VELLORE DISTRICT STATISTICAL HANDBOOK 2016 – 2017

PREFACE ------

The main object of the Statistical Hand Book 2016-17 of District is to highlight Socio- Economic Activities of various Departments of Central , State and Local Bodies during the year 2016-17.

The Hand Book contains Forty Eight headings under different sectors and have been presented in tabular forms with details.

The preparation of the ‘‘ District Statistical Hand Book ’’ has been under the guidance of the Principal Secretary and Commissioner, Department of Economic and Statistics, -6.

I hope that this Hand Book would be of immense use for district level Planners, Administrators and Scholars.

I express my sincere thanks to the Collector of Vellore and District Officers of various departments, who extended co-operation in furnishing the required data for the tables appended.

PLACE: VELLORE DATE:

Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore

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STATISTICAL TABLES CONTENTS

CONTENTS Page No I Salient Features of 1 II District Profile 2016 7 1. AREA AND POPULATION

1.1 Area, Population, Literate, SCs and STs- Sexwise by Blocks and Municipalities 19 1.2 Population by Broad Industrial categories of Workers 22 1.3 Population by Religion 23 1.4 Population by Age Groups 24 1.5 Population of the District-Decennial Growth 24 1.6 Salient features of 1991 Census – Block and Municipality wise 25 2. CLIMATE AND RAINFALL

2.1 Monthly Rainfall Data – Monthwise and Seasonwise 30 2.2 Time Series Data of Rainfall by seasons 31 3. AGRICULTURE

3.1 Soil Classification 33 3.2 Land Utilisation 33 3.3 Area and Production of Crops 36 3.4 Agricultural Machinery and Implements 37 3.5 Number and Area of Operational Holdings 37 3.6 Consumption of Chemical Fertilisers and Pesticides 39 3.7 Regulated Markets 39 3.8 Crop Insurance Scheme 40 3.9 Sericulture 40 4. IRRIGATION

4.1 Sources of Water Supply – Blockwise 41 4.2 Actual Area Irrigated (Net and Gross) by sources 41 4.3 Area Irrigated by Crops 42 4.4 Details of Dams, Tanks, Wells and Borewells 43 5. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

5.1 Livestock Population 44 5.2 Veterinary Institutions and Animals treated – Blockwise 44 5.3 No.of Veterinary Hospitals 45 5.4 Diary Development 45 5.5 Fisheries Development and Production 47 6. BANKING AND INSURANCE

6.1 No.of Commerical Banks 48 6.2 Insurance Schemes 48 7. CO-OPERATION

7.1 Co-operative Societies 49

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8.1 No.of Fair Price Shops 50 8.2 Quantum of Essential Commodities distributed and their retail price 51 8.3 No.of Ration Cards (Rural and Urban) 52 8.4 Quantity supplied 52 9. COMMUNICATION

9.1 Post-Offices doing postal business only 53 9.2 No.of Telephone Exchanges, Capacity and No.in Use 53 9.3 No.of PCOs attached to each exchange 53 9.4 No.of Persons waiting for Phone Connection 53 10. ELECTRICITY

10.1 No.of Power Stations 54 10.2 Quantum of Power purchased 54 10.3 Power Consumption Sectorwise 54 10.4 Peak Demand and Energy Output 54 10.5 Revenue from Electric Schemes and Cost per Unit 55 10.6 Transmission and Distribution of Electricity 55 10.7 Capacity of Transformers 55 10.8 Rural Electrification 57 10.9 Name and Address of fault report offices. 57 11. EDUCATION

11.1 Universities, Students and Teachers and Cources offered 58 11.2 Colleges for General Education, Students and Teachers 60 11.3 College for Professional Education, Students and Teachers 61 11.4 Colleges for Special Education, Students and Teachers 61 11.5 Schools for General Education, Students and Teachers 62 11.6 Schools for Professional Education, Students and Teachers 63 11.7 Schools for Special Education, Students and Teachers 63 11.8 Institutions for Other Profesional Education, Students and Teachers 64 11.9 Hostals and Inmates by Community 65 11.10 Scholarships to Students by Community 65 12. FISHERIES

12.1 Fisheries Development 66 12.2 Estimated M F Production/Inland Fish Production 66 12.3 No.of Families engaged in Fishing 67 13. HANDLOOM

