandagam 42 46 34. Sultanpet 18 18 35. Tanatharnedu 32 36 36. Thattanchavady 23 27 37. Thirukanji 30 34 38. Thondamanatham 4 4 39. Thuthipattu 3 3 40. U1aivaikkal 10 10 41- Uruvaiyar 34 38 42. Uthiravaginipet 27 31 43. Vadamangalam 36 40 44. Valluvanpet 26 30 45. Villianur 16' 16 129 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE VILLIANUR COMMUNE District: Pondicherry Amenities available (if not'available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz.,-5 Kms; 5-10 Kms and lO+Kms tion area of popula- of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the tion and No. of ,. --______-., to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Day or Communi- village (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway if any station,' waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (II) 1. Sedarapattu 456.99 2,143 (417) P(2), M(l), 0(1) T,W, PO BS PR AC(2) TW 2. Karasur 272.04 812 (147) P(2), AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T,W, TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR 3. Thuthipattu 274.38 470 (102) P(2),AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR 4. Thondamanatham 319.65 2,127 (376) P(1), MO), -(-5 Kms) T, TW PO BS PR H(I), AC(4) 5. Ramanathapuram 333:27 1,322 (254) Pc!), AC(2) 0(1) T. TW -(-5 KgIs) BS PR 6. Pil1aiyarkuppam 238.32 1,631 (312) M(!), AC(3) -(-5 Kms) T, W, -(-5 Kms) BS PR TW 7. Koodapakkam 302.50 3,274 (658) P(3), M(l), 0(1) T, W, TW PO,Phone BS PR AC(3) 8. Konerikuppam 22.79 427 (83) P(2), AC(l) -(-5 KnlS) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) " -(-5 Kms) KR 9. Agaram 64.91 411 (71) P(2), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, W,TW, -(-5 Kms) .. BS KR HP 10. Ulaivaikkai 179.31 258 (53) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(-5 Kms) " BS KR 11. Oussudu 447.29 239 (40) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, W -(-5 Kms) BS PR 12. Poraiyur 80.09 .983 (197) P(l), AC(2) PHS(l) T,W. TW -(-5 Kms) BS KR 13. Sendanatham 92.15 612 (132) P(1), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) ...T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) BS KR 14. Ariyapalayam 47.11 7St,) (156) PCl), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR 15. Kottamedu 51.33 927 (161) M(n, H(2), -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-S Kms) BS PR PUC(1) 16. ViIlianur 212.58 4,228 (776) P(2),M(l), RP(2)_ T, W,TW PTO, BS PR AC(3),0(1) Phone 17. Attuvaikalpet 41.13 301 (66) AC(l) -(-5 Kms) HP -(-SKms) BS PR 18. Sultanpet 50.80 2,440 (402) PO ),M(I), 0(1) T,W,TW PO BS, RS PR AC(3) 19. Arasur 28.19 297 (61) P(I), AC(1) -(-5 Kms) HP -(-S Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 20. Arumathapuram 15.72 207 (37) pen, M(l), -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) HS PR AC(l) 21. Guruvappanaicken palayam 68.92 992 (210) P(J), AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T, TW PO BS PR 22. Manavely 62.72 867 (lS6) P(2} PHS(l) T, TW PO BS KR 23. Thattanchavady 9.68 425 (84) P(2), AC(I) -(-S Kms) T, W, TW -(-S Kms) " BS PR 130 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE YILLIANUR COMMUNE-Conta. District: Pondicherry Land use (Le., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town "and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food r- _ -----., any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not reEgious, his- No. source gated waste (in- avail able torical or eluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) - (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 1. Sedarapattu Pondicherry (22) ED, EAg Rice L 56.39 12.86 326.20 61.54 N6; M4; CI 2. Karasur Pondicherry (21) ED, EAg Rice TWE 25.00 38.40 154.53 30.58 N4; M2;T2 L 23.53 3. Thuthipattu Pondicherry (22) ED, EAg Rice TWE 32.50 36.42 118.96' 40.75 N4 L 45.75 4. Thondamanatham Pondicherry (15) ED, EAg Rice TWE 63.63 63.00 30.06 84.92 N3; M4; TJ L 78.04 5. Ramanathapuram Pondicherry (15) ED, EAg Rice TWE 124.04 157.26 15.02 36.95 N3; Ml; Cl; T3 - 6. PilJaiyarkuppam Pondicherry (16) ED, EAg Rice TWE 184.11 0.26 0.12 53.83 N3;Ml;C2;T2 7.. Koodapakkam Ponclicherry (15) ED, EAg Rice L 81.14 151.33 70.03 N2; M3; T2 8. Konerikuppam Pondicherry (15) ED, EAg Rice 15.05 6.38 1.36 N2 9. Agaram Pondicherry (12) ED, EAg Rice TWE 9.46 11.04 3.50 10.22 N2; M2; Tl L 30.69 10. Ulaivaikkal Pondicherry ~13) ED, EA;,: Rice TWE 42.43 24.80 6.40 32.46 N4 L 73.22 11. Oussudu Pondicherry (11) ED, EAg Rice L 36.31 13.22 1.33 396.43 N4 ;Ml; T2 12. PoraiYl!r Pondicherry (11) ED, EAg Rice L 47.92 12.57 4.05 15.55 N3; Cl ; T1 13. Sendanatham Pondicherry (12) ED, BAg Rice L 74.26 5.51 1.02 11.36 N2 14. Ariyapalayam Pondicherry (11) EA Rice TWE 7.92 6.50 3.66 4.50 N2; Tl L 24.53 15. Kottamedu Pondicherry (10) EA Rice TWE 7.82 3.00 2.48 6.<)0 N2; Ml L 31.13 16. Yillianur Pondicherry (10) EA Rice L 170.77 4.58 37.23 N38; M15; C3;T5* 17. Attuvaikalpet Pondicherry (9) ED, BAg Rice TWE 6.60 2.50 1.68 L 30.35 18. Sultanpet P ondicherry (9) ED, EAg Rice TWE 15.25 3.07 1.86 4.24 N4;M2 L 26.38 19. Arasur Pondicherry (8) ED, EAg Ri ce TWE 3.10 2.99 1.15 4.15 N2 L 16.80 20. Arumathapuram- Pondicherry (7) ED, EAg Rice TWE 5.00 0.30 N3; Ml ;Tl L 10.42 21. Guruvappanaicken palayam Pondicherry (8) ED, EAg Rice TWE 26.01 0.36 3.32 11.86 N6; M5 ;T2 -L 27.37 22. Manavely Pondicherry (8) ED, EAg Rice TWE 37.60 ],80 0.60 ·4.60 N5;Ml;Tl L 18.12 23. Thattanchavady Pondicherry (9) ED, EAg, Rice TWE 2.60 1.00 1.10 0.78 Nt; T1 L 4.20 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE VlLUANUR COMMUNE-Cone/d. District: Pondicherry (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 24. Odiampattu 397.77 1,292 (246) P(2),AC(2) -(-s Kms) T,W,TW PO BS PR 25. Kanuvapet 193.13 5,241 (964) P(4), M(2), DO) T,HP -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR AC(2) 26. Valluvanpet 6.83 95 (14) -(-5Kms) -(-5Kms) T -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR 27. Uthiravaginipet 3.91 712 (136) P(2), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) " . BS PR 2S. Karayampattu 31.86 226 (50) P(2), AC(1) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 KIDs) " BS PR 29. Periapattu 4.96 619 (129) -(-5 KIDs) -(-5 Kms) W -(-SKIDS) .. BS PR 30. Thiruka~i 35'7.9& 1,514 (321) P(2), AC(2) -(-5Kres) T, W, TW -(-5 KIm.) " BS PR 31. Kizhagaram 101.96 499 (96) P(l), M(l), CWC(l) T, W, TW -(- 5Kms) ., BS PR AC(2) 32. Tanathamedu 34.Hi 213 (45) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 KIllS) T, W, TW -(-5 KIDs) " -(-5 KIDs) KR 33. Perungl!.lur 116.97 693 (142) P(l), AC(2) -(-SKIDS) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 KIllS) KR 34. Uruvaiyar 181.57 1,814 (399) P(l), M(l). 0(1) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) " BS PR AC(2) 35. Mangalam 271.40 1,376 (290) P(l), M(l). -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) " BS PR AC(2) 36. Vadamangalam. 57.24 412 (87) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) 1_',TW -(-5 Kres) .. BS PR 37. Kizhasathamangalam 116.10 1,034 (206) p(n, M(l), .' -(-5Kms) T,TW -(-5 Kms) '. BS PR AC(2) 38. Melasathamangalam •. 92.51 651 (lIS) P(l), AC(3) 0(1) T,TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR 39. Manakuppam 22.50 372 (64) P(l), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T,TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR ..0. Sangarampet 15.29 227 (45) AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KIt 41. Kizhur 104.86 730 (135) P(I), AC(2) PHS(1) T,TW PO lBs PR 42. Sivarandagam 206.48 941 (188) p(n, AC(3) 0(1) T,TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR 43. Arugur 177.47 2,819 (617) p(n, M(l), 0(1) T,TW -(-5 Kens) .. BS PR AC(4) 44. Anandapuram 73.24 618 (128) Pc!), AC(1) -(-5 Kens) T,TW -(-5 KIDS) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 45. Pangur 133.31 732 (152) P(l), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T,TW -(-5 KIDS) .. -(-5 Kms) KR Commune total 6,373.37 49,043(9,523) P(S3), M(IS), CWC(I), H(3), PUC(I), PHS(3), AC(74), 0(1) D(S),0(4), RP (2) 132 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIREcroRY AMENITIES AND LAND USE VILLIANUR COMMUNE-Cone/d. District: Pondicherry (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (171 (18) (19) (20) 24. Odiampattu . . Pondicherry (9) ED, EAg Rice TWE 125.16 12.40 4.11 5.50 N2; MI ; Tl L 250.60 25. Kanuvapet Pondicherry (11) EA Rice TWE 48.09 17.35 11.69 86.00 N4; M8;Cl;T2 L 30.00 26. Valluvanpet Pondicherry (10) ED, EAg Rice TWE 4.11 0.58 N2; MI L . 2.14 27. Uthiravaginipet Pondicherry (8) ED, EAg Rice TWE 0.50 0.50 1.71 N2; M2; TI L 1.20 28. Karayampattu Pondicherry (9) ED, EAg Rice TWE 26.50 3.86 1.50 N1 29. Periapattu . . Pondicherry (9) ED, EAg Rice TWE 4.00 ,).96 N2; Ml 30. Thirukanji .. Pondicherry (13) ED, EAg Rice TWE 237.36 5.50 26.70 88.42 N8; MI; C1 •• 31. Kizhagaram Pondicherry (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE 86.77 2.00 8.00 5.19 N7; M3;C1; T4 32. Tanathamedu Pondicherry (15) ED, EAg Rice TWE 16.00 6.00 7.06 5.10 N2; Ml; Tl 33. Perungalur Pondicherry (16) ED, EAg Rice TWE 26.70 75.54. 1.00 13.73 N2; MI 34. Uruvaiyar Pondicherry (13) ED, EAg Rice TWE 44.74 86.06 20.00 30.. 77 N35; M5; C2;T2 35. Mangalam Pondicherry (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE 90.10 84.09 1.50 65.71 N13;M3;CI;T3 L 30.00 36. Vadamangalam Pondicherry (14) ED, EAg Rice TWE 20.14 27.00 5.00 5.10 N4; M1 37. Kizhasathamangalam Pondicherry (15) ED. EAg Rice TWE 10.00 30.00 1.50 30.01 N3; M3; CI ; T2 L 44.59 38. Melasathamangalam.. Pondicherry (15) ED. EAg Rice TWE 20.00 10.00 2.00 33.50 N2; MI; Tl L 27.01 \ 39. Manakuppam Pondicherry (20) ED, EAg Rice TWE 19.00 1.00 2.50 N2; T1 40. Sangarampet Pondicherry (20) ED, EAg Rice TWE 12.29 LSO 1.50 N4 41. Kizhur Pondicherry (21) ED, EAg Rice TWE 24.31 59.99 5.00 1(}'09 N12; Tl *•• L 5.47 42. Sivarandagam Pondicherry (19) ED, EAg Rice L 64.79 76.84 10.00 54.85 N3: M2; C2; T2 43. Arugur Pondicherry (17) EA Rice TWE 75.03 26.71 2.99 22.60 N45; M12; C3; T3 L 50.14 44. Anandapuram Pondicherry (17) ED, EAg Rice TWE 61.25 2.48 1.13 8.38 N6:MI;C1;T2 45. Pangur Pondicherry (16) ED, EAg Rice TWE 57.00 4.33 1.55 15.95 N7: Ml; CI; T1 L 54.48 .------TWE 1,602.121,093.09798.55 1,411.S7 N273;M91; Commune total L 1,467.74 e22: T59 T 3,069.86 Note: Gopalankadai, Tavalapattu. MuthupiUaipalayam, Kurumbapet-These are the constituel1t u'1its of Khrumbapet town. • A famous big temple for Lord Thirukameswarar is here. •• A temple dedicated to Lord Gangaivaragamudhiswarar is situated here. Every year a grand festival is celebrated during the Masimagam . ••• The elected representatives of the former French establishment met here on 18th Octo~er, 1954 and voted in favour of merger with the Indian Union. 133 ALPWwETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES BAHOUR COMMUNE . Location Code No. SI.No. Name of the village r-.------~.------~ 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Adingapattu 26 26 2. Aladimedu 32 32 3. Aranganur 21 21 4. Bahour 1 1. S. Commandanmedu 6 6 6. Irulansandy 2 2. 7. Itchangadu (Eswarikuppam) 36 36 8. Kaduvanur 38 38 9. Kandanpet 29 29 10. Kannikovil IS IS 11. Karaiyarnbuthur 41· 41 12. Kattukuppam .. 20 20 13. Keezhaparikalpattu 9 9 14. Kirumampakkam .37 37 15. Koravalimedu 13 13 16. Krishnavaram 11 11 17. KudiiruppupaJayam 24 24 18. KUfuvinatham 3 3 19. Manamedu 39 39 20. Manapattu 18 18 21. Melparikalpattu 8 8 n. Murthikuppam 17 17 23. Narambai 34 34 24. Nirnayapattu 22 22 25. Outchimedu 14 14 26. Panaiyadikuppam 42 42 27. Pannithittu 31 31 28. Pannithittu (Vambapet) 33 33 29. Peria Arachikuppam 5 5 30. Pillaiarkuppam 30 30 134 ...; cD ~ L: > &L. a> ~ 0 C CD >- Q. 0 U .2 .:"0 '0 ...c .• ..E \ ....c.. • > '.,\ . 0 .. ..., ~ . @ ? ; N ._ •• _. .0 0 . 0 C').'" I aN ,: ~. : :' uJ Z .. ::> a:>- :::> a: 0 Ul ~ I N ~ U OIl ~ UI IX Z £5 I- 0 Z UI ~.. -.~ ~ ."'1 0 0 : I CD • U a. ..J ..J ¥ :C')1(5\ • I- .. -.. J I·~ a: u • :> 0 r '. ..:• •0 ([ ~ I- ..." 0 V) E 4( o :;;J • I ~1 c J: 0 • I l- 1 ~ <{ m l .; Z (1) (2) (3) (4) ----"--- 31. Pinnatchikuppam 28 28 32. Pudukuppam 16 16 33. Pudunagaram 27 27 34. Sarkasimedupet 25 25 35. Seliamodu 23 23 36. Sinna Arachikuppam 7 7 37. Sinnakaraiyambuthur 40 40 38. Soriankuppam .. 4 4 39. Sulliankuppam 12 12 '4D. Valluvarpet 35 35 41. Vannankulampet 10 10 41. Varkalodupet .. 19 19 --~------"------ 135 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIREcrORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE BAHOUR COMMUNE District: Pondicherry Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz., -5 Kms; 5-10 Kms and 10+KmS tion area of popula of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach __..A. , Code Name of the village the tion and No. of r- to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Dayor Communi- village (in hectares) water Tele- days of cations (potable) graph the mar- (Bus stop, -'<:et/hat, Railway If any station, waterway) 0) (2) (3) \.4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Bahour 887.92 6,158(1,214) P(7), M(3), 0(1). MeW T, TW PTO, -(-5 Kms) BS PR H(2),PUC(I), (I). RP(l), Phone AC(4) CHW(2) 2. Irulansandy 186.99 1,745 (346) P(2) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR 3. Kuruvinatham 263.08 1,650 (336) PO), M(1), CHW(l) T,W, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR AC(3) 4. Soriankuppam 210.24 1,763 (367) P(l), M(l), CHW(l) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR AC(2) . 5. Peria Arachikuppam .. 32.51 134 (30) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS . PR 6. Commandanmedu .. 18.80 119 (29) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 I(ms) KR 7. Sinna Arachikuppam .. 75.32 587 (120) P(1), AC(l)· -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR 8. Melparikalpattu 72.89 596 (139) pel) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms)PR 9. Keezhaparikalpattu 173.90 700 (147) P(I), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(--5 Kms)-(-5 Kms) PR lO. Vannankulampet 38.35 179 (34) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) PR 11. Krishnavararil. 20.68 620 (128) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, TW --(-5 Kms) -(-5 10Kms) BS PR 12. Sulliankuppam 40.24 351 (76) -P(l) -(-5 Kms) T,TW +5 Kms) -(5- -(-5 Kms) KR 10Kms) I , 13. Koravalimedu 102.31 465 (89) P(I), M(1), PHS(l), T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 KmS) PR AC(I) MCWtl) , / 14. Outchimedu 110.02 11 (2) -(-5 Kms) RP(I) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-S Kms) KR 15. Kannikovil 94.67 686 (120) P(I), AC(l) RP(2) T, W. TW -(-5 Kms) Sunday BS PR 16. Pudukuppam 86.56 828 (164) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR n. Murthikuppam 81.04 657 (126) pel), AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T. W, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms)-(-5 Kms)KR 18. Manapattu 152.27 1,022 (213) P(I), M(I), PHS{l), T.TW PO -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR AC(l) CHW(1) 19. Varkalodupet 42.72 280 (69) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR, KR 20. Kattukuppam 155.65 847 (17S) PO), AC(l) CHW(1) T, W, TW Phone -(-5 Kms) BS KR. PR 21. Aranganur 176.19 748 (1S1) P(l), M(]), PHS(l) T,TW -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) BS PR, AC(2) KR 22. Nirnayapattu 53.47 674 (138) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(S- -1-5 Km~) KR 10 Kms) 136 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE BAHOUR COMMUNE-contd. District: Pondicherry ------_- Land use (i. e., area under different types of la'ld Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upt\) 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food r- any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not reigioas, his- No. soure grated waste available to ricJ.1 or (including for archaeological t g"uchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 1. Bahour Cuddalore (8), EA Rice L 395.62 136.62 2.24 353.44 N21' M16; T12· Tamilnadu ' ' 2. lrulansandy Cuddalore (8), EA Rice L 145.56 14.76 0.64 26.03 N7; M4; C2; T2 Tami'nadu .. 3. Kuruvinatham Cuddalore (9), EA Rice L 55.00 130.85 0.65 76.58 N5; Ml; Cl ;T6 Tamiinadu 4 Soriankuppam Cuddalore (10), EA Rice L 22.26 91.00 96.98 N3 Tamilnadu 5. Peria Arachikuppam .. CuddaJore (5), EA Rice L 10.41 15.00 7.10 N5 Tamilnadu 6. Commandanmedu .. CuddaJore (5), EA Rice 5.59 13.21 Tamiinadu 7. Sinna Arachikuppam Cuddalore (5), EA RIce L1.44 34.68 10.30 28.90 N3 Tamiinadu 8. Melparikalpattu CU9dalore (4), EA Rice L 36.92 29.00 1.17 5.80 N4;M1 Tamilnadu 9. Keezhaparikalpattu .. Cuddalore (4), EA Rice L 121.70 25.00 1.20 26.00 N6; M2 Tamilnadu 10. Vannankulampet Cuddalore (5), EA Rice 29.77 3.50 5.08 N3 Tamilnadu 11. Krishnavaram Nellikuppam (5), EA Rice 10.50 8.17 2.01 N3 Tamilnadu 12. SuIIiankuppam Cuddalore (5), ED,EAg Rice .,. TWE 19.44 11.29 1.36 8.15 N.s Tamil nad u 13. Koravalimedu Cuddalore (5), EA Rice TWE 52.40 30.38 9.05 10.48 N5; M3; Cl Tamiinadu 14. Outchimedu Cuddalore (5), EA Rice TWE 32.79 20.35 2A8 18.08 N4 Tamiinadu L 36.32 15. Kannikovil Cuddalore (5), EA Rice TWE 20.00 28.88 2.22 12.52 ,NI0;Ml -Tamilnadu L 31.05 16. Pudukuppam Cuddalore (8), ED,EAg Rice TWE 45.05 24.66 2.42 8.+2 N3 Tamilnadu L 6.01 17. Murthikuppam Cuddalore (7), . EA Rice TWE 42.15 18.35 :1.22 10.20 N3 Tamilnadu L 7.12 18. Manapattu Cuddalore ~6), EA Rice TWE 5l.89 48.49 10.23 16.36 N4;Ml Tamilnadu L 25.30 19. Varkalodupet Cclddalore (6), ED, EAg Ric~ TWE 16.30 16.59 2.12 4.24 N2 Tamilnadu L 3.47 20. Kattukuppam Cuddalore (7), EA Rice TWE 70.45 32.98 8.32 18.48 N8; M2; T2 Tamrlnadu L 25.42 21. Aranganur Cuddalore (9), EA Rice TWE 42.00 12.21 0.28 19.70 N13; M2.; CI: T1 Tamilnadu .L 102.00 22. Nirnayapattu Cuddalore (11), ED,EAg Rice TWE 9.46 0.15 20.56 N3 Tamilnadu L 23.30 137 1981 (:ENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE BAHOUR COM MUNE-Co1l('Id. District: Pondicherry (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 23. Seliamodu 254.30 1,735 (354) pen, M(I), 0(1), CHW(1) T, TW PO, -(-5 Kmsi BS PRo H(l). AC(1} Phone KR 24. Kudiiruppupalayam 85.73 894 (169) pel), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T,TW -(-5 Kms) -{-5 KIDS) -{-5 KIDs) KR 25. Sarkasimedupet 81.99 191 (36) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T.W -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 KIDS) KR 26. Adingapattu 63.S6 S02 (99) P(1), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T,TW -(-5 Kms) -(5-10Kms) -(-5 KIDS) KR 27. Pudunagaram 0.7S 145 03) -(-S Kms) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) -(-S Kms) KR 28. Pinnatchikuppam 59.?1) 354 (59) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T,TW -(-.5 KIDS) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 29. Kandanpet 91.86 401 (88) pel) -(-5 KIDS), T,TW -HKms) -(-S Kms) -(-S KIDs) KR 30. Pillaiarkuppam 45.26 1,218 (2~1) pel), AC(!) o(n T,W,TW Phone -(-5 Kms) BS PR, KR 31. Pannithittu 61.94 1.171 (229) P(I), M(1), -(-5 Kms) T,W,TW -(-SKms) -(5- -(-5Kms) KR AC(1) 10Kms) 32. Aladimedu 51.27 264 (52) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T,W,T.W -(-5Kms) -(-5- -(-5 Kms) KR 10KIns) 33. Pannithittu (Vambapet) 45.84 254 (48) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 Kms) -(5- -(-5Kms) KR 10Krns) ,34. Narambai 63.53 757 (128) P(1) -(-5 Kms) T.RP· -(-5KIns) --(10+ -(-5 Kms) KR Kms} 35. Valluvarpet 11.55 167 (29) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms'l T -(-5 Kms) -(5- -(-5 Kms) KR 10 Kms) 36. Itchangadu 79.81 228 (46) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 KIDS) -(5- -(-5 Kms) KR (Eswarikuppam) 10Kms) 37. Kirumampakkam 429.54 2,952 (577) P(2), M(l), PHC(1), T,W,TW PTO, -(5-10"Knis) BS PRo H(l), AC(J) CRW(l) Phone 38. Kaduvanur 97.71 462 (92) P(l), AC(l) -(-5 KIDs) T,TW -(-5Km3) -(5-10Kms) EO;; PR, KR 39. Manamedu 220.19 1,429 (284) P(2), AC(l) PHS(l) T,W,TW "":(-5 Kms) -(5- BS PR, 10Kms KR 40. Sinnakaraiyambuthuc 48.55 304 (62) P(l),AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T,TW -(-5 Kms) -(5-10 Kms) BS PR" KR 41. Kl!raiyamburhur 410.60 2,257 (502) P(2), M(n, D(l),CHW T,TW PO. -(5-10 Kms) BS PR, H(!), AC(4) (1) Phone KR 42. Panaivadikuppam . . 202.65 784 (173) P(2), AC(I) CHW(l) T,TW PO, Phone -(5-lOKms) BS PR, KR Commune total 5,481.65 37,289(7,524) P(40), M(l2), MCW(2). R(S), PUC(l), FHS(4), AC(3S) PHC(l). D (2), RP(4), CHW(10),O(2) l38 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE BAHOUR COMMUNE-Cone/d. District : Pondicherry (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 23. Se1iamodu .. Cuddalore (10), . EA Rice TWB 40.10 40.00 11.20 22.40 N15; M5; Cl; T3 Tamilnadu L '140.60 24. Kudiiruppupalayam .. Cuddalore (10), ED, EAgRice TWE 18.00 14.20 0.12 . 14.30 N5; Ml Tamilnadu L 39.11 25. Sarkasimedupet Cuddalore (11), ED, EAg Rice . TWE 11.00 23.10 4.02 15.73 N3 Tamiinadu L 28.14 26. Adingapattu Cuddalore (11), ED,BAg Rice TWE 8.44 12.10 0.10 12.42 N6: M4; T2 Tamilnad;u L 30.50 27. Pudunagaram Cudda(ore (8), ED,EAg Rice ·TWE 0.20 0.19 0.04 0.32 N3;Ml . Tamilnadu 28. Pinnatchikuppam Cuddalore (10), ED,EAg Rice TWE 9.40 12.49 0.23 8.74 N5;M3 Tamiinadu L 28.34 29. Kandanpet Cuddalore (9), ED,EAg Rice L 24.20 28.10 2.00 37.56 N3 Tamilnadu 30. Pillaiarkuppam Cuddalore (9). EA Rice L 19.74 8.38 10.14 7.00 N30; M15; C8; T2 Tamilnadu 31. Pannithittu Cuddalore (12), ED,EAg Rice L 23.05; 17.10 13.25 8.54 N12; Ml Tamilnadu 32. Aladitnedu Cuddalore (12), ED,EAg Rice L 18.62 13.04 13.96 5.65 N5 Tamilnadu 33. Pannithittu Cuddalore (12). ED,EAg Rice TWE 18.06 15.00 2.35 4.00 N3 (Vambapet) Tamilnadu L 6.43 34. Narambai Cuddalore (14), ED, EAg Rice. L 8.10 17.48 3B5 4.00 N3 Tamilnadu 35. VaUuvarpet Cudda]ore (9), ED,EAg Rice TWE 5.41 3.14 0.80 2.20 N3 Tamilnadu 36. Itchangadu Cuddalore (9), EA Rice L 12.20 18.10 40.26 9.25 N4 (Eswarikuppam) Tamilnadu 37. Kirurnampakkam Cuddalore (8), EA Rice L 220.95 82.34 89.75 36.50 N25; M6; Cl; T6 Tamilnadu 38. Kaduvanur Nellikuppam (16), EA Rice L 57.93 11.36 0.03 28.39 N3;Tl Tamilnadu ,F 39. Manamedu Nellikuppam (15), EA Rice L 68.62 67.10 0.43 84.04 N5; Ml; Cl;T2 Tamilnadu 40. SinnakaraiyambuthuT Nellikuppam (1O),ED, EAg Rice L 35.00 8.55 5.00 N5 Tamilnadu , 4J. Karaiyambuthur Nellikuppam (IO),ED, EAg Rice L 125.65 130.22 3.03 151.70 N20; M6; Cl ; T5 Tamilnadu . 42. Panaiyadikuppam ... Nelli.kuppam (12),ED, EAg Rice.- TWE 9.28 1.00 79.84 NlO; C2; TZ Tamllnadu L 112.53 Commune total TWE 521.82 1,284.35 300.97 1,325.90 N288; M76; C19; L 2,048.61 T46 T 2,570.43 . • The famous historical temple dedicated to Sree Moolanathar is situated here. This temple was constructed during the tenth century in the Pallava Chola style.• Inscriptions of the Pallava and Chola Kings are still viSible at the ga~es of the tempe!. 139 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES NETTAPAKKAM COMMUNE Location Code No. SI.No. Name of the village r- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Andrasikuppam 3 3 2. Embalam 20 20 3. Eripakkam 1 4. Kalmandap~m 4 4' 5. Kambalikarankuppam 22 22 6. Kariamanickam .. 12 12 7. Karkalampakkam .. ' 27 27 8. Korkadu 26 26 9. Kuruvampattu' .. 16 16 10. Kutchipalayam 18 18 11. Madukkarai 17 17 12. Mettutheruvu 11 11 13. Molapakkam 13 13 14. Nadunayagapuram 7 7 15. Nattamedu (Embalam) 24 24 16. Nattamedu (Eripakkam) 2 2 17. Nettapakkam .. 10 10 18. Pandasozhanur .. 6 6 19. Pudukuppam 21 21 20. Pudupattu 9 9 21. Ranganathampattu 14 14 22. Sembadapet. 8 8 23. Sembiapalayam 25 25 24. Sooramangalam 19 19 25. Thanikuppam 23 23 26. Thulukkanpalayam 15 15 27. Vadukuppam 5 5 140 rr======~\=====------~~ .. _,...... s:: .,\.. C7' _._._. ""'-"_" .... lJJ >- Z o0.. ~ I .1I JO IOppn) V ~ .~ o.l o "0 o~ I C U a::: c :::> H'UO'lI'" ... E z Wo.!.:! ...c ~ ,.. ...J '"o ...J <,:I 0 oJ> :;: o n. n. ~ +. C\I l.._~ } -4". "-z, N e.::::> I .~; . :~I ..... ( 0 • -. 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NETTAPAKKAM COMMUNE District: Pondicherry Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz., -5 Kms; 5-10 Kms and 10+ Kms tion area of popula- of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the tion and No. of r------A.. ------., to' No. viilage households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Dayor Communi- Village (in hectares) - water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway if any station. Waterway) (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (1I) ------.------~------I. Eripakkam 118.15 702 (144) P(2), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, 'IW -(-5 Kms) BS PR,KR 2. Nattamedu (Eripakkam) 121.60 555 (120) P(2), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR 3. Andrasikuppam 43.15 249 (48) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR.KR 4. Kalmandapam 120.11 -749 (134) Pc]), M(l), -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR, KR AC(2) 5. Vadukuppam 100.92 413 (78) P(2), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5 Kms) " BS PR.KR 6. Pandasozhanur 214.36 1,949 (409) P(2), AC(3) 0(1) T, TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR, KR 7. Nadunayagapuram 26.07 89 (21) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR, KR 8. Sembadapet 3.56' 264 (60) ·AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-5~) ., BS PR, KR 9. Pudupattu 21.94 303 (56) -(-5 Kms~ -(-5 Kms) T, TW -(-SKms) BS PR,KR 10. Nettapakkam 209.33 1,844 (362) P(4), M(n, 0(1), T,W,TW PTa, BS PR,KR H(!), 0(1), MCW(I) -Phone AC(4) 11. Mettutheruvu 28.10 602 (116) PO),O(l) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR.KR 12. Kariamanickam 255.12 1,883 (373) P(2),0(1), -(-5 Kms) T, W,TW PTa, BS PR,KR AC(3) PhOne 13. Molapakkam 7.20 598 (121) P(l), M(I), -(-5 Kms) T, W. TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR KR 0(J)·1C(2) 14. Ranganathampattu .. 1.34 69 (13) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kros) T -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR 15. Thulukkanpalayam " 6.20 325 (69) P(l) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR, KR 16. Kuruvampattu 2.16 342 (79) P(1), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 17. Madukkarai 304.27 3.882 (757) P(4), M(!). D(l) T,W,TW PO, BS PR,KR H(I), AC(4) Phone 18. Kutchipalayam 3.00 459 (99) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR,KR 19. Sooramangalam· 121.54 1,704 (341) P(2'), AC(4) DO) T,W,TW PO, BS PR, KR Phone 20. Embalam 203.95 2,183 (434) P(3), M(1), 0(1) T, TW, -(-5 Kms) BS PR, KR H(l), AC(3) HP -, " 21. Pudukuppam 123.25 345 (68) P(2), AC(1) -(-5 Km~) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR, KR I 22. Kamhalikarankuppam 53.05 228 (48) P(2), AC(1) +5 Kms) T_ TW . (-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 23. Thanikuppard> 37.80 155 (31) -(-5 Kms) -(-5Km<;) T, TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR,KR 24. Nattamedu (Embalam) 94.00 381 (82) P(2), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T ,TW -(-5 Kms) BS PR 141 t~ 1981 CENSUS--VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NE'ITAPAKKAM COMMUNE-contd. District: Pondicherry ------Land use (i.e., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food r- any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Un,irri-- Culturable Area not religious, his- No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding for archaeologicill gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (l8) (19) (20) ------1. Eripakkam Villupuram (20), EA Rice L 25.46 70.19 2.50 20.00 N10;M3;T2 Tamilnadu 2. Nattamcdu (Eripakkam) Villupuram (20), EA Rice 110.60 2.00 9.00 N5;Ml;Tl , Tamilnadu 3. Andrasikuppam Villupuram (21), EA Rice 39.65 1.00 2.50 NIO Tamilnadu 4. Kalmandapam Villupuram (22), EA Rice TWE 5.00 55.00 g.OO 13.13 N5; M3; C2; T4 Tamilnadu L 38.98 5. Vadukuppam Villupuram (23), EA Rice TWE 10.00 30.00 5.00 12.92 N5; T2 Tamilnadu L 43.,00 6. Pandasozhanur .. ViUupuram (23~, EA Rice TWE 15.00 52.17 14.00 38.19 N5; M4; T5; Cl Tamilnadu L 95.00 7. Nadunayagapuram Villupuram (20), EA Rice L 20.50 3.00 1.07 1.50 N2;Ml;T1 Tamilnadu 8. Sembadapet Villupura~ (20), EA Rice L, 1.56 0.70 0.30 1.00 N2 Tamilnadu • 9. Pudupattu Villupuram (20), EA Rice L 5.94 3.00 2.00 11.00 N2; Ml; C2; T2 Tamilnadu 10. Nettapakkam Villupuram (20), EA Rice L 68.79 83.57 6.97 50.00 NI2;M2;T2 Tamilnadu 11. Mettutheruvu Villupuram (20), EA Rice L 7.00 16.00 1.10 4.00 N3;Ml;T2 Tamilnadu 12. Kariamanickam Villupuram (19), EA Rice TWE 31.33 191.90 0.09 31.80 N3: M1 Tamilnadu 13. Molapakkam Villupuram (19), EA Rice L 2.10 1.32 1.08 2.70 N2 Tarnilnadu , 14. Ranganathampattu Villupuram (17), ED Rice .'. 1.34 N4; Ml;Tl Tamilnadu 15. Thulukkanpalayam •• Villupuram (17), EA Rice L 1.90 1.61 0.69 2.00 N4;M2;Tl Tamilnadu 16. Kuruvampattu Villupuram (17); ED Rice 2.16 N2 Tamilnadu 17. Madukkarai Vil!upuram (17), EA . Rice L 131.27 112.00 9.02 51.98 N8; M6; C2; T4 Tamilnadu ' 18. KutchipalaYllm Villupuram (18), ED, EAg Rice 1.40 1.60 N2;Ml;Tl Tarnilnadu 19. Sooramangalam Villupuram (19), ED, BAg Rice L 25.40 73.29 0.04 22.81 N4;Ml;Tl Tamilnadu 20. Embalam VilIupuram (17), ED, EAg Rice TWE 69.50 48.50 4.71 44.87 N8;Ml; T1 Tamilnadu L 36.37 21. Pudukuppam Villupuram (17), ED, EAg Rice TWE 19.00 24.25 1.64 12.05 N5;Ml;Tl Tamilnadu L 66.31 22. Kambalikarankuppam Pondicherry (19). ED; BAg Rice TWE 16.75 25.20 0.65 10.45 N3 23. Thanikuppam Pondicherry (18) ED, EAg Rice TWE 8.50 5.60 13.10 3.60 N3 L 7.00 24. Nattamedu (Embalath) Pondicherry (18) ED, EAg Rice. TWE 3.50 41.11 0.74 23.15 N3;Tl L 25.50 142 1981 CENSUS--'--VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE ,,",, NETfAPAKKAM COMMUNE-concld. District: Pond icherry (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 25. Sembiapalayam 127.68 577 (123) P(2) -(-5 Kms) ·T.TW -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR 26. Korkadu 344.55 1,641 (364) P(t). M(I), PHS(I) T,TW ..phone BS PR.KR AC(4) 27. Karkaiampakkam .. 327.1 I 2,243 (447) P(2). M(1), PHC(l) T.TW, -(-5 Kms) . . BS 'PR,KR AC(4) HP Commune total 3,019.51 24,734(4.997) P(41). M(7). PHC(I). D(3). H(3), AC(44), PHS(l). 0(2), 0(4) MCW(!)• 143 . 171/4-10B 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DlREcrORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE ~.~ NEITAPAKKAM COMMUNE-cont'fd. District: Pondicherry (1) (2) 25. Sembiapalayam 26. Korkadu 27. Karkalampakkam Commune total 144 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIRECfORY COMMUNEWISE ABSTRACI' OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENITIES District : pondicherry Educational ,- S1. Name of Primary School Middle! School Matriculation/ Higher Secondary/ College (gradu- Adult literacy . No. Commune Secondary School PUC/Intermediate! ate and above) class/centres Junior College ,---"-----.. ,-____...._____ r--- r-----.. ,---"------, ,---"--.----., ,---"-___. Villages "Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages tsti- Villages Insti- tutions tutions tutions tutions tu ions tutions . I (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Ariankuppam. 14 16 7 8 3 3 14 21 2. Ozhukarai 5 8 2 2 1 1 3 3 3. ~annadipct 33 41 12 12 4, 4 1 1 31 81 4. ViHianur 36 53 14 '.' 15 2 3 1 38 74 5. Bahoui 29 40 10 12 4 5 1 24 38 6. Nettapakkam 20 41 7 7 3 3 18 44 District total -- 137 205 52 56 17 19 3 3 128 261 Medical SI. Name of Commune r- No. Villages Dispensary HOspital Maternity and Child Primary Health Educational with no Welfare Centre! Centre/Health educational Maternity Home/ Centre OthersA... ______facilities Child Welfare Centre , ,---"------,-____...._-----, ,-____""______,-____.._----., • Villages lnsti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages lnsti- tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) • (22) (23) (24) (25) 1. Ariankuppam 2 6 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 2. Ozhukarai 3 5 1 1 J. Mannadipet • 7 J 3 5 5 2 2 4. VillianUrj 1 1 5 5 5 1 ~. Bahour 13 2 2 2 2 1 6. NeUapakkam 4 4 6 3 3 1 '.1 1 District total 10 16 35 15 15 10 10 6 6 145 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIRECTORY COMMUNEWISE ABSTRACT OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENITIES-contd. District: Pondicherry Medical r- SI. Name of Commune • Family Planning Primary Health Community Health Others Villages No. Centre Sub-Centre Workers with no r- r- r- r- medical Villages Institutions Villages Institutions Villages Numbers Villages Institutions facility , (1) (2) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) . (32) (33) (34) 1. Ariankuppam 3 3 1 4 4 7 12 2. Ozhukarai 1 2 3. Mannadipet 8 8 2 2 21 4. Villianur 3 3 5 6 31 5. Bahour 4 4 10 5 6 27 6. Nettapakkam 1 '. 2 2 20 ------District Total 20 20 10 14 19 24 113 SI. Name of Commune Drinking water No. r- Tap Well Tank Tube well River Fountain Canal Others More than Villages with one source no drinking water facility of any type (I) (2) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) 1. Ariankuppam 19 3 16 18 2. Ozhukarai 5 5 5 3. Mannadipet 39 8 37 39 4. Villianur 40 '26 37 5 40 5. llahour 39 14 30 2 32 6. Nettapakkam 27 7 23 2 23 District total 169 58 148 10 157 146 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIRECTORY COMMUNEWISE AESTRACT OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENITIES-colic/d. District: Pondicherry ----- Post and Telegraph Communications Power Supply Sl. Name of Commune ,- ,-____~ ,-___A_--, No. P.O. T.O. P.T.O. P:O.& T.O.& P.T.O.& fhone Bus Railway Navigable Avail- Not Phone Phone Phone stop ~tation waterway able available (1) (2) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) 50) (51) (52) (53 ) (54) (55) (56) 1. Ariankuppam 4- 1 11 20 2. Ozhukarai 1 5 5 3. Mannadipet 2 6 1 29< 40 4. Villianur 7 1 38 45 5 .. Bahour 1 3 2 2 19 42 n N~!tapalckam 2 2 25 27 ,,;___ District total 11 17 -, 6 4 127 1 179 147 APPENDIX-II VILLAGE DIRECTORY LAND UTILISATIOl'( DATA IN RESPECT OF NON-MUNICIPAL TOWNS (CENSUS TOWNS) District: Pondich~rry Land use (i.e., area under different types' of land use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) SI. Name of town and commune within r------~------~ No. brackets Total Forest Irrigated Unirrigated Culturable waste Area not avail- area by source (including gauchar able for and groves) cultivation (1) (2) (3) (4) , (5) (6) (7) (8) Nil . APPENDIX -m VILLAGE DIRECTORY COMMUNEWISE LIST OF VlLLA GES W HERE NO AMENITIES ARE AVAILABLE District: Pondicherry Nil 148 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIRECTORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND \ SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES District: Pondicherry A-Scbeduled castes Commune: Ariankuppam Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (percentage) (1) (2) (3) o 5* 1 Periavirampattinam .. 4 Kakayantope 6 • Edayarpalayam 8 Tavalakuppam .. 10 Purnankuppam .. 18 Nallavadu 6 10 5 Ariankuppam 11 15 19 Nonankuppam 21 30 17 Andiarpalayam 31+ 7 Nanamedu 13 Abishegapakkam .. 14' Tbimmanayakenpalayam ·Excludes villages with no S.C. popuJation. Commune: Dzhukara,i Ra. or scbodulod caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (percentage) (I) (2) (3) o GanapathycheUykulam 2 Periakalapattu 21 30 4 Alankuppam ·Excludes villages with no S.C. population. Commune: Mannadipet Range of scheduled caste population. L.C.No. Name of the village (percentage) (I) (2) (3) o 5· 12 Silkaripalayam 31 Kumarap:lhyal 34 Katteri 40 Manavely 6 10 18 Nallurkutchipalayam 149 , APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIRECTORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTE~ AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES--contd. . '::::ommune: Mannadipet. (1) (2) (3) 11 IS 2 Chettipet 7 Sompattu " 30 Sellipattu 36 Pudukuppam 16 20 5 Thirukkanur 23 Kottapurinatham 29 Vambupet 21 30 Manalipattu 3 Kunichampattu 6 Mannadipattu 8 Vadanur II Puranasingapalayam 13 Kutchipaiayam " 14 Andiarpalayam (Kalithirthalkuppam) 15 Kalithirthalkuppam 16 Madagadipattu 26 Sannasikuppam 27 Sorapattu 28 Vinayagampet 38 Kaiklapet 31 + 17 Nallur .. 71 Thirut>uvanai .. 22 Thiruvandarkoil 25 Pidarikuppam 32 Thcthampakkam 33 Kuppam 37 Suthukeny 39 Kodathur .\ ·Excludes villages with no S.c. population. 150 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE .DIRECfORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES-contd. Commune: Villianur Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village . (Percentage) (1) (2) (3) o s· 16 Villianur 18 Sultan pet 22 Manavcly 23 Thattanchavady 25 Kanuvapet 31 Kizhagaram " 32 Tanathamedu" I 6 10 24 Odiampattu 11 15 15 Kottamedu 35 Mangalam 16 20 .5 Ramanathapuram 6 Pillaiyarkuppam 43 Aru~r 21 30 1 Sedarapattu 4 Thondamanatham •• 21 Guruvappanaickenpalayam 30 Thirukanji .. 34 Uruvaiyar 37 Kizhasathamangalam 31 + 2 Karasur 3 Thuthipattu 7 Koodapakkam 11 Oussudu 12 Poraiyur 13 Sendanatham 14 Ariyapalayam 11 A ttuvaikalpet 19 Arasur 26 Valluvanpet 27 Uthirav;>.ginipet 28 Karayampattu 29 Periapattu 33 Perungalur 39 Manakuppam 42 Sivarandagam 45 Pangur ·Excludes villages with no S.C. population. 151 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIRECfORY LIST OF VILLAGES .ACCORDING TO THE PROPQRTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES-contd. Commune: Bahour Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (Percentage) (1) (2) (3) o 5· 4 Soriankuppam 15 Kannikovil 21 Aranganur 10 15 36 Itchangadu (Eswarikuppam) 21 30 Bahour 2 Irulansandy 20 Kattukuppam 38 Kaduvanur 31+ 3 Kuruvinatham 7 Sin~a Arachikuppam 8 Melparikalpattu 9 Keezhaparikalpattu Vannanku]ampet " 10 Murthikuppam " 17 18 Manapattu 19 Varkalodupet 22 Nirnayapattu " 23 Seliamodu 24 Kudiiruppupidayam 25 Sarkasimedupet ., 26 Adingapattu 29 Kanuanpet 30 Pillaiarkuppam 32 Aladimedu 33 Pannitbittu (Vambapet) 35 Valluvarpet 37 K irumampakkam 39 Manamedu 41 Karaiyambuthur 42 Panaiyadikuppam " ·Excludes villages with no S.C. population. 152 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DlREcrORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRffiES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES-concld. Commune: Nettapakkam Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name, of the village (Percentage) (1) (2) (3) 6 10 2 Nattamedu (Eripakkam) 11 15 20 Embttlam 16 20 4 Kalmandapam io Nettapakkam " 21 30 17 Madukkarai 27 Karkalampakkam 31 + Eripakkam 6 Pandasozhanur 12 , Kariamanickam 16 Karuyampattu .. 19 Sooramangalam 22 Kambalikarankuppam 24 Nattamedu (Embalamj 2S Sembiapalayam 26 Korkadu ------.------ B. Scheduled tribes NOTE :-No tribe has been scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Presidential Order. 153 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES TIRUNALLAR COMMUNE Location Code No. Sl. No. Name of village r- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Agalankannu 25 25 2. Agarakovilpa ttu 34 34 3. Agarasethur 11 11 4. Ambagarathur 1 1 5. A vvaiyarmoolai 7 7 6. Elayankudi 17 17 7. Kannapur 2 2 8. Karukkankudy 18 18 9. Keela Athipadugai 28 28 10. Kedaputhamangalam 36 36 il. Keela.Suprayapur!lm 35 3S 12. Keezhavoor 33 33 13. Kottapady 14 14 14. Kumarakkudi 8 8 15. Mathur 13 13 16. Mela Athipadugai 27 27 11. Melasuprayapuram 32 32 18. Muppaithamkudi 15 15 19. NaUambal 5 5 20. Nallazhandur 3 3 21. Neivacherry 29 29 22. Pandaravadaisethur 12 12 23. Pettai 26 26 24. Poomulayalmangalam 31 31 25. Sathankudy '-9 9 26. Sayampalayam 21 21 27. SeHut' 24 24 28. Set'Umavilangai 20 20 29. Sorakudy 22 22 30. Takkalur 38 38 31. Tennankudy 16 16 32. Tevamapuram 19 19 154 KARAIKAL DISTRICT KARAIKAL DISTRICT rI KILOME TRES i ...... to, 2 r::-...=-__,!_=f -:::- -- _ ~--t THI>NJ.o.V\JR DISTRICT TAMIL e A Y OF \BENGAL THANJAVUR DISTRICT TAMIL NADU State Boundary District Htadquarters @ CC'r>",fY'l-~'(' He::ldquarters @ Tc Tlttoch'Mn·~ Importont M4!:tolloe:d Road Railway Line with Station n .. _.. J .\.. .'" River with Stream . Dt9re~ Cotlrqe: ond Technical Institution Rest House,Dok Bun<:l0low RH t DB I', Trovf'llf'!I"'5 Bungolow TB Urban Ar~o With Populahon Size ..eee Post And Telegraph Of lice PTa Village Having 5000 and above) I! Population with Name } • TAMIL NADU KARAIKAL.· ClassllI Town KARAIKAL ---- L T,.,~·t.rrlCorlO( .atf'r"S of IndiO tJl:trM ,nto the SCQto. distancr Of t •• h". i'tOuhcat tI'Itn IYICCI'''Hrd from tl'l.~~rd.boMlnr, s:.... ~.... Q. o v .2 'V > c: t: -' .J -...o « ~ c; ~ .. u E « o ...c Z .>C oJ) a: ~ w- « => ....o o a: ~ L o I ¥ w '" 0:: ::?: o If) Z \ ~ 0. 0. I-' 0. ~ o li r } _j u ...Jee «r-(f) O~] "0 0 Zo Ii 'U o c c ~ o ~ 2 '" c 0 '" ::> a. E o c 0 ro E :J a: o - ~ u "" c Q ::> E o E .... 0 c u. t? o a. :> "0.. '"o en (1) (2) (3) (4) 33. Thamanankudi 4 4 34. Thembidagai 1{) 10 35. Thenur 23 23 36. Tirunallar 30 30 37. Uthirankudy 37 37 38. Valathamangalam 6 6 155 171/4-11 A 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIREcrORY AMENlTIES AND LAND USE TIRUNALLAR COMMUNE District: Karaikal Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the a Total Total distance in broad ranges viz., -5 Kms; 5-10 Kms and 10+ Kms :tn - area of popula- of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach 'Code Name of the village the tion and No. of r- to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Day or Communi- village (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway if any station. Waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Arnbagarathur 331.77 3,953 (817) P(2), M(l), D(I) T, W, TW, PTO, BS,RS PR,K.R AC(3) HP Phone 2. Kannap,or 81.14 168 (34) P(I) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 KIDs) KR 3. Nallazharrdur 130.87 596 (120) PO). AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5KIDs) " -(-5 KIDs) KR 4. Thamanankudi 62.80 226 (41) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kmg) BS PR,KR 5. Nallambal 162.14 1,528 (328) P(2), M(l), D(l) T,W,HP PO BS PR,KR AC(2) 6. Valathamangalam 30.75 542 (121) PO), AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W.HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 7. Avvaiyannoolai 8.00 90 (12) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W,TK -(-5Kms) .. -(-5 KIDs) KR 8. Kumarakkudi 37.00 514 (124) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 KIDs) KR ,! 9. Sathankudi 17.00 22 (5) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 KIDs) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 10. Thembidagai 30.00 195 (40) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 KillS)' KR 11. Agarasethur . 203.00 1,181 (243) pen, M(l), PHS(I) T,W,HP PO BS PR,KR AC(1) 12. Pandaravadaisethur .. 279.7~ 589 (130) P(l), AC(l) -(-5' Kms) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 13. Mathur 83.00 55 (11) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 14. Kottapady 78.00 264 (61) P(l), AC(l) -(-5 Kms) T;W,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 15. Muppaithamkudy 145.00 485 (99) P(l), AC(2) PHS(l) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 16. Tennankudy 159.64 701 (154) PO). AC(2) CWC(I) T, W, HP -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR.KR 11. Elayankudy 148.46 343 (79) AC(1) -(-5 Kms) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 18. Karukkankudy 59.54 626 (128) P(2), M(l), PHS(1) W,HP PO, Phone .. BS PR AC(l) 19. Tevamapuram 234.68 459 (97) P(l). AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 KIDs) -(-5 Kms) KR 20. Serumavilangai 185.00 903 (187) P(1), AC(I) CWC(1) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) BS PR 21. Sayampalayam 81.61 63 (14) -(-5 KIns) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 22. Sorakudy 281.38 1,258 (252) p(n, M(2), CWC(1) T,W.HP PO BS PR PUC(l),AC(3) 23. Thenur 46.68 912 (198) AC(1) -(-5 Kms) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) BS PR 24. Senur 223.46 1,048 (233) PC!). M(l). -(-5 Kms) T,W,HP PO BS PR AC(3) 25. Agalankannu 97.00 635 (127) P(1), AC(l) -(-5 KIDs) T,W,HP -(-5 Kf!1S) -(-5 Kms) KR 26. Pettai 201. 79 1,022 (224) P(l), AC(2) PHS(l) W,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Km~) KR 27. Mela Athipadugai 69.54 410 (88) AC(l) -(~5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 28. Keela Athipadugai 73.21 245 (54) pel) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(- 5Kms) KR 156 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE TIRUNALLAR COMMUNE-contd. District: Karaikal Land use (i.e., area under differeut types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power'· Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food r------_j------~ any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (I) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 1. Ambagarathur Karaikal (14) EA Rice R 210.53 16.95 5.76 98.53 NI03;M20;C3;Tl· 2. Kannapur Karaihl (15) ED,EAg Rice R 64.38 2.61 1.81 12.94 N5 3. Nallazhandur Karaikal (13) ED, EAg Rice R 103.60 12.40 6.07 8.80 N5 4. Thamanankudi Karaikal (13) ED, EAg Rice R 51.40 4.70 4.05 2.65 N12 5. Nallambal Karai.lqil (12) EA Rice R 119.84 20.10 8.95 13.25 NI5;M7;C3;T2 6. Valatharnangalam Karaikal (11) ED Rice R 18.35 5.60 4.15 2.65 N3 7. Avvaiyarmoolai Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 5.00 0.84 .1.12 1.04 N3 8. Kumarakkudi Karaikal (13) ED Rice R 30.99 2.15 1.54 2.32 N4 9. Sathankudi Karaikal (12) ED Rice R 12.50 0.99 1.48 2.03 10 .. Thembidagai Karaikal (13) ED, EAg Rice R 19.50 2.89 3.11 4.50 M5 11. Agarasethur Karaikal (11) EA Rice R 178.00 8.50 7.20 9.30 N30; Ml 12. Pandaravadaisethur.. Karaikal (11) EA Rice R 214.45 0.41 3.45 61.45 N18; Ml 13. Mathur Karaikal (10) ED, EAg Rice R 71.00 5.39 0.50 6.11 N4; Ml; Tl 14. Kottapady Karaikal (10) ED, EAg Rice R 67.00 2.86 0.14 8.00 N4; Ml 15. Muppaithamkudy Karaikal (10) ED, EAg Rice R 1.15.00 23.85 0.25 5.90 N15; M2; TI 16. Tlmnankudy Karaikal (9) ED, EAg Rice R 88.10 3.59 . 1.23 66.72 N18 17. Elayankudy Karaikal (10) ED, EAg Rice R 126.41 7.40 9.67 4.98 N5; M4; Cl; T5 18. Karukkankudy Karaikal (9) EA Rice R 43.96 3.12 9.10 336 N25; M4;T2 19. Tevamapuram Karaikal (9) ED, EAg Rice R 163.30 12.06 18.05 41.27 NIO 20. Serumavilangai Karaikal (10) EA Rice R 146.00 18.47 1.24 19.30 N12; M8 21. Sayampalayam Karaikal (6) ED, EAg Rice R 68.70 2.39 3.86 6.66 N3 22. Sorakudy Karaikal (8) EA Rice R 192.30 29.38 2.86 56.83 N20; M8 23. Thenur Karaikal (7) ED,EAg Rice R 32.65 7.80 1.10 5.13 NlO; M2; Cl 24. Sellur Karaikal (8) EA Rice R 151.91 2.53 1.90 67.12 N22; Ml 25. Agalankannu Karaikal (9) ED, BAg Rice R 82.00 9.60 2.30 3.10 N15; MI 26. Pettai Karaikal (8) ED, EAg Rice R 175.70 7.52 2.36 16.21 N23 27. Mela Athipadugai Karaikal (7) ED, EAg Rice R 48.31 11.54 2.45 7.24 NIO; Ml 28. Keela Athipadugai .. Karaikal (7) ED, EAg Rice R 41.86 16.14 2.63 12.58 N6 • The Bhadrakaliamman Temple here though small is famous. The twelve-day festival celebrated during May-June attracts many thousands of devotees. . 157 1981 CENCUS-VILLAGE DIRECTROY AMENITIES AND LAND USE TlRUNALLAR COMMUNE-Concld. District: Karaikal (.1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7J (8) (9) (10) (11) 29. Neivachcrry 142.25 605 (l5~) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T,W,HP -{-5 KIDS) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 30. Tirunallar 385.87 2,806 (542) 'P(2), M(2), PHC(1) T,W,HP PTO, .. BS,RS PR,KR H(l), AC(4), Phone 0(2) 31. Poomulayalmangalam 61.60 825 (186) PO), M(l), CWC(1) T,W -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) PR.KR . AC(!), 32. Melasuprayapuram 121.54 342 (79) AC(!) -(-5 KIDs) T, W, HP -(-5 Kins) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 33. Keezhavoor 53.24 122 (22) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -v-5 ;KIDS) KR 34. Agarakovilpa ttu 1.05 27 (7) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 35. Keelasuprayapuram 116.34 646 (144) pel) CWC(1) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 36. Keelaputhamangalam 51.95 71 (14) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 KIDS) KR 37. Uthirankudy 49.87 32 (8) PCI) -(-5 KIDS) HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 KIDS) KR 38. Takkalur 53.55 242 (53) p(n, AC(l) -(-5 Kn;!s) T,W -(-5 KIDS) .. BS PR Commune total 4,580.08 24,751(5,234) P(27). M(lO), 1>(2), PUC(I), H(l) PRe(I), AC(38), 0(2) PHS(4). CWC(5) 158 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE TIRUNALLAR COMMUNE-Cone/d. District; Karaikal . (l) \2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 29. Neivacherry Karaikal (7) ED,EAg Rice R 87.06 6.71 7.35 41.13 N4;Ml;Tl 30. Tirunallar Karaikal (5) EA Rice R 283.12 14.83 13.30 74.62 Nl50; M30; Cl; T5· 31. Poomulayalmangalam Karaikal (6) ED Rice R 53.40 3.74 2.32 2.14 N5 32. Melasuprilyapuram Karaikal (7) ED,EAg Rice .. R 106.46 7.32 2.88 4.88 N5;M2 33. Keezhavoor Karaikal (6) ED Rice R 48.72 1.95 1.34 1.23 N2 34. Agarakovilpattu Karaikal (6) ED Rice R 1.01 0.04 35. Keelasuprayapuram .. Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 94.63 9.57 2.85 9.29 N13;M2 36. Keelapuiliamangalam Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 35.22 6.55 1.95 8.23 37. Uthirankudy Karaikal (5) ED,EAg Rice R 41.96 1.55 1.44 4.92 N5; Tl 38. Takkalur Karaikal (4) ED Rice R 45.81 1.26 2.05 4.43 N3 Commune total R 3,440.13 295.26 143.81 7i)O.88 N587; MI02; C9; T19 • Shri Derbaranyeswaraswami Temple, a famous one, where Saturn has got a separate shrine, exists here. This was con- structed in the Chola period. This place is the one from where Nala Cha.kravanhy got relief from the evil influence of SatUrn. 159 171/4-118 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES NERAVY COMMUNE Location Code No. S1. No. Name of village ;- --"-- 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Akkaravattam 7 7 2. Akkaravattam Kovilpathu 9 9 3. Kakaimouzhy .. 4 4 4. Karakalacherry 8 8 5. Keelaodouthurai 1 1 6. Keezhmanai 3 3 7. Kottoupalayam 12 12 8. Mallnamuthy 13 13 <9. Melaodouthurai 2 2 10. ~eravy 6 6 11. Thooduponamoolai 5 5 12. Uliapathu 10 10 13. 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Approach Code Name' of the village the tion and No. of r __..., to . No. village households &l.ucational Medical Drinking Post & Dayor Communi- village (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) . the mar- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway if any station, waterway) (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Keelaodoulhurai ]62.40 1,225 (285) P(I), AC(2) -(-5 KIDS) T, W, TW, -(-5 Kms) , BS, RS PR,KR TK 2. Melaodouthurai 274.14 867 (178) P(l), AC(]) -(-5 Kms) T, W, HP -(-5 Kms) BS,RS PR, KR 3. Keezhmanai 78.0S 171 (4e) AC(}) t..{-S Kms) W,TW,HP -{-S Kms) BS PR,KR 4. Kakaimouzhy 76.16 449 (]04) PO), AC(l) -{-5 KIDS) W,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 KIDS) KR 5. Thooduponamoolai S6,81 177 (34) P(1), AC(t) -(-5 Kms) W,TW -{-S Kms) ., -(-S Kms) KR 6, Neravy 414.32 4,312 (870) P(2), M(2), PHq]), T,TW,W, PTO, BS PR,KR H(l), AC(4) RP(l), HP Phone CHW(I) 7. Akkaravattam 392.52 1,057 (216) PO), AC(3) PHS(1), T,W,TK -(-5 Kms) -(-SKIDs) KR CHW(1) 8. Karakalacherry 95.57 876 (168) pel) -(-5 Kms) T, W, HP -(-5 Kms) -{-5Kms) K~ 9. Akkaravattam Kovilpathu 74,36 645 (147) P(2), AC(l) -(-S Kms) T, W, TK -(-5 Kms) BS PR,KR 10. Uliapathu 44.36 771 (156) P(l), AC(l) -(-5 Kms). T,W, TW, -(-S Kms) BS PR,KR HP 11. Vizhidiur 181.22 1,599 (319) P(l), M(1), CWC(l), T, W. HP -(-S Kms) BS PR.KR AC(2) DO) 12. Kottoupalayam 106.48 179 (38) -{-5 Kms) -(-S Km~) T, W -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 13. Mannamuthy. 48.70 259 (58) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, W, HP -(-S Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR Commune total 2,005.10 12,587(2,619) P(13), M(3), D(i),PHC(I), H(1), AC(18) PH.5(l), CWC(l), CHW(2), RP(l) 161 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIREcrORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NERAVY COMMUNE-concld. 'District: Karaikal Land use (Le., area under diffelnt types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food r- any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his- No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding foe archaeological gauchar anI! culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 1- Keelaodouthurai Karaikal (4) ED Rice R 95.73 45.75 0.67 20.25 N12; MS; Tl 2. Melaodouthurai Karaikal (4) ED Rice R 207.21 48.25 1.18 17.50 N5; M3 3. Keezhmanai Karaikal (4) ED,EAg Rice R 51.30 16.90 0.15 9.71 N5; T1 4. Kakaimouzhy Karaikal (6) ED Rice R 58.30 4.00 0.70 13.16 N5; Ml 5: Thooduponamoolai Karaikal (8) ED,EAg Rice R 44.16 3.61 0.05 8.99 N4;Ml;T1 6. Neravy Karaikal (5) EA Rice R 251.83 74.66 3.46 84.37 N24; M14; C2;T2 7. Akkaravattam Karaikal (4) ED Rice R 362.39 10.25 6.86 13.02 N5; M3 8. Kil.rakalacherry Karaikal (3) ED Rice R 57.06 10.27 17.94 10.30 Ml; Cl 9. Akkaravattam Karaikal (4) ED Rice R 53.80 12.25 0.39 7.92 Nli Ml; Tl Kovilpathu 10. Uliapathu Karaikal (6) EA Rice R 20.63 8.65 2.25 12.83 N25;M3;T1 11. Vizhidiur Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 110.36 18.30 7.06 45.50 N18;M4 12. Kottoupalayam Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 86.94 5.01 5-44 9.09 N5 13. Maunamuthy Karaikal (13) ED Rice R 18.57 12.63 4.10 13.40 N2 Commune total Rl,4l8.28 270.53 50.25 266.04 N11l; M36; 0; T7 .... 162. NEDUNGADU COMMUNE DISTRICT KARAIKAL KI~OM£TRES 1 0 1 2 1:::===1= .=±=--=-==*===-::==:::J \ . \ . Os ...... KOTTUCHERRY: 09 iCOMMUNE . TAMIL NADU To Kottuch~rr y • '. 1 I I TIRUNALLAR t COMMUNE .:;;.~. KARAIKAL i ...... \ UN1CIPALlT~ \ : \ Boundary, Stot( River and Str~am Commune Post OfficI': PO Commune Heodquarters @ Police Station PS Vd(ag~ wrlh Locat'on Code Number .5 Primary Health C(ntr( Vl[log~s with populat~on s~ze: Below 200} + 200 -499. 500 - 999. 1000 - 4999 O ••• Pondlch~rr\l p Important m~tolled food Based upon Survey of Indio map with the permission of the © Government of Indio Copynght. 1983 Surveyor Gerlll'r01 01 India ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES l'tEDUNGADU COMMUNE • Location Code No. ----- SI. No. Name of village __,._._------, 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Adaikalapuram 4 4 2. Agarakurumbagaram 16 16 3. Agaramankudy .. 24 24 4. Agaraputha:kudy 9 9 5. Andoor 12 12 6. Kanjeepuram Kovilpathu 33 B 7. Keezhannavasal 19 19 8. Keezhaponbethy 26 26 9. Keezhaputhagaram 22 22 10. Kilasembianga 1 8 8 11. Kilianur 7 7 12. Kosatheru 2 2 13. Kottagam 6 6 14. Kottapakkam 15 15 15. Kulakudy 10 10 16. Kurumbagaram 18 18 17. Mattalankudy 17 17 18. Melakasakudy 31 31 19. Melakottucherry 29 29 20. Melannavasal 20 20 21. Melapadugai 3 '3 22. Melaponbethy 27 27 23. Nallathur 1 1 24. Narikurambai 5 5 25. Nedungadu 23 23 26. Panchatcharapuram 21 21 ( 27. Paruthikudy 2S 25 28. Puttakudy 30 30 29. Saranianeruppu 14 14 30. Thiruvengadapuram 32 32 31. Usupoor 13 13 32. Vadakattalai 11 11 33. Vadamattam 28 28 163 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NED\JNGADU COMMUNE District: Karaikal Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz .• -5 Kms; 5-10 Kms and 10+ KIDS tion area of popula of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the tion and No. of r- ~------, to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Dayor Communi- village (in hectares) _ water Telegraph davs of cations '(potable) the ruar- (Bus stop. ket/hat, Railway . if any station, Waterway) (I) (2) (3) (4) ; (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (10 1. Nallathur 120.10 :81 (55) P(I), AC(1) 0(1) W,TK, -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR HP, R 2. Kosatheru 9.16 53 (10) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) HP, R -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 3. Melapadugai 23.20 239 (47) AC(1) -(-S Kms) HP. R Phone .. BS PR,KR 4. Adaikalapuram- 17.79 303 (62) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, HP, R -(-5 Kms) ., -(-5 Kms) KR 5. Narikurambai 29.60 161 (42) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W, TK, -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR HP 6. Kottagam 13.32 157 (30) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, TK -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 7. KiJianur 81.51 129 (28) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 KIDS) TK, HP -(-5 KIDs) -(-5 Kms) KR 8. Kilasembiangal 40.72 156 (35) PO). AC(I) -(:-5 Kms) W,TK. HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR h 9. Agaraputhakudy 55.34 116 (28) AC(l) -(-5 KIllS) W,TK, -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR HP 10. Kulakudy 31.68 239 (50) AC(1) -{-5 Kms) W. TK,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5Kms) KR 11. Vadakattalai 37.74 178 (40) PC!), AC(l) PHS(l) W, TK. HP -(-5 KIns) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 12. Andoor 89.15 217 (50) AC(!) -(-5 Kms) W, TK, HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(;5 Kms) KR 13. Usupoor 32.87 128 (29) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W. TK,HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 14. Saranianeruppu 33.60 75 (13) -(-5 Kms) .-(-5 Kms) W, TK, HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 15. Kottapakkam 26.86 181 (39) AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W, TK. HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 16. Agarakurumbagaram 158.20 631 (142) AC(l) . -(-5 KIDs) T, W, TK, -(-5 Kms) .. as PR,KR HP 17. Mattalankudy 25.48 446 (102) P(l), AC(2) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TK, -(-5 Kms) .. -H Kms) KR HP 18. Kurumbagaram 142.07 575 (121) P(3), M~l), PHS(l) W, TK, -(-5 Km~) .. as PR,KR AC(I) HP 19. Keezhannavasal 58.96, 94 (31) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TK, -(-5 Kms) .' -(-5 K[i~s) KR HP 20. Melannavasal 76.91 _207 (51) -(-5 Kms) -(-SKms) W.TK, -(-5 KIDS) :. BS PR,KR HP 21. Panchatcharapuram .. 50.37 650 (127) AC(1) '-(-5 Kms) W, TK Phone .. BS PR,KR HP 22. Keezhap~thagaram 20.89 256 (63) AC(1) -(lO+Kms) T,W,TK -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 13. Nedungad II 210.73 2,278 (474) P(2), M(l), PHC(I) T, W, TK, PTO, BS PR,KR Hel), AC(S) HP Phone ~4. Agaramankudy 66.18 195 (37) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) T, W, TK, -(-~Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR HP I 25. Paruthikudy 43.57 97 (21) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 164 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIREcrORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NEDUNGADU COMMUNE-contd. District: Karaikal Land use (Le., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town and' Power Staple. use in hectares rourtded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including .. tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food ______any place of Code FOrest ·Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religions, his· No. source gated waste (in- available torical or cluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (IS) (16) (17) (18) . (19) (20) 1. NaUathur Karaikal (14) ED Rice, R 109.40 4.20 030 6.20 N8; Mt 2. Kosathona Karaikal (14) ED Rice· R 7.61 0.25 0.50 0.80 3. Melapiadugai Karaikal (14) ED Rice R 19.21 1.60 0.24 2.15 Nl 4. Adaikalapuram Karaikal (14) ED Rice R 14.97 0.27 0.25 2.30 ?j3 5. Narikurambai Karaikal (14) ED Rice R 25.80 0.48 0.87 2.45 N2 6. JC.ottagam Karaikal (12) EA Rice R 10.52 0.50 0.30 2.00 N3 7. Kilianur Karalkal (11) EA Rice R 79.64 1.02 0.85 N2 8. Kilasembiangal Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 38.50 0.92 1.30 N3 9. Agaraputhakud.y Karaikal (8) ED Rice .. R 47.64 0.98 0.42 6.30 N4; Ml 10. Kulakudy Karaikal (14) ED Rice R 26.26 3.05 ~.77 1.60 N2; Ml 11. Vadakattalai Karaikal (14) ED Rice .. R 33.52 0.82 3.40 N2 12. Andoor Karaikal (13) ED Rice R 81.32 3.68 0.35 3.80 N2 13. Usupoor Karaikal (13) ED Rice R 27.72 2.44 0.06 2.65 N2; M2 14. Saranianeruppu .. Karaikal (14) ED Rice R 29.95 0.90 0.15 2.60- N3 15. Kottapakkam Karaikal (13) ED Rice R 24.51 0.25 0.10 2.00 N3 16. Agarakurumbagaram .. Karaikal (11) ED Rice R 150.75 1.45 3.74 2.26 N2; M7; T2 17. Mattalankudy Karaikal (14) ED Rice R 22.08 0.40 1.05 1.95 N2 18. Kurumbagaram Karaikal (11) EA Rice R 132.23 1.50 3.31 5.03 NIO; Ml 19. Keozhannavasal Karaikal (12) ED Rice R 52.38 2.38 0.60 3.60 N2 20. Melannavasal Karaikal (12) ED, EAg Rice R 69.03 3.23 0.75 3.90 N3; 1'111 21. Panchatcharapuram.. Karaikal (II) ED Rice R 48.67 0.50 0.20 !.oo "1"30; M4; Cl;T1 22. Keezhaputhagaram .. Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 19.63 0.16 J.::) 0.95 N2 23. Nedungadu Ka;aikal (10) EA Rice R 177.14 5.74 2.25 25.60 N6O' M!l' C3';T5 ' 24. Agaramankudy .. Karaikal (10) ED Rice R . 58.87 1.71 0.85 4.75 N2 25. Paruthikudy Karaikal (11) ED, EAg Rice . . R 38.67 1.02 0.48 3.40 N2 165 1981 CENSUS-Vll..LAGE DIRECTQRY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NEDUNGADU COMMUNE-Cont'ld. District: Karaikal (1) (2) (3) (4) (S) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 26. Keezhaponbethy 89.10 30S (72) AC(I) -(-SKms) T,W,TK, -(-SKms) .. -(-S Kms) KR HP 27. Melaponbethy 74.18 582 (124) PO), MO), -(-5 K.ms) T,W,TK, -(-5Kms) .. -(-S Kms) KR AC(l) HP 28. Vadamattam 100.99 386 (89) P(l), AC(l) PHS(I) T,W,HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-SKms) KR 29. Melakottucherry 42.62 298 (69) AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W, TK,HP -(-S Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 30. Puttakudy 191.59 339 (84) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, TK, HP -(-5 Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) KR 31. Melakasakudy 471.5S 1,298 (294) P(l),O(1) PHS(I), W,HP PO .. BS PR,KR CWC(1) 32. Thiruvengadapuram 82.96 175 (43) AC(I) -(-SKrns) W, TK, HP -(-S Kms) .. -(-S Kms) KR 33. Kanjeepuram Kovilpathu 38.13 155 (31) -(-S Kms) -(-S Krns) HP -(-5 Krns) .. -(-5 Kms) KR Commune total • 2,587.12 11,580(2,533) P(14), M(3), D(l), H(l), AC(29), PHC(l), 0(1) PHS(4),- CWC(l) 166 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECfORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE NEDUNGADU COMMUNE-Coneld.- District: KarikaT (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 26. Keezhaponbethy Karaikal (8) ED Rice .. R 82.79 1.01 1.00 4.30 N5 27. Mela~nbethy Karaikal (11) ED • Rice R 67.07 1.34 0,48 5.29 NlO; M2 28. Vadamattam Karaikal (9) EA Rice R 91.09 1.70 8.20 N5 29. Melakottllcberry Karaikal (8) ED Rice R 37.29 0.80 1.20 3.33 30. Puttakudy KaraikaJ (8) ED Rice R 181.45 3.14 7.00 N2 31. Melakasakudy Karaikal (1) ED,EAg Rice R 362.78 O.4J 14.87 93.49 N5; M9; Cl; T2 32. 1biruwapdaPuraM Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 73.36 0.96 '9.64 8.00 N2 ». ltartjeopuram KaraikaJ (9) ED Rice .. R 35.79 2.34 . KoviIpatbli C.,...... total .. R 2,277.64 48.81 35.88 224.79 Nl84; M40; C5; _-- TlO 167 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES KOITUCHERRY COMMUNE' Location Code No. SI. No. Name of village r- 1981 1971 _--- (1) (2) (3) (4) I. Akkampettai 12 12 2. Kalikuppam 11 11 3. Konnakavaly 8 8 4. Keezhakasakudy 1 1 5. Keezhakasakudy Macuary 4 4 6. Koozhkuditha Agraharam 6 6 7. Kottucherry 2 2 8. Kottucherry Macuary .. 3 3 9. Kuppanchettychavady " 16 16 10. Mandabathw: 14 14 11. Mannankoil 13 13 12. Poovam 15 15 13. Pulianthope 7 7 14. Rayampalayam 5 5 15. Thiruvettakudy 10 10 16. Varichikudy 9 9 168 KOTTUCHERRY COMMUNE DISTRICT KARAIKAL KIL.OMETR£S o 2 THANJAVUR DISTRICT TAMIL NADU ...... ,., ..,."...... J l .. r-- -.,. .,; :..lS.1~· ; 14. 11.~ \ NEDUNGADU BAY COMMUNE OF BENGAL 3 \ I • '\ , 4 I I. 1·~+~.-.-.~.~.-.-. • -' _._~.-.-. til ...o cr o KARAIKAL -z MUN1C I PALITY ~ 80 undory State Unmctalled and other roods .. Commune Post OffiCI[ PO Village with Location code Number Police Stotlon PS Commune Heodquortlus PrImary Heolth Centre Villages with populot'lon size Below 200; } DIspensary 0 ••• 200-499;500-999; 1000 -4999. River and Streom Important metalled rood Unlnhobitated Village with LC Numbe:r Based upon Survey 01 Indio mop 'Hith the pe'l'mlssiol\ of the: © Gonmmtnt 01 indio COPY"9"'\, 1983. Surveyor General of India. The territorial waters of Indio extend into th~ sea too distance: 01 twelVI[ nautiCal miles measured from the appropriat~ bose line 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIREcrO~Y AMENlTlES AND LAND USE KOITUCHERRY COMMUNE District: Karaikal Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash(-) is ~hown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz .• -5 Kms; 5-10 Kms and 10+ Kms .ion area of popula- of the nearest place where the f<,cility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the ' tion and No. of r------~'------~------~ to l'.o. village bousehclds Euucational Medical Drinking Pest & Day N Communi- village (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ketjhat, Railway if any station, Waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Keezha.kasakudy 385.97 1,160 (258) P(I), AC(I) CWC(I) T, W, HP -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR 2. Kottucherry 628.91 3,715 (744) P(4), M(2), 0(1) T,W,TW, PTO .. BS PR,KR H(I), AC(5) HP 3. Kottlllcherry Macuary 19.32 452 (87) P(1), M(l), -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) PR, KR AC(3) 4. Keezhakasakudy Macuary 21.32 675 (138)_ pel), AC(4) CWC(l) T, W, HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) KR 5. Rayampalayam 166.78 615 (134) P(1), AC(2) PHS(1) W,HP -(-5 Kms) BS PR,KR 6. Koozhkuditha Agraharam 79.84 188 (39) AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) PR, KR 7. Pulianthope 48.06 71 (16) -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) W -(-5 Kms) -(-5Kms) KR 8. Konnakavaly 120.42 250 (55) P(l), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(-5 Kms) -(-5 Kms) PR, KR 9. Varichikudy 504.49 3,765 (771) P(2), AC(4) PHC(l) T, W, HP PTO, BS PR,KR Phone 10. Thiruvettakudy 493.73 698 (176) P(l), M(l), CWC(l), T, W, HP PO BS PR,KR AC(3) PHS(l) II. Kalikuppam 13.41 378 (74) P(1), AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, TW, HP -(-5 Kms).. -(-5 Kms) KR 12. Akkampettai 28.92 236 (48) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR 13. Mannankoil 10.57 Uilinhabited 14. Mandabathur 11.20 262 (48) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, HP Phone -(--5 Kn,s) KR 15. Poovam 134.14 698 (141) P(1), M(I), -(-5 Krns) T, W, HP -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR H(I), AC(2) 16. Kuppanchettychavady 83.75 540 (103) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) W, HP -(--5 Krr:~) .. PR,KR Commune total 2,750.83 13,703(2,832) P(14), M(5), D(I), H(2), AC(30) PHS(2), PHC(I), ------.------CWC(J) 169 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE KOTTUCHERRY COMMUNE-concld. District: Karaikal Land use (i.e., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food r- -, any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his- No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 1. Keezhakasakudy Karaikal (4) EA Rice R 234.92 119.11 0.13 31.81 N20; M4; CI; T2 2. Kottucherry Karaikal (6) EA Rice R 372.17 114.18 0.73 141.83 N150;M27;C4; T5 3. Kottucherry Macullry Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 2.95 12.25 4.12 Nt 4. Keezhakasakudy Karaikal (8) ED Rice R 10.01 10.74 0.57 Nl Macuary 5. Rayampalayam Karaikal (6) ED Rice R. 140.55 8.11 1.35 16.77 N5 6. Koozhkuditha Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 64.40 15.44 N2 Agraharam 7. Pulianthope Karaikal (6) ED Rice R 40.87 2.95 4.24 8, Konnakavaly Karaikal (10) ED Rice R 106.84 4.72 2.31 6.55 Nt; MI 9. Varichikudy Karaikal (8) ED, EAg Rice R 134.19 286,01 9.00 75.29 NI60; M2; Cl; T5 10. Thiruvettakudy Karaikal (10) EA Rice R 324.86 116.33 2.38 50.16 NI0;M5 11. Kalikuppam Karaikal (9) ED Rice 4.00 9.41 12. Akkampettai Karaikal (9) ED Rice 18.44 10.48 N3 13. Mannankoil 8.87 ].70 14. Mandabathur Karaikal (9) ED Rice 5.66 5.54 N2 15. Poovam Karaikal (9) ED Ricc R '39.66 '60.34 9.70 24.44 N8 16. KuppancheUychavady Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 44.02 13.29 26.44 N3;Ml Commune total R 1,515.44 741.70 68.90 424.79 N'366; M40; C6; TI2 170 TIRUMALAIRAYANPATTINAM COMMUNE DISTRICT KARAIKAL KILOMETRES NERAVY ',: o 2 3 COMMUNE ::: }i,iJ} ~.:X: TAMILNADU I .' ,m! I r:~..r.1 r.o_J 1'0 _/o \.\ 5 ;8\ '. 0./0 .7 \ 0"" ./ \ , ./ .. -...... __ / / ", LLo . \ \ ',- '. Boundary, State Villages with population SiZe}' II Commune Below 200;200-499;500-999; 0 ••• _ Commune Headquarters 1000-4999; 5000 & Above, . Important metalled rood River with Stream ~ U nmetalled and other roods =~=-:=-= POlice Station PS Village with Location } Dispensory Code Number .5 + Bas~d upon Survty of Indio mop with the © Government of Indio copyright, 1983. p the appropriate- bose line- 0 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES TIRUMALAIRAYANPAlTINAM COMMUNE L~ation Code No. S1. No. Name of village ~ 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Edatheru 5 5 2. Keezhaiyur 1 3. Keezhavanjiur 9 9 4. Keezhavanjiurkuppam 6 6 s. Melavanjiur 18 18 6. Melayurpet 3 3 7. Nainikattalai 8 8 8. Padudarkollai 4 4 9. Polagam 7 7 10. Tirumalairayanpattinam 2 2 171 171/4-12A 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE TIRUMALAIRAY ANPATTINAM COMMUNE District: Karaikal Amenities available (if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca- Total Total distance in broad ranges viz.,-S Kms; S-1O Kms and lO+Kms tion a.rea of ' po pula- of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the tion and No. of ,-- ---.. to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Day or Communi- village (in hectares) water Telegraph days of cations (potable) the mar- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway if any station. Waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (S) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Keezhaiyur 723.02 977 (180) PO), AC(2) 0(1) HP -(-5 Kms) -(-S Kms) PR,KR 2. Tirumalaira>:anpattinam 114.03 8.841(1,789) P(6), M(4), MCW(l). T,W.TK, PTO, BS PR.KR H(2). T(l), D(1), RP(1) HP Phone 'AC(2) 3. Melayurpet 178.93 372 (84) AC(l) -(-5 Kms) W,HP -(-SKms) .. -(-5 Kms) PR, KR 4. PadudarkoUai 16.80 2S3 (40) P(1). AC(2) -(-S Kms) T,W,HP -(-SKIDS) .. -(-S Kms) PR,KR 5. Edatheru 64.69 1,460 (353) P(I), AC(1) -(-5 Kms) T,W,HP -(-S Kms) .. -(-5 Kms) PR.KR 6. Keezhavanjiurkuppam 34.77 441 (90) P(I), AC(3) PHS(l) T,HP -(-S Kms) .. -(-S Kms) PR,KR 7. Polagam 294.S1 5S8 (143) P(l), AC(2) -(-S Kms) W, TK, HP -(-5 Kms) .• -BS PR,KR 8. Nainikattalai 74.04 84 (16) -(-S Km'» -(-5 Km'» W,TK -(-S Kms) .• -(-5 Km.) PR,KR 9. Keezhavanji ur S07.S9 596 (134) pel), AC(]J -(-S Kms) T,W,HP -(-S Kms) .. -(-5 KlJIs) PR,KR 10. Melavanjiur 104.05 399 (87) AC(I) -(-5 Kms) T,W,TK, -(-5 Kms) .. BS PR,KR HP Commune total 2,112.43 13,981(2,916) P(12), M(4) MCW(I),D(l). H(2), T(I) PHS(l). RP(l), AC(I7) 0(1) ,172 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LAND USE TIRUMALAIRAYANPATIINAM COMMUNE-conc/d. District: Karaikal Land use (i.e., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power Staple use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distance (in Kms) supply food ~. ______.A.. ______---. any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his No. source gated waste (in- available torical or .. cluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (1) (2) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) 1. KeezhaiyUl .. Karaikal (6) ED Rice R S06.34 57.20 6.04 153.44 N4 2. Tirumalairayanpattinam Karaikal (6) ED, Rice 114.03 N156; M23 ; EO C7;T6 3. Melayurpet Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 145.07 15.72 18.14 N2 4. Padudarkollai Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 4.39 5.50 6.91 N2;Ml 5. Edatheru Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 46.94 0.82 16.93 N4 6. Keezhavanjiurkuppam Karaikal (9) ED Rice R 9.03 12.60 4.43 8.71 N3 7. Polagam Karaikiil (7) ED Rice R 172.80 90.21 5.44 26.06 N5; M2;T1 8. Nainikattalai Karaikal (7) ED Rice R 60.06 6.08 2.20 5.70 N2 9. Keezhavanjiur Karaikal (10) ED Rice R 196.80 132.87 36.90 141.02 N4; Ml 10. Melavanjiur Karaikal (11) ED, Rice R 80.98 12.94 1.27 8.86 N5;Ml;Cl EO Commune total R 1,222.41 333.94 56.28 499.80 NI87;M28; C8;T7 173 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIREcrORY COMMUNEWISE ABSTRAcr OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENITIES District: Karaikal Educational r- SI. Name of Primary School Middle School Matriculation/ Higher Secondary! College (gradu- Adult literacy No. Commune Secondary School PUC/Intermediate/ ate and above) class/centres Junior College ,----"-----.r-__.A...~ r-----"-~ ,--____.J.._~ ,------A.._~ r----A..~ Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions (1 ) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) 04) 1. Tirunallar 23 27 8 10 1 1 -. 25 38 2. Neravy .. 11 13 2 3 1 11· 18 3. Nedungadu 11 14 3 3 1 ' 1 24 29 4. Kottucherry 10 14 4 5 2 2 14 30 5. Tirumalairayan - pattinam 7 12 4 1 2 9 17 District total 62 80 18 2S 6 7 1 1 83 132 Educational Medical S1. Name of C()mmune r-___.A...----, r- ---., No. Others Villages Dispensary Hospital Maternity and Child Primary Health with no Welfare Centre! Centre/Health Educational Maternity Home! Centre facilities Child Welfare Centre r-~----' r------"-~ ,--___.A...----,. r-___"_~ r-__.A...~ Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) 1. Tirunallar 1 2 9 2 2 5 5 2. Neravy .. 1 1 1 I 1 3. Nedtingadu 8 1 1 1 1 4. . Kottucherry 1 3 3 1 5. Tirumalairayan- pattinam District total' .. 3 4 20 6 6 11 .11 4 4 Medical r- SI: Name of Commune Family Planning Primary Health Community Health Others Villages No. Centre Sub-Centre Workers with no r------, r- r- r- medical Villages Institutions Villages Institutions Villages Numbers Villages Institutions facility (1) (2) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) 1. Tirunallar 4 4 26 2. Neravy .. 