13.1 No.of Focal Centres with Location details 68 13.2 No.of Societies and Varietywise Production 68 13.3 No.of Power Looms and No.of Employees working 69 13.4 No.of Families engaged 69

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CONTENTS Page No 14. HANDICRAFTS

14.1 Name and Addresses of Handicrafts 70 14.2 Articles available in the Handicrafts 70 14.3 Value of Articles produced and Value of Articles sold 70 14.4 No.of Families engaged in Handicrafts 70 15. HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

15.1 Hospitals, Dispensaries, Bed Strength, Doctors and Nurses 71 15.2 No.of Allied Pathological Units available 71 15.3 Diseasewise patients treated 71 15.4 Distribution of Medical Personnel 78 15.5 Progress of Family Welfare Programme 79 16. HOUSING

16.1 Plans sanctioned, Building completed under Private Sector 80 16.2 Plans sanctioned, Building completed under Public Sector 81 16.3 Amount invested in Housing and Building activity under Public Sector 81 16.4 Construction activity of Housing Board 82 16.5 Construction activity of Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board 82 16.6 Index No.of Building Construction cost in Urban centres 82 16.7 Labour charges of Construction Workers. 82 17. INDUSTRIES

17.1 Results of ASI 83 17.2 Estimates of output and value added by manufacture based on ASI 83 17.3 Industrial Production 84 17.4 Production and Value of Major Minerals in the District 84 17.5 Production of Handloom Cloth 84 17.6 Small Scale Industries 85 17.7 Khadi and Village Industries 86 17.8 No. of Printing Press 86 18. FACTORIES

18.1 Registered and Working Factories 87 18.2 Employment in Working Factories 87 18.3 Trade Unions, Industrial Disputes by Strikes, Lockout and Gheraos 88 19. LOCAL BODIES

19.1 Municipal Bodies Area and Population by Grades 89 19.2 Municipal Bodies by Taluks 89 19.3 Panchayat Union, Village/Town Panchayats 89 19.4 Revenue Divisions, Taluks, Firkas and Revenue Villages 90 19.5 Tax Collected by Corporation/Municipality/Panchayat Union/ Town Panchayat 91 19.6 Rural Development Activities 92

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20. LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

No.of Persons registered during the year and Total No.of Persons waiting upto the 20.1 92 end of the year as per Live Register 20.2 No.of Placement during and upto the end of the year. 92 21. LEGAL SERVICE 93

21.1 Judicial Divisions and Original Jurisdiction 93 Results of Civil and Criminal cases in the Court of Original Jurisdiction, Civi l 21.2 93 Suits Regular Nature of free Legals available and no.of beneficiaries roof cases disposed of in 21.3 93 Lok Adalat during the year 21.4 No.of Advocates practicing in Courts 93 22. LIBRARIES

List of Head and Branch Libraries in the district with details of Members, Books 22.1 94 available and Readers 22.2 No.of Libraries houses in Government Building /Rental Building 96 22.3 No.of Reading Rooms 96 23. MINING AND QUARRYING

23.1 No.of Mining and Quarrying units in the district 99 23.2 Classification-wise production during the year 99 24. MANUFACTURING SECTOR

24.1 No.of Food and other allied manufacturing units in the district 99 25. MEDICAL SERVICES

25.1 No.of Medical Colleges in the district with Students and Teachers 100 25.2 No.of College of Pharmacy with Students and Teachers 100 25.3 No.of Medical Stores in the district - Category-wise 100 25.4 No.of Veterinary Colleges with Students and Teachers 100 26. MOTOR VEHICLES

No.of Motor Vehicles (Category-wise) Registered during the year and upto the end 26.1 101 of the year No.of Motor Vehicles (Category-wise) available for hire purpose during and upto 26.2 101 the end of the year 26.3 No.of Persons issued with Driving Licence 101 27. NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY GENERATION

27.1 No.of solar energy generating units in the district with production area 102 27.2 No.of Wind Mills Generating units with production data 102 28. POLICE AND PRISONS

28.1 Police Force 103 28.2 Cognisable Offences under Indian Penal Code 103 28.3 Prisons and Convicts 103 28.4 No.of Cases Registered under PCR 104 28.5 No.of Cases Registered against Woman Harrassment and Dowry 104

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CONTENTS Page No 29. PUBLIC HEALTH