1 I 2 2 10 3. Nedungadu 4 4 27 4. Kottucherry 2 2 9 S •. Tirumalairayan- pattinam 1 2 2 7. District total .. 12 12 2 2 3 3 79 174 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIRECTORY • COMMUNEWISE ABSTRACT OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENmES--concld. District ; Karaikal Drinking water SI. Name of Commune r- No. Tap Well Tank Tube well River Fountain Canal Others More than Villages with one source no drinking water facility of any type (1) (2) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) I. Tirunallar 20 37 32 34 2. Ncravy .. 10 13 3 5 8 13 3. Nedungadu 9 29 26 4 31 32 4. Kouucherry 6 15 2 14 14 S. Tirumalairayan- pattinam 6 8 4 9 9 District total .. 51 102 34 8 4 94 102 Post and Telegraph Communications Power Supply S I. Name of Commune r- --"------, r- r------A---...... No. P.O. T.O. P.T.O. P.O. & T.O.& P.T.O.& Phone Bus Railway Navigable Avail- Not Phone Phone Phone stop station waterway able available (I) (2) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) I. Tirunallar 4 2 12 2 38 2. N~ravy .. 7 2 13 3. Nedungadu 2 8 33 4. Kottucherry 1 8 15 S. Tirumalairayan- pattinam 3 10 District total 6 1 1 6 3 38 4 109 175 APPENDIX-II VILLAGE DIRECTORY LAND UTILISATION DATA IN RESPECf OF NON-MUNICIPAL TOWNS (CENSOS TOWNS) District: Karaikal Land use (i.e .• area under different types of land use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Sl. Name of town and commune within r------~------~ No brackets Total Forest Irrigated Unirrigated Culturable waste Area not available area by source (including gauchar for cultivation and groves) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Nil APPENDIX-ID VILLAGE DIRECTORY COMMUNEWISE LIST OF VILLAGES WHERE NO AMENITIES ARE AVAILABLE District: Karaikal Nil 176 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIREcrORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES District : Karaikal A-Scheduled castes Commune: Tirunallar Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (Percentage) (1) (2) (3) 0 5* 15 Muppaithamkudy 25 Agalankannu 30 Tirunallar 32 Melasuprayapuram 6 10 Ambagarathur 4 Thamanankudy 11 Agarasethur " 18 Karukkankudy 31 Poomulayalmangalam 11 15 22 Sorakudy 16 20 2 Kannapur 5 Na11ambal 16 Tennankudy " 21 30 8 Kumarakkudy 26 Pettai 27 Mela Athipadugai 38 Takkalur 31 + 3 Nallazhandur 6 Valathamangalam 12 Pandaravadaisethur 14 Kottapady 17 Elayankudy 19 Tevamapuram 20 Serumavilangai 23 Thenur 24 Sellur 29 Neivacherry 34 Agarakovilpattu .. 35 Keelasuprayapuram 36 Keelaputhamangalam 37 Uthirankudy *Excludes villages with no S.c. population. 177 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIRECTORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES-cont d. Commune: Neravy Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (percentage) (1) (2) (3) 6 10 7 Akkaravattam 8 Karakalacherry 16 20 2 Melaodouthurai 6 Neravy 10 U1iapathu 21 30 11 Vizhidiur 12 Kottoupalayam 31 + Keelaodouthurai 3 Keezhmanai 4 Kakaimouzhy 5 Thooduponamoolai 9 Akkaravattam (Kovilpathu) 13 Mannamuthy ------ Commune: Nedungadu Range of scheduled caste population L.C. No. Name of the village (percentage) (1) (2) (3) ------ o 5· 21 Panchatcharapuram 5 10 4 Adaikalapuram 11 15 11- Vadakattalai 16 20 19 Keezhannavasal 27 Melaponbethy 21 30 6 Kottagam 8 Kilasembiangal 10 Kulakudy 12 AndOQr 13 Usupoor 23 Nedungada 28 Vadamattam 31 Melakasakudy 178 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIRECTORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRmES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES-contd. (1) (2) (3) 31+ 7 Kilianur .. 16 Agarakurumbagaram 17 Mattalankudy 20 Melannavasal 22 Keezhaputhagaram 14 Agaramankudy 25 Paruthikudy 26 Keezha ponbetlzy 29 M~lakottucherry 30 Puttakudy 32 Thiruvengadapuram 33 Kanjeepuram Kovilpathu " * Excludes villages with no S.C. population Commune: Kottucherry Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (Percentage) (1) (2) (3) o 5* 16 Kuppanchettychavady 16 20 2 Kottucherry 9 Varichikudy 21 30 Keezhakasakudy 8 Konnakavaly 15 Poovam 31 + 5 Rayampalayam 6 Koozhkuditha Agraharam 10 Thiruvettakudy ·Excludes villages with no S.C. population. 179 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIRECTORY LIST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES-coneld. Commune: Tirumalairayanpattinam Range of scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (Percentage) (1) (2) (3) 0- 5* 6 Keezhavanjiurkuppam 10 Melavanjiur 6 10 2 Tn umalairayanpattinam 16 20 8 Nainikattalai 31 + 3 Melayurpet 5 Edatheru 7 Polagam .. 9 Keezbavanjiur *Excludes villages with no S.C. population. B-Scheduled tribes NOTB: No tribe has been scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Presidential Order. 180 l\-IAHE DISTRICT I . L ~ 0 r::: l- (II ® :::. I- I J: 0 ~ I Z 0- • 'N .... ~ o W C> c U -CD :::> E - ~ c ct: C> L U> - 0 w ~ t- LIJ LIJ o ~ !::! (!) (f) a: 0 > (/) I- a: 0 w m co z w Q :i ~ Q ~ @ 0 - ~ _J 0 z 0 I- u.. 01( Q ~ z « u.. 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I a L.. w ... QI .D Z E J => u.J . o. Z I L..' ,._..A--.. 2: . "0" Go L J C o 0... -.c. 0- o E .2 E Q "0 0 'C c .!: C .... o "0 II) Q) L.. L. Q) ~ >- "0 0 Q) ~ Q) E E ~ E o o ::J L c V) 0 u.. Ii: L o c 0 ~'" a :.c a. .. E o :J .. L ~ "0 "0 ~ ~ QI ~ o .c." 0 eo'" .... c ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES MARE COMMUNE Location Code No. SI.No. Name of village .~------~~------~ 1981 1971 (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Cbalakara 1 2. Palloor 2 2 3. Pandakkal 3 3 181 1981 CENSUS-VILLAGE DIRECTORY AMENITIES AND LA1'lfD USE MAHE COMMUNE. District: Mahe . Amenities available1if not available within the village, a dash(-) is shown in the column and next to it in brackets, the Loca Total Total distance in broad ranges viz., -5 Kms; 5-10 Km.c; and 10+ Kms tion area of population of the nearest place where the facility available is given). Approach Code Name of the village the and No. of r------.. to No. village households Educational Medical Drinking Post & Dayor Communi village (in hect water Telegraph days of cations ares) (potable) the maf- (Bus stop, ket/hat, Railway if any station, . Waterway) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) 1. Chalakara 199.12 4,927 (688) P(4), M(2), -(-5 Kms) W, TW Phone BS PR ICR H(l) 2. PaHoor 303.45 8,525(1,176} P(2), AC(l) PHC(I),O(l) W PO, Phone BS PR,KR 3. Pandakkal 219.60 5,373 (734) P(2), M(1), D(I) W. TW PO, Phone BS PR,KR H(I), AC(1) Commune total 722.17 18,825(2,598) P(8}. M(3). 1>(1), PHC(l), H(2). AC(2) 0(1) Land tlse (i.e., area under different types of land Loca- Nearest town and Power StapJe use in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) Remarks including tion Name of the village distailce (in Kms) supply food r------.. any place of Code Forest Irrigated by Unirri- Culturable Area not religious, his- No. source gated waste (in- available torical or eluding for archaeological gauchar and culti- interest groves) vation (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (1) (2) -_--- 1. Chalakara Teliicherry (7) ED, EO Rice 03.00 8.00 157.00 31.12 N750; M6; C3 Kerala " Palloor Tellicherry (6) ED,EO Rice 010.00 15.00 243.00 35.45 N800; M12; C7; Tl Kerala 3. Pandakkal TeJlicherry (5) ED, EO Rice 05.00 10.00 156.00 48.60 Nt.500; MI0; C5; TI Kerala ------Commune total 018.00 33.00 556.00 115.11 N3.050; M28; C1S; T2 ------:------'"' .- 182 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIREcrORY COMMUNEWISE ABSTRACf OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENITIES District: Mahe Educational ,- --...... ------...... _-~ 81. Name of Primary School Middle School Matriculation! Higher Secondary! College (gradu· Adult literacy No. Commune Secondary School PUC/Intermediate/ ate and above) class/centres Junior College ,.-----A..------, ,.--~ ,.------"-----., ,.--__.A.---., ,.-----A..----, ,.--__.A. __ , Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti~ Villages Insti- Villages Insti- tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) ,------' -,------1. Mahe 3 8 2 3 2 2 2 ------,------Educational Me:Ucal S). Name of C-Omnlune ,.--~ ,.------~ No. Others Villages Dispensary Hospital Maternity and Child Primary Health with no Welfare Centre/ Centre/Health Educa- Maternity Home/ Centre tional Child Welfare facilities Centre ,.-----A..----.., ,-----"-----, ,-__----"-----, ,.-----A..----, ,-~--__, Villages Insti Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- Villages Insti- tutions tutions tutions tutions tutions (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) , (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) 1. Mahe 1 1. 1 Medical SI. Name of Commune Family Planning Prima.rf' Health Community Health Others Villages No. Centre Sub-Centre Workers with no r- r- ,.- ~ ,-- ~ medical Villages Institutions Villages Institutions Villages Numbers Villages Institutions facility (1)._------,------,---- (2) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) 1. Mahe 183 APPENDIX-I VILLAGE DIRECTORY COMMUNEWISE ABSTRACf OF EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND OTHER AMENITIES-CQnld. District: Mahe Drinking water SI. Name of Commune No. r------~.------~ Tap Well Tank Tube well River Fountain Canal Others More than Villages with one source no drinking water facility of any type (1) .(2) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) 1. Mahe 3 2 2 Post and Telegraph Communications Power Supply SI. Name of Commune ,.- ,.- --'- ,..-_ __.A...___" No. P.O. T.O. P.T.O. PO& T.O.& P.T.O.& Phone Bus Railway Navigable Avail- Not Phone Phone Phone stop station waterway able available (1) (2) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) l. Mahe 2 3 3 APPENDIX-II VILLAGE DIRECTORY LAND UTILISATION DATA IN RESPECT OF NON-MUNICIPAL TOWNS (CENSUS TOWNS) District: Mahe Land use (i.e., area under different types of land use: in hectares rounded upto 2 decimal places) SI. Name of town and COlllmune within r- ---. No. brackets Total Forest Irrigated Unirrigated Culturable waste Area not available area by source . (including gauchar for a cultivation and groves) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Nil APPENDIX-III VILLAGE DIRECTORY CO MMUNEWISE LIS1 OF VILLAGES WHERE NO AMENITIES ARE AV AlLABLE District: Mahe Nil 184 APPENDIX-IV VILLAGE DIREClORY liST OF VILLAGES ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES TO THE TOTAL POPULATION BY RANGES • A-Scheduled castes , Oistric:t Mabe Commune; .abe Range of ,scheduled caste population L.C.No. Name of the village (Percentage) (1) (2) (3 ) o Chalakara 2 Palloor Pandakkal " 3 ·Excludes villages with. no S.C. population. B-Scbeduled tribes NOTE: No tribe bas been scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Pre~idential Order. 185 NOTATIONS USED IN TOWN DIRECTORY CLASSIFICATION OF TOWNS Population 1,00,000 and above Class I Do. 50,000 99,999 Class II Do.· 20,000 49,999 Class III Do. 10,000 19,999 Class IV Do. 5,000 9,999 Class V Do. Below 5,000 Class VI CIVIC ADMINISTRATION M Municipality G.P. Grama PancbayatNillage Panchayat C.P. Commune Panchayat NAVIGABLE RIVER/CANAL R River C Canal ROAD PARTICULARS PR Pucca Road KIt Kuccha Road PWD Public Works Department M Municipality SYSTEM OF SEWERAGE S Sewer OSD Open Surface Drains METHOD OF DISPOSAL OF NIGHT SOIL B Baskets WB Wheel Barrows ST Septic Tank Latrines SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY TW Tube Well Water/Hand pump T Tap Water W Well Water SOURCE OF STORAGE OHT Overhead Tank RIG River Infiltration Gallery BWP Borewell Pumping System 186 SECTION-II TOWN DIRECTORY ------,-- YANAM DISTRICT VILLAGE DIRECTORY - NIL NOTATIONS USED IN TOWN DIRECTORY-Concld. MEDICAL H Hospital D Dispensary FC Family Planning Centre. TB T.B.Oinic PHC Primary Health Centre PHS.. Primary Health Sub-Centre o Others EDUCATION Arts/Science/COIIlIIleI'Ce Colleges (of degree level and above) AS Arts and Science only AC Arts and Commerce only ASC Combined of all· categories Arts, Science and Commerce L Law RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL FACILITIES PL Public Library RR Reading Room VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTIONS SH Shorthand Type. Typewriting Sh Type Shorthand and Typewriting OTHERS AC Adult literacy classes/centres Nil particulars 187 171/4-13A 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STAT'::MENT-I STATUS AND GROWTH HISTORY _-----_------No. of Population and growth rate of thdown at the censuses of S1. Class, name and CIVIC Location Name of Area house- ,- -. No. administration status of town Code No. commune (in holds in- 1901 '1911 1921 1931 1941 1948 sq. kms) cluding houseless households (in 1981 Census) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (Ii) (ll) District: Pondicherry 1. VI Kurumbapet (G.P) 32/1/III "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2. II Ozhukarai (C.P) 32/1/II "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 3. 1 Pondicherry (M) 32/1/1 "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration (Constituting three towns) 49.54 47,393 (i) VI Kurumbapet (G.P) 32/1/III Yillianur 2.24 321 Notified as town for the first time in 1981 Census. (ii) II Ozhukarai (C.P) 32/1/II Ozhuka.ai 27.84 16,362 Notified as town for the first time in 1971 Census (28 rural villages in Ozhukarai comrn'..me ha,·e _ been notified as town area during 1971 Census). (iii) 1 Pondicherry (M) 32/1/1 Pondicherry 19.46 30,710 During 1961 Census, Pondicherry Commune con tained two towns viz.. Pondicherry town and Muthialpet town and 20 villages. During 1971 Census the Pondicherry commune has been treated as a single town combining Pondicherry town and Muthialpet town and also giving urban status to these 20 villages. (Muda1iarpet tOW'l along with the rural villages of 1971 Census M udaliarpet commune are merged with the Pondicherry town in 1981 Census) District: Karaikal 1. III Karaikal (M) 32/2fI Ka.raikal 19.00 8,301 The entire area of Karaikal commune has been notified as town in 1981 Censm, (8 rural villages in the Karaikal commune have been notified as town area in 1981 Census). District: Mahe 1. V Mahe(M) 32/3/1 Mahe 1.53 1,304 District: Yanam 1. IV Yanam (M), 32/4/1 Yanam 30.00 2,386 188 PONDICHERRY MUNICIPALITY KILOMETRES , o 1 2 3 OZHUKARA\ COMMUNE TO VILLUPURAM VILLIA NUR ,._... COMMUNE • __ • ) ( .I BAY OF BENGAL ARIYANKUPPAM COMMUNE BOUNDARY STATE-..... - .. - LAKE ... " COMMUNE .. _.-. ._ POST OFF ICE .. PO IMPORTANT METALLED ROAD '" _____ POLICE STATION.. . .. PS UNMETALLED AND OTHER ROADS=--=-=:-=-:=-=-= HOSPITAL, DISPENSARY RIVER AND STREAM... .., '" .. ~ HIGHER SECONDA~Y SCHOOL ... S Based Upon Surv~y of Indio map with th~ Govcrnment of India Copyriqht~ 1983. permission 01 thc Survcyor General of Indio. © The \erritoriol waters of Indio cxtend into thc Ha to a distance of twelvc nautical milcs measurcd from the appropriate bose linc. KARAIKAL MUNICIPALITY KILOMETRES o 2 {, ~ <>,,9, KOTTUCHERRY vE"6 COMMUNE <>", __ ._.-...-...... -. _. ':,:; « TIRUNALLAR l.:> COMMUNE z W lD ,....- ...... -' u. To Peralam " .. ~. o . > I « lD , PO , / ~._j \, NERAVY Commune Boundary Post Office PO Important metalled road Police Station PS Unmcztalled and other roads Hospital, Dispense ry EB.+ River and Stream ~ Higher Secondary.school S RS Railway Line withStation I I 1[jjiJ1 I I District Headquarters @ Note: Area entirely urban Based upon SUl"Vey of Indio map with the permission of the © Government of IndiO COpyright, 1983 Su rveyor Generol of Indio. The territorial waters of Indio extend into the sea to 0 distance of twelve no utica I miles measured from the appropriate base line. o ~ a: ~ u- '"w ~ II: 0- W z- ::!' ::) o --' z: ;<0 2: C Z ~ v> .l:" I j@ r~.8 a.l._ CD Q i I\f 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-I STATUS AND GROWTH HISTORY-conC'ld. 189 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-II PHYSICAL ASPEcrS AND LOCATION OF TOWNS, 1979 Physical aspects ,--.------"------. Rainfall Temperature Name of road and distance (in Kms.) from SI. Class and name of (in mm) (in Centigrade) No. town ,----"------., ,-._------Maximum Mini State District Commune Nearest Railway Bus Navigable mum HQs. HQs. HQs. city with station route river/ population canal (if of one lakh within and more 10 Kms) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) .~------ District: Pondicherry ! VI Kurumbapet "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 II Ozhukatai "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 3 I Pondicherry "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration (Constituting three towns) "See Constituent units" i) VI Kurumbapet .. 940.4 36.0 22.9 Pondi- Pondi- Villianur Pondi- Villianur Villianur(4) cherry (7) cherry (7) (4) cherry (1) (4) ii) II Ozhukarai 940.4 36.0 22.9 Pondi- Pond i- Pondi- Pondi- Pondi- Ozhu- cherry (6) cherry (6) cherry (6) cherry (6) cherry (6) karai (0) iii) I pondicherry 940.4 36.0 22.9 Pondi- Pond i- Pondi- Cuddalore Pondi- Pondi- cherry (0) cherry (0) cherry (0) (23), Tamil- cherry(O) cherry (0) nadu District: Karaikal 1 III KaraikaI 1,443.! 36.8 28.3 Pondi- Karaikal Karaikal Tanjore Karaikal Karaikal Arasalar cherry (0) (0) (70), Tamil- (0) (0) (R)-5 (162) nadu District: Mabe V Mahe ., 3,261.8 34.0 21.2 Pondi- Mahe(O) Mahe(O) Calicut(58), Mahe (0) Mahe (0)' Mahe(R)-O Calicut. cherry Kerala Kerala (624) District: Yanam IV Yanam .. 1,309.2 43.7 17.7 Pondi- Yanam(O) Yanam(O) Kakinada Kakinada Yanam(O) Gowthami Kakinada, cherry (28),Andhra (28),Andhra Godavari Andhra (850) Pradesh Pradesh (R)-O Pradesh Corangi (C)-O 190 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECfORY STATEMENT-ill MUNICIPAL FINANCE 1978-79 Receipt (in Rs. '(0) Civic ,------., administra- Receipt Revenue Govern- Loan Advance Other Total st. Oass and name of town tion status through derived from ment sources receipts No. (in 1980) taxes etc. Municipal grant (Specify) properties and power apart from taxation (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Distrk:t ; Poadlcberry 1 VI Kurumbapet G.P. "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 n Ozhukarai. c.p. "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 3 I Pondicherry M "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" PoriC'fichcny Urban Agglomeration "See Constituent units" (Constituting three towns) i) VI Kurumbapet G.P. 147 295 442 ii) II Ozhukarai C.P. 7,964 690 6,645 760 16,059 iii) I Pondicherry M 42,917 6,722 10,277 6,973 2,932 69,821 District Karaikal 1 III Karaikal M 7,496 3,692 9,111 4,396 2,996 27,691 District: Mahe 1 y Mahe .. M 5,284 610 2,388 300 1,887 10,469 District : Yanam 1 IV Yanam .. M 2,463 420 2,512 695 6,090 191 171/4-13B 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-III MUNICIPAL FINANCE, I 978-79-concld. ------,----- Expenditure (in Rs. '00) SI. Class and name of town e------.. No. General Public Public Public Public Others Total administration safety health and works institutions (specify) expenditure conveniences (1) (2) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) District: Pondicherry 1 VI Kurumbapet "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 II Ozhukarai / "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 3 I Pondicherry "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration .. "See Constituent units" (Constituting three towns) i) VI Kururnbapet 15 92 9 116 ii) II Ozhukarai 2,459 50 7,011 1,713 11,243 iii) I Pondicherry 13,843 17,953 17,743 20,282 69,821 District: Karaikal 1 III Karaikal 9,444 69 9,266 1,847 20,626 District: Mahe V Mahe •• I 3,307 16 1,674 2,824 250 8,071 District: Yanam IV Yanam 1,521 714 191 252 2,678 192 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-IV CIVIC AND OTHER AMENITIES, 1979 Civic Scheduled Road length System Number of latrines Method of SI. ,.-______.A... ___------, No. Class and name ofiown admini- Population caste (in kms) of dispo~al stration population. sewerage Water Service Others of night status (*) borne soil (in 1980) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (I) .--- District: Pondicherry VI Kurumbapet G.P. "See Pondicherry ~Urban Agglomeration" 2 II Ozhukarai C.P. "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration ,. 3 I Pondicherry M "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration 251,420 28,063 PWO 45.82 81 11 (Constituting three towns) M 435.54 i) VI Kurumbapet G.P. 1,793 678 M 3.73 OSD,S 2 WB,ST ii) , .II Ozhukarai C.P. 86,988 10,127 PWD 23.50 'OSO,S 14 WB,ST M 327.75 iii) I Pondicherry M 162,639 17,258 PWD 22.32 OSO,S 65 11 WB,ST M 104.06 District: Karaikal 1 HI Karaikal M 43.408 3,459 PWO 17.60 OSO,S 27 WB,ST M 49.58 District : Mahe 1 V Mahe M 9,588 41 PWD 5.79 OSO, S 2 B,ST M 84.44 DIIIItrId: Y.... j IV Yanam . M 11,631 2,547 PWD 17.70 OSD,S 4 H,ST M 12.50 *No tribe has been scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Presidential Order. 193 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-IV CIVIC AND OTHER AMENITIES, 1979-concld., Protected water supply Fire Electrification (Number of connections) SI. Class and name of town r- fighting r- No. Source System of storage service Domestic Industrial Commer- Road lighting Others of supply with capacity in Jitres cial (points) (in brackets) (1) (1) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) District: Pondicherry VI Kurumbapet "See Pondicherry Urban A~glomeration" 2 II Ozhukarai "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration',' 3 I Pondicherry "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglo- meration (Constituting three towns) OHT(lO, 26, 040) 13,327 459 4,147 4,260 302 BWP(2,21,80,544) i) VI Kurumbapet .. TW,W OHT(31,&40) Ozhukarai 47 2 4 17 1 (4 Kms) ii) II Ozhukarai .. TW,W o HT(9,94,400) Yes 4,007 91 573 1,011 243 BWP(4S,59,904) iii) I Pondicherry .. TW BWP(1,73,20,640) Yes 9,273 366 3,570 3,232 58 District: ~araikal 1 III Karaikal .. TW BWP, IG (13,56,036) Yes 6,222 281 1,903 1,221 196 District: Mahe 1 V Mahe .. TW,W OHT(2,51,338) TeUicherry • 2,158 45 452 311 4 Kerala (9 Kms) District: Yanam 1 IV Yanam .. TW,W OHT(31,500) - Kakinada, 469 11 182 248 5 Andhra Pradesh ------(28 Kms) 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-IV A CIVIC AND OTHER AMENITIES IN NOTIFIED SLUMS, 1979 No. of latrines Number of r- tap Points/ Electrification SI. Class· and name Name Area Popula- Paved System Private Method public (No. of connections) No. of town of slum of tion of roads of,------A- Com- of dis- hydrents ,-______.-----. slum slum (in kms) sewerage Water Ser- Others munity posal of installed Domes- Road Others borne vice night for supply tic light- soil of protected ing water (points) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) '(14) (15) (16) District: Pondicherry 1 II Ozhukarai .. Nil 2 I Pondicherry } District: ~araikal Nil District: Mahe Nil .District: Yanam Nil • For class I and II towns only. 194 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-V MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL FACILITIES, 1979 Medical facilities Educational facilities SI. Class and name of Popula- r------A.------, r- __._A. . ------. No. town tion Hospitals/ Beds in Arts/Science/ Medical Engineering Poly tech- Recognised Dispensaries/T.B. medical Commerce Colleges Colleges nics shorthand, clinics etc. instituti- Colleges (of typewriting ons noted degree level and vocaional in col. 4 and above) training institutions (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) ------.------~------District: Pondicherry VI Kurumbapet "See Pondieherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 II Ozhukarai "See Pondieherry Urban Aggfbmeration" 3 I Pondicherry "See Pondieherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondieherry Urban Agglomeration (Constituting three towns) 251,420 H(6),D(11), 1 ,795 ASC(2), AS(2) Sh Type (3), FC(!), PHe(1), L(1) Type(3) TB(2), PHS(S), 0(1) i) VI Kurumbapet 1,793 PHS(l) Ozhukarai Ozhukarai South Aroot, Ozhukarai Vil1ianur (6Kms) (4Kms) Tamilnadu (6Kms) (4 Kms) (12 Kms) ii) II Ozhukarai 86,988 H (2),0 (4) 938 ASC(!) Sout~ Areot, Pondieherry TB (1), PHC (1) Tamilnadu (6 Kms) PHS (2), 0 (I) (70 Kms) iii) I Pondieherry 162,639 H(4),D(7), 857 ASC(I), Ozhukarai South Areot, Ozhukarai Sh Type (3). FC(l), TB(l), L(l), AS(2) (5 Kms) Tamilnadu (5 Kms) Type (3) PHS(2) (65 Kms) District: Karaikal 1 III Karaikal 43,408 H(1), D(1), 270 AS(2) Tanjore West, South Areot, Tanjore East, Sh Type (2). PHS(l) Tamilnadu Tamilnadu Tamilnadu Type (2) (70 Kms) (97 Kms) (12 Kms) District: Mahe 1 V Mahe 9,588 H(l). FC(1) 110 ASO) Kozhikode. Kozhikode, Cannanore, Sh Type (1) Kerala Kerala Kerala (58 Kms) (58 Kms) (33 Kms) District: Yanam 1 IV Yanam 11,631 H(l), FC(I) 40 AS(I) Godavari Godavari Godavari Type (3) East, Andhra East, Andhra East, Andhra Pradesh Pradesh Prade9h ----.------. (28 Kms) t28 Kms) (2RKms) 195 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-V MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL FACILITIES, 1979-collcld. Educational facilities Number of recreational and cultural Class and name of facilities Sl. town ,------.------, ,..-____ A._____---.., No. Higher Secondary/ Junior Primary Adult Working Stadia Cinema Audi- Public Secondary/ Matricu- Secondary schools literacy Women's toria/ libraries Intermediatej lation and classes/ hostels Drama! including PUC (Pre- middle ce<1tres, wit!1 Comm- reading- Ul1iver"ity school:> others number unity rooms Course)/ Junior (specify) of seats halls College level (1) (2) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) . P9) (20) District: Pondicherry Vi Kurumbapet "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 n Ozhukarai "See Pondicl1eny Urban Agglomeration" 3 I Pondicherry "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglomera tion (Co:-tstituting three towns) 12 . 31 72 124 ACX72). 1(40) 6 13 43 PL(l~), 0(2) RR(8) i) VI Kurumbapet Ozhukarai Ozhukarai Ozhukarai 2 AC(3) PL(1) (2 Kms) (2 Kms) (2 Kms) ii) II Ozhukarai 4 8 22 46 AC(32). 1(40) 3 3 3 PL(5). 0(2) RR(5) iii) I . Pondicherry 8 23 50 76 'AC(37) 3 10 40 PL(l2), RR(3) District: Karaikal 1 III Karaikal 2 8 15 26 AC(9) 3 PLO), RR(1) District: l\'1ahe V Mahe 3 4 11 ACO) PL(3) District: Yanam IV Yanam 3 4 13 AC(4) 2 PL(3), RR(l) ------~ 196 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-VI TRADE, COMMERCE, lNDUSTRY AND BANTONG, 1979 Name of three most important Name of three most import::.llt commodities exportpd SI. Class and name of town commodities imported -J~ ~~ No. '______~ ______A.. ______-, 1st 2nd 3rd Is t 2nd 3 .. d (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) District: p~ 1 VI Kurumbapct "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 II Ozhukarai '-see Pondicherry Ulban Agglomeration" 3 I Pondicbcrry, "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pon.c1icIMIrry Urban AIIIomeration "See Constituent units" • (~tllne unita) i) VI Xurumbapet Cotton Qtemicals Milk Textiles Milk products, red e,"rth gravel/pebbles ii) n Ozhukarai Petrol Cement Raw-materials Household alumi Wooden and steel Plastic goods & oil & steel for aluminium nium and steel furniture and and steel vessels, tin cashewnut manufactur- containers and ing ground nut iii) I Pondicherry Fertilizer Cement Machineries Textiles Leather goods Chemicals District: Karalkal 1 _III Karailcal Liquor Fertilizer Petrol & oil Rice Salt fish and prawn Foodgrain and Agro- chemicals District: Mabe I V Mahe .. Liquor Petrol and Rice Cotton yarn Liquid fertilizer Coconut diesel District: Yanam IV Yanam .. Cement Iron a!1d Firewood Rice Coconut Prawn steel materials ------..------._------ 197 1981 CENSUS-TOWN DIRECTORY STATEMENT-VI TRADE, COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND BANKING, 1979-concld. Name of three most important commodities manufactured Number Number of Number of 81. Class and name of town ,.. ~ of agricultural non-agri- No. 1st 2nd 3rd banks credit cultural societies credit societies (1) (2) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13 ) (14) District: Pondicherry VI Kurumbapet "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" 2 II Ozhukarai "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" J I Pondicherry "See Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration" Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration (Constituting three units) "See Constituent units" i) VI Kurumbapet Textiles Milk products Raw materials for house construction ii) II Ozhulcarai .. Household steel. Steel and wooden Handloom cloth and 4 4 29 aluminium utensils furniture and plastic fabrics and tin container goods iii) I Pondicherry Textiles Chemicals Household steel, 18 62 aluminium utensils and furniture District: Karaikal 1 III Karaikal Household steel Candle, soap and Body of tractor 8 2 13 and aluminium camphor articles D~ict: Mahe V Mahe Cotton yarn Liquid fettilizer Coconut oil 3 10 District: Yanam IV Yanam Cement pipes Tanned skin Candles 8 198 APPENDIX TOWNS SHOWING THEIR OUTGROWTHS WITH POPULATION SI. Name of the town with Population Outgrowth No. location code of core town (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) District: Pondicherry 1. OZHUKARAI TOWN 32;I/ll 86,988 8,503 1. Ganapathychettykulam 1,336 2. Periakalapattu 3,647 3. Sinnakalapattu 1,391 4. Alankuppam 1,149 5. Sanjeevarayanpet 980 2. KURUMB,\P',T fOWN 32!I!III 1,793 49,043 1. Sedarapattu 2,143 2. Karasur 812 3. Thuthipattu 470 4. Thondamanatham 2,127 5. Rama nathapnram 1,322 6. Pillaiy;arkuppam 1,631 7. Koodapakkam 3,274 8. Konerikuppam 427 9. Agaram 411 10. Ulaivaikkal 258 II. Oussudu 239 12. Poraiyur 983 13. Sendanatham . 612 14. Ariyapa}ayam . . 7(>0 1.5. Kottame'iu 927 16. Villianur 4,228 17. A ttuvaikalpet 301 18. Sultanpet 2,4~~n 19. A rasur 297 20. Arumathapuram 207 21. G:.Jru\·appanaickenpalayam 992 22. Manavely 867 23. Thattanchavady 425 24. OdiampattLl 1,292 25. Kanuvapet 5,241 199 APPENDIX TOWNS SHOWING THEIR OUTGROWTHS WITH POPULATION-Cone/d. (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) 26. Valluvanpet 95 27. Uthiravaginipet 712 28. Karayampattu 226 29. Periapattu 619 30. Tirukanji 1.514 31. Kizhagaram 499 32. Tanathamedu 213 33. Perungalur 693 34. Uruvaiyar 1,874 35. Mangalam 1,376 36. Vadamangalam 412 37. K i zha,athamangalam 1,034 38. Melasathamangalam 651 39. Manakuppam 372 40. Sangarampet 227 41. Kizhur 730 42. Sivarandagam 941 43. Arugur 2,819 44. Anandaruram 618 45. Pangu! 732 District: Karailml Nil District: Mahe MAHE TOWN 32(3(1 9,588 ]8,825 , 1. Ch 2. Palloor 8,525 3. Pandakkal 5,373 District: Yanam Nil 200 PART XlII -- B PRIivIARY CENSUS ABSTRACT STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT Total Population (including SI. Total Area No. of No. of institutional and houseless Scheduled Caste~ Scll':~J nled Tribes No. State/District Rural in occupied House- population) Urban Km2 Residenti- holds r- "------, r------__A...-~.-----~ ~-~---A..,--~ al houses Persons Males Females Persons M:tles Females Per- Males Fe- . sons males (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (to) (II) (12) (11) (14) (15) PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY Total 492.0 107,185 115,790 604,471 304,561 299,910 96,636 49,210 47,426 Rural 392.0 54,026 56,406 288,424 145,922 142,502 62,526 32,001 30,525 Urban.. 100.0 53,159 59,384 316,047 158,639 ]57,408 34,110 17,209 16,901 Pondicberry District Total 293.0 78,356 85,067 444,417 226,041 218,376 74,02<) 37,698 36,331 Rural 243.5 35,991 37,674 192,997 99,044 93,953 45,966 23,601 22,365 Urban.. 49.5 42,365 47,393 251,420 126,997 124,423 28,0&3 14,097 13,966 2 Karaikal District Total 160.0 22,860 24,4:<5 120,010 59,367 60,643 19,987 10,188 9,799 Rural 141.0 15,440 16,134 76,602 38,089 38,513 16,528 8,387 11,141 Urban.. 19.0 7,420 8,301 43,408 21,278 22,130 3,459 1,801 1,658 3 Mahe District Total 9.0 3,861 3,902 28,413 13,260 15,153 73 36 37 Rural 7.5 2,595 2,598 18,825 8,789 10,036 32 13 19 Urban.. 1.5 1,266 1,304 9,588 4,471 5,117 41 23 18 4 Yanam District Total 30.0 2,108 2,386 11 ,631 5,89:i 5,738 1,288 1,259 . Rural Urban .. 30.0 2,108 2,386 II ,631 5,893 5,738 2,547 1,288 1,259 Non:; : - (1) Column 4 represents "geographical area" figures supplied by the Surveyor General of India. The urban area figure .is supplied by the local bodies. Area figures for rural area are dcri\ed by substr.;cting the urban area from the total area of the district. The total of the area figures of the communes will not tally with the area figures of districts because the former represents ·'Landuse area" and are derived from the figures supplied by the Director of Survey and Land Records. (2) No tribe has been scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Preside:ltial Ord~r. 201 STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-contd. MAIN WORKERS r- SI. - Literates Total Main Workers (I - IX) Cultivators(O Agricultural Labourers(II) No. State/District r- r- r- r- ---, Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Perna les Persons Males Females (1) (2) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) PONDICHERR Y UNION TERRITORY Total 337,615 200,520 137,095·173,247 140,162 33,085 15,841 14,824 1,017 54,514 35,933 ]8,581 Rural 138,394 86,662 5],732 91,222 70,767 20,455 13,496 12,641 855 ·46,950 30,839 Hi, 11 1 Urban 199,221 113,858 85,363 82,025 69,395 12,630 2,345 2,183 162 7,564 5,094 2,470 1 Pondicherry District Total 243,066 147,052 96,014 128,912 103,720 25,192 12,010 11,278 732 38,472 24,229 14,243 Rural 84,029 55,227 28,802 64,144 48,753 15,391 10,596 9,982 614 33,827 21,214 12,613 Urban 159,037 91,825 67,212 64,768 54,967 9,801 1,414 1,296 118 4,645 3,015 1,630 2 Karaikal District Total 67,725 39,829 27,896 34,902 28,823 6,079 3,371 3,099 272 14,151 10,569 3,582 Rural 40,445 24,536 15,909 23,521 19,065 4,456 2,828 2,596 232 12,627 9,304 3,323 Urban 27,280 15,293 11,987 11,381 9,758 1,623 543 503 40 1,524 1,265 259 3 Mahe District Total 21,058 10,345 10.713 5,572 4,631 941 74 65 9 500 323 177 Rural 13,920 6,899 -7,021 3,557 2,949 608 72 63 9 496 321 175 Urban 7,138 3,446 3,692 2,015 1,682 333 2 2 4 2 2 4 Yaoam District Total 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 382 4 1,391 812 579 Rural Urban 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 382 4 1,391 812 579 202 STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-cone/d. MAIN WORKERS ,- SI. State/District Household Industry-Manu- Other Workers No. facturing, Processing, Servi- (III, IV, V(b) & VI to IX) MARGINAL NON-WORKERS cing and Repairs [V (a)l WORKERS ,---__.j-_ r- ~ r- --,_ ,------"------, Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (I) (2) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) ------ PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY Total 4,014 2,837 1,177 98,878 86,568 12,310 19,583 3,239 7,344 420,641 161,160 259,481 Rural 1,430 1,010 420 29,346 26,277 3,069 7,105 1,773 5,332 190,097 73,382 116,715 Urban 2,584 1,827 757 69,532 60,291 9,241 3,478 1,466 2,012 230,544 87,778 142,766 Pondicherry District. Total 3,351 2,401 950 75,079 65,812 9,267 6,395 2,466 3,929 309,110 119,855 189,255 Rural 1,016 747 269 18,705 16,810 1,895 3,907 1,245 2,662 124,946 49,046 75,900 Urban 2,335 1,654 681 56,374 49,002.- 7,372 2,488 1,221 1,267 184,164 70,809 113,355 2 Kuaiul District Total 400 266 134 16,980 14,889 2,091 3,843 578 3,265 81,265 29,966 51,299 Rural 232 155 77 7,834 7,010 824 3,016 404 2,612 50,065 18,620 31,445 Urban 168 111 57 9,146 7,879 1,267 827 174 653 31,200 11,346 19,854 3 Mahe District Total 193 113 80 4,805 4,130 675 254 182 72 22,587 8,447 14,140 Rural 182 108 74 2,807 2,457 350 182 124 58 15,086 5,716 9,370 Urban· 11 5 6 1,998 1,673 325 72 58 14 7,501 2,731 4,770 4 Yaoam District Total 70 57 13 2,014 1,737 277 91 13 78 7,679 2,892 4,787 Rural ----_.Urban 70 57 13 2,014 1,737 277 91 13 78 7,679 2,892 4,787 203 171/4-14A DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT District: Pondicherry Total population (including Sl. Slate/District! Total Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes No. U.A./Tehsil Rural in occupied House- population) City/Town Urban Km2 Residenti- holds r- r- ..-.... r--____.A....--~ al Houses Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Per- Males Fe- sons males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) 1. Pondicherry District Total 293.0 78,356 85,067 444,417 226,041 218,376 74,029 37,698 36,331 Rural 243.5 35,991 37,674 192,997 99,044 93,953 45,966 23,601 22,365 Urban .. 49.5 42,365 47,393 251,420 126,997 124,423· 28,063 14,097 13,966 Pondicherry. Urban Agglomeration: I'lease see annexure Pondicherry(M)* Urban .. 19.46 27,118 30,710 162,639 81,666 80,973 17,258 8,559 8,699 1. Ariankuppam Commune Total 24.4 5,976 6.263 , 34,107 17,526 16,581 4,866 2,560 2,306 Rural 24.4 5,976 6,263 34,107 17,526 16,581 4,866 2,560 2,306 Urban .. .. 2. Ozhukarai Commune Total .. 36.7 16,456 17,962 95,491 48,805 46,686 10,629 5,447 5,182 Rural .. 8.9 1,528 1,600 8,503 4,377 4,126 502 250 252 Urban .. 27.8 14,928 16,362 86,988 44,428 42,560 10,127 5,197 4,930 Ozhukarai (C.P)· • Urban .. 27.84 14,928 16,362 86,988 44,428 42,560 10,127 5,197 4,930 3. Mannadipet Commune Total 64.4 7,414 7,767 39,321 20,168 19,153 10,305 5,257 5,048 Rural 64.4 7,414 7,767 39,321 20,168 19,153 10,305 5,257 5,048 ,. Urban .. 4. Villianur Commune Total 65.9 9,312 9,844 50,836 26,063 24,773 11,765 6,005 5,760 Rural 63.7 8,993 9,523 49,043 25,160 23,883 11,087 5,664 5,423 Urban .. 2.2 319 321 1,793 903 890 678 341 337 Kurumbapet (G.P)* Urban •• 2.24 319 321 1,793 903 890 678 341 337 5. Bahour Commune Total 54.8 7,196 7,524 37,289 19,093 18,196 12,274 6,277 5,997 Rural 54.8 7,196 7,524 37,289 19,093 18,196 12,274 6,277 5,997 Urban .. 6. Nettapakkam Commune Total .. 30.2 4,884 4,997 24,734 12,720 12,014 6,932 3,593 3,339 Rural .. 30.2 4,884 4,997 24.734 12.720 12,014 6,932 3.593 3,339 Urban 204 .DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRAcr-contd. District: Pondicherry MAIN WORKERS . ,..- S1. State/District! Literates; Total Main Workers (I-IX) Cultivators(I) Agricultural Labourers(IO No. U.A./Tehsil/City.' ,..------"- .---,,..- r- r------"-----..... Town Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males A:males (1) (2) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) 1. Pondicherry District Total 243,066 147,052 96,014 128,912 103,720 25,192 12,010 11,278' 732 38,472 24,229 14,243 Rural 84,029 55,227 28,802 64,1'44 48,753 15,391 10,596 9,982 614 33,827 21,214 12,613 Urban 159,037 91,825 67,212 64,768 ?4,967 9,801 1,414 1,296 118 4,645 3,015 1,630' Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration: Please see annexure Pondicherry(M)· Urban .. 105,453 59,892 45,561 40,772 34,694 6,078 500 468 32 1,55} 1,073 478 1. Arianlrnppam Commtme Total 17,291 11,049 6,242 8,944 7,378 1,566 930 861 69 2,878 2,004 874 Rural 17,291 11,049 6,242 8,944 7,378 1,566 930 861 69 2,878 2,004 874 Uman 2. OZhukarai Commune Total 50,145 33,745 22,400 25,740 21,881 3,859 1,570 1,441 129 3,307 2,135 1,172 Rural 3,240 2,277 963 2,404 2,068 336 699 649 50 581 390 191 Urban 52,905 31,468 21,437 23,336 19,813 3,523 871 792 79 2,726 1,745 981 Ozhukarai (C.P)* Urban 52,905 31,468 21,437 23,336 19,813 3,523 871 792 79 2,726 1,745 981 3. Mannadipet Commune Total 16,253 10,946 5,307 14,925 10,506 4,419 3,154 3,020 134 9,116 5,161 3,95;- Rural 16,253 10,946 5,307 14,925 10,506 4,419 3,154 3,020 134 9,116 5,161 3,955 Urban 4. VilHal'\ur Commune Total 22,224 14,429 7,795 16,606 12,808 3,798 2,294 2,196 98 8,936 5,829 3,107 Rural 21,545 13,964 7,581 15,946 12,348 3,598 2,251 2,160 91 8,568 5,632 2,936 Urban 679 465 214 660 460 200 43 • 36 7 368 197 171 Kurumbapet (G.P)* Urban 679 465 114 660 460 200 43 36 7 368 197 171 5. Bahour Commune Total 15,277 10,043 5,234 12,551 9,788 2,769 1,817 1,741 7() 7,225 4,809 2,416 Rural 15,277 10,043 5,234 12,557 9,788 2,7fl9 1,~17 1,741 76 7,225 4,809 2,416 Urban 6. Nettapakkam Commune Total 10,423 6,948 3,475 9,368 6,665 2,703 1,745 1,551 194 5,459 3,218 2,241 Rural 10,423 6,948 3,475 9,368 6,665 2,703 1,745 1,551 194 5,459 3,218 2,241 Urban 205 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-cone/d. MAL~ WORKERS r------__...,__.-~ ------.., SI. State/District/ Household Industry-Manu- OLher Workers No. U.A./TehsiljCity/ facturing, Processing, Servi- (III, IV, Vlb) & VI to IX) MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS Town cing and Repairs [V (a)] r------.A..____ ~ ,-___---"'- ,-___-----A- ,- ..Jo... ~ Persons Males Females Persons Males Fem'1les Persons Males Females Person s l~ales Females (1) (2) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) 1. Pondicherry Distrkt Total 3,351 2,401 950 75,079 65,812 9,267 6,395 2,466 3,929 309,110 119,855 18CJ,255 Rural 1,016 747 269 18,705 16,810 1,895 3,907 1,245 2,662 .124,946 4:J,046 75,900 Urban 2,335 1,654 681 56,374 49,002 7,372 2,488 1,221 1,267 184,164- 70,809 113,3.)5 Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration : Please see annexure Pondicherry(Ml* Urban 1,076 697 379 37,645 32,456 5,189 1,272 773 499 120,595 40,199 74,396 1. Ariankuppam Commune Total 104 55 49 5,032· 4,458 574 293 175 118 24,870 9,973 14,897 Rural 104 55 49 5,032 4,458 574 293 175 118 24,870 9,973 14,897 Urban 2. Ozhukarai Commune I Total 1,282 968 314 19,581 17,337 2,244 1,513 535 978 68,238 26,389 41,849 Rural 32 14 18 1,092 1,015 77 299 88 211 5,800 2,221 3,579 Urban 1,250 954 296 18,489 16,322 2;167 1,214 447 767 62,4311 24,168 311,270 Ozhukarai (C.P)* Urban 1,250 954 296 18,489 16,322 2,167 1,214 447 767 62,438 24,168 38,270 3. Mannadipet Commune Total 210 167 43 2,445 2,158 287 743 208 535 23,653 9,454 14,199 Rural 210 167 43 2,445 2,158 287 743 208 535 23,653 9,454 14,199 Urban 4. Villianur Commune Total 279 195 84 ),097 4,588 509 1,185 332 853 33,045 12,923 20,122 Rural 270 192 78 4,857 4,364 493 1,183 331 852 31,914 12,481 19,433 Urban 9 3 6 240 224 16 2 1 1 1,131 442 689 Kurumbapet (G.P)* Urbart 9 3 6 240 224 16 2 1,131 442 689 5. Bahour Commune Total 77 58 19 3,438 3,180 258 689 284 405 24,043 9,021 15,022 Rural 77 58 19 3,438 3,180 258 689 284 405 24,043 9,021 15,022 Urban 6. N'eLtapakkam Cornruuue Total 323 261 62 1,841 1,635 206 700 159 541 14,666 5,896 8,770 Rural 323 261 62 1,841 1,635 206 700 159 541 14,666 5,896 8,770 Urban * Forms part of Pondicherry Utban Agglomeration. Consolidated figures of Pondicherry U.A. alongwith details of its constituents are given in annexure...... OTE:- The area figw-e of Pondicnerry district is the "Geographical area" figure supplied by the Surveyor General of India. Figure for Pondicherry(M) is the one. supplied by loca j body and figures for OZllukarai (C.P) and Kurumbapet,(G.P) are those supplied by Revenue Department. Area figures for rural area are derived by sub- tracting the 'urban area from the total area of the district. The total of the area figures of the communes will not tally with the area figure of the district because the former represents "land use area" and are derived from the figures supplied by the Director of Survey and Land Record&. 206 ANNEXURE URBAN AGGLOMERATION FALLING IN TWO OR MORE COMMUNES OF DISTRICTS. PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT ------Total population (including Sl. Urban Total Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes No. Agglomeration! Rural in occupied House- population) City'/T;,wn Urban Km2 Residenti~ holds ,- ,- ~ r------"'-~ al houses Persons Males Females Per- Males Fe- Per- Males Fe- sons males sons males (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (2) (13) (14) (15) Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration Urban 49.54 42,365 47,393 251,420 126,997 124,423 28,063 14,097 13,966 a. Pondicherry (M) Urban 19.46 27,118 30,710 162,639 81,666 80,973 17,258 8,559 8,699 b. Ozhukarai(C.P) Urban 27.84 14,928 16,362 86,988 44,428 42,560 10,127 5,197 4,930 c. Kurumbapet(G.P) Urban 2.24 319 321 1,793 903 890 678 341 337 MAIN WORKERS Urban ,------A- Agglorneratoin/ Literates Total Main Workers (I-IX) Cultivators(l) Agricultural Labourers(IJ) S1. ,-____..A.. No. City/Town ,-_____..A.. ,- ,- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (16) (I 7) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) ----- Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration 159,037 91,8~5 67,212 64,768 54,967 9,801 1,414 1,296 118 4,645 3,015 1,630 a. Pondicherry (M) 105,45~ 59,892 45,561 40,772 34,694 6,078 500 468 32 1,551 1,073 478 b. Ozhukarai (C.P) 52,905 31,468 21,437 23,336 19,813 3,523 871 792 79 2,726 1,745 981 c. Kurumbapet (G.P) 679 465 214 660 460 200 43 36 7 368 197 171 MAIN WORKERS ,-______.J.... Urban Household Industry- Manu- Other Workers SI. Agglomeration! facturing. Processing, Servi- (III, IV, V(b) & VI to IX) MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS No. City/Town cing and Repairs[V (a)] ,-____.J.... ____...... , ,------, r- --_~ __-----, ,-____--A. ___----, Persons Males Females Persons 'Mal.es Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration 2,335 1,654 681 56,374 49,002 7,372 J2,488 ',221 1,267 184,!64 10,809 113,355 a. POlldicherry (M) 1,076 697 379 37,645 32,456 5,189 1,272 773 499 120,595 46,199 74,396 b. Ozhukarai (C.P) 1,250 954 296 18,489 16,322 2,167 1,214 447 767 62,438 24,]68 38,270 c. Kururnbapet (G.P) 9 3 6 240 224 16 .- t,131 442 689 207 171/4-14B URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State: Pondicherry Code No. 32 City: Pondicherry District: Pondicherry Code No.1 Code No.: I Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- Population) Castes Tribes No. Name of Ward Towll Residential holds r----_A.. ------.. ,-_____.A..------, ,-____,_.J.._--, ,.-__-A------. in Km2 houses Persons Males Femalcs Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) ,. 1. Solainagar 1,618 1,659 8,987 4,571 4,416 361 356 2,705 1,586 2. Muthialpet (East) 580 655 3,679 1,855 1,824 150 171 1,372 929 3. Muthialpet (West) 700 852 5,083 2,632 2,451 10 7 2,229 1,715 4. Debassynpeth .. 657 747 4,146 2,088 2,058 156 176 .. 1,533 1,038 5. V.O.C. Nagar 1,144 1,311 7,258 3,654 3,604 49 42 2,732 1,983 6. Kurichikuppam 575 609 3,451 1,695 1,756 440 467 1,139 839 7. Parimalamudaliarthottam 875 1,032 5,082 2,574 2,508 359 343 1,597 971 8. Thiruvalluvarnagar 787 813 4,324 2,161 2,]63 954 I,D02 1,312 883 9. Perumalkovil 735 959 5,219 2,607 2,612 33 29 2,207 1,988 10. Cassicade 604 778 4,493 2,331 2,162 15 13 1,996 1,588 11. Calve College .. 516 621 3,108 1,573 1,535 77 73 1,328 1,227 12. Radjabavan 632 702 2,992 1,410 1,582 99 69 1,206 1,269 13. Cathedral 512 716 3,898 1,797 2,101 111 102 1,423 1,573 14. Kolathumedu 648 927 4,865 2,438 2,427 41 30 2,104 1,767 15. Sinnacadai 631 810 4,275 2,069 2,206 98 82 1,653 1,622 16. Hospice 655 782 4,443 2,030 2,413 61 62 1,641 1,673 17. Periappalli 544 626 3,885 1,892 1,993 27 36 1,555 1,266 18. Veeravally 744 872 4,861 2,358 2,503 29 36 1,958 1,777 19. Thirumudinagar 1,540 1,628 8,319 4,251 4,068 378 399 2,978 2,106 20. Nethajinagar .. 1,134 1,204 6,535 3,275 3,260 1,339 1,355 2,314 1,697 21. Vambakeerapalayam .. 1,013 1,033 5,344 2,672 2,672 534 545 1,524 950 22. Vendrapet 411 435 2,374 1,184 1,190 282 259 746 545 23. Pil1aithottam 710 790 3,982 2,062 1,920 60 58 1,524 1,203 24. Kuya~rnagar-I 795 910 4,676 2,414 2,262 301 259 1,823 1,306 25. Kuyavarnagar-II 847 1,029 5,342 2,706 2,636 5 2,132 1,609 ), 26. Nellimanagar (North) .. 490 605 2,947 1,498 1,449 13 9 1,189 896 27. NeUimanagar (South) 584 690 3,603 1,787 1,816 24 27 1,382 1,134 28. Pudupalayam 951 1,013 5,338 2,642 2,696 1,466 1,534 1,701 1,174 29. Orleampeth 788 897 4,522' 2,317 2,205 44 45 1,791 1,353 30. Mudaliarpet-I 717 740 3,651 1,875 1,776 7 6 1,465 1,022 208 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACI'-contd. City: Pondicherry State : Pondicherry Code No.32 Code No.: I District: Pondicherry Code No. 1 MAIN WORKERS L.C'. Name of ward ,- NON Cultivators Agricultural Household Other MARGINAL No. Total main WORKERS WORKERS workers (I) Labourers industry- workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- (III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX) ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] r--_____.A._~ r------A....~ r------"-~ ,.----"-~ r-__.A,._~ r-___"_----" r-____.A------.. Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (28) (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) ------__:__-___:_:___:_:_____:___:____:_:___:__:____:__------28 27 2,371 3,864 ) . Solainagar 2,172 525 12 7 91 96 2,062 429 1,018 1,].25 2. Muthialpet (East) 831 99 5 4 92 32 730 67 6 1,487 2,326 3. Muthialpet (West) 1,143 125 27 2 49 17 1,065 107 2 24 25 1,045 1,896 4. Debassynpeth .. 1,019 137 15 13 2 65 27 926 108 23 6 2,002 3,415 5. V.O.c. Nagar 1,629 183 17 2 73 13 1,537 170 2 1,028 1,585 6. Kurichikuppam 665 170 4 4 657 169 .... I. Parimalamudaliar 122 79 1,261 2,149 thottam 1,191 280 2 6 2 4 13 1,179 265 2 1,197 2,016 8. Thiruvalluvarnagar 962 147 2 28 10 12 3 920 134 10 1,532 2,455 9. PerumalkoviI 1,065 156 7 9 1,048 155 1,284 2,070 10. Cassicade 1,044 92 17 7 26 3 994 89 3 885 1,433 11. Calve College .. 688 102 6 2 2 678 102 847 1,253 12. Radjabavan 560 328 1 2 13 4 544 324 3 1 1,032 1,912 13. Cathedral 738 178 12 5 7 5 714 173 27 11 1,399 2,199 14. Kolathumedu 1,035 .227 20 6 12 6 997 221 4 1 1,265 2,029 15. Sinnacadai 792 172 9 3 14 9 5 760 164 12 5 1,432 2,241 16_ Hospice 598 172 11 2 4 581 171 1,880 17. Periappalli 530 112 2 3 2 525 110 4 1,358 2 1,518 2,361 18. Veeravally 835 140 12 28 6 9 3 786 131 5 5 2,108 3,705 19. Thirumudinagar 2,137 358 6 2 43 38 2,086 320 6 42 2,086 2,990 20. Nethajinagar " 1,118 228 5 10 7 3 1,096 223 71 46 1,620 2,405 21. Vambakeerapalayam. , 1,028 221 6 3 1,021 218 24 614 1,096 22. Vendrapet 569 86 3 27 6 539 79 8 1,062 1,759 23. Pillaithottam 991 153 7 2 18 II 964 142 9 8 1,275 2,114 24. Kuyavarnagar-I 1,122 148 8 67 39 7 2 1,040 107 17 1,437 2,515 25_ Kuyavarnagar-II 1,251 117 5 4 3 7 1,239 110 18 4 827 1,382 26. Ncllimanagar (North) 658 61 6 6 2 645 59 13 6 ] ,685 27. Nellirnanagar (South) 702 123 8 11 9, 4 4 679 109 12 8 1,073 6 1,567 2,452 28. PudupaJayaU" 1,066 238 75 49 8 3 982 186 9 26 1,201 2,019 29. Orleampeth 1,095 160 5 6 33 31 1,051 129 21 7 1,069 1,672 30. Mudaliarpet-I .. 796 97 2 2 2 3 790 93 10 209 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf-conL'ld. State Pondicherry Code No. 32 City: Pondicherry District: Pondicherry Code No. 1 Code No.: I . Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) Castes Tribes. No. Name of ward town Residential holds ,-______A. ____-----, ,-____...,_.....A------, ,.-----.-A.--, ,.._---A-_----. in Km2 houses. Persons Males Females Males Females. Males Fe- Males. Females males. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) .(6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 31. M udaliarpet-II 1,096 1,195 6,073 3,130 2,943 16 21 2,355 1,715 32. Keerapalayam 819 852 4,331 2,195 2,136 207 249 1,538 1,010 33. Kommapakkam 535 559' 2,999 1,495 1,504 366 401 923 547 34. Murun;;;apakkam-I 449 479 2,643 1,392 1,251 108 89 981 576 35. Murungapakkam-IT 452 504 2,635 1,363 1,272 81 79 790 426 36. Thengathittu .. 630 676 3,276 1,673 1,603 258 267 1,046 598 Grand total 19.46 27,118 30,710 162,639 81,666 80,973 8,559 8,699 ,59,892 45,561 210 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf-conc/d. State: Pondicherry Code No.: 32 City: Pondicherry District; Pondichcrry Code No.; 1 Cole No.: I MAIN WORKERS L.C. Name of ward r------~------~ NON No. Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other MARGINAL WORKERS Workers (I) Labourers industry- workers WORKERS (I-IX) . (Ill Manufactur- [111, IV, V(b) ing, Pr'Jcess- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)1 ,--____.A.._____..., ,-____.A-----; r---"'-~ ,-__.A...~ ,-_ _.A._~ ,-__.A-~ r------"---~ Male!; Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- . Males Females males . males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (15) (26) (27) (28) 31. Mudaliarpet-II .. 1,362 149 14 2 5 2 13 20 1,330 125 20 5 1,748 2,789 32. Keerapalayam 951 149 29 6 147 63 J 1 3 764 77 39 33 1,205 1,954 33. Kommapakkam 596 186 68 6 228 153 5 2 195 25 38 37 861 1,281 34. Murungapakkam-I 423 48 33 2 16 9 10 364 37 124 65 845 1,138 35. Murungapakkam-II 520 43 22 130 28 14 1 354 14 52 3 791 1,226 36. Thengathittu .. 812 • 168 72 10 225 103 8 514 47 12 30 849 1,405 Grand total 34,694 6,078 468 32 1,073 478 697 379 32,456 5,189 773 499 46,199 74,396 211 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State: Pondicherry Code No.: 32 "Town: Ozhukarai District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: II Total Population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled .Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) Castes Tribes No. Name of ward Town Residential holds r---_____.A.. ,----"------, r---"-----, ,----"-- ___..., in Km2 houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) ------.------4. Pillaichavadi 372 399 2,183 1,120 1,063 116 96 603 300 5. Dharmapuri 411 444 2,406 1,241 1,165 1 797 419 6. Muthirapalayam 946 1,035 5,481 2,857 2,624 257 226 1,938 1,054 7. Shanmugapuram 764 855 4,303 2,263 2,040 17 10 1,533 873 8. Kadirkamam .. 571 715 3,672 1,890 1,782 51 51 1,426 906 9. Vimakavundanpalayam 1,188 1,283 6,680 3,522 3,158 166 64 I- 2,459 1,508 10. Danvantrinagar 1,173 1,247 7,234 3,686 3,548 378 360 2,941 2,297 11. Arumathapuram 749 824 4,275 2,138 2,137 1,049 1,090 1,383 764 12. Ozhukarai 900 960 5,522 2,740 2,782 464 457 1,870 1,311 13. Reddiarpalayam 559 603 3,331 1,573 1,758 160 190 1,132 1,056 14. Ellaipillaichavadi 449 493 2,665 1,369 1,296 12 6 998 739 15. Poomiampet _. 434 463 2,423 1,251 1,172 564 539 887 633 16. Kavundanpalayam 493 573 2,893 1,487 1,406 15 19 1,140 753 17. Saram 674 809 4,232 2,179 2,053 18 19 1,699 1,256 18. Narimedu 923 1,073 5,472 2,671 2,801 65 82 2,171 2,031 19. Thattotukalavapet 436 452 2,663 1,340 1,323 741 760 901 605 20. Pakkamudayanpet 1,454 1,563 8,130 4,156 3,974 271 271 3,074 2,207 21. Lawspet 1,391 1,458 7,840 4,076 3,764 263 137 2,899 1,840 22. Karuvadikuppam 1,041 1,113 5,583 2,869 2,714 589 552 1,617 885 Grand total 27.84 14,928 16,362 86,988 44.428 42,560 5,197 4,930 31,468 21,437 212 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-concld. " State : Pondicherry Code No.; 32 Town: Ozhukarai District: Pondicherry Code No. ; Co::!e No.; II ______MAIN-----J..., WORKERS______---, L.C. , Name of ward ,- NON No. Total main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other MARGINAL WORKERS workers (I) Labourers industry- workers WORKERS (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,----A..---, ,----A..--, ,..------"---, ,----A..--, ,----A..--, ,-__.A.--, ,-____,..______, Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (I 8) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 4. Pillaichavadi 540 48 218 12 85 21 3 1 234 14 34 73 546 942 S. Dharmapuri 552 128 23 2 58 72 ,12 17 459 37 17 5 672 1,032 6. Muthirapalayam 1,286 135 92 188 71 16 6 990 57 '1 4 1,570 2,485 7. Shan!lmgapmam 1,134 184 15 3 37 41 101 27 981 113 1 1,128 1,856 8. Kadirkamam .. 1,007 131 7 27 17 166 20 807 94 2 881 1,651 9. Vimakavundanpalayam 1,626 263 88 9 65 41 23 19 1,450 194 21 104 1,875 2,791 10. Danvantrinagar 1,538 374 7 89 3 7 2 1,435 369 6 10 2,142 3,164 It. Arumathapuram 956 208 101 35 325 133 15 3 515 37 4 45 1,178 1,884 12. Ozhukarai 926 235 34 155 139 2 1 735 94 157 103 1,657 2,4~ 13. Reddiarpalayam 581 134 14 64 18 3 20 500 96 42 19 950 1,605 14. ElIaipillaichavacIi 585 75 7 21 19 2 557 54 to 16 774 1,205 15. Poomiampet .. 461 83 3 35 23 5 3 '418 57 45 55 745 1,034 16. Kavundanpalayam 687 100 13 4 26 20 11 4 637 72 6 794 1,305 17. Sararn 1,072 80 15 6 4 1,047 80 1,106 1,973 18. Narimedu 1,247 276 15 4 5 1,223 276 1,424 2,524 19, Thattotukalavapet 534 142 26 5 125 55 2 381 81 4 802 1,181 20. Pakkamudayanpet 1,793 289 34 1 139 110 51 14 1,569 164 13 2 2,350 3,683 21. Lawspet 1,904 403 30 154 107 327 129 1,393 167 27 146 2,145 3,215 22. Karuvadikuppam 1,384 235 50 6 142 91 , 201 27 991 111 56 183 1,429 2,296 Grand total 19,813 3,523 792 79 1,745 981 954 29616,322 2,167 447 767 24,168 38,270 213 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State: Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Town: Kurumbapet District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: III Total Population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- Populatioll) Castes Tribes No. Name of ward town Residential holds,------"- ,------"-----., ,-----"-----., ,-__A..---, in Km2 houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe Males Females males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14 ) 1. Kurumbapet 232 234 1,311 656 655 286 291 344 149 2. Gopalankadai .. 35 35 189 98 91 18 15 45 32 3. Tavalapattu 15 15 72 38 34 37 31 10 4 4. Muthupillaipalayam 37 37 221 111 110 66 29 Grand total 2.24 319 321 1.793 903 890 341 337 465 214 MAIN WORKERS ,- NON- L.c. Name of ward Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other MARGINAL WORKERS No. Workers (I) Labourers Industry- workers WORKERS (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [1lI, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VIto IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,-_____.A.____ ~ ,-_ __A_ ___ ----, ,- ____ ....A...._~ ,-_ -.A_~ ~___.A._~ ~ r-__A_~ ,-----A------. Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16), (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (14) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Kurumbapet 332 182 11 7 138 154 2 5 18] 16 321 473 2. Gopalankadai .. 54 6 6 31 5 17 44 84 3. Tavalapattu 19 8 5 12 8 2 19 26 4. M uthupillaipalayan1 55 4 14 16 4 24 56 106 Grand total 460 200 36 7 197 171 3 6 224 16 1 1 442 689 ------ 214 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT APPENDIX TOTAL, SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES POPULATION-URBAN BLOCK WIS,3 Name of Union Territory: Pondicherry· Name of District: POlldicherry Code No.: 32 Code No.: 1 Location Total Schedi.11d Scheiuled Code No. Name of Town/Ward/Urban Block Population Castes Tribes . (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) I PONDICHERRY 162,639 17,258 1. Solainagar 8,987 717 1 716 2 641 21 3 563 4 646 5 599 6 564 187 7 567 139 8 593 51 9 811 257 10 791 11 651 15 12 732 47 13 513 14 600 2. Muthialpet (East) 3,679 321 15 505 16 433 7 17 900 57 18 660 107 19 651 136 20 530 14 3. MuthiaJpet (West) 5,083 17 21 563 7 22 536 23 563 24 872 25 506 26 ED 27 718 10 28 il7 215 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 4. Debassynpeth 4,146 332 29 261 30 698 6 31 734 32 657 33 821 16 34 493 310 35 482 ,. V.O.C. Nagar 7,258 91 36 581 37 920 20 38 582 39 561 40 599 16 41 517 3· 42 502 43 571 9 44 683 7 45 451 11 46 593 25 47 698 6. Kurichikuppam 3,451 907 48 287 114 49 687 199 50 576 206 51 51J5 23 52 513 227 53 823 138 7. Parimalamudaliarthottam 5,082 702 54 782 23 55 681 90 S6 626 15 57 637 4 58 528 4 216 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 59 592 71 60 569 51 61 667 444 8. Thiruvalluvarnagar 4,324 1,956 62 863 69 63 638 81 64 509 328 65 517 292 66 404 314 67 489 341 68 400 375 69 504 156 9. Perumalkovil 5,219 62 70 554 71 574 6 72 547 13 73 41.5 16 74 536 75 496 76' 515 18 77 617 6 78 965 3 10. Ca3sicade 4,493 28 79 541 2 80 669 2 81 698 82 709 11 83 884 84 992 13 11. Calve College 3,108 150 85 695 42 86 650 ]0 87 558 36 88 613 89 592 62 217 (0 (2) (3) (4) (5) 12. Radjabavan 2,992 168 90 310 3~ 91 136 1 92 649 93 93 531 94 619 I 95 747 39 13. Cathedral 3,898 213 96 552 37 97 424 55 98 890 36 99 531 50 100 808 4 101 511 102 Hi2 31 14. Kolathumedu 4,865 71 103 789 20 104 670 32 105 832 106 783 12 107 735 108 1,056 7 15. Sinnacadai 4,275 180 109 523 110 73 111 594 82 112 725 113 749 12 114 949 8 115 662 78 16. Hospice 4,443 123 116 149 8 117 539 118 635 21 119 819 34 218 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) ]20 591 48 121 1,119 122 591 12 17. Periapalli 3,885 63 ..I 123 651 13 124 876 32 125 614 6 C6 528 12 127 128 556 12~ 660 18. Veeravalli 4,861 65 130 770 7 131 670 2 132 793 14 133 825 134 14 135 1,017 39 136 772 3 19. Tilirumudinagar 8,319 777 137 715 3 138 742 139 881 140 697 141 816 36 142 676 367 143 822 144 628 157 145 730 20 146 -691 194 147 337 148 584 20. Nethajinagar 6,535 2,694 149 618 3 150 499 . 222 219 171/4-15A (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 151 608 178 152 718 458 ,,_ 153 650 47 154 1,026 533 ISS 685 260 156 667 550 157 643 341 158 421 102 21. Vambakeer,.palayam 5,344 1,079 159 828 458 160 627 15 161 636 162 719 18 163 629 10 164 515 88 165 496 164 166 530 164 167 364 162 22. Vendrapet 2,374 541 168 733 309 169 455 184 170 671 25 171 515 23 23. pjlJaithottam 3,982 118 172 555 4 173 531 3 174 494 5 175 466 53 176 574 177 449 34 178 913 19 24. lCuyavarnagar--I 4,676 560 179 848 180 375 181 893 S 182 709 220 (1) ~ (2) (3) (") (S) 183 765 19 184 550 330 185 536 206 25. lCuyavarnagar--II 5,342 6 186 893 4 187 944 188 693 189 865 190 723 191 818 2 192 406 26. Nellimanagar (North) 2,947 22 193 1,155 - 5 194 592 195 606 17 196 594 27. Nellimanagar (South) 3,603 51 197 705 4 • 198 481 199 758 10 200 521 201 762 202 376 37 28. Pudupalayam 5,338 3,000 203 635 313 204 541 520 205 808 648 206 590 357 207 578 93 208 821 540 209 657 205 210 708 324 29. Orleampeth 4,522 89 211 893 2 212 700 6 213 682 221 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 214 650 49 215 524 8 2!6 562 9 217 511 15 30. M udaliarpet-I 3,651 13 218 568 219 522 5 220 442 221 604 222 700 223 815 8 31. Mudaliarpet-ll 6,1173 37 224 594 225 900 226 880 24 227 637 228 505 8 229 778 230 671 231 517 5 232 591 32. Keerapalayam 4,331 456 233 770 38 234 816 26 235 804 40 236 768 332 237 552 20 238 621 33. Kommapakkam 2,999 767 239 440 216 240 468 325 241 592 15 242 756 15 243 743 196 222 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 34. Murungapakkam-I 2,643 197 244 706 245 765 246 715 187 247 457 10 35. Milrunppakkam-II 2,635 160 248 700 249 715 250 594 155 251 626 5 36. Thengathiuu 3,276 525 252 719 253 497 254 559 255 530 256 544 256 251 427 269 Total number of towns in PondicheIry district 3 Total number of wards in Pondicherry town 36 Total number of urban blocks in Pondicherry town 257 Boundaries d urban blocks are given in the list below. 223 171/4-15B LOCATION CODE NUMBERS FOR URBAN BLOCKS AND THIUR JURISDICTION State Pondichercy District : Pondichercy Town Pondichcrry L.C.No. 32 L.C.No.: 1 L.C. No.: I' -_ .. _-- LC. (.C. Boundary No. of No. of Name of ward with details of streets etc. (indicating door Nos.) Wards E.Bs. (I) (2) (3) (4) SOLA! NAGAR 1 (1) Kottaikuppam Road From 1 to 22 (2) Kattamanikuppam Road West From 1 to 103 2 Pudunagar I part Colony From 1 to 125 3 Pudunagar II part Colony (from Southern side of Solaithandawan Kuppam Road cutting seashore) Fropl 1 to 50 4 Pudunagar II part Colony (Northern side of Solaithandawan Kuppam Road cutting seashore) From 51 to 100 5 Mariamman Koil Street both sides from Manthaiveli Mariamman 'Koil Street to Solai Nagar New Colony From 1 to 118 6 (1) KaUarai Street (up to back side of West of Mat'iamman Koil Street) (2) Padasalai Street (upto Mariamman Koil Street) From 118 to 150 (3) 'Solaithandawan Kuppam Street (including back portion of Padasalai Street) (4) Kallaraithoppu East, Kallarai Street West Manthaiveli Mariamman Koil Street North 7 (I) Pudu Nagar IV Part (2) Pudu Nagar Thoppu North From 1 to 125 (3), Seashore West (4) Pudunagar North (5) Vanniyar Nagar East 8 (1) Pudunagar V Part (2) ,Pudunagar South From 1 to 125 (3) Kallarai Street East (4) Kattamani Kuppam West (5) Solai Thandawapuram Part 9 Ganesh Nagar From 1 to 125 10 Pappammal Koii Kallarai From 1 to 125 11 (1) PilIaiyar'KoiJ Street both sides (from Vanniyar Street to Mariamman Street) From 1 to 80 (2) PiIlaiyar Koil Street Bac~ Side (3) Vanniyar Street Eastern side only and back side (from Pappammal Koil Sutukadu to PiIlaiyar Koil Street) , (4) • 'Pappanunal Koil Street West Canal South Selvaraj Chettiyar Street North 12 (I) Mariamman Koil Street both sides (from Pillaiyar KoiJ Street to Pappammal Koil Sutukadu) From 81 to 160 (2) Pachaivalliamman Koil Street both sides (from PilIaiyat' Koil Street to Pappammal Koil Street Sutukadu) 13 (1) Seashore (Pachaivalliamman Koil Street both sides from Canal North to Selvaraj 'Chettiyar Street) (2) Mariamman Koil Street (from PilIaiyar KQil Street to Selvaraj Chettiyar Street) From 1 to 70 (3) Pacha'ivalliamman Koil Street East side only (from Selvaraj Chettiyar Street to Canal South) ------U) (2) (3) (4) 14 (1) Selvaraj G:hettial'. Street both sides (from Vanniyar Street to Pachaivalliamman Koil Street) (2) Iyyanar Koil Street (from Vanniyar Koil Street to Pachaiva Iliamman Koil Street) FrotO 71 to 125 (3) Pachaivalliamman Koil Street Western side only (from Selvaraj Chettiar Street to South canal) z. MUTHIALPET (EAST) / 15 (I) Salaitheru (from Kattamaniveedhi to Muthiah Street South side only) From 1 to 100 (2) Perumal Naidu Street (Kattamaniveedhi to Muthiah Mudaliar Street) 16 (1) Salai theru North side only (2) Samy Mudaliar Street (from Kattamani Street to Muthiah Mudaliar Street) From 1 to 80 (3) KaIavai Veerasamy Street (from Kattamani Street to Muthiah Mudaliar Street) 17 (1) St. Antony Street (from Perumal Koil Street to Salai Street Eastern side only) (2) Antoneyar Koil Street (from Thalava Veeraswamy Street to Salai Nagar pogum From 1 to 70 pathai) Western side only. (3) Kutti Gramani Street Eastern side only (from Samy Mudaliar Street to Solainagar Pogum pathai) 18 Balhees Street both sides (from Sdai Street to Perumal Ko il Street) From 71 to 153 19 (1) Savukkupettai From I to 61 (2) Kattamani Veethi (from Salai Theru to Solaithandawan Kuppam) (3) SolaithandawaiI Kuppam Street (from Muthiah Mudali Street to Kattamani Veethi) • From 1 to 126 20 (1) Perumal Pattai Street (Thalava Veerasamy Street to Solai Thandawan Kuppam St.) (2) Perumal Koil Street (from Muthiah Mudali Street to Paradesi Mandapam) English From 1 to 100 School Street (Muthiah MudaJi Street to Kattamani Street) 3. MUTHIALPET (WEST) 21 (I) Salai Theru (Muthiah Mudali Street to Gandhi Street) From 1 to 125 (2) Gandhi Street (Salai Str~t to Ezhaimariamman Koil Street East side only) 22 Bharathidasan Street both sides (from Perumal Naidu Street to Muthalamman From 1 to 60 Koil Street cutting) 55-56 23 (1) Bharathidasan Street both sides (from Muthalamman Koil Street No. 57 to Ezhai mariamman Koil Street) (2) Vandikkaran Sandu Western side only (from Thalava Veerasamy Street to From 61 to 125 Perumal Koil Street) (3) Solaithandawan Kuppam Street North side only (from Muthiah Mudali Street to Vandikkaran Sandhu) 24 (1) St. Rozario Street Eastern side only (from Perumal Naidu Street to Ezhai mariam'llao Koil Street) From 1 to 80 C) St. Rozario Street Western side only (from Perumal Koil Street to I;lzhai mariamman Koil Street) 25 (1) St. Rozario Street Western side only (from Perumal Naidu Street to Perumal From 81 to 125 Koil Street) (2) PerumaI Naidu Street North side only (from Gandhi Street to Muthiah Mudali St.) From 1 to 25 26 (I) Perumal Naidu Street South side only (from Gandhi Street to Muthiah Mudali St.) From 1 to 100 (2) Thalava Veerasamy Naidu Street (from Gandhi Street to Muthia\ Mudali St.) (3) Samy MudaJiar Street (Bharathidasan Street to Muthiah Mudali Street) (4) Muthiah Mudali Street West side only (from Salai Theru to Ezhaimariamman Koil Street Western side only) 225 (I) (2) (3) ._---(4) 27 (l) Danllk ottiamman Pettai I line and Illine (2) Ezhaimariamman Koil Street (from Gandhi Street to Muthia Mudali Street) From 1 to 116 (3) Ponnambalam Mudaliar Street (4) Perumal Koil Street (from Gandhi Street to Muthiah Mudaliar Street) (5) Arunagiri Chetty . 28 (I) Pillaiyar Koil Street (2) . Subramaniasamy Koil Street From 1 to 118 (3) Pudu Theru 4. DEBASSYNPETH 29 Manicbamudaliar Thottam Market From 1 "to 125 30 (1) Debassynpeth 1 Street 1-55 (2) Debassynpeth Sinna Sandhu 1-40 From I to 95 31 (1) Saverappet Street No.1; 1-42 (2) Saverappet Street No.2; 1-39 From 1 to 109 (3) Karuvadikuppam Road 1-28 32 (1) San Simon pet, San Simon Veetbi (2) Sundaravinayagar 1st Street . From 1 to 117 (3) Sundaravinayagar 2nd Street including Viswanadha Gramani Thoppu (4) San Othavadai, Sundaravinayagar Street 33 (l) Sansi Othavadai left ~ide (2) Sansi Othavadai right side (3) Sansi Karmel Madam Nuzhaivayil From 1 to 128 (4) Sansi Karme 1 Madam (5) Sansi Karmel Vallaveri Veethi (6) Ezhaimariamman Koil (from Gandhi Street to Karuvadikuppam road) (7) Gandhi Road (from Kottakuppam border to Ezhaimariamman West Street) 34 (1) Gandhi Street (from Ezhaimariamman Koil Street to Kamatchiamman Timber Depot both sides) From 1 to 155 (2) Salai Mariamman Koil 1st Street 35 (1) Salai Mariamman Koil Street, 2nd Street 1-35 (2) Thangapragasam Street 1-5 (3) Ranga Vilas (Pudu Theru) 1-10 From 1 to 134 (4) Pudu Theru 1-37 (5) Vannan Chattiram and MSL Agraharam 1-47 5. V.O.C. NAGAR 36 (1) Subramaniaswamy Koil Street North side only (from Angalamman II Street to Angalamman I.Street and No. 48, 50, 52) From 1 to 126 (2) Mariamman Koil Street both sides (from Appasamy Madathu Street to Muthiah Mudali Street) (3) Appasamy Madathu street West side only (from SubramaniaswamY Koil Street to Ezhaimariamman Koil Street)' . (4) Muthiah Mudali Street East side only (from Othavadai Street to Ezhaimari amman.Koil Street) 37 (1) Othavadai Stloot South side only (from Muthiah Mudali Street to Gandhi Street). (2) Subramaniswamy Koil Street South side only (from Angalamman II Street to From 1 to 117 Muthiah Mudali Street) (3) Angalamman Nagar Street both sides. (4) Mariamman Koil Stre~t. 38 (1) Angalamman Nagar. (2) Bounded by Muthiah Mudali Street, Angalamman Koil Street (l to 6) Subramaniaswamy Koil Street and Angalamman 11 Street including Angalamman I Street 226 (1) (2) (3) (4) 39 (1) Angalamman II Theru both sides (from Angalamman Koil Street to Mariamman Koil Street). From 86 to 165 (2) Angaiamman I (from Subramaniaswamy Koil Street to Mariamman Koil Street). (3) Angalamman Koil Street (Muthiahmudali Street to Akka Paradesi madam Veethi) (4) Akka Paradesi madam Veethi. 40 Pookara Veethi (from Gandhi Street to Mariamman Koil Street ineluding Cross Road both sides) From 1 to 75 4J (1) Gandhi Stree~ East side only (from 9thaivadai Street to Yelayudam Pillai Street) l2) Pajanai Madathu Yeethi (from Yelayudam Pillai Veethi to Mariamman Koil Street corner). From 76 to 115 42 Bounded by Angalamman Nagar South, Akka Paradesimadam West (30 to 52) Mariamman Koil Street (1 to 59/3). From 1 to 60 43 Bounded by Park Street North, Akka Paradesimadam Street West (1-85) Mariamman Koil Street East side (12 to 45). From 61 to 133 44 (1) Akka Paradesimadam Road East side only (from Chinnayapuram Road to V.O.C. I Colony 1 to 85). From 1 to 60 (2) Sagaya Madha Street. (3) Bharatha Madha Street. (4) Sagayathai Street. (5) V.O.C. I Colony. 45 (1) Mariamman Koil Street both sides (from Yinayagar tree to V.O.C. I Colony). (2) Gandhi Street West side only (from Velayudampillai Street to Chinniayapuram Road). From 61 to 139 (3) Ramakrishna Nagar (1 to 35). 46 (1) Yelayudam Pillai Street South side only. From 1 to 125 (2) Ramakrishna Nagar (8 to 30, 45 to 55, 171 to 189). (3) Gandhi Street East side only (from Chinniayapuram Road· to Ramakrishna Nagar). (4) Mariamman Koil Street corn¢r to Pajanaimadam Street. Subramaniya Iyer Koil Street. 47 (J) Mariamtnan Koil 1st and 2nd Street. (2) Mariamman Koil Street both sides (from Velayudam Pillai Street to Othavadai From 1 to 243 Street.) (3) Akka Madasamy Street. 6. KURICHIKUPPAM 48 Ponnampet Francis Martin (both sides). From I to 60 49 (I) From S.V. Patel to Church Street 1-67. (2) Chinadu Nadar Street and Jayamuthu Mariamman Koil Street. 1-37 From I to 104 50 (I) Advocate Chinna Thambi Street (both sides) 1-87 (2) Advocate Chinna Thambi lanes (Advocate Chinna Thambi North, Solaithandawan From 1 to 174 Street East, Chinadu Nadar Street South, Francis Martin West) 1-87 51 Kuruchikuppam Maravadi Seashore Street. From 1 to 110 52 (1), S.V. Patel Salai (from Distillery to Solaithandawan Kuppam Street Northern side only) 1-25 From 1 ~o 96 (2) Patmini Thottam Street. 1-36 (3) Oduman Thoppu and Ezhumalai Thoppu. 1-25 (4) Solaithandawan Street (from S.Y. Patel Salai to Chinadu Nadar Street Eastern side only). 1-10 53 (1) Thillai Nagar Street. I-50 From 1 to 103 (2) St. Fransuva S~t. I-53 227 · (1) (2) (3) (4) 7. P4'\RIMALA MUDALIAR THOTTAM S4 Pari mala M udaliar Thottam. From 1 to lOS 55 (1) S.Y. Patel Salai (from Yazhakulam to Gandhi' Street.) (2) Gandhi Street (from S.Y. Patel Salai to Chinnayapuram East wing only). (3) Renuka~bal Koil Street (both sides, bounded by Gandhi Street Chinnayapuram From 1 to 106 Road, Ezhaimariamman Koil Street and Canal). (4) Canal Northern side only (from Renukambal Koil St*t to Ezhaimariarnman Koil Street). 56 (1) Gandhi Street Eastern side only. (2) Chinnayapuram Road Southern side only. From 1 to 100 (3) Ezhaimariamman .Koil Street (both sides). (4) Canal (from Gandhi Street to Renukambal Koil Street). 57 (1) Chinnayapuram Road (from Gandhi Street to Yazhakulam Road) North side only. From 1 to 110 (2) Yazhakulam Road (from Chinnayapui=am to Vazhakulam). 