29.1 Public Health and Medical Services rendered by Organisations and Individual 105 29.2 No.of Primary Health Centres with Sub-centres 105 30. PRINTING AND PUBLICATION

30.1 No.of News papers, Weekly Magazines, Monthly Magazines, etc., Published 106 30.2 No.of Publishers in the district other than News papers and Magazines 106 31. PRICE INDICES

31.1 Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices 106 31.2 Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers-Central series 107 31.3 Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers-State series 107 31.4 Consumer Price Index Numbers for selected essential items in Rural 107 31.5 Consumer Price Index Numbers for selected essential items in Urban 108 31.6 The Gross District Domestic Product At Current & Constant (2011-12) Prices 108

31.7 Sectorwise GDDP at Current price for the year 2015-16 109 32. QUALITY CONTROL

List of Industrial / Establishment Units having Quality Control Facilities and the 32.1 109 products subjected to Quality Control 33. REGISTRATION

33.1 No.of Registration Offices in the district 110 33.2 Registration and Aggregate Value of properties transferred during the year 111 34. SOCIAL WELFARE

34.1 Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Nutritious Meals Programme Centres 111 34.2 No.of Beneficiaries under Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Nutritious Meals Programme 111 34.3 No.of Beneficiaries under the free supply of Text Books and Uniforms 112 34.4 No.of Beneficiaries under Old Age Pension Scheme 112 34.5 Free Houses and House sites distributed to community 112 34.6 Implementation of Relief and Measures and Pension Schemes 113 35. SANITARY SERVICES

No.of Sanitary Workers engaged in Sanitation, Garbage and Sewage disposal and 35.1 114 other particulars 35.2 No.of Vehicles engaged in the sanitary services 116 36. SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH SERVICES

36.1 Institutions and Laboratories engaged in Research Work 117 37. STORAGE FACILITIES

37.1 List of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Storage Godowns 117 37.2 List of Cold Storage Godowns 117 38. TEXTILES

38.1 No.of Ginning, Spinning and Weaving Mills in the district 118 38.2 Quantum of Production during the year 118 39. TRADE AND COMMERCE

39.1 No.of Major and Minor Trade and Commercial Estate in the district 118

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40. TRANSPORT

40.1 Length of Roads 119 40.2 Road Accidents 120 40.3 Register Motor Vehicles 121 40.4 Transport Corporation 121 40.5 Select indicators of overall performance of State Transport Corporation 122 40.6 Railway Lines and Stations 122 40.7 Port Development 122 40.8 Airports 123 41. TOURISM

41.1 Places of Tourist Attraction 124 41.2 List of Places of Worship 124 42. VITAL STATISTICS

42.1 Birth , Deaths registered in the district 125 42.2 Births, Deaths and infant mortality rates in the district 126 42.3 Death by Causes 126 43. WATER WORKS AND SUPPLY

43.1 No. of workers engaged in the Water Works and Supply 127 43.2 No. of House connections, fountains 128 44. SPECIAL SCHEMES

44.1 No. of Samathuvapuram 129 44.2 No. Uzhavur Santhai 129

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SALIENT FEATURES OF VELLORE DISTRICT ------

Vellore District which formed part of the region Thondaimandalam in days of yore is associated with many thrilling events in the history of South . It contains many Historical places like Vellore and Arcot which were scene of many a war-far.

PHYSICAL FEATURE :

The geographical area of vellore District is 5920.18 Sq.Km. and the inland area lies between 12 15 and 13 15 of northern latitude and 78 20 and 79 50 of the Eastern longitude. It is bounded on north by Chittoor District of , on the South by Thiruvannamalai District and on the west by District, and on the East by Thiruvallr and Districts. The western parts of the district are endowed with pleasing hilly sceneries like Hills. While the Eastern side of the District is mostly covered by rocky bases.

HILLS :

The loftiest mountains in the district are the JAVADIS which covers the part of Thirupathur Taluk. The elevation of the Javadis is 2,500 feet from mean sea level with peaks raising upto 4,200 feet. The Yelagiri Hills lies in the central part of Thirupathur Taluk and is an ideal tourist centre situated on a hill top at an altitude of 3,200 feet. It has a circuit house and also a beautiful part at the bottom of the hills. The other highest peaks are Swamimalai in Thirupathur Taluk.

RIVER :

The major rivers of the district are the Palar and . In a year, these rivers will almost be dry and sandy and may not be of much for sustained irrigation as these are seasonal. FOREST :

The area under forest in the district is 162286 ha. prominent forest area of the district area in the Taluks of Vellore, , Thirupathur and .

CLIMATE AND RAINFALL : Generally the temperature and rainfall in the district are moderate. Especially, Taluk enjoy moderate climate throughout the year. On the other hand Vellore, Walajah and Gudiyatham Taluks, which are surrounded by hills, are subjected to extreme climate conditions either being very hot during summer of very cold during the winter season. In Thirupathur taluk the climate is cold during winter but moderate

District Hand Book 2016-17 Page 1 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore during the other seasons. The district receives rainfall during the south west and north east monsoon period. The region get maximum rainfall during the south west monsoon period only. The actual rainfall received during this year is presented in the table appended.

VELLORE FORT: Dating back to the 13th Century this ancient Fort is the main attraction for tourists. This historically famous fort retains the past glory with its ramparts, barlements, turrets, posts, and sally gates and with perennial water supply. Double walls fortify it and the main walls are of made massive granite blocks laid one over the other without using mortar. The fort houses a church, Jalagandeeswarar Temple, and many buildings. Many

Government offices are located in these buildings.

KAVALUR TELESCOPES in Vaniyambadi Taluk has an array to telescopes of various apertures 15 inches (38 cm) and 30 inches (75 cm) 40 inches (1metre) commissioned in 1972 and the new Computer controlled 2.3 metre aperture telescope, whose tube is mounted at the centre of a yoke attached on its North side to a massive horse-shoe. The telescope can easily resolve a 25 paise coin kept forty kilometres away. A VAZ 11/780 Computer is at hand for on-line analysis of data including image processing. The small 38 cm telescope made in the backyards of observatory using a mounting borrowed from a 90-year-old telescope is the one that in 1968 brought astronomy to the sleepy little hamlet of Kavalur in the Javadu hills. From it to the sophisticated 23-metre telescope that would have done any country

proud, Kavalur has indeed come a long way in a span of 18 years.

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MUTHU MANDABAM

Muthu Mandabam was inaugurated on 01.07.1990 by the then Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Mr. M. Karunanidhi. from 1815 and Vikrama was arrested and imprisoned in the Vellore fort jail. He died in 1832 Vikrama Raja Singhan, the last Tamil ruler to rule Kandy (Sri Lanka) was originally named Kannuswamy. He belonged to the Nayak dynasty of . The Britishers fought with him for 16 years.Only in 1983 his cemetery was found. In his memory the MUTHU MANDABAM was established here in Vellore. His samadhi was erected by his son, A. Vikrama Raja Singham on 27.07.1832. There are six cemetry of which three have their names written on it. One of them is the cemetry of Vikrama Raja Singhan. To the right of it is the samadhi of his great grand son, Thiru C.K. Narasimhala Raja who died on 08.10.1948. To the left is the samadhi of great grand daughter Sow. Raualakshmi Devi, wife of Shri. V. Rangarajah (direct great grant son of the last ex-king of Ceylon who died at Tanjore on 09.03.1944). The Govt. of Tamil Nadu was appreciated for preserving the truth of the last Tamil king of Ceylon. The building construction was started on 20.04.1990 and was finished on 01.07.1990.

CENTRAL JAIL

The Central Jail, Vellore was established on 19.03.1867 with 160 convicts. It is the largest Jail in the dist. The prison has historical importance. Political leaders like former president SRI R.VENKAT RAMAN, DR. ARINGER C.N ANNA DURAI, late Tr.V.V.GIRI, late Tr. KAMARAJ and SRI VINOBA BHAVE were confined in this prison. Convicts sentenced to imprisonment are confined in the jail from various districts of the Presidency as well as from Burma. Many prisoners sentenced to transpiration by the courts of this Presidency are retained when considered physically unfit for deportation toAndaman. The expenditure in the jail is recovered by the value of the convict’s labour. The chief industry carried out in the jail is weaving. A great variety of clothes of various patterns as well as table clothes, gunnies, choir mats, carpets etc are woven. Central jail is District Hand Book 2016-17 3 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore famous for its carpets. The manufacture was first taught to the convicts by a carpet weaver of Ellore. The fabrics are excellently woven and find ready sale in England. Carpentry, shoe making, iron and brass work and tent making are also carried on and the prison is wellworth a visit. By extreme hard work and good conduct, convicts may earn a remission not exceeding 1/6th of the total period of imprisonment awarded them. There is a small sub jail attached to the central prison to accommodate the remand and under-trail prisoners of this dist. They will be sent to the concerned courts on the dates under Police Escorts.