58 (1) S.Y. Patel Salai (from Solaithandawan Kuppam to Yazhakulam Road, Northern side) (21 Ya:zhakulam Road (from S.Y. Patel 'Salai to Goubert School Street) Eastern side From 1 to 50 only. Goubert School Street both sides (from Yazhakulam Road to Kuruchikuppam Street). 59 Kuruchikuppam Street (from Aldea Paradesi Madam Street to Solaithandawan Kuppam Road). (2) Solaithandawan Kuppam Road (from Kuruchikuppam to Sellganiamman Koil St.) (3) Senganiamman Koil Street (from Solaithandawan Kuppam Road to Akka Paradesi Madam Street). From 51 to 100 (4) Akka,paradesi Madam Street (from Senganiamman Koil Street to Kuruchikuppam Street). (5) Akkaparadesi Madam Street (from Senganiamman Koil Street to Chinnaya puram Road). 60 (1) S.Y. Patel ~alai (from Gandhi Street to Bharathi Street) North side 1-30 (2) Gandhi Street (from S.Y. Patel Salai toThulukkanathamman Koil Street) Western From 1 to 65 side only. (3) From Gandhi Street 6 to 25 cross in between Gandhi Street and Thulukkanath- amman Koil Street corner and S.V. Patel Salaiand Sebastian Koil Str;::et. Fro'll 1 to 38 (4) Kunnaiya Thottam. 61 (I) Sebastian Koil Street (from S.Y. Patel Salai to Thulukkanathamman Koil Street) From 65 to 130 East side. (2) Thulukkanathamman Koil Street (from Sebastian Koil Street to Gandhi Street) from 82 to 89 in· between the above. 8. THlRUYALLUYAR NAGAR 62 Kumarakurupallam (from Kamaraj Salai to Mariamman Koil Street including From I to 130 Cement Road). 63 (1) Kamaraj Salai North side (from Kumarakurupallam to West Bouleward Yeethi (310 to 321). From 1 to 140 (2) Kumarakurupallam (from Mariamman Koil to Rainbow Colony (".-orner 2 and' Rainbow Colony entrance to West Bouleward). 64 KumarakurupalJam «(rom Rainbow Corner to Dohbi Canal Northern·sideonly). From 1 to 130 65 Bharathi Street (from West Bouleward Corner to Bharathi Street and Sebastiyar From 1 to 12.s Koil North & South). 228 (I) (2) (3) (4) 66 (I) Sebastiyar Koil Street. From 1 to 130 (2) Kuppusamy Iyer Sathiram. (3) Thulukanathamman Koil Street No. 1 both sides from Bharathi Street to Gandhi Street. 67 (1) Antoneyar Koil Street both sides. From 1 to 125 (2) Thulukanathamman Koil Street No. 2 and 3 68 (1) Chettykulam Street. From 1 to' 135 (2) Tbangur Thottam. (3) Pudu Nagar puthutheru. 69 KulIaiyar Thottam. From 1 to 123 9. PERUMAL KOIL 70 (1) S.V. Patel Salai Southern side only. From 1 to 60 (2) Sankaradoss Veethi. 71 (1) Bharathi Street (from Eswaran Koil Street to S.Y. Patel Salai). (2) Perumal Koil Street (1 to 408). From 1 to 60 (3) Ambur Salai (Perurnal Koil Street to MuthumariammanKoil Street.) " 72 Perumal Koil Street (from No. 41 to 124 Annasalai). ''Prom 41 to 124 73 Thiagaraja Veethi both sides (from Gandhi Street to ,Pethro Kanakaraya From 1 to 7S mudaliar Veethi). 74 (1) Thiagaraja Yeethi. both sides (from G;mdhi Street to Bharat.b.i Street). From 76 to 153 (2) Annasalai (Crom Bharathi Street to Eswaran Koil Street). 75 (1) Muthumariamman Koil Street Solith side onl~rom West Boulevard to Ambur Salai). From 1 ,to SQ (2) Muthumariamman Koil Street North side -only (from Pethro Kanakaraya- mudaliar Street to Ambur Salai). , 76 Muthumariamman Koil Street Northern side only (from West Boulevard to Pethro Kanakarayamudaliar Street). From 8] to 152 77 (I) Gandhi Street (from S.Y. Patel Salai to Eswaran Koil Street). (2) Cathedral Road (from S. V. Patel Salai to Eswaran Koil Street). From 1 to 109 (3) CanteenStreet (CromS.V. Patel Salai to EswaranKoil Street). 78 Eswaran Koii Street (from Annasalai to Gandhi Street both sides from From 1 to 149 Gandhi to Ambur northern side only). to. CASSICADE 79 Annasalai (from Kamatchi Amman Koil Street to Nehru Street). From 1 to 121 80 (1) Nehru Street (from Gandhi Street to Annasalai northern side only). (2) Shops. (3) Ambalathadaiyar Madam (from Annasalai to Bharathi. Street). 'From 1 to 115 (4) Ambalathadaiyar Street (From Bharathi Street to Gandhi Street). From 1 to 129 (5) Gandhi Street (from Karnatchi Amman' Koil Street to Nehru Street west side only). (6) Shops. 81 Kalatheswaran Koil Street both sides (from Annasalai to Gandhi Street). From 1 to 147 82 Calve Subraya Chettiar Street both sides (from Annasalai to Gandhi Street). From 1 to 133 229 ' (1) (2) (3) (4) 83 Kamatchi Amman Koil Street (from Annasalai to Gandhi Street both sides). From 1 to 154 84 (I) Aurobindo Street (from Annasalai to Gandhi Street). (2) Chinna Subrayapillai Street (from Calve Subraya Chettiar Street to Nehru Street). From 1 to 149 11. CALVE COLLEGE 85 (I) Eswaran Koil Street (South side only) from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai 1-67. (2) Kamatchi Amman Koil Street (both sides) from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai 1-76. From 1 to 143 86 (I) Aurobindo Street (both sides) Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai. (2) Calve Subraya Chettiar Street (south side only) from Cathedral Str~t to Ambur Salai and from Cathedral Street to Gandhi Street 31/A to 41. From 1 to 90 87 (1) Calve Subraya Chettiar Street (North side only) from Gandhi Street to Ambur ·Salai (2) Calve Subraya Chettiar Street (South side) from the number 43 to 6IJA. From 91 to 180 (3) Ambalathadaiyar Madam Street (from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai) north side only. 88 (1) K'alatheswaran Koil Street (both sides from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai). (2) Ambalathadaiyar Madam Street (from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai) south side only. From 1 to 90 89 (I) Nehru Street north side only (from Ambur Salai to Gandhi Street) 1-8 (2) Shops 1-50. (3) Gandhi Street 1-25. C'> Shops I-SO. (5) Cathedral Street tboth sides from Nehru street to Easwaran Koil Street) 1-54 From 1 to 288 (6) Shops SO. (7) Pethro Kanagarayamudaliar Street (both sides from Nehru Street to Eswaran Koil Street) 37. (8) Ambur Salai western side only 4. 12. RADJABAVAN 90 (I) Manakula Vinayagar Street (from North Boulevard to JawaharlaI Street). From 1 to 34 (2) Victor Simonel Street (Eastern side only). 91. (1) Victor Simonel Street (from lawaharlal Street to Lal Bahadur Street) western side only. From 35 to 68 (2) Baslieu Street (Evache Street to Surcouf Street). 92 (1) Subbaiya Salai (from Ambur Salai to Goubert Salai). 1-21. (2) Ambur Salai. 1-33. (3) Vallabai Patel Salai (from Ambur Salai to Goubert Sala;). 1-13. (4) Perumal Koil Street (from Ambur Salai to S.V. Patel Street) 9 From 1 to 143 (5) Goubert Salai ;1-25. (6) Bel Combe Street 1-12. (7~ Corpa De Carde 1-3. (8) Lally Dolandal Street (from Ambur Salai to Fransuwa Martin Street). 1-27 93 (1) Dabasan Therismont Street. 1-35. (2) Duipy Street.I-13 (3) Saint Gile Street 1-13 From I to 94 (4) La Marine Street 1-13. (5) Law De Lauriston Street 1-20. 94 (I) Jawaharlal Nehru Street (from Ambur Salai to Saint Louis Street) 1-7. (2) Palais the Government 1-6. (3) Rangapillai Street (from AmtJur Salai to St. Mary Street) 1-4 (4) S!. Mary Street 1-12. 230 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Congine Street 1-25, From 1 to 163 (6) St. Louis Street 1-25. (7) Fransuwa Martin Street 1-31. (8) Ambur SaJai 1-28. (9) Labourdonnais ~treet 1-25. 95 (1) Saffron Street 1-30. (2) Romain Rolland Street 1-12. (3) Dumas Street 1-28. (4) RueDy saint Antony Street 1-3. (5) Bomn Saint Laurence Street 1-21. (6) Lal Bahadur Street (from Ambur Salai to Goubert Salai) 1-21. From 1 to 128 (7) Evache Street 1--4. (I) Surcouf Street 1-2. (9) easerioe Street 1--4. (10) Mahe de Labourdonnais 1-3. 13. CATflEDRAL (1) Petit Canal Street (from Gandhi Street to Canal Street) 1-26. (2) Saint Theresa Street (from Gandhi Street to Canal Street) 1-30. From 1 to 56 97 (I) Needarajappaiyar Street (from Gandhi Street to Canal Street) 1-56. From 57 to 117 (2) Sankaran Kulam 1-5. 98 (1) Cathedral Street (from Nehru Street to Petit Canal Street) 1-47. (2) Pethro Kanagarayamudaliar Street (from Nehru Street to Petit Canal' Street) 1-34. From 1 to 132 (3 ) Ambur Salai (from Nehru Street to Petit Canal Street) 1-11. (4) Victor Simone) Street 1-3. (5) Saint Ange Street 1-5. 99 (I) Iawaharlal Nehru Street (South side only) from Canal Street to West Bm.levard Street 1-] 50. From 1 to 300 (2) Rangapillai Street (from Libpry to Gandhi'Street) both sides 1-159. 100 (1) RangapiIlai Street both sides (from Gandhi Street to Anna SaJai). (2)' Chinna Subraya Pillai Street (from Nehru Street to Rangapillai Street) From 1 to 292 (3) Bharathi Street (from Nehru Street to Rangapillai Street), (4) Thiagu Mudali Street. 101 Thiagu Mudali Street. From 1 to 120 102 (1) Grand Bazar Market. (2) Gandhi Street (Nehru Street to Petit Canal upto Rangapillai Street both sides) from Rangapillai Street to Petit Canal Street eastern side only). From 1 to 303 14 KOLATHU MEDU 103 Shanmuga Velayudha Mudali Street. From to 156 104 Needarajappaiyar Street (frocl Anna Salai to Gandhi Street). From to 126 105 Louis Pragasam Street Chinna Subraya PiIlai Street, both sides (.A, B T Parcel Service & Survey & Land Records). From 1 to loW 106 (1) Tambu Naicker Street. (2) Bharathi Street (from next to Radha Biscuit to Survey Office both sides). From to 138 107 Saint Theresa Street (from Gandhi Street to Anna. Salai). From to 140 231 (1) (2) (3) (4) 108 (1) Saint Theresa Madam Lane. (2) Kolathumedu Street. From 1 to 136 (3) Gandhi Street west side only (from opposite to Sankaran Kulam Street to Tailor Shop) (4) Anna Salai both sides (from Nataraja II Street to Raman Theatre). 15 SINNACADAI 109 Ignasi Maistry Street. From 1 to 220 110 . Gandhi Street (from Laporte Street to Middle of the Ignasi Maistry and Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street west side only). From 1 to 140 111 (1) Lal Bahadur Street (from Anna Salai to Gandhi Street). (2) Chinna Subraya PiIlai Street (from next to Land Record Office upto Hotel opposite to Bus stand entrance). From 1 to 128 112 Petit Canal Street. From to 1()() 113 Vidhvan Savarirayalu Street. From 1 to 105 114 (1) Laporte Street (from Anna Salai" to Gandhi Street). (2) Montorsier Street (from Chinna Subraya Pillai Street to Gandhi Street). From I to 134 115 (1) Kandappamudaliar Street (from Chinna Subraya Pillai Street to Gandhi Street). (2) Bharathi Street (from Survey Department to AIADMK). From 1 to 194 (3) Anna Salai (from Raman Theatre to Bus Stand south corner). 16. HOSPICE 116 Gandhi Street; (from Laporte Street to Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street eastern side only). From 1 to 57 117 (1) Savarirayalu Street both sides (from Gandhi Street to Cathedral Street). From 1 to 70 (2) Laporte Street (1A to 4). 118 (1) Laporte Street both sides (5 to 52). (2) Montorsier Street (from Gandhi Street to Capitaine Marie Xavier Stleet). From 71 to 146 (3) Surcouf Street (from Capitaine Marie Xavier Street to Ambur Salai). 119 (1) Ruelle Saint Antoine Street. (2) Kandappamudaliar Street (from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai). From 1 to 133 (3) Lal Bahadur Street (from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai). 120 (1) Cathedral (from Petit Canal to Lal Bahadur Sastri Street). (2) Capitaine Marie Xavier Street (from Petit Canal to Lal Bahadur Sastri Street). From 1 to 112 (3) Ambur Salai west side only (from Petit Canal to Yanam Venkatachalam PiIlai St.). 121 (1) Mullah Street both sides (from Sastri Street to Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street). (2) Nainiya Pillai Street (from Sastri Street to Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street). (3) Ellaiamman Koil Street (from Laporte to Yanam Venkatachalam PiIIai Street). From I to 120 (4) Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street (from Gandhi Street to Ambur Salai). (5) Punniakotti street. (6) Podikadai Lane. 122 (1) Kazhiar Street (from Sastri Street to Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street). From 1 to 191 (2) Sandha Sahib Street (from Ambur Salai to Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street). 17. PERIAPPALLI 123 (1) Hyder Ali Street. (2) Latheef Street and Cuddalore Street. (3) Khan Sahib Lane. (4) Appavo41 Maistry Street. 232 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Mal Come Street. From 1 to 106 (6) Ambur Salai (from Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street to South Boulevard). (7) Shop etc. 124 (1) Sandha Sahib Street (from Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street to Old Hospital). (2) Kazhiar Street (from Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street to Old Hospital). From 1 to 149 (3) Latour Street. 125 (1) South Boulevard (from Ellaiamman Koil Street to Ambur Salai). From 1 to 70 (2) Raja Singh Street and Shaji Street. 126 (1) Thippu Sahib Street (from EUaiamman Koil Street to Gandhi Street). (2) Ramraja S~reet. (3) South Boulevard Street (from Ellaiamman Koil Street to Gandhi Street). From 71 to 147 Gandhi Street (from Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street to Thillai Maistry Street). cutem side only. From 259 to 271 (I) GaDdhi Street (from Thillai Maistry Street to South Boulevard) eastern side only. (2) Naini)IIl PilIai Street (from Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street to Thippu Sahib Street) From 1 to 75 ()) Mullab samet. ,.) Jtazbia:t Street. J2f -(1) EllajaRJmBo Xoil Street (from YaDam Venkatachalam Pillai -Street to South Boulevard). (2) Pandian z..a.ac. From 76 to 151 (3) 'lbiJlaj Ma~ Street (from Gandhi Street to Nainiya PiUai Street). 18. VEERAVALLY 130 Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street (from Gandhi Street to Chinna Subraya Pillai Street). From 1 to 130 131 (1) ThiDai Maistry Street (from Gandhi Street to Chinna Subraya PiIlai Street). (2) Chinna Subraya Pillai Street (from Bus Stand entrance to West Boulevard). From 1 to 138 (3) West Boulevard (from Chinna Subraya Pillai Street to way to Vendrapet). 132 Jeevanandam Street. From 1 to 125 \ 133 V.O.C. Street. From 1 to 140 134 Gandhi Street (from Yanam Venkatachalam Pillai Street to Thillai Maistry Street western side only). From 184 to 194 135 (1) Gandhi Street (from Thillai Maistry Street to South Boulevard western side only). (2) Bharathi Street (from Thillai Maistry Street to South Boulevard both sides). From 1 to 130 (3) Badhur Sahib Street. (4) Thippu Sahib Street (from Gandhi Street to Shermont Street). 136 (1) South Boulevard (from Gandhi Street to way to Vendrapet). (2) Latour Street. (3) Marcin Street. (4) Shartod Street. From 1 to 150. (5) Cathedral Street. (6) Come Street. (7) Shermont Street. 19. THIRUMUDI NAGAR 137 (1) Balvadi Sandu. (2) Sagayamadha 1st Street. From 1 to 108 233 (1) (2) (3) (4) 138 (1) Mudakku Mariamman Koil Main Street (both sides). (2) Mudakku Mariamman Koil Street (from Govindasalai Main Street to Mudakku Mariamman Koil Street both sides). (3) Othavadai Street (from Muuakku Mariamman Koil Street tu Kakkus Sandu both sides). From 109t0216 (4) Kakkus Sandu (from Mudakku Mariamman Koil Main Street to Govindasalai Main Street). (5) Sagayamadha II Street (from Balvadi Sandu to Mudakku Mariamman Koil Main Street) both sides. 139 (l) Mudakku Mariamman Koil Main Street (both sides). From I to 108 (2) Mudakku Mariamman Koil Street (from Govindasalai Main Street to Mudakku- Mariamman Koil Main Street) both sides. 140 (1) Thirumudi Nagar I Street 1-26. (2) Thirumudi Nagar H Street 1-22. From 1 to 82 Nataraja I & II Street 1-8, 1-26 141 (I) Needarajappaiyar Street (from Anna Salai to Govindasalai corner). From 1 to 110 (2) Govindasalai Main Road (Eastern side only). (3) Govindasalai Main Road (Western side only) from Villianur Road to Needarajappaiyar Street. 142 (I) Bairagi Mandapam 1-·71. From 1 to 121 (2) Raman Theatre Pallam (Goubert Nagar). I-50. 143 Govindasalai (from Kamaraj Salai to Needarajappaiyar corner both sides). From 1 to 130 144 (1) Pudu Nagar (from Needarajappaiyar Street to Villianur Road). 1-89. From 1 to 189 (2) Khan Doctor Thottam 1-100. 145 (1) Pandian Street (from Govinda,;alai Main Road to Antoniar Koil Street). (2) Seran Street. (3) Cholan Street to Seran Street. From I to 118 (4) Cross Street next. 146 Antonbr Koil Street (both sides) between Antoniar Koil Street and Canal. From 111 to 210 147 Chinna PaJathu Veethi. From 1 to 90 148 Chinna Palathu Veethi. From 91 to 181 20. NETHAJI NAGAR 149 (1) Othavadai Street (from Mill Street to Kallarai Street). (2) Othavadai Street (from Bharathi Mill to 41 to 47/1). " From 1 to 80 (3) Kallarai Street (from Othavadai Street to Vandrapet Road northern side only). (4) Ayathoppu (from the numbers 48 to 54). 150 (1) Ayathoppu (boullded by Kallarai Street, Othavadai Street and Bharathi Mill from the number 3/70 to 62/2). (2) Ambethkar Salai (from Ambethkar Street to Othavadai Street) southern sid!:: only. From 81 to 160 (3) I Street both sides. (4) II Street northern side only. 151 (1) II Street southern side only (from Ambethkar Street to Othavadai Street). (2) III Street both sides (from Ambethkar Street to Othavadai Street). From 161 to 241 (3) Varadha Pilla; Thoppu. (4) Surrounding area Ambethkar Street by east, Othavadai Street by west, Thengaithittu River by _south and Nethaji Nagar 3rd Street by north. 152 (1) Nethaji Nagar New Colony 1-49. (2) Akkavathi Thoppu 1-33. (3\ RaiLway Colony \-21. From I to 103 234 (1) (2) (3) (4) 153 (1) Kolas Nagar I Street 1-21. (2) Kolas Nagar II Street 1-11. From 1 to 77 (3) Kolas Nagar III Street 1-45., 154 (1) Nethaji Nagar (Savuriarpet). (2) Kasturibai Street (from Cuddalore Salai). From 1 to 60 ISS (l) Rasu Odayar Thottam I-S4. (2) Muslim Colony 1-65. From 1 to 149 156 Nethaji Nagar Nadupet (from Cuddalore Road from the numbers 1 to 118). From 1 to 85 157 Nethaji Nagar Nadupet (from the numbers 119 ~o 224) From 86 to 169 158 Nethaji Nagar Cuddalore Salai. From 1 to 65 21. VAMBAKEERAPALAYAM 159 Sonam Palayam (from South to Vambakeerapalayam Street Lane Sanniyasi Thoppu) From 1 to 131 160 Vambakeerapalayam (from Electric'ity Board back side west of sea shore, east of School St., north of Theppakulam Street). ,. From 1 to 125 161 Vambakeerapalayam, west of sea shore, north of Theppakulam Street, south of Mariamman Kl"Jil Street, East of School Street From 1 to 130 162 Vambakeerapalayam. east of School Street, north of Mariarnrnan Koil Street, west of sea shore, south of Lazariye Street. From 1 to 127 163 Vambakeerapalayam, north of Theppakulam Street, south of Lazariye Street, west of Workshop Street, east of School Street From 1 to 126 164 (1) Dubrayapet Quarters 1 to 4. (2~ Near Theppakulam 1 to 8 Houses. From 1 to 60 (3) East side of Quarters Nos. 10 to 21. 165 Dubrayapet except Quarters. From 61 to 125 166 Dubrayapet, Surrounding Theppakulam by north, Lazar Koil Street by east, Leprosy Hospital Street by sout~, Keerapalayam Salai by west. From 1 to 60 161 C I Block and C II Block and 121 to 125. From 61 to 125 22. VENDRAPET 168 (1) Ambethkar Nagar. (2) Krishna Naicker Thoppu. (3) Natesa Naicker Thoppu. From 1 to 134 (4) Anju Naicker Thoppu. 169 (1) Rodierpet (2) Murugasamy Thoppu I & II. From 1 to 93 (3) Kolas Thoppu. (4) Rodierpet Railway line. 110 (1) Cuddalore Salai (frQm ViIlianur Road to JMRS Work shop) From 1 to 221 (2) Vendrapet (from Subbiah Salai to Cuddalore Road). 111 (1) Nagaratchi Veethi. (2) Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 99 (3) Thannikhan Veethi. 235 171/4-16A 0) (2) (3) (4) 23. PILLAI THOITAM 172 Ellango Nagar. From 1 to 127 173 Shanthi Nagar and Sharathy Nagar. From 1 to 105 174 Calve Bungalow from I to II Street (Bounded by Kamaraj Salai South, Nehru Nagar East, Govinda Salai North and New Cinema Theatre West). ' From 1 to &7 175 (1) Kamaraj Salai (from Tolgate to New Cinema Theatre). From 1 to 96 (2) Veera .Raghava Mudali Thoppu. 176 (1) Nehru Nagar. (2) Kamaraj Salai (from Way to Calve Bungalow Pillai Thottam Mariamman' KoiJ southern side only). From 1 to 117 177 Puliyan Salai Veethi, Pillai Thottam Mariamman Koil Yeethi. Govindanatharajalu Naicker Street both sides. From 1 to 114 178 Iyyanar Nagar. From 1 to 110 24. KUYA VAR NAGAR-I 179 Lenin Street (from Kamaraj Salai to Iyyanar Koil Street). From 1 to 130 180 (1) Lenin Street from Iyyanar Koil to YiIlianur Road western side only. From 1 to ISO (2) Kuyavar Street. (3) Karunaoithy Pillai Street. 181 (1) Sella Perumal Street. (2) Sella Perumal Street, Pudu Nagar. From 1 to 147 (3) Pillaiyar Koil Street. 182 (I) Y.O.C. Street. (2) Kamaraj Street. (3) Vanithasan Street south side and nort~ side 22 to 29. From 1 to 110 183 (1) YanithasanStreet north side only-30 to 37 and near Latrine l~ to 11. (2) Kazhuthu Mariamman Koil Street. (3) Nalla thanny Kenathu Veethi (from Kamaraj Salai to Chain Factory southern side only). From 1 to 141 (4) Shathiya Nagar. 184 Kalarpet I (l\;lariamman Koil Street, Nadutheru and Bajanai Mada Theru). From 1 to' 121 185 (1) Kalarpet II. (2) Ellapillai Chavadi Street (from Kamaraj Salai to ViIlianur Road eastern side only) From 1 to 110 (3) Kathirvelu Chettiar, Thottam. 25. KUYAVAR NAGAR .II 186 (1) Iyyanar Koil Street. From 1 to 115 (2) Iyyanar Koil Pudu Veethi. (3) Vellalar Street. 181 (1) Vaishial Street. From 1 to 140 (2) Sattani Street. 188 Sundara Maistry Veethi. From 1 to 130 189 (1) Rajapaiyar Thottam. 1-80. (2) Rajaiyar Veethi 1,-40. From 1 to 230 (3) Kaniyar Thottarn 1-50. (4) KaIliyar Thottam Othavadai Street 1-60. " 236 (1) (2) (3) (4) 190 , Mettu theru. From 1 to 150 191 Palla theru. From to 125 192 Kamaraj Salai (from Puliyan Salai Street to Sundara Maistry Street southern side only). From 1 to 125 NELLIMA NAGAR (NORTH) 193 (1) Nellima Nagar (North). Market Street 1-120. (2) Market Street from Villianur Road to Othavadai Street, both sides 1-20. From r to 234 (3 ) Othavadai Street 1-94. 194 (1) Arul Padayatchi Street (from Gandhi street to Vinoba Street). 1-70. (2) La Mount Street. Govin{ja Naicker Street from Iyyanar Koil to Pillaiyar Salai both sides 1-30. From 1 to 240 (3) Puliyansalai Street 1-80. (4) Govindaraju Naicker Thottam. 1-60. 195 (1) Lenin Street (from Iyyanar Koil Street to Manimegalai G.H.S. east side). From 1 to 110 (1) Iyyanar Koil Street (from Lenin Strt;et to Govinda Naicker Street). 196 Yillianur Road (from Point Cane Street to Market Street southern side). From 1 to 72 27. NELLIMA NAGAR (SOUTH) 197 (1) Arul Padayatchi Street (from Villianur to Church side) 1-20. From 1 to 45 (2) Savari Padayatchi Street. 1-25. 198 (1) Saint.. Antonee Street 1-51. (2) Chinna Sandu 1-15. From 1 to 101 (3) Saint Rock 1-35. 199 (1) Point Cane Street (from Villianur Road to Railway line eastern side only) 1-70. From 1 to 85 (2) Vinoba Street (from Point Cane Street to Cuddalore Road). 1-15. 200 Kannara Street From 1 to 79 Church Street 1-29. Convent Street I-SO. 201 (1) Nallandi Maistry Street (Eastern side only) from Thottakkal Veethi to Poonthotta Veethi. (2) Thottakkal Veethi by north, Poonthotta Veethi by south, leevanandam H.S.S. by east and Nallandi Maistry Street by west (from the Numbers 2/42 to 2/55 and 2/22 to 2/26.) Frolll 1 to,70 '202 (1) Karamanikuppam Poonthotta Veetbi. (2) Railway line. (3) Nallandi Maistry Street western side only (from Thottakkal Veethi to Poonthotta Veethi). From 71 to 139 (4) Thottakkal Veethi south side only (from Nallandi Maistry Veethi to Bangrue#Road). (5) Back side of the Jeevanandam H.S.S. the street both sides from north by Thottakkal Veethi, south by Railway line. west by leevanandam H.S.S. from the Nos. 1 to 46. 28. PUDUPALAYAM 203 (1) Raja Nagar. (1) From Puliamarathu Veethi to Villianur Road and Villianur Road to Puliyan Salai Nos. 1 to 30. (3) Thiyagarajan Veethi. From 1 to 69 (4) Next to Orleanpet Lake (from the Nos. 3 to 21). (5) Villianur Road from Thiyagarajan S~t from Nos. 31 to 34. 237 0) (2) (3) (4) 204 Arunthathipuram (from Puliamarathu Salai to Puliamarathu Veethi and Pulia marathu Veethi to Mariamman Koil Street from the Nos. 31 to 102). From 70 to 138 205 Pudupalayam Pet 1-160. From 1 to 160 206 (1) Sangoihi Amman Koil Street (Southern side only). (2) Sangothi Amman Koil right side street (both sides). (3) Canal northern side only. From 1 to 73 (4) Pallivasal Street (from Canal to Sangothi Amman Koil Street). (5) Sangothi Amman KoiI Street I 27 to 34, II 36 to 44. (6) Sangothi Amman front side from Sangothi Amman K~il Street to Canal, and Nos. 64 to 75. 207 (1) Market Street (from Pallivasal St. to Nellithope Nagara Mandra Veethi) both sides. (2) Pallivasal Veethi (from Sangothi Amman Koil Street to Market Street). (3) Sangothi Amman Koil front side street (from Sangothi Amman Koil Street to Market Street). From 74 to 147 (4) Indira Nagar. (5) Sanarapet. (6) Savana Mill Bungalow. (7) Thotta Veethi. 208 Kennedy Nagar From 1 to 158 209 (1) Raja Nagar'Mariamman Koil Street both sides. (2) From the Nos. 10/17 to 126 From 1 to 111 210 (1) Orleanpet to Mariamman Koil Veethi. (2) Pallivasal Street eastern side only. (from the Nos. 127 to 172.) From 112 to 223 (3) Orleanpet, Sangothi Amman Koil 'Street. (4) Orleanpet Market. 29. ORLEANPET 211 Sengunther Veethi. From 1 to 135 212 Amman Koil Street. Fiom 1 to 110 213 Othavadai Veethi. From 1 to 144 214 (1) Villianur Road from Animal Husbandry Road to Pallivasal Street both sides. From 1 to 123 (2) Pallivasal Street, eastern side. 215 Anna Theatre back side. (1) III Lane. , From 1 to 152 (2) IV Lane. (3) Subbiah Nagar 216 Seekaithoppu (Police Station backside) From 1 to 55 217 Anna Theatre back side (1) I Lane FJom 1 to 55 (2) II Lane 30; MUDALIARPET - I 218 Pattammal Nagar (South to Mill Street. north to Poonthotta Veethi, east to Maakaliamman Koil Street, west to Ramalinga Appal' Cross Street). From 1 to 52 219 (1) Poonthotta Veethi (SoHtherIl side only). (2) Maakaliamman Koil Street (Eastern side 'and western side from Nos. 37 to 42). From 53 to 105 (3)' Ramalinga Appar Cross Street (Eastern side). 238 0) (2) (3) (4) 220 South to Mill Veethi, east to Ramalinga Appar Cross Street, north to Vaithilinga Chetty Street, west to Cuddalore Street. From 1 to 130 221 (1) Vaithilinga Chetty Street (from Cuddalore Street to Police Lane). (2) Ramalingapura Veethi eastern side only (from Cuddalore Street to Police Lane) (3) Cuddalore Veethi (from Police Veethi to Vaithilinga Chetty Street) From 1 to 70 (4) Police Lane (from Vaithilinga Chetty St. to Ramalingapura VJethi) southern side only. 222 (1) Ramalingapura Veethi (from Cuddalore Street to Police Lane) west side only. From 71 to 141 (2) Poonthotta Veethi (from ~ddalore St. to Police Lane). (3) Police Lane both sides (from Poonthotta Veethi to Police Lane. ,; (4) Poonthotta Veethi Cross Street. (5) Police Lane (from Police Lane to Cuddalore Street) No. 9/15, 9/14. 223 (1) Othavadai Veethi, West Kallarai Veethi, Vannia Perumal Koil Veethi North, Police Lane South, Saminatha Pillai Veethi East 1-135. (2) Vannia Perumal Koil St,reet north, Kammara Veethi east, Poonthotta Veethi south, From 1 to 275 Saminatha Pillai Veethi west. 1-140. 31. MUDALIARPET II 224 Bharathi Mill Veethi west, Vannara Veethi north, '&ddalore Road east, Kallarai Veethi south. Fr~m 1 to 120 , 225 (1) Uppalam Veethi South, Bharathi Street North, Bharathi Mill Veethi West, Cuddalore Road East. (2) Cuddalore Road West, Br\rumnal Veethi North, Vellalar Veethi Cross East, Vellalar From 1 to 285 Veethi Smith, 226 (1) VeIlalar Veethi Cross Road West, Brahminal Veethi North, Keerapalayam, Point Cane Street East. From 1 to 255 (2) Bharadhidasan 1st Cross Street South. (3) Bharadhidasan Nagar. 227 (1) Kamaraj Street both sides. From 1 to 50 (2) Dhayanandan Street both sides. (3) Rodier Mill Street (from Kamaraj Street to Maakaliamman Koil Street) 228 (1) Gandhi Street both sides. (2) Anna' Street both sides. (3) Subbiah Street both sides. From 51 to 101 (4) Nehru Street. 229 (1) Lakshmi Nagar I-toO. (2) Lakshmi Nagar South. (3) Sundararaja Veethi East 1-115. From 1 to 215 (4) Deivanaicker Veethi North. (5) Maakaliamman Koll Street West. 230 (1) Kalyanamandapam East. (2) Vannia Perumal koil Street South. (3) Cuddalore Road West. From 1 to 125 (4) Pazhaya Market Street North. 231 (1) Old Market Street South. (2) New,Street Soufh by Veil alar Street (bot~ sides) from the numbers 1 to 27. From 1 to 6S 232 (1) Vellalar Street North. (2) Cuddalore Road West. (3) New Street from Bharadhidasan Nagar and Cross Street Nos. 1 to 7. From 66 to 131 (4) New Street from the Nos. 13 to 26. 239 171/4-16B (1) (2) (3) (4) 32. KEERAPALAYAM 233 (1) Anitha Nagar 1-38. (2) Point Cane Street (from Railway Nagar to Iyyanar Koil Street west inside only). 1-70. From 1 to 108 234 (1) Iyyanar Koil Street 1-96. (2) Point Cane Street(from Mill Yeethito Brahminal Street easternside only) 1-36. From 1 to 132 235 (1) Thiru Y.K. Nagar. (2) Point Cane Street from Iyyanar Koil Street to No. 40 (Western side only). From 1 to 141 236 (1) Point Cane Street from No. 41 to Marappalam (Western side only). (2) Angammal Sathiram. From 142 to 283 (3) Yelrampet. 237 (1) Nainar Mandapam (East to Cuddalore Road, from Marappalam to Murunga pakkam). (2) Mariamrrian Koil Street west side only (from Soltha Petai to Kuyavar Yeethi Nos. 1 to 28). From 1 to 115 238 Nainar Mandapam West Cuddalore Road from Marappalam to Murungapakkam (except Mariamman Koil Street Nos. 1 to 28). From 116 to 131 33. KOMMAPAKKAM 239 Kommapakkam Pettai From 1 to 120 240 Kommapakkam pettai From 120 to 240 241 Yillianur Road from Ot13ra Palayam Road to Kommapakkam Market both side including Pudu Nagar. From 1 to 108 242 (1) Sengeniamman KoiI Theru. From 1 to 156 (2) Bajanai Madam Theru. (3) Chetty Theru. (4) Nadu Theru. . 243 (1) Kuppam Pet. From 1 to 95 (2) Kuppam. 34. MURUNGAPAKKAM-I 244 Nadu Theru. From 1 to ,,45 245 Palla Theru. Fl:om 1 to 118 246 Murungapakkam Pet. From 1 to 90 247 (1) Pappan Chavadi. (2) OUam Palayam. From 1 to 85 35. MURUNGAPAKKAM-ll 248 (I) Kuyavar Theru From 1 to 130 (2) Throwpathianynan Koil Yeethi. 249 (1) Yillianur Salai northern side Cross Road (II (SO to I/57Q. From 1 to 131 (2) Nadu Theru. 250 Cuddalore Pathai from Murungapakkam·Madagu to Murungapakkam Octroi. From 1 to 131 251 Yillianur Road from Cuddalore Road to Palla Theru. From 1 to 90 36. THENGATHITTU 252 (1) Iyyanar Koil Street. From 1 to 152 (2) Nadu Theru. (3) South Street. 253 (1) Bajanai Madathu Street. From 1 to 125 (2) Pillaiyar Koil Street. 254 Mettu Thefu (East side only). From 1 to 120 255 Mettu Theru.. From 1 to 110 256 Pudu Colony (1 to 133) From 1 to 133 257 (1) Pudu Colony (134 to 182). From 1 to 103 (2) Vadakku Pet. 240 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT APPENDIX Total, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes powJation--Urban Block-wise Name of union territory : Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Name of district : Pondicherry Code No. 1 Location Name of town/ward/urban block Total Scheduled Scheduled Code No. population castes tribes (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) II. OZHUKARAI 86,988 10,127 4 Pillaichavadi 2,183 212 1 655 24 2 456 3 571 188 4 501 5 Dharmapuri 2,406 2 5 752 6 519 2 7 581 8 5S4 6 Muthirapalayam 5,481 483 9 722 10 567 16 11 487 12 810 13 724 4 14 830 15 700 16 641 463 7 Shanmugapuram 4,303 27 17 490 18 851 19 514 10 20 780 11 21 532 22 491 23 585 8 K~dirkamam ~t612 102 24 ..794 78. ·25 . ·711 9. 241 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 26 682 7 "27 576 8 28 412 29 497 9 Vhnakavundanpruay,un 6,680 230 30 497 31 643 55 32 76S 15 33 517 6 34 448 4 35 551 16 36 442 37 541 100 38 639 14 39 522 40 521 8 41 593 12 7,234 738 10 Danvantrinagar (i'-' 42 671 3 43 863 44 848 408 45 486 33 46 531 34 47 454 77 48 523 35 49 .c: 665 75 SO 701 67 51 786 52 706 6 11 Arumatbapuram 4,275 2.139 53 549 3 -54 548 548 55 548 548 56 S2S 185 57 502 333 58 523 522 59 418 60 602 - 242 (1) (2) (3) (4) \5) 12 ozhukarai 5,522 921 6,l 657 2 62 727 22 63 440 102 64 551 195 65 481 173 66 452 257 67 662 50 68 753 103 69 799 17 13 Reddiarpalayam 3.331 350 70 690 101 71 901 105 72 725 105 73 484 18 74 531 21 14 Ellaipillaicbavadi 2,665 18 75 580 8 76 563 77 634 4 78 888 6 IS Poomianpet 2,423 1,103 79 899 251 80 830 830 81 694 22 16 KavundanpaJayam 2,893 34 82 685 4 83 967 18 84 545 6 85 441 6 86 255 .. 17 Saram 4,232 37 87 611 88 521 89 504 243 (1) (2) (3 ) (4) (5) 90, 739 6 91 766 6 92 1,091 25 18 Narimedu 5,472 147 93 871 40 94 569 95 785 69 96 1,177 3 97 545 98 755 35 99 770 19 Thattotukala vapet , , 2,663 I,SO] 100 882 596 101 559 256 102 485 420 103 737 229 20, Pakkarnudayanpet , , 8,.130 541 104 698 105 707 106 , , 861 47 107 598 93 108 628. 357 .', 109 844 110 810 6 111 601 112 669 16 113 " 505 114 608 6 115 600 17 21 Lawspet 7,840 400 116 428 17 117 461 118 574 119 394 120 702 121 692 124 '244 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 122 606 10 123 665 124 862 125 704 126 903 127 849 248 22 Karuvadikuppam 5,583 1,141 128 792 358 129 607 292 130 537 164 131 688 132 734 133 597 304 134 700 135 928 23 Total number' of towns in Pondicherry district: 3 Total number of wards in Ozhukarai town: 19 Total number of urban blocks in Ozhukarai town : 135 Boundaries of urban blocks are gh,en in the list below. 245 LOCATION CODE NUMBERS FOR URBAN BLOCKS AND THEIR .JURISDICflON State Pondicherry District : Pondicberry Town : Ozhukarai L.C. No.: 32 L.C. No.: 1 L.C. No.: II L.C. No. L.C. No. Name of .wards with details of streets etc. Boundary of of (indicating ward B.B. door numbers) (1) (2) (3) (4) 4. PILLAICHAY ADI 1 Yaathiar Street. From 1 to 29 PiIlaiyar Koil Street. From 1 to 50 ThirukuJam. From 1 to 50 2 Marakkanam Salai. From 1 to 31 Therodum Street. From 1 to 59 Nadu Theru. From 1 to 31 3 Nadu Theru. From 32 to 40 From 117 to 136 Throwbathi Amman Koil Street. From 1 to 32 . Government Quarters. From 1 to 53 4 Pillaichavadi Kupparn. From 1 to 115 s. DHARMAPURI 5 Koil Maania Street. From 1 to 60 Mettu Theru. From 1 to 30 Gangaiamman Koil Street. From 1 to 17 6 Yazhudavur Road. From 1 to 47 Pudhu Theru. From 54 to 76 Prom 1 to 10 7 Chetty Street. From 1 to 24 Nadu Theru. From 1 to 36 Koil Street. From 1 to 22 8 Ayyankuttipalayam. From 1 to 105 6. MUTHIRAPALAYAM 9 Hospital Street (Mettupalayam) From 1 to 34 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 36 Vazhudavur Road. From 1 to 7 Konjumkili Mariamman Koil Plot. From 1 to 30 10 Industrial Estate- Anaikarai Street. From 1 to 27 Puthu Nagar I Street. From 1 to 17 Puthu Nagar II Street. From 1 to II Cross Street. From 1 to 10 11 Yannankulathu Yeethi. From 1 to 48 Govindan Koil Street. From 1 to 16 12 Nellumandi Street. From 1 to 77 Bajanai Madam Street. From 1 to 52 13 Muthirapalayam (Yazhudavur Road). From 1 to 47 Bajanai Mada.¢.' Street. From 1 to 15 Sevutha, Counder Street. From 1 to 34 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 64 4 . 14 High School Street. From 11 to 68 Mettu Theru. From 1 to 39 ThaI?davarayan Pillai Street. From 1 to 44 246 \ (1) (2) (3) , (4) IS Sudalai Street. From 1 to 16 Paambatti Street. From 1 to 36 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 66 16 ThiJagar Nagar (I to IV Cross). From 1 to 100 Ottankudisai. From 1 to 21 7. SHANMUGAPURAM 17 Meenatchipet (Indira Nagar) From 1 to 30 Othavadai Street. From 1 to 52 Vadakku Street. From 1 to 41 18 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to S4 Therku Veethi. From 1 to 49 Ramanapuram. From 1 to 19 19 Pillaiyar Koil Street. From 1 to 23 Nadu Veethi. From 1 to 15 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 39 Vazhudavur Road. From 1 to 43 Sokkanathanpet. From 1 to 11 20 Vazhudavur ROlld. Bharathi Street. . V.O.c.: Street. Subramaniar Koil Street. Othavadai Veethi. 21 Vinayagar Koil Street. 22 Kattabomman Street. 23 Mariamman Koil Street. Kamaraj Street. Subbiah Street. Mariamman Koil Thidal. Indira Nagar. 8. KADIRKAMAM 24 Vazhudavur Road. From I to 55 Gandhi Street. From 1 to 39 Nehru Street. From 1 to 27 25 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 60 Subramaniarkoil Street. From 1 to 56 26 Gangaiamman Koil Street. From 1 to 71 Pudhu Street. From 1 to 27 Y.O.C. Street. From 1 to 12 Kaliamman Koil Street. 