GOVERNMENT MUSEUM

Location of Govt. Museum: Inside the Fort, Vellore Importance: This is a multi purpose museum maintained by the Department of Museums of Tamil Nadu Government. It treasures ancient and present day curios relating to anthropology Art and Archaeology, Botany, Geology, Numismatics, Pre- history, Zoology etc., The historical monuments of the erstwhile composite North Arcot District are gracefully depicted in the Gallery. This Museum is kept open on all days between 9.30 am to 5 pm except on holidays.

AMIRTHI ZOOLOGICAL PARK:

Amirthi zoological park is situated under the Javadu Hills of Tellaiacross Amirthi river which is 25 kms away from vellore. It also is atourism spot. This zoo logical park was started in the year 1967October. The area of the park is 25 hectares and one can find beautiful water falls. There are also different kinds of birds and animals. Swings, Seesaw etc., are there for children to play.Numerous kinds of herbal plants and trees and sandal wood trees also grow here. There are 2 rest houses and five members can stayis one dormitory. There is a meditating hall where one can have fullconcentration and be in serenity. The inflow of tourists is more only during the holidays. This zoological park has been recognized recently and so the state Government has taken initiative to develop

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this area. The entrance fees is only Rs 2/-per head, for cycles Rs.3/-for van Rs.5/-for motor cyclesRs.2/-. The Government earns Rs.6000/-per month and Rs.72,000/-per year by this entrance fees. The tribal people reside in this area. There is a range office at Amirthi headed by the forest ranger, Mr.Deendayalan at present 2001.) There is also a hill tribe society at Nimmiyambattu near Amirthi. The main aim is to give employment opportunities to the hill tribals in that area.

GOLDEN TEMPLE

Narayani temple or Mahalakshmi temple whose Vimanam and Ardha have been coated with gold both in the interior and exterior.The temple is located on20 acres of land and has been constructed by Vellore-based Sri Narayani Peedam, headed by spiritual leader Sri Sakthi Amma. The temple, covering 55,000 sq ft, has intricate carvings and sculptures in gold. The lighting is arranged in such a way that the temple glitters even during night.The Sripuram is the biggest structure made out of gold.Even the Sadari, a crown with feet of the lord engraved on it, is made of solid gold weighing 1 kg.The outer pathway of the temple is made out in the shape of a Star. The walls of the pathway have inscriptions of teachings of Sakthi amma, Gita, Bible Quran and the {Guru Granth Sahib Ji]. Only people who believe in more than one god are allowed to enter the temple. All people have to go through the Star shaped pathway to reach the sanctum.The Inner praharam of the temple resembles the circular structure of the Parliament of India. The temple is at the southern end of the city of Vellore, at Tirumalaikodi.It is located on the way to , on Usoor Road. It's under Corporation limits.

District Hand Book 2016-17 ELAGIRI HILLS

Location: Elagiri Hills in Tirupathur Taluk. 75 Kms from Vellore Considered as the of Vellore District, this stands eloquent amidst four mountains, at a height of 3500 feet above sea level is gifted with natural

District Hand Book 2016-17 6 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore scenic beauty(lakes, lush green forest) cool & pleasant climate and convenient location.. A solemn summer resort, this place has comfortable lodging house, rest houses, and Government Travellers Bunglows. A church with exquisite craftsmanship and a beautiful park adorn these hills as an ideal tourist spot. Other places of interest are Poly Garden House (Lake side), Sericulture Farm (Mangalam Village), Jalagamparai Water Falls, Mangalam Fishing Pond, Nachiamman Koil, Murugan Koil and Valley View point, Thayalur Horiculture Farm (YMCA Boys camp), Telescope

House.

JALAGANDEESWARAR TEMPLE

The Temple inside the fort, is dedicated to Lord Siva named as Jalagandeeswarar and is noted for its sculptures, which speak volumes of the exquisite craftsmanship of the highly skilled artisans of that period. The sculptures in the Porch on the left of the entrance are connoisseurs. It has a big marriage hall adorned with elegant engravings and monolithic sculptures. The Temple was used for long as an arsenal and remained without deity. A few years back it has been sanctified with a deity Lord Siva which is

worshipped by pilgrims and tourists.

JALAGAMPARAI WATERFALLS

Magnificent Jalagamparai Waterfalls is created by the River Attaaru running through the valleys of Yelagiri Hills. It is a good picnic spot as well as an ideal destination for day long trek.Waterfall's view is best in the days of November to February as they are fully loaded with water but the waterfall is little dry in the

times of summers.

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DISTRICT PROFILE 2017

1. GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION North Latitude Between 12 0 15’ and 130 15’ East Longitude Between 780 20’ and 790 50’

2. AREA AND POPULATION – (2011 CENSUS) (FINAL) i. Area (Sq.Km.) : 5920.18 ii. Population : 3936331 a. Male Population : 1961688 b. Female Population : 1974643 iii. Density : 665 per Sq.km iv. Literates : 2773928 a. Males (%) : 86.50 b. Females (%) : 71.95 Total (%) : 79.17 v. Main Workers (2001 Census) : a. Total Workers : 1689330 b. Male Workers : 1123874 c. Female Workers : 565456 f. Cultivators : 153211 g. Agricultural Labourers : 254999 h. Household Industry : 106906 i. Other Workers : 845069 j. Marginal Workers : 329145 vi. Non-Workers : 2247001 vii. Language spoken in the District : i. Tamil ii. Telugu iii. Urdu iv. Hindi v. Kannada vi. Sowrastra vii. Malayalam

3. VITAL STATISTICS: i. Birth : 60631 ii. Death : 31281 iii. Infant Deaths : 816 iv. Birth Rate (Per 1000 Population) a. Rural : 10.1 b. Urban : 39.0 c. Combined : 15.4

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v. Death Rate (Per 1000 Population) a. Rural : 6.7 b. Urban : 11.4 c. Combined : 7.94

vi.Infant Mortality Rate (Per 1000 Live Births) a. Rural : 2.7 b. Urban : 16.1 c. Combined : 18.5

4. TEMPERATURE (in Degree Centigrade)

a. Plains (VELLORE) i. Maximum : N.A. ii. Minimum : N.A. b. Hill Stations : i. Maximum : N.A. ii. Minimum : N.A.

5. RAINFALL (IN mm)

a. Normal i. North East Monsoon : 348.7 ii. South West Monsoon : 466.1 b. Actual i. North East Monsoon : 139.48 ii. South West Monsoon : 354.49

6. AGRICULTURE (Hec) a. Total Cultivated Area (Hec) : 185013 b. Net Area Sown (Hec.) : 155398 c. Area Sown more than once (Hec.) : 29615 d. Area and Production of Area (Hec.) Production Principal Crops ‘000; (Tonnes) Paddy : 44570 275.577 Millets and Other Cereals : 17638 85.858 Pulses : 24573 37.276 Sugarcane : 5936 612.864 Groundnut : 34173 96.847 Gingelly : 357 0.161 Cotton(bales of 170 Kgs lint each) : 12130 3.735

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e. Agricultural Land Holdings (2010-11) i. Number of Holdings : 381858 ii. Area (Hec) : 249698.29 iii. Average Size of Holdings(Hec) : 0.65 f. a. Important Food Crops : Paddy, Jowar, Ragi, Bajra b. Important Non-Food Crops : Cotton, Sugar, Groundnut

7. IRRIGATION

i. Net Area Irrigated by (Hec.) : 94826 a. Government Canals : 604 b. Private Canals : Nil c. Tanks : 1355 d. Tube Wells/Bore Wells : 15273 e. Other Wells : 88463 f. Other Sources : --- Total Net Area Irrigated : 94826 ii. Gross Area Irrigated : 107700 iii. Name of the River :1. 2. Malattar 3. Koundinya Nadi 4. Goddar 5. Pambar 6. Aru 7. Ponnai River 8. 9.Naga Nadi iv. No. of Lakes (Tanks) : 1355

8. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

i Veterinary Institutions a. Veterinary Hospitals : 8 b. Veterinary Dispensaries : 118 c. Clinician Centers : 1 d. Sub Centers : 23 e. Upgrade Sub – center : Nil ii Poultry Development as on a. Chicks produced in hatcheries

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(Lakhs). : Nil b. Birds sold for breeding (Lakhs Nos.) : Nil c. Birds sold for table (Lakhs Nos.) : Nil

iii. Livestock and Poultry Population a. Cattle : 556632 b. Buffaloes : 16103 c. Sheep : 383270 d. Goat : 324052 e. Poultry : 6504799 f. Others : 89933

9. DAIRY DEVELOPMENT

a. Dairies : 1 b. Milk Chilling Plants : 3 b. No. of Milk Co-op.Societies : 395 c. Milk Production (Lakh Litres) : 3.63

10. FISHERIES

i. Length of Coastal Line (Km.) : Nil ii. No.of Coastal Blocks : Nil iii. No.of Coastal Centers : Nil iv. Marine Fish Production (Tonne) : Nil v. Inland Fish Production (Tonne) : 1570.752 Tonnes

11. FOREST i. Forest Area (Hec.) a. Reserved Forests : 156638.328 b. Reserved Lands : 5648.085 c. Forests : 162286.413 ii. Out-turn of Forest Product a. Timber (Cu.m.) : Nil b. Fuel wood (MT) : Nil c. Pulpwood (MT) : Nil d. Sandalwood (MT) : Nil e. Soap wood : Nil f. Bamboo (Tonne) : Nil g. Tea Green Leaves (Tonne) : Nil h. Wattle Bark (MT) : Nil i. Cashew (Tonne) : Nil j. Tamarind : 21,971 Kgs k. Gallnut : 5,020 Kgs l. Others (Soapnut,Pungan,Nelli, Vila,Ecashmpul,Manipungan, etc.,) : 21,784 Kg

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12. ELECTRICITY

i. Generation of Electricity (in m.u.) a. Hydro : Nil b. Wind Mill Generation : Nil c. Thermal : Nil d. Power Purchased : Nil e. Gas Turbine : Nil

ii. Consumption of Electricity (in m.u.) Kwh. a. Agriculture & Huts : 871.0 b. Industry : 493.84 c. Commercial : 217.09 d. Domestic : 1010.98 e. Public Lighting & Water Works : 206.92 f. Sales to Licensees : Nil g. Sales to Other States : Nil h. Miscellaneous : 90.16 i. Railways : 250.97 iii. Rural Electrification a. Number of Pump sets Energized : 142119 b.Number of Villages Electrified : 842 c. Number of Hamlets Electrified : All Hamlets Electrified.

13.ENTERPRISES Rural Urban i. No.of Agricultural Enterprises : 21941 2299 ii.No.of non-Agricultural Enterprises : 49593 47967 iii.No.of Enterprises : a. With Premises : 81282 66343 b. Without Premises : 8575 3170

14. INDUSTRIES i. No.of Working Factories (Registered) : 1336 ii. No.of Man days Worked (Lakhs) : 334.09 iii. No.of Trade Unions : 31 iv. No.of Strikes : 4 v. No.of Lockouts : 0 vi. Large Scale Industries : 60 vii. Medium Scale Industries : 257 viii. Small Scale Industries : 702 ix. Cottage Industries : 258 x. No.of New Factories setup : 41

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xi. Name of the Important Industries in the District : 1. BHEL Ltd., 2. TEL Ltd., 3. Leather & Leather Product Industries 4. Cotton Yarn manufacturing Mills 5. CO-op Sugar Mills 6. Engineering Industries 7. Match Industries 8. Bidi Industry 9. Hand Loom & Power Loom Industries 10. Chemical Industries xii. Name of the Industrial Park : 1. SIDCO. Katpadi 2. SIPCOT. Ranipet 3. SIDCO. Arakonam

15. KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES Production Sales (Rs.in Lakhs) (Rs.in Lakhs) i. KHADI Cotton No Production Units 16.24 in the District Woollen -do- 1.16 Silk -do- 37.73 Polyester -do- 3.00 ii. VILLAGE INDUSTIRES a. Soaps -- 8.25 b. Leather Goods 1.53 1.53 c. Honey -- 0 d. Others(Carpentry) 152.87 157.52 Total (i+ii) 154.40 225.43