1 27 Bharathi Street. From 1 to 102 28 Ananda Nagar (South-New Street, West-Govindan Street, East-Therodum St.). From 1 to 75 29 Ananda Nagar (South-Gangaiamman Koil Street, West-Bharathi Street, East-Govindan Street, North-Manimegalai Street). From I to 104 9. VIMAKAVUNDANPALAYAM 30 Maanthoppu. From 1 to 41 Tindivanam Road. From 1 to 17 Mettu Street. From 1 to 51 I 31 Odai Theru (Back side of Venkateswara Talkies). From 1 to 151 32 Therodum Street. From 1 to 58 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 65 247 (1) (2) (3) (4) 33 Duraisamy Mudali Street. From 1 to 25 Iyyanarkoil Street-South side. From I to 9 34 Iyyanar koil Street. From 1 to 101 Na:du Theru. From 1 to 40 Gangaiamman Koil Street. From 1 to 73 35 Gandhi Nagar Block A to I. From 1 to 90 36 Gandhi Nagar- Block J to M From 1 to 40 Block T, 0, X From 1 to 30 37 Gandhi Nagar- Block N,P,S,Q,R,U,Y, W, Gandhi Nagar Market. From 1 to 74 Harijan Hostel. From 1 to'20 38 Delawspet-Mudaliar Street. From 1 to 36 Iyyanar Koil Street. From 1 to 85 Kalikoil Street. From 1 to 11 Pulavar Street. From 1 to 11 39. Gandhi Nagar Merku Ellai Street. From 1 to 38 Vinayagar Koil Street. From 1 to''47 40 Throwpathiamman Koil Street. From 1 to 43 Kali Koil Street. From 1 to 6 Yelhn Thottam. From 1 to 15 41 Therodum Veethi. From 1 to 50 Yazhudavur Road. From 1 to 59 10. DANYANTRlNAGAR TIlattanchavadi Pettayan Chathiram. From 1 to 63 Subbiah Street. From 1 to 63 43 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 87 Iyyanar Koil Street. From] to 44 44 Thattanchavadi Pet. From 1 to 30 Gangaiamman Koil Street. FroIl) 1 to 75 45 Danvantrinagar- Quarters C II to D, E Type to F type. From 1 to 140 46 Danvantri Nagar-O type. From 1 to 100 -47 Danvantri Nagar-H type. From 1 to 90 Ask,ar House. From 1 to 30 48 Osler House. From 1 to 48 Nightingale House. From 1 to 74 Leister House. From 1 to 34 Curi House From 1 to 12 Harvey House. From 1 to 6 19 Police Quarters-A type. From 1 to 4 B to D Type. From 1 to 89 CB&DA. From 1 to 30 50 Police Quarters DB and DC type From 1 'to 50 E type. From 1 to 16 PAP-A to C Coy. From 1 to 11 T B Sanitorium. From 1 to 57 LlG & MIG-Block. From 1 to 10 Vasantha Bhavan. From 1 to 5 51 Subbiah Nagar Colony. From 1 to 13() 52 Subbiah Nagar Colony. From] to 125 248 (1) (2) (3) (4) ll. ARUMATHAPURAM 53 Muthupillaipalayam- Mariamman Koil Street. Fro{\l 1 to 18 Nadu Theru. From 1 to 42 Mettu Theru. From 1 to 51 54 Pichaiveeranpet Valluvar Street. From 1 to 9 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 80 55 VaaikaI Street. FrGm 1 to 78 Perambai Road. From 1 to 3 Mangapillai Thottam. From 1 to 10 56 Moolakulam Main Road. From 1 to 60 Kalathumedu Street (East side). From 1 to 24 57 Sebastian Street. From,1 to 80 Madurai Pet. From 1 to 21 58 Arumathapuram Pet Main Road. From 1 to 19 Mariamman Koil Street. From I to 35 59 Arumathapuram. From 1 to 104 60 Puthu Theru. From 1 to 57 Main Road. From 1 to 21 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 3S 12. OZHUKARAI 61 Ozhukarai Pet I Street. From 1 to 103. 62 .11 Street. From 1 to 86 Vincent Street. From 1 to 27 63 III Street (East side). From 1 (045 64 III Street (West side) From 1 to 4S Vayalveli. From 1 to 44 65 Ozhukarai Pet IV Street (East side). From 1 to 64 66 IV Street-West side. From 1 to 50 61 Salai Street. From 1 to 43 68 Salai Street. From 44 to 102 69 Ozhukarai I Main Street. From 1 to 6S. II Main Street. From 1 to 67 13. REDDIARPALAYAM 70 Ajees Nagar. From 1 to 17 Villianur Road. From 1 to 45 Murugan Street. From 1 to 18 Arokianadar Koil Street. From 1 to 9 Thotti Thottam. From 1 to 3 Percipsion Street. From 1 to 4 Paai Medu. From 1 to :! Lambert Saravanan Street. From 1 to_.2 71 Reddiarpalayam Nadu Tberu. From 1 to 25 Konda Reddy Street. From I to 5S Raja Reddy Street. From 1 to 37 Koil Street. From 1 to 21 72 Reddiarpalayam Putbu Nagar. From 1 to 130 249 (1) (2) (3) (4) 73 Kamban Nagar. From 1 to 27 Morisan Thottam I Street 74 Morisan Thottam II & III Street. From 28 to 107 llf. ELLAIPILLAICHAV ADI 75 Bajanaimadathu Street. From 1 to 26 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 82 Iyyanarkoil Street. From 1 to 30 76 Ellaipillaichavadi Iyyanar Koil Street. From 31 to 88 Chetty Street. From 1 to 77 77 Vivegananda Nagar. From 1 to 69 Victoria Nagar. From 1 to 33 78 Pavazhakaran Chavadi I Street. From 1 to 41 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 t959 Puthu Street. From 1 to 31 Villianur Street. From 1 to 10 J5. POOMIANPET 79 Karamanikuppam Tharikara Theru. From 1 to 20 Mariamman Nagar. From 1 to 72 Poomianpet. From 1 to 40 80 Poomianpet. From 41 to 182 81 Karamanikuppam Point Carre Street. From 1 to 7 Sinna Kosapalayam. From 1 to 69 Nadesan Nagar. From 1 to 41 16. KAVUNDANPALAYAM 82 Kundu Palayam . From 1 to 116 83 Kavundanpalayam. From 1 to 139 84 Thilagar Nagar. From 1 to 50, 85 Thilagar Nagar. From 51 to 102 86 Mohan Nagar. From 1 to 36 Vazhudavur Road. From 1 to 62 17. SARAM 87 Pudu Saram-I Street. From 1 to 103 North Street. From 1 to 18 88 Middle Street. From 1 to 110. Othavadai Street. From 14 to 33B 89 Middle Street From to 41 Othavadai Street. From to 13 90 Pazhaya Saram-North Street. From 1 to 25 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 61 East Street. From 1 to 34 91 East Street. From 1 to 40 Subramaniar Koil Street. From 1 to 53 Saram Main Road. From 1 to 13 92 Brindavanam. From 1 to 79 Sithan Kudisai. From 1 to 69 250 (4)---- (1) (2) (3) 18. NARIMEDU 93 Kamaraj Nagar & Jayaram Theatre Road western side. From. 1 to 147 94 Kamaraj SaIai. From 1 to 114 95 Rainbow Nagar. From 22 to 26 Rainbow Nagar. From 11 to 86/1 96 Rainbow Nagar. From 87 to 124 97 Kamaraj Nagar (Jayaram Theatre Road eastern side). From 1 to 92/4 98 Yenkata Nagar-I Cross Road. From 1 to 35 II Cross Road From 1 to 58 III Cross Road. From 70 to 79/1 99 Yenkata Nagar-III Cross Road. From 80 to 114 IV Cross Road. From 1 to 20 19. THATTQTUKALAVAPET 100 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 92 Soosaiappar KoiJ Street. From 1 to 27 101 New Street. From 1 to 38 RamaIinga Nagar. From 1 to 14 102 Eastern Street. From 1 to 13 Jabril Street. From 1 to 36 Kalathumedu. From 1 to 17 103 PoyyakuJam. From 1 to 40 Yazhudavur ,Road. From 1 to 12 Thiruvalarkeni. From 1 to 59 20. PAKKAMUDAYANPET 104 Main Road. From I to 46 Mariamman Koil Street (North side). From 1 to 5315 105 Mariamman Koil Street (South side). From 3 to 25/9 Pudupet-Mettu Street. From 1 to 46 Middle Street. From 1 to 27 Kanaganthottam. From 1 to 30 106 KoUupalayam Mariamman KoiI Street. From 1 to 98 Lawspet Main Road. From 1 to 28 PilIaiyar Koil Street. From 1 to 11 Kuppusamy Naicker Colony. From 1 to 21 107 Rajaji Nagar. From 1 to 118 l()8 ~t. Paul Pet. From 1 to 130 ]09 A vvai Nagar. From] to 26 MuthuI :ngampet. From 1 to 104 110 Tagore Nagar. From 1 to 82 Raman Nagar. From 1 to 15 . Anna Colony. From 1 to 5 111 Jeevanandapuram- Mariamman KoiI St.l'eet. From 39 to 40 Bagavathsingh Street to From 1 to 37 Bharathidasan Street North. From 1 to 64 112 Jeevanandapuram Thirupur Kumaran Street. From 1 to ]5 Bharadhidasan Street South. From 7 to ]2 Near Anna Colony. From 49 to 79 . Naavakulam. From 1 to 59 251 171/4-17A (1 ) (2) (3) (4) 113 Pakkamudayanpet Kiramani Street. From 1 to 21 Main Road. From 1 to 90 114 Kamblisamiar Street. From 1 .to 21 Udayar Street. From 1 to 33 Vanniar Street (42-68). From 1 to 68 115 Vanniar Street. From 115 to 123 ponniamman Koil Street. F:rom J to 27 21 LAWSPl::T 116 Pethuchettypet-Main Road. From 1 to 10 Post Office Street. From 12 to 20 Pudu Street. From 1 to 18 117 Pallikuda Street back side. From 2 to 12 Mariamman Koil Street. From 13 to IS8 118 pethuchettypet-Sakthivel Koil Street. From 1 to 31 Vinayagar Koil Street. From 1 to 64 119 Pethuchettypet-Subramaniaswamy Koil Street. From 1 to 100 120 Sellaperumalpet. From 1 to ll8/3 121 Sellaperumalpet. From 2/6 to 116 Srinivasa Kounder street and NandagopaJ Street North. From 1 to 137 122 Lawspet Quarters-College (Compound Area). From 1 to 12 Block A to S From 1 to 120 ~ 123 Lawspet Quarters-Block T to Z From I to 84 Neruppu Kuzhi. From 1 to 45 124 Lawspet-Mariamman Koil Street. From 25A to 118 Veerapathrasamy Koil Street. From 75 to 228 125 Subramaniar Koil Street. From I to 24 Subramaniar Koil Street (West). From I to 33 Pillaiyar Koil Street. From I to 13 Kaaman Koil Street. From 1 to 27 College Road. Fro~ I to 20 126 Subrflmaniar Koil Street, Kaaman Koil Street, PiIlaiyar Koil Street, College Road upto Subramaniar Koil Street Main Road (West). From 1 to 140 127 Main Road (East) and Maduvupet (From Library). From t to 150 22 KARUVADIKUPPAM 128 Swamipillai 'Thottam. . From I to 118 129 Karuvadikuppam-Key Centre Street. From 43 to 53 Muthumariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 118 Edayanchavadi Road. From 1 to 57 130 Karuvadikuppam Edayanchavadi Road. From 58 to 163 , 131 Karuvadikuppam Pet Pallikuda Street. From I to 12 Naagammai Street. From 1 to 4S PilIaiyar Koil Street. From 1 to S~ 132 Katuvadikuppam-Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 41 Gangaiamman Koil Street. From 1 to 49 Appasamy Street. From 1 to 6 PonnialTIman Koil Street. From 1 to S3 133 Didear Nagar. From 1 to 110 134 Karuvadikuppam-Mettu Street. From 1 to 1~7 135 Karuvadikuppam-Bharathi Nagar. From 1 to 190 Sittananda Colony. From 1 t" 1(' 252 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACt APPENDIX Total, flcheduled castes and scheduled tribes population-Urban Block-wise Name of union territory: Pondicherry Name of district: Pondicberry. Code No. : 32 Code No. : 1 Location Name of town/ward/urban block Total Scheduled Scheduled Code No. population castes tribes (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1II. KURUMBAPET 1,793 678 1 Kurumbapet 1,311 577 1 619 S72 2 692 S 2 Gopalankadai ~89 33 3 189 33 3 Tavalapattu 72 68 4 72 68 4 M uthupillaipalayam- 221 5 221 Total number of towns in Pondicherry district: 3 Total number of wards in Kurumbapet town: 4 Total number of urban blocks in Kurumbapet town: 5 Boundaries of urban blocks are given in the list below. LOCATION CODE NUMBERS FOR URBAN BLOCKS AND TIlEIR JURISDICTION State Pondicqerry District Pondicherry Town Kurumbapet L.C. No.: 32 L.C. No.: L.C. No.: m L.C. No. L.C. No. Name of wards with details or streets etc. Boundary of ward of E.B. (indicating door numbers) (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 Kurumbapet and Kalmedupet From 1 to 25 From 1 to 83 I 2 Kurumbapet and Kalmedupet From 1 to 119 2 3 Gopalankadai From 1 to 54 3 4 Tavalapattu From 1 to 15 4 5 M uthupillaipala yam From 1 to 37 253 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Ariankuppam Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: 1 Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional aud Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. N2.me of village village Residential holds ,.------, ,.----"------, ,.-_.A-_----., ,.----A.._--.. in Houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Fe- hectares malei males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (1<·) 1. Periavirampattinam 105.45 530 557 3,235 1,664 1,571 36 35 969 511 2. Sinnavirampattinam 292.20 72 72 395 209 186 133 61 3. Odaively 86.06 137 141 711 366 345 215 III 4. Kakayant~pe 109.20 257 271 1,0463 767 ·<)96 3 2 454 226 5. Ariankuppam 148.55 1,563 1,716 9,409 /" 4,812 4,597 381 335 3,359 2,266 6. Edayarpalayam 101.11 135 137 728 368 360 7 • 7 2~6 130 7. Nanamedu 106.68 42 49 242 140 102 89 67 86 30 8. Tavalakuppam 109.86 179 192 1,096 541 555 20 25 380 275 9. Thanampalayam 66.22 92 92 435 234 201 161 80 10. Pumankuppam 382.05 500 518 2,781 1,399 1,382 15 10 909 438 11. Pudukuppam 7.09 129 136 782 398 384 234 112 12. Theduvanatham 57.76 13 13 71 38 33 26 10 13. Abishegapakkam 199.38 516 521 2,951 1,557 1,394 1,248 1,0~9 952 426 14. Thimmahayakenpalayam 450.12 401 403 2,121 1,084 1,037 589 558 471 199 15. Korkamedu 30.04 45 52 260 141 119 86 56 16. Kasanthittu 15.76 18 23 149 72 77 47 28 17. Andi_arpalayam 26.71 131 131 646 317 329 86 92 150 83 ,\ 18. Nallavadu 17.36 323 323 1,679 868 811 2 2 487 241 19. Nonankuppam 50.55 255 267 1,458 760 698 84 74 482 243 20. Manavely 74.00 6311 649 3,495 .1,791 1,704 1.222 716 Co:mnDe Total.. 1.436.15 5,91' 6,163 34.101 11,516 16,581 l,5(tO 1,3(4) 11,049 6,241 254 . VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT ..... '. PoDdicherry Code No.: 32 Ar~nkuppam Conunune DiItriI&: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: 1 MAIN WORKERS I-c. r- , No. Name of village Total main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other workers \1) Ia.bourers industry workers (I-IX) tIl) ManuCactur- [III, IV, V{b) MARGINAL NON- . ing, Process- & VI to IX) . WORKERS WORKERS ing, Servicing & Repaits[V(a)] r----"------, r----A.------, r--.....A.-----., r---"------., r----"-----. r----"-----. r---"-----. Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- males males males males males males males .to (2) (IS) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Periavirampattinam. 632 47 3 632 44 4 6 1,028 1,518 2. Sinnavirampattinam 92 92 1 117 185 3. Odaively 166 59 25 4 73 48 67 7 200 285 4. Kakayantope 318 37 8 70 14 7 240 16 3 446 659 5. Ariankuppam 1,844 252 87 3 348 70 22 11 1,387 168 14 6 2,954 4,339 6. Edayarpalayam 200 96 40 7 74 77 2 86 10 2 166 263 7. Nanamedu 42 6 19 1 17 16 23 82 78 8. Tavalalcuppam 199 29 27 10 3 158 25 34 9 308 517 9. Thanampalayam 61 7 6 53 26 141 201 10. Pumankuppam 630 141 164 21 243 78 5 217 37 25 38 744 1,203 1 I. Pudukuppam 158 38 1 157 38 240 346 12. Theduvanatham 16 6 10 1 22 32 13. Abishegapakkam 651 202 84 6 338 164 4 228 28 6 7 900 1,185 14. Thimmanayakenpalayam .594 300 90 4 410 285 13 4 81 7 2 490 735 15. Korkamedu 41 7 8 1 7 2 31 3 10 2 84 110 16. Kasanthittu 31 13 5 1 25 11 2 2 39 62 17. Andiarpalayam 169 6 76 3 63 2 30 1 148 323 18. Nallavadu 451 185 41 , 33 33 3 376 140 10 6 407 620 • 19. Nonankuppam 346 25 116 10 103 13 127 2 414 673 20. Manavely 725 126 76 200 86 5 5 444 35 23 15 1,043 1,563 Commune Total .. 7,378 1,566 861. 69 2,004 874 55 49 4,458 574 175 118 9,973 14,897 255 171/4-178 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Ozhukarai Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: Code No.: '2 Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of 'occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential holds r---~ r------"-----., ,--'--'-----, r---A.---'-, in hectares Houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males . (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Ganapathychettykulam 138.10 259 262 1,336 688 648 8 11 353 144 I'" 2. Periakalapattu 405.41 643 694 3,647 1,898 1,749 88 96 " 886 ::187 3. Sinnakalapattu 196.41 256 262 1,391 725 666 351 146 4. Aiankuppam 108.95 199 205 1,149 577 572 154 145 362 153 5. Sanjeevarayanpet ., 39.64 171 177 980 489 491 325 133 Commune Total .. 888.51 10528 . 1,600 8,503 4,377 4,126 2SO 252 2,277 963 MAIN WORKERS L.C. Name of village ,- NQ. Total Cultivators Agricultural Household Other Main (I) labourers industry workers MARGINAL NON- workers (II) Manufactur- (Ill, IV, V(b) WORKERS WORKERS (I-IX) ing, Process- & VI to IX) ing. Servicing '. ~ & Repairs[V(a)] ,.----"-____.. ,-__.A-----., ,-_____.A.-, ,---"---, ,-__,..._---., ,----.A..---., ,-_-----A._----, Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (IS) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (2S) 1. Ganapathychettykulam 316 9 151 14 151 9 372 638 2. Periakalapattu 840 90 259 3 86 60 3' 2 492 25 44 60 1,014 1,599 , -'. Sinnakalapattu 375 133 101 41 ,41 47 15 232 30 9 64 341 469 4. Alankuppam 293 54 101 4 110 39 7 75 11 24 42 260 476 5. Sanjeevarayanpet 244 50 37 2 139 45 3 65 2 11 44 234 397 Commune Total 2,068 336 649 50 390 191 14 I8 1,015 77 88 211 2,221 3,579 256 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf state Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Mannadipet Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: 3 Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House-' population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential holds r- r-__A...... _.., r---"-----.. ,.----A-~ in hectares houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males (1) (2) (3) (4) ,(5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) \ 1. Manalipattu 108.91 106 108 563 296 267 80 59 145 49 2. Chettipet 252.52 276 291 1,473 767 706 122 106 377 153 3. Kunichampattu 408.00 501 506 2,496 1,269 1,227 340' 374 669 332. 4. Kondareddipalayam 132.04 70 70 361 179 182 113 48 5. Thirukkanur 195.48 443 444 2,545 1,337 1,208 227 175 812 485 6. Mannadipattu- 76.56 355 368 1,830 937 893 274 268 474 211 7. Sompattu 117.74 183 188 878 431 441 62 65 223 115 8. Vadanur 136.75 113 119 576 • 292 284 75 78 165 71 9. Andiarpalayam (Vadanur) 10.50 1 4 2 2 2 2 10. Montbrunpet 16.17 30 30 168 75 93 70 61 11. Ptiranasingapaiayam 203.28 146 165 817 412 405' 113 99 244 114 '12. Silkaripalayam 66.52 86 91 475 244 231 11 14 122 58 14. Kutchipalayam 57.50 60 70 371 192 179 52 47 ')7 53 14. Andiarpalayam (Kalithirthalkuppam) 54.60 126 132 701 367 334 85 80 212 72 15. Kalitbirthalkuppam 378.90 454 471 2,373 1,249 1,124 299 253 763 371 16. Madagadipattu 196.94 298 300 1,497 %4 733 202 216 502 283 17. NaIlur 95.22 107 107 531 281 250 184· '146 145 62 18. Nallurkutchipalayam 11.20 44 44 191 102· 89 11 9 59 22 19. Madagadipattupalayam 65.26 157 169 804 407 397 217 75 10. Thirubuvanaipalayam 97.50 62 64 368 173 195 107. 66 21. Thirubuvanai 23Q.49 529 547 2,758 1,446 1,312 628 572 726 363 22. Thiruvandarkoil 250.82 366 366 1,851 906 945 431 464 430 238 23. Kotiapurinatham 133.20 191 198 1,025 530 495 80 81 236 94 ,24. Sagadapet 17.71 25 28 134 74 60 48 12 25. J>idarikuppam 104.05 115 119 653 333 320 172 181 154 92 26. Sannasikuppam 225.35 85 97 479 258 221 66 62 115 60 27. Sorapattll 313.27 292 313 1,561 820 741 213 184 451 218 28. Vinayagampet 122.27 97 102 608 321 287 84 70 149 39 257 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Mannadipet Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: 3 MAIN WORKERS L.C. r-'------~,------No. Name of village Total main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other MARGINAL NON Worker-s (I) Labourers Industry- Workers WORKERS WORKERS (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing. Process- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing , & Repairs (V(a)] r----A.---.. r----A.---, r---A..--., r---"----.. r-~ ,.----J-----, r-~---'" Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24)' (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Manalipattu 166 98 6 146 94 1 13 4 1 129 169 2. Chettipet 412 111 215 5 147 97 9 5 41 4 1 32 354 563 3. Kunichampattu 659 280 156 354 269 149 10 37 88 573 859 4. Kondareddipalayam 94 48 44 I 22 42 2 27 3 85 134 5. Thirukkanur 599 97 110 1 99 62 5 3 385 31' 14 80 724 1,031 6· Mannadipattu 460 186 99 2 261 268 100 16 477 607 7. Sompattu 240 172 107 4 • 107 161 26 7 191 275 8. Vadanur 171 51 72 73 47 5 I 21 3 1 36 120 ]97 9. Andiarpalayam (Vadanur) 1 1 2 10. Montbrunpet 45 11 11 14 4 20 7 2 28 82 11. Puranasingapalayam 188 65 64 8 70 55 54 2 19 16 205 324 12. Silkaripalayam 134 7 105 6 14 IS 110 224 13. Kutchipalayam 104 53 47 4 88 179 14. Andiarpalay\Ull (Kalithirthalkuppam) 207 66 72 120 63 2 13 2 160 268 15. Kalithirthalkuppam 662 351 163 ]0 368 324 20 111 17 .587 77 3 16. Madagadipattu 394 170 74 2 187 154 3 130 13 310 563 17. Nallur 144 88 22 65 74 2 2 55 11 137 162 1.8. Nallurkutchipalayam 66 31 28 13 22 3 22 8 36 58 19. Madagadipattupalayam 196 76 70 3 71 58 3 SO 15 22 34 189 287 20. Thirubuvanaipalayam 77 4 44 19 3 1 13 14 16 82 175 21. Thirubuvanai 752 373 107 489 359 12 2 144 11 3 9 691 930 22. Thiruvandarkoil 441 208 68 4 241 191 10 2 122 11 5 23 460 714 23. Kottapurinatham .. 328 171 52 226 161 4 46 8 1 201 324 24. Sagadapet 35 8 15 15 8 5 39 52 25. Pidarikuppam 182 62 69 3 97 53 16 6 151 258 26. Sannasikuppam 129 54 30 66 45 8 3 25 5 6 9 123 158 27. Sorapattu 390 82 142 162 75 12 74 7 29 3 ", 401 656 Z8. Vinayagampet 157 7 81 66 6 4 6 9 98 155 182 258 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) . (12) (13) (14) 29. Vambupet 184.35 103 106 556 285 271 46 45 117 53 30. Scllipattu 274.94 287 345 1,714 882 832 122 126 519 222 31. Kumarapalayam 39.60 109 120 624 306 318 2 183 137 32. Thethampakkam 124.10 93 101 469 228 241 190 198 151 95 33. Kuppam 305.44 260 278 1,378 705 673 268 280 360 165 34. Katteri 198.~ 179 198 980 492 488 7 4 376 231 35. Lingareddipalayam 168.80 183 183 886 469 417 235 51 , 36. Pudukuppam 278.44 291 309 1,577 802 775 98 99 388 173 37. Suthukeny 428.01 246 250 1,259 644 615 395 378 286 106 38. Kaiklapet 167.48 97 97 524 251 273 79 76 103 64 39. Kodathur 155.47 159 180 854 435 419 237 236 211 128 40. Manavely 40.00 89 92 409 205 204 2 3 130 63 Commune Total .. .. 6,443.38 7,414 7,767 39,321 20,168 19,153 5,257 5,048 10,946 5,307 259 (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 29. Vambupet 154 13 55 86 11 3 10 14 39 117 219 30. SelIipattu 483 285 147 12 277 266 59 7 4 395 547 31- Kumarapalayam .. 178 8 93 3 . 79 5 6 128 310 32. Thethampakkam .. 138 5 17 112 5 9 90 236 33. Kuppam 379 212 51 4 207 194 3 118 14 4 2 322 459 34. Katteri 268 120 98 3 57 101 8 3 105 13 224 368 35. Lingareddipalayam 220 150 60 4 143 142 3 2 14 2 249 267 36. Pudukuppam 414 232 157 21 217 198 5 1 35 12 5 13 383 530 37. Suthukeny 347 158 73 5 236 141 2 2 36 10 2 8 295 449 38. Kaiklapet 149 68 67 10 39 42 23 6 20 10 2 5 100 200 39. Kodathur 226 123 45 136 115 45 g 13 24 196 272 40. Manavely 117 68 78 17 25 44 13 7 88 136 COIIlDluDe Total .. .. 10,506 4,419 3,020 134 5,161 3,955 167 432,158 "1Jj7 20B 535 9,454 14,199 260 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRAcr State PondicherlY Code No.: 32 Villianur Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: Code No.: 4 Total poptrlation (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C.' of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential holds r- r---A.----, ,---"-----, r-----A-----, in Houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females hectares male$ (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Sedarapattu 456.99 396 417 2,143 1,086 1,057 290 294 714 341 \ 2. Karasur 272.04 141 147 812 407 405 204 192 252 162 3. Thuthipattu 274.38 101 102 470, 225 245 71 82 123 60 4. Thondamanatham 319.65 366 376 2,127 1,100 1,027 294 285 604 333 5. Ramanathapuram 333.27 253 254 1,322 645 677 137 120 299 149 6. PilIaiyarkuppam 238.32 292 312 1,631 813 818 136 151 454 221 7. Koodapakkam. 302.50 654 658 3,274 1,677 1,597 561 548 G73 339 8. Konerikuppam 22.79 83 83 427 230 197 111 44 9. Agaram 64.91 65 71 411 210 201 137 85 to. Ulaivaikkal 179.31 51 53 258 139 119 91 35 11. Oussudu 447.29 40 40 239 128 lIt 58 52 87 32 12. Poraiyur 80.09 188 197· 983 496 487 331 332 253 99 13. Sendanatham 92.15 124 132 612 322 ) 290 238 201 89 18 14.. Ariyapalayam 47.11 156 156 760 389 371 124 145 163 65 15: Kottamedu 51.33 158 16} 927 427 500 8 107 268 290 16. Villianur 212.58 680 776 4,228/ 2.225 2,003 121 56 1,667 1,089 17. Attuvaikalpet 41.13 66 66 301 151 150 151 150 36 17 18. Sultan pet 50.80 348 402 2,440 1,237 1,203 38 29 809 544 19. Arasur 28.19 57 61 297 161 136 114 99 84 49 20. Arumathapuram 15.72 37 37 207 112 95 80 41 21. Guruvappanaickenpalayam 68.92 198 210 992 522 470 149 118 277 138 - ..... 22. Manavely 62.72 141 156 861 443 424 6 9 219 105 23. Thattanchavady 9.68 84 84 425 224 201 13 10 121 53 24. Odiampattu 397.77 246 246 1,292 652 640 44 39 376 215 25. Kanuvapet 193.13 908 964 5,241/2,720 2,521 52 52 1,767 1,054 26. Valluvanpet 6.83 13 1, 95 56 39 54 38 40 15 27. Uthiravaginipet 3.91 135 136 712 367 345 352 335 182 73 28. Karayampattu 31.86 50 50 226 117 109 106 104 29 6 261 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Villianur Commune District: Pondicherry Code No. :' 1 Code No.: 4 MAIN WORKERS L.c. r MARGINAL NON- No. Name of viHage Total main Cultivators Agricultural Househdd Other WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I, Labourers Industry- WorkelS (I-IX) - (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, Vtb) ing, Process- & vI to IX] iog, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,---"------, ..------"------, ,------"--.. r--__J.._-----, r-~ ,-___.._-----, Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- males maks males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Sedarapattu 549 235 170 6 221 210 1 157 18 4 3 533 819 2. Karasur 200 110 68 3 82 101 5 45 6 206 295 3. Thuthipattu 104 47 ]5 47 28 42 19 121 198 4. Thondamanatham .. 575 189 124 3 316 171 4 2 131 13 5 14 520 824 5. Ramanathapuram 329 179 59 2 218 171 9 43 6 316 498 6. Piliaiyarkuppam .. 413 - 174 160 2 160 158 5 2 98 12 3 1 387 643 7. Koodapakkam 851 125 160 1 507 108 4 180 15 8 S6 818 '1,416 8. Konerikuppam 111 8 13 1 85 6 13 119 189 9. Agaram 83 19 43 3 21 13 19 3 20 7 107 175 ]0. Ulaivaikkal 57 18 4 24 13 29 5 5 3 77 98 11. Oussudu 65 31 15 3 27 27 23 63 80 12. Poraiyur 217 118 15 3 136 105 4 62 10 2 2 277 367 13. Sendanatham 179 124 27 6 J46 115 6 3 143 166 14. Ariyapalayam 220 141 11 2 142 114 1 67 24 169 230 15. Kottamedu 174 42 20 37 13 11 10 106 19 35 11 218 447 16. Villianur 883/ 98 78 108 8 4 4 693 85 81 74 1,261 1,831 17. Attuvaikl\lpet 81 52 46 46 3 31 5 1 70 97 18. Sultanpet 471 15 35 118 6 1 3 317 6 5 3 761 1,185· 19. Arasur 81 18 2 56 17 - 23 1 80 118 20. Arumathapuram 56 9 9 38 2 56 92 21. Guruvappanaickellpalayam 249 20 ]7 95 11 4 133' 8 14 70 259 380 22. Manavely 212 61 48 90 51 6 68 9 230 363 23. Thattanchavady 114 37 15 48 3 51 33 110 164 24. Odiampattu .. 277 117 37 4 123 102 12 6 105 5 375 523 2,280 25. Kanuvapet ],310/234 148 4 297 107 tt91 36 774 87 4 7 1,406 26. Valluvanpet 19 3 7 1 9 37 38 . 27. Uthiravaginipet 165 32 15 2 110 21 1 40 8 27 119 175 194 28. Karayampattu .. 51 3 48 3 7 52 59 54 262 (J) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (J J) "(12) (13) (14) 29. Periapattu 4.96 129 129 619 302 317 294 306 117 47 30. Thinikanji 357.9& 306 321 1,514 754 760 192 176 361 181 31. Kizhagaram 101.96 93 96 499 249 250 2 124 58 32. Tanathamedu 34.16 43 45 213 109 104 52 30 lj. Perungalur 116.97 138 142 693 373 320 183 160 170 70 34. Uruvaiyar 181.57 370 399 1,874 949 925 277 262 403 186 35. Mangalam 271.40 281 290 1,376 694 682 97 89 369 152 36. Vadamangalam 57.24 84 87 412 202 210 108 60 37. Kizhasathamangalam 116.10 192 206 '1,034 530 504 150 129 255 103 38. Melasathamangalam 92.51 104 118 651 334 317 178 72 39. Manakuppam 22.50 64 64 372 190 182 59 67 109 60 40. Sangarampet 15.29 4S 4S 227 112 115 70 23 41. Kizhur 104.86 112 13S 730 377 353 184 95 42. Sivarandagam 206.48 178 188 941 495 446 383 348 211 81 43. Arugur 177.47 559 617 2,819 1,496 1,323 252 234 961 539 44. Anandapuram 73.24 125 128 618 322 296 97 56 45. Pangur 133.31 139 152 732 391 341 132 103 190 96" Commune Total. 0. 13,964 ------.. 6,373.37 8.993 9,523 49,043 25,160 23,883 5,664 5,423 7,581 263 (1 ) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 29. Periapattu 153 19 6 119 10 2 26 8 15 111 134 181 30. Tbirukanji 450 150 62 291 142 97 7 3 304 607 31. Kizhagaram 120 37 45 1 59 34 16 2 129 213 32. Tanathamedu 62 24 IS 40 23 I 6 6 47 74 33. Perungalur 176 72 40 2 110 69 26 1 9 34 188 214 34. Uruvaiyar 539 205 66 399 196 8 66 8 11 85 399 635 35. Mangalam 373 119 146 3 183 106 7 2 37 8 23 298 563 36. Vadamangalam 112 17 18 .. 67 11 2 25 6 90 193 37. Kizhasathamangalam 288 24 84 173 24 1 30 242 480 38. MelasathamangaJam 158 11 74 65 7 19 2 176 306 39. Maikuppam 101 34 36 56 34 9 4 89 144 40. Sangarampet 61 39 8 SO 39 3 51 76 41. Kizhur 205 60 63 65 54 1 76 6 6 35 166 258 42. Sivarandagam 302 224 70 25 189 192 43 7 193 222 43. Arugur 750 144 44 1 177 111 6 523 31 19 22 727 1,157 44. Anandapuram 180 59 59 10 105 47 16 2 22 114 120 123 45. Pangur 212 111 12 160 110 40 1 4 13 175 217 Commune Total .. " 12,348 3,598 2,160 91 5.632 2,936 192 78 4,364 493 331 852 12,481 19,43' 264 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRAcr State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Bahour Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No. : 5 Total population (including L.C. Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates No. Name of village of occupied house- population) castes tribes village Residen- holds r----"---'---. ,...---A----, r-~--' in tial houses Persons Males Fe Males Fe Males Fe Males Fe- hectares males males males maleo'! (1) • (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Bahour 887.92 1,164 1,214 6,158""'- 3,201 2,957 680 613 2.063 1,178 2. lrulansandy 186.99 321 346 1,745 885 860 223 210 428 180 3. Kuruvinatham 263.08 325 336 1,650 852 798 253 250 322 144 4. Soriankuppam 210.24 351 367 1,763 906 857 15 13 529 204 5. Periaarachikuppam 32.51 30 30 134 65 69 37 13 6. Comml;tndanmedu .. 18.80 29 29 119 57 62 25 15 7. Sinnaarachikuppam 75.32 111 120 587 295 292 168 175 141· 59 8. Melparikalpattu .. 72.89 137 139 596 299 297 184 203 141 65 9. Keezhaparikalpattu 173.90 146 '147 700 369 331 132 117 163 90 10. Vannankulampet 38.35 33 34 179 81 98 77 96 15 1 11. Krishnavaram 20.68 122 128 620 307 313 161 88 12. Sulliankuppam 40.24 66 76 351 177 ]74 97 50 13. Koravalimedu 102.31 81 89 465 239 226 172 75 14. Outchimedu 110.02 2 .2, 11 5 6 3 2 15. Kannikovil 94.67 120 120 686 350 336 4 234 132 16. Pudukuppam 86.56 159 164 828 426" 402 243' 112 17. Murthikuppam 81.04 126 126 657 337 320 192 182 204 122 18. Manapattu 152.27 213 213 1,022 521 501 231 233 282 99 19. Varkalodupet 42.72 57 69 280 142 138 139 134 IJ 57 26 20. Kattukuppam 155.65 162 175 847 432 415 98 114 290 174 21. Aranganur 176.19 150 151, 748 391 357 5 6 184 88 22. Niwayapattu 53.47 138 138 674 354 320 151 139 116 47 23. Seliamodu 254.30 339 354 1,735 883 852 324 301 478 343 24. Kudiiruppupalayam 85.73 136 169 894 476 418 352 312 280 124 25. Sarkasimedupet 81.99 36 36 191 96 95 96 95 29 15 26. Adingapattu 63.56 98 99 502 252 250 225 223 109 57 27. Pudunagaram 0.75 22 23 145 68 77 47 44 265 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Bahour Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: Code No.: 5 MAIN WORKERS L. C. Name of .village Total Culti- Agricultural Household Other MARGINAL NON- No. Main vators Labourers Industry- Workers WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I) (II) Manufactur- (III, IV, V(b) (1 to IX) ing, Process & VIto IX) ing, Servicing & Repairs [V (a)1 . ,.----'-_____ ,.---A-...--,. ,-----A..-----, ,.--..-A.---... ,----A...... --.., r-~ r-___"____' Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- males - males males males males males males (1) . (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Bahour 1,569"" 296 301 5 593 216 4 6 671 69 12 3 1,620 2,658 I 2. lrulansandy ....445 55 84 4 286 47 74 3 440 80S 3. Kuruvinatham 457 245 96 318 241 43 3 1 394 553 4. Soriankuppam 565 170 147 3 351 156 67 11 2 13 339 674 5. Periaarachikuppam 33 13 4 20 12 9 32 56 6. Commandanmedu .. 32 5 3 7 5 22 2S 57 7. Sinnaarachikuppam 156 94 11 104 90 40 3 1 3 138 195 8. Melparikalpattu " 144 22 19 106 21 18 30 80 125 195 9. Keezhaparikalpattu 187 1 « 90 52 182 330 10. Vannankulampet 4 3 43 2 34 95 11. Krishnavaram 78 2 23 27 28 2 77 23 152 288 12. Sulliankuppam 7 30 19 6 15 22 37 91 130 13. Koravalimedu 86 15 41 13 12 32 2 24 51 129 160 14. Outchimedo 4 3 6 15. K:: 19 .. Varkalodupet 75 59 17 14 4') 38 13 7 10 20 57 59 20. Kattukuppam 186 51 38 4 74 43 73 4 10 5 236 359 21. Aranganur 207 12 56 107 2 44 10 184 345 22. Nirnayapattu 208 44 30 144 - 43 34 146 276 23. Seliamodu 414 178 92 3 195 163 137 12 459 674 24. Kudiiruppupctlayam 27H 6 21 208 4 49 198 412 25. Sarkasimedupet 56 54 2 40 95 2fi. Adingapattu ~53 93 13 136 93 4 99 157 27. Pudunagaram 30 3 14 13 38 76 266 (1) • (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 28. Pinnatchikuppam .. 59.20 53 59 354 188 166 142 100 29. Kandanpet 91.86 87 88 401 198 203 183 188 78 30 30. Pillaiarkuppam 45.26 242 261 1,218 628 590 319 292 307 181 31. Pannithittu 61.94 215 229 1,171 576 595 231 89 32. Aladimedu 51.27 46 52 ' 264 130 134 51 45 66 30 33. Pannithittu (Vambapet) . . 45.84 48 48 254 147 107 147 107 36 8 34. Narambai 63.53 128 128 757 391 366 212 121 35. Valluvarpet 11.55 27 29 167 92 75 89 73 73 24 36. ltchangadu (Eswarikuppam) 79.81 44 46 228 118 110 14 13 57 30 \ 37. Kirumampakkam .. 429.54 540 577 2,952 1,504 1,448 704 697 805 473 38. Kaduvanur 97.71 92 92 462 233 229 59 69 52 19 39. Manamedu 220.19 282 284 1,429 727 702 472 441 308 120 40. Sinnakaraiyambuthur 48.55 62 62 304 155 149 125 76 41. Karaiyambuthur .. 410.60 494 502 2,157 1,150 1,107 428 391 477 278 42 Panaiyadikuppam 202.65 162 173 784 390 394 265 261 224 108 Commune Total .. 5,481.65 7,196 7,524 37,289 19,093 18,196 6,277 5,997 10,043 5,234 267 171/4-18A (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) ,(28) 28. Pinnatchikuppam .. 79 35 10 34 109 165 29. Kandanpet lOS 28 40 37 93 203 30. Pillaiarkuppam 308 13 33 137 4 2 134 10 5 3 315 574 31. Pannithittu 280 22 11 16 5 253 17 8 5 288 568 32. Aladimedu 76 14 17 1 41 10 18 3 4 13 50 107 33. Pannithittu (Vambapet) .. 86 22 6 72 19 8 3 24 61 61 34. Narambai 242 5 3 239 5 149 361 35. Valluvarpet 36 11 21 10 15 1 56 64 36. Itchangadu (Eswarikuppam) 57 17 5 17 8 35 9 1 61 92 37. Kirumampakkam .. 736 320 108 341 289 25 6 262 24 5 1 763 1,127 38. Kaduvanur 167 151 159 151 8 66 78 39. Manamedu 384 226 98 199 216 87 10 1 343 475 40. Sinnakaraiyambuthur 65 6 36 5 5 24 90 143 41. Karaiyambuthur .• 631 347 105 10 411 314 10 2 lOS 21 1 519 759 42. Panaiyadikuppam .• 208 76 90 28 79 43 9 30 5 15 82 167 236 Commune Total .. .. 9,788 2,769 1,741 76 4,809 2,416 58 19 3,180 258 284 405 9,021 15,022 268 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Nettapakkam Commune District: Pondicherry Code No.: 1 Code No.: 6 Total population L.C. Area of No. of No. of (including Institutional Scheduled Scheduled Literates No. Name of village vill.age occupied House- & Houseiess population) castes tribes m Residen- holds ,------"".------, r--_..A_~ r-___.A...-~ ,..---'-----, hectares tial Houses Persons Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe males males males males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Eripakkam" 118.15 141 144 702 364 338 145 122 126 . 62 2. Nattamedu (Eripakkam) . . 121.60 120 120 555 276 279 25 23 175 76 3. Andrasikuppam 43.15 48 48 249 130 119 77 33 4. Kalmandapam 120.11 134 134 749 390 359 74 75 231 117 5. Vadukuppam 100.92 77 78 413 220 193 134 64 6. Pandasozhanur 214.36 406 409 1,949 995 954 468 435 465 258 7. Nadunayagapuram 26.07 21 21 89 49 40 36 21 8. Sembadapet 3.56 58 60 264 131 133 54 15 9. P~dupattu 21.94 56 56 303 151 152 107 63 10. Nettapakkam 209.33 362 362 1,844 959 885 185 179 595 341 11. Mettutheruvu 28.10 116 116 602 302 300 192 93 12. Kariamanickam 255.12 369 373 1,883 1,032 851 534 421 544 240 13. Molapakkam 7.20 116 121 598 305 293 188 94 14. Ranganadhampattu 1.34 13 13 69 36 33 20 6 15. Thulukkanpalayam 6.20 61 69 325 159 166 102 60 16. Kuruvampattu 2.16 71 79 342 173 169 173 169 60 22 17. Madukkarai 304.27 726 757 3,882 1,992 1,890 544 508 1,177 624 18. Kutchipaiayam 3.00 97 99 459 218 241 147 89 19. Sooramangalam 121.54 339 341 1,704 824 880 484 499 418 296 20. Embalam 203.95 421 434 2,183 1,131 1,052 125 116 630 232 21. Pudukuppam 123.25 68 68 345 184 161 120 60 22. Kambalikarankuppam 53.05 46 48 228 118 110 56 50 58 24 23. Thanikuppam 37.80 28 31 155 82 73 '36 13 24. Nattamedu (Embalam) 94.00 73 82 381 185 196 65 64 77 43 25. Sembiapalayam 127.68 123 1~3 577 291 286 116 111 147 72 26. Korkadu 344.55 358 364 1,641 866 775 299 281 ,413 173 27. Karkalampakkam 327.11 436 447 2,243 1,157 1,086 300 286 619 284 Commune Total 3,019.51. 4,884 4,997 24,734 12,720 12,014 3,593 3,339 6,948 3,475 269 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf-condd. State Pondicherry Code No: 32 Nettapakkam Commune District: Pondicherry Code No : Code No.; 6 MAIN WORKERS ,------~------~ L.C. Name of village Total Main Culti- Agricultural Household Other Workers No. Workers vators (I) Labourers Industry- [III, IV, V(b) & MARGINAL NON- (I to IX) (H) Manufactur- VI to IX] WORKERS WORKERS ing Process- ing, Servicing & Repairs [V (a)] ,---'------., ,-----"------, ,------A..-----., ,-____.A..------, ,-~ ,---'------, ,------"-______Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- males males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Eri pakkam 218 4 122 85 3 1 10 146 334 2. Nattamedu (Eripakkam) . . 156 12 63 69 8, 24 4 2 84 118 183 3. Andrasikuppam 68 44 6 57 43 5 62 75 4. Kalmandapam 198 . 78 86 2 86 68 1 25 8 192 281 5. Vadukuppam 106 27 69 .., 32 18 5 2 114 166 6. Pandasozhanur 577 390 93 377 369 3 2 104 19 5 413 564 7. Nadunayagapuram 29 3 10 7 2 1 11 1 20 37 8. Sembadapet 71 27 8 6 10 52 21 60 106 9. Pudupattu 75 14 12 1 10 9 36 3 17 1 76 138 10. Nettapakkam 483 139 81 3 152 115 7 2 243 19 9 30 467 716 11. Mettutheruvu 152 26 51 6 44 18 60- 51 150 274 12 Kariamanickam 470 248 . 68 255 234 7 140 13 17 • 4 545 599 13. Molapakkam 166 42 23 88 33 4 2 51 7 1 28 138 223 14. Ranganadhampattu 8 7 1 8 4 20 29 15. Thulukkanpalayam 79 47 31 14 25 28 10 5 13 4 3: 76 116 16. Kuruvampattu 76 25 IS 4 53 17 8 4 21 73 76 71 17. Madukkarai 1,072 528 182 26 476 444 46 15 368 43 11 26 909 1,336 18. Kutchipalayam 116 11 15 30 8' 58 13 I 11 91 230 19. Sooramangalam 471 296 202 104 175 167 8 13 86 12 25 172 328 412 20. Embalam 519 88 92 11 338 68 11 78 8 34 68 578 896 21. Pudukuppam 80 2 29 1 33 18 104 159 22. Kambalikarankuppam 62 14 44 3 • 56 109 23. Thanikuppam 35 3 15 11 3 9 47 70 24. Nattamedu (Embalam) 119 S6 41 62 52 3 1 13 3 66 140 25. SembiapaJayam 153 51 17 70 41 1 66 9 10 28 128 207 26. Korkadu 495 249 118 6 286 236 4 87 7 2 371 524 27. Karkalampakkam 611 292 88 8 345 251 44 -13 134 20 19 545 775 Commune Total.. 6,665 2,703 1,551 194 3,218 2,241 261 62 1,635 206 159 541 5,896 8,770 270 DISTRICI' PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACI' District: Karaikal Total population (including Sl. State/District/ Total/ Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled castes Scheduled tribes No. U.A./Tehsil/City/ Rural/ in occupied House- population) Town Urban Km2 Residen- holds ,- ,- ,---A.. tial Houses Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Per- Males Fe- sons males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) II. KARAIKAL DISTRICT Total 160.0 22,860 24,435' 120,010 59,367 60,643 19,987 10,188 9,799 Rural 141.0 15,440 16,134 76.602 38,089 38,513 16,528 8,387 8,141 Urban .. 19.0 7,420 . 8,301 43,408 21,278 22,130 3,459 1,801 1,658 1. Karaikal Commune Total 19.0 7,420 8,301 43,408 21,278 22,130 3,459 1,801 1,658 Rural Urban .. 19.0 7,420 8,301 43,408 21,278 22,130 3,459 1,801 1,658 Karaikal (M) Urban .. 19.00 7,420 8,301 43,408 21,278 22,130 3,459 1,801 1,658 2. Tirunallar Commune Total 45.8 4,987 5,234 24.751 12,238 12,513 5,319 2,698 2,621 Rural 45.8 4,987 5,234 24,751 12,238 12,513 5,319 2,698 2,621 Urban .. 3. Neravy Commune Total 20.1 2,522 2,619 12,587 6,242 6,345 2,776 1,417 1,359 Rural 20.1 2,522 2,619 12,587 6,242 6,345 2,776 1,417 1,359 Urban .. 4. Nedungadu Commune Total 25.9 2,463 2,533 11,580 5,852 5,728 3,143 1,597 1,546 Rural 25.9 2,463 2,533 11,580 5,852 5,728 3,143 1,597 1,546 Urban .. 5. Kottucherry Commune Total 27.5 2,770 2,832 13.703 6,856 6,847 2,787 1,400 1,387 Rural 27.5 2,770 2,832 13,703 6,856 6,847 2,787 1,400 1,387 Urban .. 6. Tirumalairayan- pattinam Total 21.1 2,698 2,916 13,981 6,901 7,080 2,503 1,275 1,228 Commune Rural 21.1 2,698 2,9]6 ]3,981 6,901 7,080 2,503 1,275 1,228 Urban .. NOTE-The area figure of Karaikal district is the "Geographical area" figure supplied by the Surveyor General of India. Figure for Karaikal (M) is the one supplied by local body. Area figures for rural area are derived by sub- tracting the urban area from the total area of the district. The total of the area figures of the communes will not tally with the' area figure of the district because the former represents "land use area" and are derived from the figures supplied by the Director of Survey and Land Records. 271 171/4-18B DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-contd. District: Karaikal MAIN WORKERS r- -. SI. State/District/ Literates Total Main Workers (I to IX) Cultivators(l) Agricultural Labourers(II) No. U.A./Tehsil/Cityf r- ..A.. r- ,.- r- Town Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) II. KARAIKAL DISTRICT Total .. 67,725 39,829 27,896 34,902 28,823 6,079 3,371 3,099 272 14,151 10,569 3,582 Rural .. 40,445 24,536 15,909 23,521 19,065 4,456 2,828 2,596 232 12,627 9,304 3,323 Urban .. 27,280 15,293 11,987 11,381 9,758 1,623 543 503 40 1,524 1,265 259 I. Karaikal Commune Total 27,280 15,293 11,987 11,381 9,758 1,623 543 503 40 1,524 1,265 259 Rural Urban .. 27,280 15,293 11,987 11,381 9,758 1,623 543 503 40 1,524 1,265 259 Karaikal (M) Urban .. 27,280 15,293 11,987 11,381 9,758 1,623 543 503 40 1,524 1,265 259 • 2. Tirunallar Commune Total 13,678 '8,226 5,452 7,639 6,200 1,439 909 860 49 4,486 3,316 1,170 Rural 13,678 8,226 5,452 7,639 6,200 1,439 909 860 49 4,486 3,316 1,170 Urban .. 3. Neravy Commune Total ,. 6,677 4,075 2,602 3,725 3,126 599 457 408 49 2,084 1,609 475 Rural 6,677 4,075 2,602 3,725 3,126 599 457 408 49 2,084 1,609 475 Urban .. 4. Nedungadu Commune Total 5,904 3,578 2,31(i 4,080 3,095 985 465 424' 41 2,562 1,745 817 Rural 5,904 3,578 2,326 4,080 3,095 985 465 424 41 2,562 1,745 817 Urban 5. Kottucherry Commune Total .. 6,552 4,108 2,444 3,974 3,423 551 421 403 18 1,875 1,561 314 Rural 6,552 4,108 2,444 3,974 3,423 551 421 403 18 1,875 1,561 314 Urban .. 6. T"Ifumalairayan- pattinam Commune Total 7,634 4,549 3,085 4,103 3,221 882 576 501 75 1,620 1,073 547 Rural 7,634 4,549 3,085 4,103 3,221 882 576 501 75 1,620 1,073 541 Urban .. 272 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENsus ABSTRACT-£"oncld. District : Karaikal MAIN WORKERS ,- ---"------., Household Industry-Manu- Other Workers SI. State/District} facturing, Processing, Servi- [III, IV, V(b) & VI to IX] MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS No. U.A./Tehsil/City/ cingand Repairs [V (a)] ,-______.A. TOWil ,- ,- ,- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) II. KARAIKAL DISTRICT Total 400 266 134 16,980 14,889 2,091 3,843 578 3,265 81,265 29,966 51,299 Rural 232 15.5 77 7,834 7,010 824 3,016 404 2,612 50,065 18,620 3J.445 Urban .. 168 111 57 9,146 7,879 1,267 827 174 653 31,200 11,346 19,854 1. Karaikal Commune Total .. 168 111 57 9,146 7,879 1,267 827 174 653 31,200 11,346 19,854 Rural .. Urban .. 168 111 57 9,146 7,879 1,267 827 174 653 31,200 11,346 19,854 Karaikal (M) Urban 168 111 57 9,146 7,879 1,267 827 174 653 31,200 11,346 19,854 2. TirunaIIar Commune Total 78 50 28 2,166 1,974 192 812 78 734 16,300 5,960 10,340 Rural 78 50 28 1,166 1.974 192 812 78 734 16,300 5,960 10,340 Urban .. 3. Neravy Commune Total 26 22 4 1,1.58 1,087 71 429 46 383 8,433 3,070 5,363 Rural 26 22 4 1,158 1,087 71 429 46 383 8,433 3,070 5,36~ Urban 4. Nedungadu Commune Total 19 10 9 1,034 916 118 511 70 441 6,989 2,687 4,302 Rural 19 10 9 1,034 916 118 511 70 441 6,989 2,687 4,302 Urban .. 5. Kottucherry Commune Total 40 27 13 1,638 1,432 206 838 108 730 8,891 3,325 5,566 Rural .. 40 27 13 1,638 1.432 206 838 108 730 8,891 3,325 5,566 Urban .. 6. Tirumalairayan- pattinam Commune Total 69 46 23 1,838 1,601 237 • 426 102 324 9,452 3,578 5,874 Rural 69 46 23 1,838 1,601 237 426 tOl" 324 9,452 3,578 5,874 Urban .. 273 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State Pondicherry Code No. : 32 Town Karaikal District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No. : I Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occ~ied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of ward town Resi ential holds r----__ .A. r-___.A..--~ r--..A..--~ ,-.____.A...._~ in Km:! Houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Mathakadi 638 660 3,319 1,604 1,715 13 12 1,196 1,005 2. Kirambuthottam 452 495 2,592 1,250 1,342- 37 :\1 969 838 3. Madhakoil 257 280 1,943 904 1,039 24 27 713 734 4. Kothukulam 409 476 2,792 1,295 1,497 4 1,014 827 5. Andoniyarkoil 374 443. 2,218 1,100 1,118 14 9 872 717 6. Kadaitheru 345 487 2,435 1,243 1,192 24 12 1,049 878 7. Katharsulthan 406 537 2,978 1,336 1,642 99 91 980 836 8. Watertank 378 437 2,401 1,177 1,224 3 7 880 729 9. Ammayarkoil 381 485 2,556 1,265 1,291 10 5 1,0:}4 953 to. Maideenpalli 298 414 2,267 1,089 1,178 22 34 807 636 11. Valatheru 599 625 3,356 1,657 1,699 52 36 1,274 1,()40 12. Dharmapuram 484 485 2,257 1,127 1,130 247 241 687 407 13. Ammankovilpathu .. 656 661 3,453 1,737 1,716 11 66 826 363 14. Koviipathu 579 585 2,573 1,301 1,272 1,025 978 608 323 15. Thalatheru 653 690 3,450 1,752 1,698 82 99 1,308 968 16. Thalatheru Extension 511 541 2,818 1,441 1,377 74 9 1,076 733 -----<- Grand Total 19.00 7,420 8,301 43,408 21,278 22,130 1,801 1,658 15,293 11,987 274 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-Concld. State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Town : Karaikal District: Kar aikal Code No.: 2 Code No.: 1 MAIN WORKERS L.c. Name of ward ~------~------~MARGINAL NON No. Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [Ill, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs{V(a)l ~__.A. ______~__.A.---., ~__.A.----, ~_-A..----, ~__A-----, ~--A..----, r----'---, Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (IS) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) , l. Mathakadi 710 166 2 54 7 2 652 159 894 1,548 2. Kirambuthottam 492 109 45 3 9 2 435 106 16 10 742 1,223 3. Madhakoil 275 129 10 1 6 5 254 127 6 3 623 907 4. Kothukulam 564 18 24 5 4 2 531 16 11 731 1,468 5. Andoniyarkoil 52S 80 28 3 10 3 487 77 571 1,038 6. Kadaitheru 595 66 38 7 8 26 6 523 53 7 9 641 1,117 7. Katharsulthan 519 108 62 4 58. 35 6 6 393 63 19 2 798 1,532 8. Watertank 512 60 29 9 2 13 6 461 52 11 3 654 1,161 9. Ammayarkoil 555 56 29 4 7 515 55 16 694 1,234 10. Maideenpalli 43E 46 31 14- 1 :> 392 43 10 7 641 1,125 11.' Valatheru 770 88 18 2 43 6 12 5 697 75 19 23 868 1,588 12. Dharmapuram 630 166 54 20 401 116 3 175 27 18 28 479 936 13. Ammankovilpathu 940 209 22 3 112 14 3 S06 189 101 796 1,406 14. Kovilpathu 728 100 26 417 73 4 281 27 26 374 547 798 15. Thalatheru 829 100 76 2 117 2 5 6 631 90 2 71 921 1,527 16. Thalatheru Extension 673 122 9 11 2 7 12 646 lOS 22 9 746 1,246 Grand Total .. 9,758 1,623 503 40 1,265 259 111 57 7,879 1,267 174 653 11,346 19,854 275 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT APPENDIX Total, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes population-UrbBB blockwise Name of union territory: Pondicherry Name of district : Karaikal Code No. 32 Code No.: 2 Location Name of town/ward/urban block Total Scheduled Scheduled Code No. population castes tribes (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) I. KARAIKAL 43,408 3,459 Mathakadi 3,319 25 230 2 519 14 3 616 4 622 3 5 510 6 519 8 7 303 .. 2 Kirambuthottam 2,592 68 8 479 9 201 10 608 48 11 515 5 12 430 14 13 359 3 Madhakoil 1,943 51 14 695 51 15 639 16 609 4 Kothukulam 2,792 5 17 52· 18 604 19 258 4 20 602 21 566 22 500 23 210 5 Andoniyarkoil 2,218 23 24 589 7 25 627 26 452 7 27 550 9 276 ------(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 6 Kadaitheru 2,435 36 28 702 17 29 667 7 30 418 31 648 12 7 Katharsulthan 2,978 190 32 686 2 33 539 34 711, 188 35 560 36 476 8 Water Tank 2,401 10 37 653 6 38 585 39 634 40 529 4 .. 9 Ammayarkoil 2,556 15 1 741 6 2 642 2 3 649 6 4 524 1 10 Maideenpalli 2,267 56 5 534 23 6 576 15 7 650 18 8 507 11 Valatheru 3,356 88 9 622 10 585 11 691 88 12 590 13 540 14 328 277 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) ------~- 12 Dharmapuram 2,257 488 15 565 237 16 537 163 17 505 66 18 650 22 13 Ammankovilpathu .. 3,453 137 19 497 20 547 21 541 137 22 483 23 675 24 710 14 Kovilpathu 2,573 2,003 25 636 565 26 502 370 27 482 257 28 689 671 29 264 140 15 Thalatheru 3,450 181 30 525 7 31 550 40 32 687 33 524 34 771 35 393 134 16 Thalatheru Extension 2,818 83 36 '... 627 12 37 676 3 38 710 68 39 582 40 223 Total number of towns in Karaikal district: 1 Total number of wards in Ka~aikal town: 16 Total number of urban blocks in Karaikal town: 80 Boundaries of urban blocks are given in the list below: 278 LOCATION CODE NUMBERS FOR URBAN BLOCKS AND THEIR JURISDICTION State Pondicherry District Karaikal Town Karaikal L.C.No.: 32 L.c. No.: 2 L.C. No.: I L.C. No. L.C. No. Name of ward with details of streets etc. Boundary (indicating of ward of E.B. door numbers) (I) (2) (3) (4) 1. MATHAKADI Polican Street. From 1 to 13/1 Polican Lane. From 29 to 38/5 Polican Lane. From I to 10/1 2 Jawaharlal Nehru Street. From 17 to 122 3 Gnanapiragasam Street. From 22 to 80 Thomas Arul Street. From 8 to 70 4 Kamaraj Salai. From 48 to 120/1 N.S.C. Bose Street. From 52 to 58 Beach Road. From 59 to 67 5 Sethilal Nagar From 1 to 20 (Part I). From 36 to 149 6 Sethilal Nagar (Part II). From 150 to 272 7 St. Francis Xavier Str~t. From 16 to 87 2. KlRAMBUTHOTTAM 8 Kir:lmbuthottam South Street. From 14 to 28/3 Kirambuthottam Centre Street. From 1 to 15 Jail Gidangu Street. From 1 to 10 Kirambuthottam North Street. From 1 to 10 Veerasamy Naicker Street. From 1 to 16 9 Bharathiar Street. From 174 to 222 10 Thomas Arul Pudutheru From 1 to 32 Thomas Arul Street. From 1.to 5 From 71 to 84 Kosa Maricar Street. From 1 to 35 11 Church Street. From 155/A to 190 Kottaimetu Street. From 1 to 36 12 N.S.C. Bose Street. From 1 te.) 51/2 13 Kaziar Street. From 22 to 55 3. MADHAKOlL 14 Duplex Street. From 35/1 to 69 Dumaine Street. From 1 and 2 Thiyagaraja Street. From 38 to 42 Dr. Ambethkar Street. From 1 to 21 38 to 49 Railway Colony From 1 to 10 Mettu Theru. From 1 to 28 Deitha Street. From 2 to 14 25 to 33 1.5 Church Street. From 138 to 154 From 191 to 208 Destha Street. From 1 to 11 From 1 to 14/3 St. Francies Xavier Street. From36to44 Marundugidangu Street. From 91 to 98 279 ------(1) (2) (3) (4) -----_ ~------16 Jawaharlal• Nel1[u Street From 1 to 16 From 123 to 138 1 to 20 Goanapiragasaru Street From 81 to 109 4. KOTHUKULAM 17 Vandikara lane. From 1 to 12/1 18 David Pillai Street. From 1 to 11 Old Policeman Street. From 14 to 24 Kidarapalli Street. From 1 to 39 Kutchivadi Lane. From 1 to 8 Dr. Ambethkar Street. From 22 to 37 19 Bharathiar Street. From 142 to 173 From 224 to 250 20 Sunnambukara Street. From 38 to 65/1 Kaziar Street. From 1 /1 to 21 From 56 to 73 21 Musthafakamal Street. Frpm 3 to 7/1 From 44 to 65 Noolkadai Street. From 26/1 to 48 Umarpulavar Street. From 1 to 31 22 Vallalseethakathi Street. From 4 to 30 Vallalseethakathi Lane. From 11/1 to 13/28 23 Vandikara Street. From 1/1 to 36 S. ANDONIARKOIL 24 Kamaraj Salai. From 17 to 45 From 124 to 180 Thambisamaricar Street. From 1 to 15 25 Vayalkarai Street. From 18 to 49/1 Tirunallar Road. From 101 to 134 26 Thiyagaraja Street. ,From 1 to 75 27 Ammalkutti Sandhu. From 1 to 31 Market Street. From 33 to 54 N .S. Pillai Street. From 1 to 22 6. KADAITHERU 28 Church Street. From 51 to 137 From 212 to 292 Neelagidangu Street. From 1 to 8 From 26 to 36 Peramasamy Pillai Street. From 1 to 34/1 Thattara Street. From 1 to 24 Kuppan Chetty Lane. From 1 to 22 29 Bharathiar Street From 90 to 103 (Part) From 291 to 305 Tirunallar Road. From 41 to 100 From 135 to 191/1 Market Street. From 13 to 33/9 From 56/1 to 81 Vayalkarai Street. From 1/1 to 17 From 49 to 61 Lemaire Street. From 32 to 53 280 ------(1) (2) (3) (4) 30 Bharatbiar Street. From 105 to 141 Fronn 251 to 291 31 Mariamman Koil Street. Fronn 11 to 73 Old Vegetable Market Street. From 1 to 8 1. KATHARSULTHAN 32 Sunnannbukara Street. Fn"m 1 to 37 From 66 to 77 Musthafakamal Street. From 8 to 43 33 Noolkadai Street. From 1 to 26 From 49 to 72 Neelagidangu Street. From 18 to 24 Ana Pillai Maricar Street. From 1 to 4 34 Vallalseethakathi Street. From 3/1 to 3/4 From 31 to 33 Masthan Pal1i Street. From 26 to 73 Commission Kattali From 1 to 40 Varavukottai Street. From 3 to 17 35 Kathar Sulthan Street From 1 to 17 Lemaire Street. From 1 to 31 From 34 to 79 % Duplex Street. From 1 to 3414 From 72 to 200 8. WATER TANK 37 Mamathambi Mariear Street. From 1 to 15 From 103 to 109/18 Tirunallar Road. From 1 to 33/1 From 194 to 245 Big Mosque Street. From 1 to 16 38 Naickankulathu Street. From 1 to 33 Kammalar Street. From 1 to 46 39 Subrayamudaliar Street. From 1 to 12/3 Varavukottai Street. From 1 to 2/1 From 17 to 20/1 Market Street. From 1 to 10/2 , From 80 to 102 Masthan Palli Street (Part I). From 100/1 to 120/12 40 Masthan Palli Street (Part II). From 1 to 24/1 From 75 to 99 9. AMMAYAR KOIL Bharathiar Street. From 36 to 96 From 305 to 337/6 Three Well Place South Street. From 1 to 22 (including Gandhi Colony) Three Well Place North Street. From 1 to 13 Three Well Place East Street. From 1/1 to 8/1 Kailasanathar Koil Sandhu. From 1 to 19 Kail~sanathar Koil Lane. From 1 to 8 281 (1) (2) (3) (4) 2. French Teacher Street. From I to 22 From 34 to 55 Maideen Palli Street. From 1 to 22 From 51 to 73 3 PerumaI Koil Street. From 2 to 14/1 From 64 to 83 Church Street. From 293/2 to 341 4 Kailasanathar Koil Street. From 1 to 12 From 55 to 71 Thirumudi Chetty Street. From I to 12 Mamathambi Maricar Street. From 17/1 to 28/1 From 83/1' to 101 10. MAIDEEN PALL! 5 Udaiyan Kulam. From 3 to 34 Moulasa Maricar Street. From 1 to 12 AIlikulathu Street. From 1 to 5/1 Maideen PaUi Street. From.23/1 to 50 6 Mariamman Koil Street. From 1 to 10/3 From 74 to 74/6 PerumaI Koil Street. From 15 to 63/1 French Teacher Street. From 23 to 33 7 Kamaraj Salai. From 1 to 16 From 181 to 199 Kailasanathar Koil Street. From 13 to 64/1 8 . Mamathambi . Maricar Street. From 32 to 82 11. VALA THERU 9 Seniar Kulathu Street. From 1 to 73 10 Seniar Kulathu Mudukku From 1 to 40 Sinnakannu Chetty Street. From 1 to 26 From 39 to 51 Elaikkara Street. From 111 to 25 11 EJaikkara Lane. From 1 to 21 Kothalampet. From 1 to 27 Soundirambal Koil Sannadh i Street. From 1 to 39 Pirakara Street. From 1 to 20/1 12 Oppilamaniar Koil SannadhL From 1 to 11/2 Oppilamaniar Koil Street. From 1 to 44 Bharathi Street. From 1 to 35 From .339 to 369 13 Jeevanantham Street. From 1 to 56 14 Oppilamaniar Koil Thoppu. From 1 to 43/2 12. DHARMAPURAM 15 Savariar Koil Street. From 1/1 to 106/1 Patchoor Pet. From 1 to 24/1 16 Karuvakulam Street., From 6 to 11 Neduntheru. From 12 to 35/1 North Street. From 7 to 15/2 Madavilagam. From 20 to 30/1 South. Street. From 47 to 65 North Pet. From 73 to 11 0 282 (1) (2) (3) (4) 17 Sakkaliapet North. From 3 to 10/1 Sakkaliapet South. From 5 to 7/1 Sebasthiar Koil Pet. From 1 to 41/1 Burma Street. From 37 to 51 Melatheru. From 3 to 7/1 & 54 Kosatheru. From 67 to 69 Sannathi Street. From 1 to 6 East Street From 18 to 20 From 32 to 43 Tirunallar Road. From 2 to 2/1 From 11 to 14/1& S4 18 Patchoor. From 2 to 39/1 Pudhuth.urai. From 1 to 73 13. AMMAN KOVIL PATHU (KARAlKALMEDU) 19 Pemmal Koil Street. From 51 to 135 20 PiJlayar Koil Street. (Part I). From 169 to 255/1 21 Pillayar Koil Street (P.art II). From 256 to 272 From 296 to 300 Amman Koil Street. From 136 to 168 Paravaipet. From 1 to 43 22 Karaikalmedu Colony. From 1 to 11 Amman Koil Pathu Street. From 239 to 257/4 From 303 to 311 Peru mal Koil North Street. From 1 to 50 23 Amman Koil Street. From 110 to 141 Amman Koil South Street. From 203/1 to 230 Amman Koil West Street. From 70 to 107 Amman Koil West Street. From 187/1 to 199 Fishermen Colony. From 230 to 250/11 24 Manmathan Koil South Street. From 1 to 59&71 From 200 to 204/6 North Street. From 95 to 186 Ramanathan Koil North Street. From 61 to 70 From 204 to 207 14. KOVILPATHU 25 Thalatheru Kaliamman Koil Colony. From 1 to 152 26 Sinnakovilpathupet. From 1 to 54 Peru mal Koil Kallaraipet. From 1 to 57 27 Periapet. From 1 to 94/1 28 Periapet Thirunagar. From 1 to 132 29 Vettaikkaran Street. From 39/1 to 80 Valluvar Street. From 1 to 26 15. THALATHERU 30 I Cross Road. From 1 to 48 From 134 to 156 From 235 to 238 II Cross Road From 50 to 72 From 157 to 180 From 239 to 242 283 171/4-19A, (1) (2) (3) (4) From 73 to 96 31 3rd Cross Road. From 181 to 200 From 243 to 245 4th Cross Road. From 98 to 120 From 206 to 226 & 247 5th Cross Road. From 121 to 130 From 227 to 233 32 North Street. From 26 to 63/2 East Street. From 9 to 25 South Street (Thalatheru). From 1 to 8 From 72 to 81 Middle Street. From 64 to 71 Kudianavar Street. From 43 to 56 33 Bharathiar Street. From 3 to 97/A Kanchipuram Kovilpathu. From 1 to 9 34 South Street (Kovilpathu). From 1 to 58 West Street. From 59 to 6O/B Sinnakovilpathu. From 1 to 36 35 Pillaitheruvasal. From 1 to 95 - 16 THALATHERU EXTENSION 36 Droupadai Amman Koil Street. From 1 to 81/1 37 Bharathiar Street (Part I). From 98 to 208 38 Bharathiar Street (Part 10. From 4 to 97 From 209 to 230 39 Natheeswaran. From 1 to 83 Brahmin Street. From 1 to 16/1 40 North Street. Froin 1/ A to 33 284 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Tirunallar Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No.: 1 Total population (including Area No. of No. of InstitutioJ}al and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential holds r----..J>-----"'\ r-______'__---, r-__.A.~ r------.A.-----. in hectares houses PerSOJlS Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males (l) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (l0) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Ambagarathur 331. 77 766 817 3,953 1,891 2,062 203 185 1,329 990 2. Kannapur 81.74 34 34 168 88 80 18 13 70 42 3. Nallazhandur 130.87 114 120 596 311 285 115 99 190 97 4. Thamanankudi .. 62.80 46 47 226 122 104 8 6 82 39 ·5. Nallambal 162.14 325 328 1,528 687 841 156 151 440 365 6. Valathamangalam 30.75 121 121 542 283 259 153 142 154 74 7. Avvaiyarmoolai.. 8.00 12 12 90 49 41 35 19 8. Kumarakkudi 37.00 124 124· 514 256 258 58 67 157 83 9. Sathankudi 17.00 5 5 22 11 11 6 1 10. Thembidagai 30.00 40 40 195 93 102 52 21 11. Agarasethur 203.00 226 243 1,181 570 611 34 45 390 268 12. Pandaravadaisethur 279.76 130 130 589 283 306 101 117 202 134 13. Mathur 83.00 11 11 55 26 29 22 22 14. Kottapady 78.00 61 61 264 129 135 79 88 53 15. Muppaithamkudy 145.00 97 99 485 259 226 6 212 143 16. Tennankudy 159.64 154 154 701 332 369 64 68 177 95 17. Elayankudi 148.46 75 79 343 185 158 127 lIS 88 30 18. Karukkankudy .. 59.54 114 128 626 266 360 22 23 186 185 19. Tevamapuram .. 234.68 94 97 459 229 230 131 128 137 69 20. Serumavilangai .. 185.00 187 187 903 481 422 199 149 337 191 21. Sayampalayam .. 81.61 14 14 63 34 29 17 8 22. So~akudy 281.38 243 252 1,258 634 624 86 85 446 304 23. Thenur 46.68 191 198 912 438 474 222 242 237 207 24. Sellur 223.46 222 233 1,048 537 511 197 182 328 169 25. Agalankannu 97.00 120 127 635 322 313 10 5 257 136 26. Pettai 201.79 209 224 1,022 503 519 123 137 339 208 285 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRAcr State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 TirWlailar Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No.: 1 MAIN WORKERS L.C.,- MARGINAL NON- No. Name of village Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Households, Other WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I) Labourers Industry Workers (I-IX) (II) M;mufactur- [III, IV, V(b) iug, Process- & VI to IX} ing, Servicing & RepairS(V(a)] r-__A----, ,----A.---. ,.------'----. -,.---'-----. ,------'-~ ,---'-~ r-______.--A------, Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Ambagarathur 827 82 158 6 297 49 13 4 359 23 6 61 1,058 1,919 2. Kannapur 45 1 10 1 27 8 12 43 67 3. Nallazhandur 162 3 18 1 123 2J 1 12 85 137 197 4. Thamanankudi 62 35 27 22 60 82 S. Nallambal 323 8 48 7 179 5 91 1 2 91 362 742 6. Valathamangalam 188 96 23 2 140 92 25 2 95 163 7. A vvaiyarmoolai 28 6 1 19 6 8 21 8. Kumarakkudi 137 4 12 2 99 1 26 16 .t07 103 147 • 9. Sathankudi 7 3 4 1 7 3 4 10. Thembidagai 56 54 2 5 64 32 38 11. Agarasethur 258 20 23 97 2 7 131 18 14 68 298 523 12. Pandaravadaisethur 162 105 39 85 102 3 35 2 5 . 121 196 13. Mathur 13 6 2 9 6 2 13 23 14. Kottapady 84 59 27 2 49 53 8 2 45 76 15. Muppaithamkudy 122 2 ]0 72 40 2 137 224 16. Tennankudy 210 186 5 2 ]97 182 8 2 3 122 180 17. Elaylmkudi 109 69 14 89 67 6 76 89 18. Karukkankudy .. 126 19 45 19 14 62 4 140 341 19. Tevamapuram .. 137 67 2) 99 60 17 5 4 10 88 153 20. Serumavilangai .. 237 8 25 122 89 6 8 167 236 247 21. Sayampalayam .. 20 9 11 1 14 28 22. Sotakudy 300 31 72 2 128 22 4 100 3 2 332 592 23. Thenur 226 159 2 136 145 2 4 86 10 1 5 2J~ 310 24. SeHur 304 154 27 1 183 142 12 82 11 14 233 343 25. Agalankannu 174 21 51 1 71 9 52 11 14& 292 26. Pettai 255 142 19 178 118 2 9 56 15 7 to 241 367 286 (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13)--- (14) .------_- 27. Mela Athipadugai 69.54 77 88 410 208 202 54 49 127 71 28. Keela Athipadugai 73.21 46 54 245 124 121 88· 55 29. Neiv~hery 142.25 149 152 605 297 308 179 186 143 66 30. Tirunallar 385.87 487 542 2,806 1,434 1,372 58 49 1,141 837 31. Poomulayalrnangalam .. 61.60 181 186 825 391 434 40 33 288 233 32. Melasuprayapuram 121.54 69 79 342 177 165 8 8 84 43 33. &eezhavoor 53.24 22 22 122 63 59 43 27 34. Agarakovilpattu 1.05 6 7 27 12 15 4 6 10 3 35. Keelasuprayapuram 116.34 140 144 646 338 308 176 172 233 107 36. Keelaputhamangalam 51.95 14 14 71 33 38 33 38 11 7 37. Uthirankudy 49.87 8 8 32 13 19 8 8 6 11 38. Takkalur 53.55 S3 S3 242 129 113 26 24 74 39 Commune Total 4,580.08 4,987 5,134 24,751 1l,l38 12,513 2,698 2,621 8,226 5,452 287 171/4-19B (1) (2) (15) (16) (11) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (21) (28) 21. Mela Athipadugai 107 21 9 76 14 1 21 7 101 181 28. Keela Athipadugai 63 7 50 6 61 120 29. Neivachery 183 16 158 9 114 308 30. Tirunallar 643 10 65 6 182 17 4 4 392 43 2 791 1,300 31. Poomulayalmangalam .. 21p 79 20 8 76 60 120 10 175 355 32. Melasuprayapuram 100 19 62 19 1 77 164 33. Keezhavoor 33 23 6 4 30 59 34. Agarakovilpattu 7 5 2 5 15 35. Keelasuprayapuram 174 9 38 1 108 2 28 ·6 164 299 36. K«laputhamangatam .. 19 19 14 38 37. Uthirankudy 10 2 9 2 3 11 38. Takkalur 73 7 2 1 44 3 27 3 56 106 Commune Total .. 6,200 1,439 860 49 3,316 1,170 50 18 1,974 192 78 734 5,960 10,340 288 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACl State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Neravy Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No.: 2 Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential Holds,- ,-______.._----., ,-----'---, ,-____,A.----, in Houses Persons Males Females Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females hectares males males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Keelaodouthurai 162.40 275 285 1,225 629 596 211 186 292 182 2. Melaodouthurai .. 274.14 174 178 867 448 "419 77 69 276 145 3. Keezhmanai 78.06 45 46 171 93 78 71 54 40 15 4. Kakaimouzhy .. 76.16 99 104 449 234 215 71 76 150 69 5. Thooduponamoolai 56.81 32 34 177 83 94 43 49 50 35 6. Neravy .. 414.32 811 870 4,312"'" 2,057 2',255 369 371 1,429 1,007 7. Akkaravattam .. 392.52 208 216 1,057 539 518 27 33 375 215 8. Karakalacherry .. 95.57 168 168 876 402 474 40 39 . 293 257 9. Akkaravattam Kovilpathu 74.36 147 147 645 320 325 123 124 171 107 10. Uliapathu 44.36 156 156 771 410 361 65 69 297 154 11. Vizhidiur 181.22 311 319 1,5~9 808 791 225 203 571 350 12. KoUoupalayam 106.48 38 38 179 86 93 22 18 50 37 13. Mannamuthy 48.70 58 58 259 133 126 73 68 81 29 Commune Tota) .. 2,005.102,522 2,619 12,587 6,242 6,345 1,417 1,359 4.075 2,602 289 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf-coRdd. State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Neravy Commune District ~ Karaikal. Code No.: 2 Code No.: 2 MAIN WORKERS r- MARGINAL NON- L.C. Name of villag" Total Main CultivatQrs Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS No. Workers (I) Labourers lndustry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process~ & VI to IX] jng, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,---:--'--~ ,---:--'------, r---:--'--~ ,-~ r-~ ,--A..---. Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) l. Keelaodouthurai 344 10 15 3 224 105 7 122 285 464 2. Melaodouthurai 252 87 37 148. 85 16 SI 2 196 332 3. Keezhmanai 62 32 52 32 9 1 5 30 41 4. KakaimouzQy 151 89 36 87 82 1 28 5 1 82 125 5. ThooduponamooJai 49 28 7 36 27 6 34 66 6. Neravy 874/ 151 174 12 360 124 4 336 15 78 1,183 2,026 7. Akkaravattam 256 25 30 7 69 10 157 7 33 50 250 443 8. Karakalacherry 165 54 20 24 36 19 1 109 10 237 420 9. Akkaravattam Kovilpathu 170 IS 17 117 ·11 36 4 11 127 139 183 10. Uliapathu 200 16 18 148 11 34 4 210 345 11. Vizhidiur 472 31 44 244 17 184 14 336 760 12. Kououpalayam 50 12 8 28 11 1 1 13 36 81 13. Mannamuthy .. 81 49 60 46 19 3 -- 52 77 Commune Total 3,126 599 408 49 1,609 475 22 4 1.087 71 46 383 -3.070 5,363 --~------ 290' VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State I Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Nedungadu Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No: 3 Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential Holds r- r-___.A.______r-___"____" r-__.A..--"",\ in Houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females hectares males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Nallathur 120.10 55 55 281 139 142 103 55 2. Kosatheru 9.16 10 10 53 26 27 14 8 3. Melapadugai 23.20 47 47 239 137 102 73 22 4. Adaikalapuram 17.79 62 62 303 163 140 14 16 62 51 5. Narikurumbai 29.60 42 42 161 83 78 48 24 6. Kottagam 13.32 30 30 157 81 76 22 23 64 38 7. Kilianur 81.51 28 28 129 72. 57 38 26 39 18 8. Kilasembiangal .. 40.72 35 35 156 74 82 19 18 49 30 9. Agaraputha)mdy 55.34 28 28 116 57 59 43 21 10. Kulakudy 31.68 46 50 239 116 J23 27 24 61 AO 11. Vadakattalai 37.74 34 40 178 85 93 10 16 56 38 12. Andoor 89.15 50 50 217 101 110 33 33 54 29 13. Usupoor 32.87 20 29 128 70 58 22 16 40 18 14. Saranianeruppu 33.60 13 13 75 33 42 26 16 15. Kottapakkam .. 26.86 38 39 181 97 84 65 30 16. Agarakurumbagaram 158.20 137 142 631 292 339 136 133 210 171 17. Mattalankudy .. 25.48 97 102 446 234 212 116 98 67 18. Kurumbagaram 142.07 120 121 575 232 343 189 233 19. KeezhannavasaI.. 58.96 29 31 94 47 47 7 10 22 10 20. Melannavasal .. 76.91 51 51 207 96 111 60 61 44 46 21. Panchatcharapuram 50.37 127 127 650 330 320 6 4 248 182 22. Keezhaputhagaram 20.89 63 63 256 126 130 50 57 71 26 23. Nedungadu 210.73 464 474 2,278 1,200 1,078 281 279 789 551 24. Agaramankudy.. 66.18 • 37 37 195 104 91 56 52 72 31 25. Paruthikudy 43.57 21 21 97 SO 47 40 41 23 6 26. Keezhaponbethy 89.10 72 72 305 152 153 95 96 72 411 27. Melaponbethy .. 74.t8 12.4 124 582 289 293 55 61 183 121.. 291 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACI' State Pondicherry Nedungadu Commnue Code No.: 32 D1Stric: Karaikal Code No.: 3 Code No 2 MAIN WORKERS r------"------., MARGINAL NON L.c. Name of village Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS No. Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX1 ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] r---A.~ ,-~----, ,-_.A.-----., ,---A.----.. ,---"-__...., ,---A.-----, ,-______,..______Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) . (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (21) . (28) 1. NaUathur 81 63 21 39 59 21 18 57 61 2. Kosatheru 13 19 8 19 2 3 13 8 3. Melapadugai 19 16 13 53 16 13 58 26 4. Adaikalapuram 104 92 14 1 87 91 3 59 48 5. Narikurumbai 50 8 42 26 33 52 6. Kottagam 43 5 35 4 8 1 38 71 7. Kilianur 39 9 3 34 7 2 2 33 48 8. Kilasembiangal .. 44 3 10 31 1 3 30 19 9. Agaraputhakudy 26 5 11 7 5 1 1 1 31 53 10. Kulakudy 68 26 14 40 19 14 1 ,.. 48 97 1 t. Vadakattalai 49 12 15 28 7 6 5 36 81 12. Andoor 63 40 15 41 40 7 44 70 13. Usupoor 39 28 10 15 14 14 14 31 30 14. Saranianeruppu 19 2 8 1 8 3 14 40 15. Kottapakkam .. 51 41 1 48 41 2 46 43 16. Agarakurumbagaram 169 29 28 2 78 14 2 3 61 10 24 112 99 198 17. Mattalankudy .. 114 3 21 78 2 1 1 89 120 120 18. Kurumbagaram 119 32 16 11 47 56 14 113 311 19. Keezhannavasal .. 32 12 20 6 1 4 11 2 15 35 20. Melannavasal .. 55 2 5 42 8 2 41 109 21. Panchatcharapuram 151 36 12 37 30 102 6 179 284 22. Keezhaputhagaram 13 16 9 58 16 6 3 15 50 99 23. Nedungadu 583 114 22 2 234 159 326 13 617 904 24. Agaramankudy 45 4 30 11 59 91 25. Parut~ikudy 35 32 3 15 47 2.. Keezhaponbethy 85 9 71 8 8 67 144 (i.7. Melaponbethy' •• 140 53 14 45 42 81 11 149 240 292 , (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) ------...- ---- 28. Vadamattam - 100.99 89 89 386 194 192 55 60 140 80 29. Melakottucherry 42.62 69 69 298 157 141 53 54 87 33 30. Puttakudy 191.59 84 84 339 169 170 146 147 68 34 31. Melakasakudy .. 471.55 270 294 1,298 665 633 187 161 358 223 32. Thiruvengadapuram .. 82.96 41 43 175 92 83 32 33 49 13 33. KanjeepuramkoviJpathu 38.13 30 31 155 83 72 37 27 31 9 Commune Total 2,587.12 2,463 2,533 11,580 5,852 5,728 1,597 1,546 3,578 2,326 ..- 293 \ 1) (2) (15) t16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) "'~)."' (25) (26) (27) (28) 28. Vadamattam 110 SO 5 77 44 28 6 84 142 29. Melakottucherry 78 48 34 7 38 39 6 2 24 77 69 30. Puttakudy 94 IS 53 5 38 to 3 7 81 68 74 31. Melakasakudy 344 26 38 3 216 7 119 16 33 75 288 532 32. Thiruvengadapuram SS 33 9 43 32 3 1 37 50 33. Kanjeepuramkovilpathu 45 26 5 39 25 38 46 Commune Total .. 3,095 985 424 41 1,745 817 10 9 916 118 70 441 2.687 4,30: 294 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Kottucherry Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No. : 4 Total population (including Area No: of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of village village Residential Holds ,- ,----'----, ,-----'------., ,------'---,_" in hectares houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Female 'I males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Keezbakasakudy 385.97 250 258 1,160 594 566 173 159 382 222 2. Kottucherry 628.91 720 744 3,715 1,839 1,876 346 345 1,228 856 3. Kottucherry Macuary 19.32 87 87 4>2 225 227 95 13 4. Keezbakasakudy 21.32 138 138 675 328 347 95 2S Macuary 5. Rayampalayam 166.78 134 134 615 283 332 153 188 157 91 6. Koozhkuditha 79.84 39 39 188 92 96 54 61 33 7 Agraharam 7. Pulianthope 48.06 16 16 71 36 35 16 3 8. Konnakavaly 120.42 51 55 250 128 122 35 39 65 29 9. Varichikudy 504.49 759 771 3,765· 1,910 1,855 332 295 1,286 789 10. Thiruvettakudy .. 493.73 169 176 698 344 354 191 198 170 69 11. Kalikuppam 13.41 74 74 378 186 192 .. 77 37 12. Akkampettai 28.92 44 48 236 122 114 .. 49 25 13. Mannankoil 10.57 14. Mandabathur 11.20 46 48 262 129 133 56 30 15. Poovam ·134.14 141 141 698 365 333 108 91 183 102 16. Kuppanchettychavady 83.75 102 103 540 275 265 8 11 216 146 ---- -.,,-- Commune Total 2,750.83 2.770 2.832 13.703 6.856 6,847 1.400 1.387 4,108 2,444 295 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf-cond4. ... State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Kottucherry Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No.: 4 MAIN WORKERS L.C. r- -, MARGINAL NON- No. Name of village Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,.---A._---., ,.---A.----, ,.-__J.... _____ r-___"'_----, ,.-___..._---, ,.--.---'-----., , ..... ------. Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1- Keezhakasakudy 297 11 22 169 105 10 18 133 279 422 2. Kottucherry 883 89 115 422 45 2 344 42 18 i48 938 1,539 3. Kottucherry . Macuary .. 131 7 131 7 94 220 4. Keezhakasakudy Macuary 181 24 2 42 2 136 22 20 57 127 266 S. Rayampalayam 152 110 2 97 102 53 8 131 222 6. Koozhkuditha Agraharam 59 9 49 36 33 60 t; 7. Pulianthope 19 5 13 17 3S 8. Konnakavaly 75 2\ 15 43 17 2 23 53 97 9. Varichikudy 894 58 185 17 422 14 11 3 276 24 45 193 971 1,604 10. Thiruvettakudy .. 186 145 r 10 156 144 20 1 6 38 152 171 11. Kalikuppam 112 43 112 43 74 149 12. Akkampettai 68 23 3 64 23 54 91 13. Mannankoil 14. Mandabathur 70 19 1 69 18 58 114 15. Poovam f80 9 23 142 7 15 2 2 185 322 16. Kuppanchettychavady .. 116 11 11 5 12 7 88 4 159 254 Commune Total .. 3,423 551 403 18 1,561 314 27 13 1,432 206 108 730 3,325 5,566 196 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Tirumalairayanpattinam Commune District: Karaikal Code No.: 2 Code No.: 5 . Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates of occupied House- population) castes tribes L.C. Name of viJIage village Residential holds ~---~------. ~__,._-----. ~____.._____. ~__,._-----. No. in Houses Persons Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females hectares males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Keezhaiyur 723.02 180 180 977 501 476 296 94 2. Tirumalairayanpattinam 114.03 1,598 1,789 8,841/"4,277 4,564 428 375 3,151 2,417 3. Melayurpet 178.93 84 84 j72 203 169 142 124 69 17 4. Padudarkollai 16.80 38 40 253 138 115 113 72 5. Edatheru 64.69 338 353 1,460 725 735 435 455 292 144 6. Keezhavanjiurkuppam 34.77 90 90 441 218 223 2 2 150 94 7. Polagam .. 294.51 136 143 558 292 \266 155 141 132 70 8. Nainikattalai .. 74.04 16 16 84 47 37 9 8 32 11 9. Keezhavanjiur .. 507.59 132 134 596 291 305 102 116 170 77 10. Melavanjiur .. 104.05 86 87 399 • 209 190 2 7 144 89 Commune Total 2,.12.43 2,698 2,916 13,981 6,901 7,080 1,275 1,228 4,549 3,085 MAIN WORKERS r-. ------..A-·------.....,MARGINAL NON L.C. Name of village Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS No. Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,.-_.-A.__ , ,.-___....--., ,...--A.--, .-_.-A.---, ,----A.---., ,-_..Jo..---., ,---A.--, Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males . (1) (2) (15) (16)' (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Keezhaiyur 205 79 205 79 296 397 2. Tirumalairayanpattinam 1,797/394 247 46 384 188 38 19 1,128 141 79 86 2,401 4,084 3. Melayurpet 114 93 25 8 85 85 4 89 76 4. Padudarkollai 51 1 17 10 24 87 114 5. Edatheru 449 181 67 6 349 175 33 6 t i7 270 377 6. Keezhavanjiurkuppam 114 11 51 5 12 4 51 2 104 212 7. Polagam 173 98 10 4 134 94 2 27 15 8 104 160 8. Nainikattalai 28 14 7 7 2 6 17 31 9. Keezhavanjiut 174 14 61 6 82 5 31 3 47 117 244 10. _Melavanjiur 116 11 10 6 91 11 93 179 Commune Total 3,221 882 501 75 1,073 547 46 23 1,601 237 102 324 3,578 5,874 297 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT District: Mahe -----Total population (including SI. State/Districtf Total Area No. or No. o'f Institutional and Houseless Scheduled castes Scheduled tribes No. U.A.lTehsii/City/ Rural . in occupied House~ population) Town Urban Km2 Residen- holds ,---~~----A-~~-----. ,-- ,------"-----.. tial Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Per~ Males Fe~ Houses sons males _-----(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) III. MAHE DISTRICT : Total 9.0 3,861 3,902 28~413 13,260 . 15,153 73 36 37 Rural 7.5 2,595 2,598 18,825 8,789 10,036 32 13 19 Urban 1.5 1,266 1,304 9,588 4.471 5,117 41 23 18 1. Mahe Commune Total 9.0 3,861 3,902 28,413 13,260 15,153 73 36 37 Rural 7.5 2,59) 2,598 18,825 8,789 10,036 32 13 19 Urban 1.5 1,266 1.304 9,588 4.471 5,117 41 23 18 Mahe(M) Urban 1.53 1,266 1,304 9,588 4,471 5,117 41 23 18 MAIN WORKERS ,-- --A. SI. State/District! Literates Total Main Workers (I to IX) Cultivators(I) Agricultural Labourers(II) No. U.A./Tehsil/City/ ,------""------., ,-- r- Town Persons Males Females Persons Males Females----- ,--Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) , (26) (27) HI. MAHE DISTRICT ; Total 21,058 10.345 10,713 5,572 4,631 941 74 65 9 500 323 177 Rural 13,920 6,899 7,021 3,557 2,949 608 72 63 9 496 321 175 Urban 7,138 3,446 3,692 2,015 1,682 333 2 2 4 2 2 1. Mahc; Commune Total 21,058 10,345 10,713 5,572 4,631 941 74 65 9 500 323 177 Rural 13,920 6,899 7,021 3,557 2,949 608 72 63 9 496 321 175 Urban 7,138 3,446 3,692 2.015 1,682 333 2 2 4 2 2 Mahe(M) Urban 7,138 3.446 3,692 2,01S 1,682 333 2 2 4 2 2 298 DISTRICf PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf-ConC'ld. District : Mabe - ,-___- ______MAIN----A- WORKERS SI. Sta tel District/ Household Industry-Manu- Other Workers No. U.A./Tchsil/ facturing. Processing, Servi- [III, IV, V(b) & VI to IX) MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS City/Town cing and Repairs [V (a)) ,------"------., ,------, ,-_--A- ,---_----A. -, Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Femal es Persons Males Females (1) (2) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) III. MAHE DISTRICT: Total 193 113 80 4,805 4,130 675 254 182 72 22,587 8,447 ]4,140 Rural 182 ]08 74 2,807 2,457 350 182 124 58 15,086 5,7]6 9,370 Urban 1 ] 5 6 1,998 1,673 325 72 58 14 7,501 2,731 4,770 l. Mahe Commune Total 193 113 80 4,805 4,130 675 254 182 72 22,587 8,447 14,140 Rural 182 108 74 2,807 2,457 350 182 124 58 15,086 5,716 9,370 Urban 11 5 . 6 1,998 1,673 325 72 58 14 7,501 2,731 4,770 Mahe (M) Urban It 5 6 1,998 1,673 325 72 58 14 7,501 2,731 4,770 NOT!! :-The area figure of Mahe district is the "Geographical area" figure supplied by the Surveyor General of India. Figure for Mahe (M) is the one supplied by Local Body. Area figure for rural area is derived by subtracting the urban area from the total area of the district. 299 171/4-20A URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 TOW11: Mahe District: Mahe Code No.: 3 Code No. : I Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates of occupied House- population) castes Name of ward tribes L.C. town Residential holds r- r-----A------... ,-----"-----, r--___.A--~ No. in Km2 houses Persous Males Females Males Females Males Fe- Males Females males (I) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) ---_.-----_ -- _-_------1. Parakkal inclUding Poozhi 250 252 2,406 1,183 1,223 5 820 830 2. Choodikotta includin parts of Parakkal ana Mattammal 238 247 1,777 791 986 2 647 735 3. Valavil including parts of Mattammal and Thayangadi 212 223 1,775 879 896 .2 624 582 4. Mundock including pans of Mattammal . Thayangadi . . and 319 333 1,866 855 1,01l 17 10 709 783 5. Manjakkal inclUdingp rt of Puthalam a ad s Mattammal n 247 249 1,764 763 1,001 646 762 Grand Total '. " 1.53 1,266 1,304 9,588 4,471 5,117 23 18 3,446 3,692 ---_._._--- MAIN WORKERS ______-J~ ______, ,--- MARGlNAL NON L.c. N~e of ward No. Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX] iug, Servicing , & Repaits[V(a)] ,-----A-~ ,--_-A..;:~ ,--____.A._~ r------A...~ r----A..~ ,------A-~ r----A-~ Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (0 (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) I. Parakkal --including POQzhi 510 38 2 2 508 36 673 1,185 ... Cnoodikotta includin parts of Parakkal a ~ Mattammal n 26l 62 2 259 61 20 3 510 921 3. Valavil including parts of Mattammal Thayangadi and .. 346 58 !. 1 2 343 57 8 7 525 831 4. Mundock inclUding pa t of Mattammal and r s Thayangadi 336 122 336 122 5 514 888 5. Manjakkal including part of Puthalam and S Mattammal 229 S3 1 4 227 49 25 3 509 945 Grand Total -- 1,682 333 2 2 2 5 6 1,673 325 58 14 2,731 4,770 300 URBAN PRI\1ARY CENSUS ABSTKACT APPENDIX Total, scheduled castes and scbeduled trjbe~ population--Urban Blockwise Name of union territory: Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Name of district: Mahe Code No. : 3 Location Name of town/ward/urban block Total Scheduled Scheduled Code No. population castes tnbes (1) (2) (3\ (4) (5) I. Mahe .. 9,588 41 Parakkal including Poozhi ~,406 8 881 794 8 3 731 2 Choodikotta including Parakkal and Mattammal 1.777 3 4- 63J 5 512 3 6 634 3 Valavil including Mattammal and Thayangadi •. 1,775 3 7 603 8 615 q 557 4 Mundock including Mattammal and Thayangadi ],866 27 10 507 27 II 523 12 836 5 Manjakkka? including Puthalam and Mattammal 1,764 13 947 14 817 Total number of towns in Mahe district: 1 Total number of wards in Mahe town : 5 Total number of urban blocks in Mabe town: 14 Boundaries of urban blocks are given in the list below: 301 LOCATION CODE NUMBERS FOR URBAN BLOCKS AND THEIR JURISDICTION State Pondicherry District Mahe Town Mahe L.C. No.: 32 L.C. No. : 3 L.C. No. : I L.C. No. L.C. No. of of Name of wards with details Boundary (indicating door numbers) Wards E.Bs. of streets etc. (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. 1 Parakkal including Poozhi .. From 552, 573 to 577, 580 to 582/2, 584 to 590, 596 to 601/1, 603, 611 to 615, 617 to 620,624 to 628, 6)0/1 to 634, 640 to 641, 646, 910t0911, 913 t0915, 917to 918, 924, 928 to 934,936, 937,939 to 953, 956 to 969, 976 to 980/2, 985 to 988, 1008, 1066, 1066/26, 1066/27/1, 1066/33, 1066/35,1066/38, 1066/40 to 1066/42. 2 Parakkal including Poozhi From 634, 650 to 650/4, 654, 661/1 to 661/8, 670 to 670/2, 678 to 678/1, 877, 879 to 891/Bis, 893, 895 to 899/1,901, 903 to 90&/1, 950, 1066/44, 1066/46, 1066/48, 1066/49, 1066/51, 1066/52, 1066/54, 1066/58 to 1066/60, 1093/Bis. 3 Parakkal including Poozhi , . From 605 to 606/1, 609, 610, 615 to 615/2, 633 to 648, 654A fo 654N2, 656 to 660,662/1 to 668, 671/1 to 677, 679 to 681, 683, 684, 686 to 689, 695/1, 695/2, 708, 708 Bis. 715, 716, 716/1, 719, 719/1, 721 to 724, 726, 731, 733, 734. 2 4 Choodikotta including parts of Parakkal From 682 to 682/3, 690 to 707, 709 to 713, 755 to 762/1,,,,764 to 768 and Mattammal 770 to 792 Bis. 5 Choodikotta including parts of From 543 to 543/1,545, 547 to 554, 556 to 562, 576, 579 to 579/1, Parakkal and Mattammal 592, 592/1, 594 to 594/4, 717, 718, 720, 727 to 730, 732, 736 to 754. 6 Choodikotta including parts of From 498 to 506 Bis, 509 to 517,519 to 526, 529 to 539, 541 to 542, Parakkal and Mattamlnal 546 Bis, 546 Ter, 802, 803, 805 to 810, 812 to 820, 822 to 82&, 830to 850/1, 852, 852Bis. 3 7 Valavi1 including Mattammal and From 467 to 469/1,565,566,570, 572, 970, 972 to 975,991 to 993, Thayangadi 995 to 998, 1000 to 1009 Bis, 1012,1016,1018 to 1021, 1023 to 1023/6, 1026 to 1029, 1031 to 1032, 1066 to 1066/10, 1066/12 to 1066116, 1066/20, 1066/22, 1066/24, 1066/32. 8 Valavil including Mattammal and From 452 to 466, 470, 472, 473, 477, 1033, 1037, 1038, 1040 to Thayangadi 1044/1, 1046 to 1065, 1066/11, 1066/14, 1066/15. 9 Valavil including Mattammal and From 4oo,400f1, 403, 403{l,406to 409/1, 411,411/A,412, 417 Bis, Thayangadi 437,438,440, 442, 444 to 447, 451, 1067 to 1092, 1094 to 1096, 1099. 4 10 Mundock including parts of Mattammal From 74,76 to 82.84 to 112, 386 to 389, 391 to 399/1, 401 to 402, and Thayangadi 405,417 to 420, 422 to 435, 439, 441, 448 to 450. 11 Mundock including parts of From 119 to 124/8, 126 to 129, 131, 133 to 137, 154 to 184, Mattamrnal and Thayangadi 204to 207/2, 365 to 369, 478/1, 481 to 482, 484 to 497/2. 12 Mundock including parts of Mattammal . From 1 to 24{2, 25 to 27, 29 to 37, 39 to 40 Ter., 44 to 46, 48 to and Thayangadi 54, 56 to 70,72 to 73, 112 to 118, 137 to 147, 149 to 153, 324 to 324fl, 355 to 358, 365 Bis, 370 to 372 Bis, 374 to 379, 381 to 383, 385. 13 Manjakkai including Puthalam and From 208 to 224, 272 to 272.'1. 279 to 281, 285 to 289, 291 to Mattammal 299 Bis, 302 to 328, 330 to 352 Bis, 350 to 365 Bis. 14 Manjakkal_ including Puthalam and From 185 to 203 Bis. 227 to 245, 247 to 271/1, 273 to 277, 797 Mattammal to 801 853 to 859, 861 to 878 Ter/I. 302 VILLAGE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Mahe Commune District: Mahe Code No.: 3 Code No.: 1 , Total population (including Area No. of No. of Institutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No. Name of villl\ge village Residential holds r- r-----A..~. ,------A-~ r------A-~ in hectares houses Persons Males Females Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) 1. Chalakara 199.12 688 688 4,927 2,324 2,603 2 2 1,843 1,871 -2. Palloor .. 303.45 1,176 1,176 8,525 4,000 4,525 9 13 3,157 3,173 3. Pandakkal 219.60 731 734 5,373 2,465 2,908 2 4 1,899 1,977 Commune Total 722.17 2,595 2,598 18,825 8,7~ 10,036 13 19 6,899 7,021 MAIN WORKERS L.C. r- MARGINAL NON- No. Name of village Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other WORKERS WORKERS Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) ing, Process- & VI to IX] ing, Servicing & Repairs[V(a)] ,-____A..----., ,-____A..-----, ,-____A..-----, ,-____A..-----, ,-__A.-----, ,-__A._-.. ,------'--______Males Fe- Males Fe- Males·'Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Female males males males males males males (1) (2) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Chaiakara 699 123 "'9 31 15 19 3 640 105 83! 43 1,542 ·2,431 2. PaliQor .. 1,366 203 29 2 163 78 14 1,160 123 15 8 2,619 4,314 3. Pandakkal 884 282 25 7 127. 82 75 71 657 122 26 7 1,555 2,619 Commune Total 2,949 608 63 9 321 175 108 74 2,457 3SO 124 58 5,716 9,370 303 171/4-20B DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRr)CT District: Yanam Total population (includ- SI. State/District/ Total Area No. of No. of ing Institutional and Scheduled castes Scheduled tribes No. U.A./Tehsil/ Rural in occupied House- Houseless population) City/Town Urban K.m2 Residen- holds ,-___J>... ,-- ,_---A- ·tial Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Per- Males Fe- Houses sons males (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) IV. YANAM DISTRICT: Total 30.0 2,108 2,386 11,631 5,893 5,738 2,547 1,288 1,259 Rural Urban 30.0 2,108 2,386 11,631 5,893 5,738 2,547 1,288 1,259 1. Yanam Commune Total 30.0 2,108 2,386 11,631 5,893 5,738 2,547 1,288 1~259 Rural Urban ~ 30.0 2,108 2,386 11,631 5,893 5,738 2,547 1:288 1,259 Yanam(M) Urban 30.00 2,108 2,386 11,631 5,893 5,738 2,547 1,288 1,259 MAIN WORKERS ,---, -----. SI. State/District/ Literates Total Main Workers (I to IX) Cultivators(l) Agricult~l Labourers(ll) No. U.A./TehsilJ· ,.- ,------'- ,---~ ,---~ City/Tc:>wn Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) , (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) IV. YANAM DISTRICT: Total 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 382 4 1,391 812 579 Rural Urban 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 382 4 1,391 812 579 1. Yanam Commune Total 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 382 4 ],391 812 579 Rural Urban 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 382 4 1,391 812 579 Yanam(M) Urban 5,766 3,294 2,472 3,861 2,988 873 386 " 382 4 1,391 812 579 304 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT-Condd. District: Yanam MAIN WORKERS r- SI. State/District/ Household Industry-Manu- Other Workers No. U.A.rrehsill facturing, Processing, Servi- [III, IV, V(b) & VI to IX] MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS City!Town cing and Repairs [V (a)] r- .....A.. ,-- ,-- ,-- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) " IV. YANAM DISTRICT: Total 70 57 13 2,014 1,737 277 91 13 78 7,679 . 2,892 4,787 Rural Urban 70 57 13 2,014 1,737 277 91 13 78 7,679 2,892 4,787 \ ..... 1. Yanam Commune Total 70 57 13 2,014 1,737 277 91 13 78 7,679 2,892 4,787 Rural Urban 70 57 13 2,014 11737 277 91 13 78 7,679 2,892 4,787 Yanam(M) Urban 70 57 13 2,014 1,737 277 ~1 13 78 7,679 2,892 4,787 NOTE :-TheareafigureofYanam district is the "Geographical area" figure supplied by the Surveyor General of India. 305 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRAcr State Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Town YanlllIl District: Yanam Code No.: 4 Code No.: I. Total population (including Area No. of No. of Ins.titutional and Houseless Scheduled Scheduled Literates L.C. of occupied House- population) castes tribes No: Name of ward town Residential holds r-----A- r---A..--., ~ ,------Jo--.. in Km2 houses Persons Males "Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- males males males males (t) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) . (12) (13) (14) 1. Mettakur 153 179 745 373 372 231 226 149 89 2. Bus stand 256 312 1,622 792 830 163 207 473 430 3. Big Bazar .141 164 911 458 453 1 2 323 263 4. Pillaraya 281 333 1,528 752 776 51 56 411 329 5. Farampeta 122 127 620 302 318 245 264 122 90 6. Guerimpeta 203 224 1,066 572 494 304 255 157 74 7. Salikota .. 245 264 1,366 752 614 117 60 513 321 8. Pydikondala and Farampeta 174 193 1,015 526 489 18 14 ·329 255 9. Pedapudi 167 192 878 431 447 3 3 302 250 10. Agraharam 176 183 876 440 436 120 122 237 141 11. Kanakalapeta 100 113 472 220 252 35 50 126 105 12. Kanakalapeta 90 102 . 532 275 257 152 125 Grand Total .. 30.00 2,108 2,386 11,631 5,893 5,738 1,288 1,259 3,294 2,472 306 MAIN WORKERS r- ---A- Total Main Cultivators Agricultural Household Other Workers (I) Labourers Industry- Workers MARGINAL SON· L.C. (I-IX) (II) Manufactur- [III, IV, V(b) WORKERS WORKERS No. Name of ward ing, Process- & VI to IX) ing, Servicing , & Repairs[V(a)] r----"---... r----"---... ,..--.-'---... r-~ r---'---.., ,----'-----., ,-_____.....~ Males Fe- .Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Fe- Males Females males males males males males males (1) (2) , (IS) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) 1. Mettakur 184 91 26 95 60 63 31 6 44 183 237 2. Bus stand 383 57 16 77 14 16 6 274 37 5 2 404 771 3. Big Bazar 218 9 18 32 4 9 159 5 240 443 4. Pillaraya 395 94 43 2 52 45 18 7 282 40 357 682 5. Farampeta 179 137 15 117 124 47 12 123 181 6. Guerimpeta 359 170 116 152 164 ·91 6 1 28 212 296 7. Salikota .. 321 71 10 25 27 286 44 3 431 548 8. Pydikondala and Farampeta 250 90 16 1 19 45 12 203 44 276 399 9. Pedapudi 195 8 23 44 127 8 236 439 10. Agraharam 228 114 8 80 75 139 39 1 211 322 11. Kanakalapeta 121 31 52 37 20 32 11 99 221 12. Kanakalapeta .. 155 1 39 82 1 34 120 25 • Grand Total 2,988 873 382 '4 812 579 57 13 1.737 277 13 78 2,891 4,787 307 URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACI' APPENDIX Tot~I, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes population-Urban Bloekwise , Name of LUlion territory: . Pondicherry Code No.: 32 Name of district : Yanam Code No. 4 Location Name of town/wardi Total Scheduled Scheduled Code No. urban block population castes tribes (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) L YANAM 11,631 2,547 1 Mettakur 745 457 427 250 ....., 318 207 2 Ambedkar Nagar 1,622 370 3 329 311 4 573 9 5 682 50 6 38 3 Big Bazar 911 3 7 458 3 8 453 4 Pillaraya 1;528 107 9 566 62 10 631 22 11 ·331 23 .. ~ 5 Farampeta 620 S09 12 'of> 620 509 6 Guerimpeta 1,066 559 13 451 235 14 384 316 15 231 8 7 Saiikota 1,366 177 ]6 742 118 17 624 59 8 Pydikondala and Farampeta .. 1,015 32 18 392 19 547 20 76 32 308 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 9 Pedapudi 878 6 21 442 3 22 436 3 10 Agraharam .. 876 242 2.3 430 239 24 446 3 11 Kanakalapeta 472 85 2S 36 26 436 85 12 Kanakalapeta 532 27 532 Total number of towns in Yanam district: 1 Total number of wards in Yanam town: 12 Total n\llllber of urban blocks in Yanam town: 27 Boundaries of urban blocks arc given in the list below : 309 LOCATION CODE NUMBERS FOR URBAN BLOCKS AND THEIR JURISDIcrION .s;tate Pondicherry District Yanam Town Yanam L.C. No.: 32 L.C. No.: 4 L.C. No.: I , L.C. No. L.C. No. of of Name of ward with details of street etc. Boundary(indicating door numbers) Ward E.B. (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 Mettakur. From 1 to 50 From 51 to 96 From 146 to 154 2 Mettakur. From 96/1 to 160 ' z' 3 Ambedkar Nagar. From 2-1 to 2-66 4 Bus Stand. From 2-64 to 2~221 From 2-78 to 2-199 5 Bus Stand. From 2-109 to 2-244 6 Bus Stand. From 2-222 to 2-224 3 7 Big Bazar. From 3-2 to 3-46 8 Big Bazar. From 3-47 to 3-107 4 9 Pillaraya. From 4-1 to 4-66 10 Pillaraya. From 4-67 to 4-143 11 Pi~araya. From 4-81 to 4-83 From 153 to 203 12 Fararnpeta. From 5-1 to 5-105. 13 Guerimpeta (Darialtippah) From 6-1 to 6-71 14 Guerimpeta (Darialtippah). From 6-50 to 6-122 15 Querirnpeta. From 6-124 to 6-200 16 Salikota. From 7-1 to 7-185 From 44 to 77 17 Salikota. From 7-80 to 7-171 8 18 Pydikondala and Fararnpeta. From 8-1 to 8-55 19 pydikondala. From 8-67 to 8-122 20 Fararnpeta. From 26-1 to 26-14 21 Pedapudi. From 9-1 to 9-44 22 Pedapud'i. From 9-46 to 9-82. to 23 Agraharam. From 10-1 to 10-83 24 Agraharam. From 10-8 to 10-146 From 10-181 to 10-183' n 25 Kanakalapeta. From 11-1 to 11-49. 26 Kanakalapeta. From 11-73 to 11-101 27 Kanakalapeta. From 12-1 to 12-47 From 120/1 to 120/9 31G SCHEDULED CAStES PRIMARY CENSUS.ABSTRACT STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT(S.C.) MAIN WORKERS r- ----.. S1. State/District Total No. of Total SC Population Literates Total Main Workers (I to IX) No. Rural House- r---____.A,. r- r- Urban holds with Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females SCmembers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) t8) (9) (10) (ll) ( 12) (13) I. PONDICHI!RRY UNION TERRITORY Total 20,388 96,636 49,210 47,426 31,275 21,214 10,061 37,423 25,009 12,414 Rural 13,436 62,526 32,001 30,525 16,604 11,938 4,666 27,669 17,524 10,145 Urban 6,952 34,110 17,209 16,901 t4,671 9,276 5,395 9,754 7,485 2,269 1. Pondicherry District Total 14,920 74,029 37,698 36,331 24,006 16,223 7,783 27,847 18,326 9,521 Rural 9,373 45,966 23,601 22,365 11,576 8,402 3,174 20,402 12,499 7,903 Urban 5,547 28,063 14,097 13,966 12,430 7,821 4,609 7,445 5,827 1,618 2. Karaikal District Total 4,882 19,987 10,188 9,799 6,187 4,348 1,839 8,450 6,014 2,436 Rural 4,056 16,528 8,387 8,141 5,008 3,529 1,479 7,257 5,020 2,237 Urban 826 3,459 1,801 1,658 1,179 819 360 1,193 994 199 J. Mahe District Total 16 / 73 36 37 48 24 :'4 31 19 12 Rural 7 32 - 13 19 20 7 13 10 5 5 Urban 9 41 23 18 28 17 11 21 14 7 4. Yanam District Total 570 2,547 1,288 1,259 1,034 619 415 1,095 650 ~5 .I Rural Urban 570 2,547 1,288 1,259 1,034 619 415 1,095 650 445 NOTE: I. SC-Scheduled castes. 2. No tribe has been scheduled in the Union Territory of Pondicherry as per Presidential Order. 311 STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf (S.C.)-cuntd. ----- MAIN WORKERS r------..A._ SI. State/District Total Household industry- Manu- No. Rural Cultivators Agricultural Labourers facturing, Processing, Ser- Urban (I) (II) vicing and Repairs [Veal] r------"- , r---______...A.------, r- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females----- (1) (2) t3) (14) . (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) I. PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY Total, .. 1,748 1,453 295 27,674 16,837 10,837 260 158 102 Rural .. 1,477 1,220 257 24,099 14,538 9,561 132 80 52 Urban .. 271 233 38 3,575 2,299 1,276 118 78 50 1. Pondicberry District Total 1,210 956 254 19,642 11,471 8,171 218 132 86 Rural 1,095 871 224 17,620 10,J93 7,427 98 60 38 Urban 115 85 30 2,022 1,278 744 120 72 48 2. Karaikal District Total .. 429 390 39 7,209 4,942 2,267 41 25 16 Rural 382 349 33 6,478 4,345 2,1:13 34 20 14 Urban .. 47 41 6 731 597 134 7 5 2 3. Mahe District Total Ruml Urban .. ~. Yanam District Total 109 107 :! 822 424 398 R.ural Urban .. 109 to7 2 822 424 398 312 STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT (S.C.)---('ollCld. ,-____MAIN -A.. WORKERS SI. State/District Total Other Workers (III, IV, Y(b) No. Rural r- and VI_lo~_ ...... ;::ARGINAL WORfR~ r- NON-WORKERS Urban Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Femaies (1) (2) (3) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31 ) 1. PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY : Total 7,741 6,561 1,180 3,997 700 . 3,297 55,216 23,501 31,715 Rural 1,961 1,686 275 2,885 385 2,500 31,972 14,092 17,880 Urban 5,780 4,875 905 1,112 315 797 23,244 9,409 13,835 1. Pondicherry District Total 6,777 5,767 1,010 1,919 578 1,341 44,263 1~,794 25,469 Rural 1,589 1,375 214 1,276 303 973 24,288 10,799 13,489 Urban 5,188 4,392 796 643 275 368 19,975 7,995 11,980 2. Karaika1 District Total 771 657 114 2,030 116 1,914 9,507 4,058 5,449 Rural 363 306 57 1,609 82 1,527 ',,- 7,662 3,285 4,377 Urban 408 351 57 421 34 387 1,845 773 1,072 3. Mahe District Total 30 19 II 42 17 25 Rural 9 5 4 22 3 14 Urban 21 14 7 20 9 J 1 .., 4. Yanam District Total 163 U8 45 48 6 ""- 1,404 632 <7Tl Rural Urban 163 118 45 48 6 42 1,404 1132 772 313 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT (S.C.) District: Pondicherry MAIN WORKERS r----~------~ SI. State/District/U.A./ T~l No. of Total SC population Literates Total Main Workers a-IX) No. TehsiljCityjTown Ru~l house- r- ---.. r------., r------'------.,. Urban holds with Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females SCmembers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) I. PONDICHERRY UNION TERRIrORY : Total 20,388 96,636 49,210 47,426 31,275 21,214 10,061 37,423 25,009 12,414 Rural 13,436 62,526 32,001 30,525 16,604 11,938 4,666 27,669 17,524 10,145 Urban 6,952 34,110 17,209 16,901 14,671 9,276 5,395 9,754 7,485 2,269 1. Pondicherry District Total 14,920 14,029 37,698 36,331 24,006 16,223 7,783 27,847 18,326 9,521 Rural 9,373 45,966 23,601 22,365 11,576 8,402 3,174 20,402 12,499 7,903 Urban 5,547 28,063 14,097 13,966 12,430 7,821 4,609 7,445 5,827 1,618 Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration Please see the annexure. Pondicherry (M)* Urban 3,504 17,258 8,559 8,699 7,648 4,688 2,960 4,487 3,601 886 I. Ariankuppam Commune Total 942 4,866 2,560 2,306 1,675 1,198 477 1,621 1,128 493 Rural 942 4,866 2,560 2,306 1,675 1,198 477 1,621 1,128 493 Urban 2. Ozhukarai Commune Total 2,015 10,629 5,447 5,182 4,812 3,141 1,671 2,778 2,161 617 Rural 91 502 250 252 181 124 57 136 112 24 Urban 1,924 10,127 5,197 4,930 4,631 3,017 1,614 2,642 2,049 593 , Ozhukarai (C.P)* Urban 1,924 10,127 5,197 4.930 4,631 3,017 1,614 2,642 2,049 593 3. ~annadipet Commune Tol-al 2,087 10,305 5,257 5,048 2,388 1,766 622 5,047 2,920 2,127 Rural 2,087 10,305 5,257 5,048 2,388 1,766 622 5,047 2,920 2,127 Urban - 4. Villianur Commune Total 2,378 11,765 6,005 5.760 2,895 2,101 794 5,071 3,168 1,903 Rural 2,259 11,087 5,664 5,423 2,744 1,985 759 4,755 2,991 1.764 Urban 119 678 341 337 151 116 35 316 177 139 Kurumbapet (G.P)· Urban 119 678 341 337 151 116 35 316 177 139 5. Bahour Commun", Total 2,546 12,274 6,277 5,997 3,171 2,283 888 5,153 3,287 1,866 Rural 2,546 12,274 6,277 5,997 3,171 2,283 888 5,153 3,287 1,866 Urban 6. Nettapakkam Commune Total 1,448 6,932 3,593 3,339 1,417 1,046 371 3,690 2,06] 1,629 Rural 1,448 6,932 3,593 3,339 1,417 1,046 371 3,690 2,061 1.629 Urban *Forms 'part of Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration.Consolidated figures of Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration along with details of its constituents are gi yen in annexure. '314 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT (S.C.)-Confd. District: Pondicherry r"----.- ______MAIN WORKERS...A-.______--. Sl. State/bilitrict/u.A./Tehsil/ Total Household Industry- Manu No. City/Town Rural Cultivators Agricultural Labourers facturing, Processing, Ser- Urban (1) (II) vicing and Repairs [yea)] r------, r- r-- ---. Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) . I. PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY: Total .. 1,748 1,453 295 27,674 16,837 10,837 260 ]S8 102 Rural .. 1,477 1,220 257 24,099 14,538 9,561 132 80 52 Urban 271 233 38 3,575 2,299 1,276 128 78 50 1. Pondicherry District Total .. 1,210 956 254 19,642 11,471 8,171 218 132 86 Rural .. 1,095 87i 224 17,620 10,193 7,427 98 60 38 Urban 115 i5 30 2,022 1,278 744 120 72 48 Pondicherry Urbal1 Agglomeration Please see the annexure. Pondicherry (M)* Urban 9 7 2 634 407 227 76 42 34 1. Ariankuppam Commune Total 55 46 9 1,296 852 444 7 2 5 Rural 55 46 9 1,296 852 444 7 2 5 Urban 2. Ozhukarai Commune Total 98 77 21 1,223 814 409 44 31 13 Rural 13 13 96 73 23 1 Urban &5 64 21 1,127 741 386 43 30 13 Ozhukarai (C.P)* Urban 85 64 21 1,127 741 386 43 30 13 3. Mannadipet Commune Total 136 .164 22 4,540 2,488 2,052 15 12 3 Rural 186 164 22 4,540 2,488 2,052 15 12 3 Urban 4. Villianur Commune Total 255 219 36 4,339 2,539 J.-,800 22 15 7 Rural 234 205 29 4,078 2,409 1,669 21 15 6 Urban 21 14 7 261 130 131 1 Kurumbapet (G.P)* Urban 21 14 7 261 130 HI 1 5. Bahour Commune Total 367 309 58 4,378 2,612 1,766 5 4 Rural 367 309 5R 4,378 2,612 1,766 5 4 1 Urban 6. Nettapakkam Commune Total 240 134 106 3,232 1,759 1,473 49 26 23 Rural 240 134.. ]06 3.232 1,759 ],473 49 26 23 Urban 315 17l/4-21 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT (S.C.)-Con~Jd. District: Pondicberry MAIN WORKERS ~------~------~ SI. State/District/U.A./Tebsil/ Total Other Workers IIII, IV, V(b) No. City/Town Rural and VI to IX] MARGINAL WRKERS NON-WORKERS Urban ~ ------. ~ r- --~ Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) r. PONDICHERRY UNION TERRITORY: , Toml 7,741 6,561 ],180 3,997 700 3,297 55,216 23,501 31,715 Rural 1,961 1,686 275 2,885 385 2,500 31,972 14,094 17,880 Urban 5,780 4,875 90S 1,112 315 797 23,244 9,409 13,835 1. Pondicherry District Toml 6,777 5,767 1,010 1,919 578 1,341 44,263 18,794 25,469 Rural 1,589 1,375 214 1,276 303 973 24,288 10,799 13,489 Urban 5,188 4,392 796 643 275 368 19,975 7,995 11,980 Pondicherry Urban Agglomeration Please see the annexure. Pondicherry (M)" Urban 3,768 3,145 623 230 111 119 12,541 4,847 7,694 1. Ariankuppam Commune Toml 263 228 35 51 20 31 3,194 1,412 1,782 Rural 263 228 35 51 20 31 3,194 i,412 1,782 Urban 2. Ozhukarai Commune Tetal 1,413 1,239 174 468 184 284 7,383 3,102 4,281 Rural 26 25 57 21 36 309 117 192 Urban 1,387 1,214 173 411 163 248 7,074 2,985 4,089 07hukarai{C.P)· Urban 1,387 1,214 173 411 163 248 7,074 2,985 4,089 3. Mannadipet Commune Total 306 256 50 256 60 196 5,002 2,277 2,725 Rural 306 256 50 256 60 196 5,002 2,277 2,725 Urban 4. Villianur Commune Total 455 395 60 459 76 383 6,235 2,761 3,474 Rural 422 362 60 457 75 382 5,875 2,59& 3,277 Urban 33 33 2 360 163 197 Kurumbapet (G.P)· Urban 33 33 2 1 1 360 163 197 5. Bahour Commune Total '403 362 41 280 83 197 6,841 2,907 3,934 Rural 403 362 41 280 83 197 6,841 2,907 3,934 Urban 6. Nettapakkam Commune . Total 169 142 27 175 44 131 .3,067 1,488 1,579 Rural 169 142 27 175 44 131· 3,067 1,488 1,579 Urban 316 ANNEXURE Urbaa Agglomeration CalliDg iDto two or more CoIlllllUlleS of District PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRAcr (S.c.) MAIN WORKERS ,- Sl. Urban Agglomeration/ Total No. of Total SC population Literates Total Main Workers (I-IX) No. City/Town Rural House- ,- ,- ,- -... Urban holds with Persons Males Femal~ Persons Males Females Persons Males Females SCmembers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) PONDICHERRY URBAN AGGLOMERATION: Urban 5,547 28,063 14,097 13,966 12,430 7,821 4,609 7,445 5,827 1,618 (a) Pondicherry (M) Urban 3,504 17,258 8,559 8,699 7,648 4,688 2,960 4,487 3,601 886 (b) Ozhukarai (C.P) Urban 1,924 10,127 5,197 4,930 4,631 . 3,017 1,614 2,642 2,049 593 ~ (c) Kurumbapet (G.P) Urban 119 678 341 337 151 116 35 316 171 139 MAIM WORKERS ,- SI. Urban Agglomeration! Total Household Industry- Manu- No. City!Town Rural Cultivators Agricultural Labourers facturing, Processing, Ser- Urban (I) (II) vicing and Repairs [yea)] r- ,- ,- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) . (2) (3) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) PONDICHERRY URBAN AGGLOMERATION·: Urban liS 85 30 2,022 1,278 744 120 72 48 (a) Pondicherry (M) Urban 9 7 2 634 407 227 76 ,42 34 (b) Ozhukarai (C.P) Urban 85 64 21 1,127 741 3~6 43 30 13 (c) Kurumbapet (G.P) Urban 21 14 7 261 130 131 1 MAIN WORKERS ,..- --, Sl. Urban Agglomeration! Total Other Workers (III, IV, V(b) No. City/Town Rural and VI to IX] MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS Urban r- ,- ,- Persons Males Females Persons Males Femak:s Persons Males Females (I) (2) . (3) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) PONDICHERRY URBAN AGGLOMERATION: Urban 5,188 4,392 796 643 275 368 19,975 7,995 11.980 (a) Pondicherry (M) Urban 3,768 3,145 623 230 III 11~ 12,541 4,847 7,694 (b) Ozhukarai (C.P) Urban 1,387 1,214 173 411 163 248 7,074 2,985 4,089 (c) Kurumbapct (G.P) Urban 33 33 2 360 163 197 317 318 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT(S.C.}-Contd. District: 'Karaikal MAIN WORKERS r- A- S]. State/District/U.A./Tehsil/ Total Household Industry- Manu- No. City/Town Rural Cultivators Agricultural Labourers facturing. Processing, Ser- Urban tI) (II) vicing and Repairs [yea)] r- r- ,- _A. Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) 2. KARAIKAL DISTRICT : Total 429 390 39 7,209 ",942 2,267 41 25 16 -Rural 382 349 33 6,478 4,345 2,133 34 20 14 Urban 47 41 6 731 597 134 7 5 2 1. Karaikal Commune Total 47 41 6 731 597 134 7 5 2 Rural Urban 47 41 6 731 597 134 7 5 2 Karaikal (M) Urban 47 41 6 731 597 134 ., 5 2 2. Tirunallar Commune Total 115 108 7 2,099 1,371 728 16 10 6 Rural 115 108 7 2,099 1,371 728 16 10 6 Urban 3. Neravy Commune Total 26 24 2 1,152 803 349 3 3 Rural 26 24 2 1,152 803 349 3 3 Urban 4. Nedungadu Commune Total 117 106 11 1,126 738 388 6 2 4 Rural 117 106 II 1,126 738 388 6 2 4 Urban 5. Kottucherry Commune Total 36 35 986 749 237 8 4 4 Rural 36 35 I' 986 749 237 8 .. 4 Urban 6. 'Tirumalairayanpattinam • Commune Total 88 76 12 1,115 684 431 .. Rural 88 76 12 1,115 684 431 Urban ---- 319 DISTRIcr PRIMARY' CENSUS ABSTRACT lS.C.)-Collda. District: Karaikal MAIN WORKERS r- S). State/District/U.A./TehsiIJ Total Other Workers [III, IV, V(b) No. City/Town Rural and VI to IX] MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS Urban r-1 .... _----., ,-- r------.. Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (I) (2) (3) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) 2. KARAIICAL DIS'f!tICT : Total 771 657 114 2,030 116 1,914 9,507 4,058 5,449 Rural 363 306 57 1,609 82 1,527 ,7,662 3,285 4,377 Urban 408 351 57 4~1 34 387 1,845 773 1,012 1. KaraikaJ Commune Total 408 351 57 421 34 387 1,845 773 1,072 Rural Urban 408 351 57 421 34 387 . 1,845 773 1,072 Karaikal (M) Urban 408 351 57 421 34 387 1,845 773 1,072 2. Tirunlillar Commune Total 101 86 21 395 20 375, 2,587 1,103 1,484 Rural 107 86 21 395 20 375 2,587 1,103 1,484 Urban 3. Neravy Commune Total 6S 56 9 219 5 214 1,311 526 785 Rural 65 56 9 219 5 214 1,311 526 785 Urban 4. Nedungadu Commune Tota! 91 86 5 215 20 195 1,588 645 943 Rural 91 86 5 215 20 195 1.588 645 943 Urban 5. Kottucherry Commune Total 49 45 4 543 28 515 1,165 539 626 Rural 49 45 4 543 28 515 1,165 539 626 Urban J' 6. Tirumalairayanpattinam Commune Total• 51 33 18 237 9 228 1.011 472 539 Rural 51 33 18 237 9 228 1.011 472 539 Urban 320 DISTRICI' PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACf (S.C.) District: Mahe MAIN WORKERS r- SI. State/Oistrict/U.A., Total No. of Total SC population Literates "- Total Main Workers (I-IX) No. Tebsil/Oty(rown Rural Houso- r- r- .A.. r- Urban holds with Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females SCmembers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) 3. MAHE DISTRICT : Total 16 73 .36 37 48 24 24 31 19 12 Rural 7 32 13 19 20 7 13 10 5 5 Urban 9 41 23 18 28 17 11 21 14 7 1. Mahe Commune Total 16 73 36 37 48 24 24 31 19 I:! Rural 7 32 13 19 20 7 13 10 5 5 Urban 9 41 23 18 28 17 11 21 14 7 Mahe (M) Urban 9 41 23 18 28 17 11 21 14 7 MAIN WORKERS r-.------~------A.------______~ SI. State/District/U.A/Tehsil/ Total Household Industry- Manu- No. City/Town Rural Cultivators Agricultural Labourers facturing, Processing, Ser- Urban (I) (II) vicing and Repairs [Veal] r- r- r- ..-A...._~ Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) ------~------~------~-- 3. MAHE DISTRICT Total 1 Rural 1 Urban J. Mahe Commune Total Rural Urban Mahe (M) Urban I •• MAIN WORKERS r- ----., Sl. State/District;U.A./Tehsill Total Other Workers [III, IV, V(b) No. City/Town Rural and VI to IX] MARGINAL WORKERS NON-WORKERS Urban r- r- r- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (23) (24) (25) . (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) 3. MARE DISTRICT : Total 30 19 11 42 17 25 Rural 9 5 4 22 8 14- Urban 21 14 7 20 9 II 1. Mahe Commune Total 30 19 11 42 17 :.!S Rural 9 . 5 4 22 8 14 Urban 21 14 7 20 9 11 Mahe (M) Urban 21 14 7 20 9 11 321 DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT (S.C.) District: Yanam --__."_.,,. MAIN WORKERS r- -, SI. State/District/U.A.! Total No. of Total SC population Literates Total Main Workers (I-IX) No. Tehsil/City /Town Rural House- r- ----, r------"- r-----.A.. Urban holds with Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females SCmembers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) ---~---. 4. YANAM DISTRICT Total 570 2,547 1,288 1,259 1,034 619 415 1,095 650 445 Rural Urban 570 2,547 1,288 1,259 1,034 619 415 1,095 650 445 1. Yanam Commune Total 570 2,547 1,288 1,259 1,034 619 415 1,095 650 445 Rural_ Urban 570 2,547 1,288 1,259. 1,034 619 415 1,095 650 445 Yanam (M) Urban 570 2,54'7 1,288 1,259 1,034 619 4J5 1,095 650 445 MAIN WORKERS <- 51. State/DistrictjU.A./Tehsii/ Total Household Industry- Manu- No. City/Town Rural Cultivators Agricultural Labourers facturing, Processing, Ser- Urban (1) (II) vicing and Repairs [V(a») ,. ,. -----, r- Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (14)- (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) 4. Y ANAM DISTRICT Total 109 107 2 822 424 398 Rural Urban 109 107 2 822 424 398 , 1. Yanam Commune Total 109 107 2 822 424 398 i' Rural .. Urban 109 107 2 822 424 398 Yanam (MJ Urban 109 107 2 822 424 398 MAIN WORKERS r-o-.~---A. 51. Sta tel District/ U.A./Tehsil/ Total Other Workers [III, IV, V(b) Rural and VI to IX) MARGINAL WORKERS NON·WORKERS N('. City/Town .A.___ ----, Urban r---~____.A.. r- -, r- Persons Males FemaleS Persons Males Females Persons Males Females (1) (2) (3) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) '(30) (31) 4 Y ANAM DISTRICT Total 163 118 45 48 6 42 l,404 632 772 Rural Urban 163 118 45 48 6 42 l,404 632 772 1. Yanam Commune Total 163 118 45 48 6 42 1,404 632 772 Rural Urban 163 118 45 48 6 42 1.404 632 772 Yanam iM) Urban 163 118 45 48 ' 6 42 1,404 632 772 ------~------r- 322 ERRATA Sl. PlIge Line Column For Read No. No. No. No. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) I (iv) 5 Union TerritorY-Pondicherry. 304,501 304,561 2 (iv) 19 Di,trict-Mahe 7.70 70.70 3 (v) 2 Union Territo ry-Pondicherry Union Terirtory- Union Territory- 4 4 36 First ones one's 5 7 33 Second possession possessions 6 12 22 Second but humidity but the humidity. 7 12 30 Second. or .of 8 13 39 First Minerals-Limestone aDd Limestone and 9 IS 32 Second}3 Thaniya Kuthaga Thaniya Kuthagai 10 21 27 First with a vew with a view. 11 22 34 Second But with abolition But with the abolition 12 25 9 Second A light house The light house .]3 26 14 First Cuddalore formation . Cuddalore Formaticns. 14 27 19 First}3 (i) Kuthaga (i) Kuthagai 15 28 5 First treatment of animal treatment of animals. 16 30 41 First franc, francs. 17 34 17 Second mostely mostly 18 37 3 First . April, 1937 April, 1967. 19 39 30 First Consumer consumers 20 39 26 Second a 'business associate' a 'business associates'. 21 42 26 First Distributes Distribution 22 42 31 Second Perpendicular Perpendiculars. 2J 46 19 2 Tax d Taxed 24 46 25 2 (i) Tax exempted (b) Tax exempted 25 46. 26 2 Government (i) Government.· 26 46 27 2 (i) Non-Government (ii) Non-Governm;:nt. 27 59 32 First KARAIKAL DISTRICT KARAIKAL: 28 67 9. 12 6 3 663 29 127 Title 3rd line MANADIPET MANNADIPET. 323