16. MEDICAL AND HEALTH (NUMBER) i. Modern Medicine a. No.of Hospitals : 13 b. Dispensaries : 8 ( E.S.I ) c. Primary Health Centers : 101 d. Health Sub Centers : 454 e. Other Medical Institution : 0 f. Beds in Hospitals and Dispensaries : 1863 g. Total Number of Doctors : 212 h. Total Number of Nurses : 348

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ii. Indian Medicine a. Hospitals : 11 b. Dispensaries : 0 c. Primary Health Centers : 13 d. Beds in Hospitals and Dispensaries : 70 e. Total Number of Doctors : 16 f. Total Number of Nurses : 3

17. EDUCATION

i. Universities : 2 ii. Arts and Science Colleges : 24 iii. Colleges for professional Education a.Medicine : (1). Allopathy : 2 (2). Indian Medicine : -- (3). Homoeopathy : -- b. Engineering Colleges : 19 c. Agriculture Colleges : 1 d. Veterinary Colleges : -- e. Law Colleges : 1 iv. Colleges for Special Education(Nursing) : 3 v. Pre Primary Schools : 342 vi. Primary Schools : 2094 vii. Middle Schools : 551 viii. High Schools : 197 ix. Higher Secondary Schools : 226 x. Teacher’s Training Institute : 34

18. TRANSPORT

i. Road Length (in Km.) a. National Highways : 227.200 b. State Highways : 160.510 c. Major District Roads : 194.900 d. Minor District Roads : 902.605 e. Others (Sugarcane Roads) : 45.175 ii. Registered Motor Vehicles a. Commercial : 2543 b. Non-Commercial : 25231 iii. Railway Length a. Route Length (in Km.) : (1). Broad Gauge : 165.4 (2). Meter Gauge : Nil

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b.Track Length (in Km.) : (1) Broad Gauge : 165.4 (2) Meter Gauge : Nil c. No.of Railway Station : 28 iv. Number of Sea Ports : Nil v. Number of Air Ports : 1 vi. Name of the Air Port : Vellore Aero dram vii. Name of the Sea Port : Nil viii. Name of the Export Commodity : 1. Shoes 2. Leather Garments 3. Matches 4. Hand Loom & Power Loom Clothes 5. Bidi

ix. Name of the Import Commodity (Interstate) : 1. Redgram 2. Blackgram 3. Bengalgram 4. Palm oil

19. COMMUNICATION

i. Post & Telegraph (In Number) a. Post Offices doing posted business Alone : 550 b. Post Offices doing Post & Telegraph Business : 0 ii. Telephones a. No.of Telephones in use : 78525 b. No.of Public Call Offices : 7250 c. No.of Telephones Exchanges : 86

20. CO-OPERATION

i. Co.op.Primary Agrl& Rural Dev.Bank : 9 ii. Lamp Society : 2 iii. District Central Cooperative Banks : 1 (Branches - 35) (Including Branches) iv. Urban Banks : 10 v. Primary Agricultural Cooperative Bank : 175 vi. Students Co-operative Stores : 5 vii. Employees Cooperative Bank : 69 viii. Co-operative Marketing Society : 7 ix. Co-operative Canteen : 2

x. Primary Cooperative Stores : 16 xi. Cooperative Sugar Mills : 3

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21. REGISTRATIONS

i. No.of Registration Offices : 17 Ii.Aggregate Value of property Transferred (Rs.in Crores) : 428.43 iii.Total Receipts (Rs.in Crores) : 62.87

22. HOUSING

i. No.of tenements constructed by Tamil Nadu Housing Board : Nil ii. Deputy Registrar Housing : Nil iii. No.of tenements constructed by Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board : Nil iv. No.of tenements constructed by Police Housing Board : Nil v. Deputy Registrar, Housing – Rural : --- vi. Deputy Registrar, Housing – Urban : --- vii. Samathuvapuram : 7 viii. Total No.of Households : a. S.C. : -- b. S.T. : -- c. Others : --- ix. No.of Households below poverty line : --

23. SOCIAL WELFARE (in Nos.)

No.of Beneficiaries under Old age Pension Scheme i. a. Indira Gandhi National Lodge Pension : 144044 b. Destitute Physically Handicapped Pension : 17779 c. Destitute Widow Pension : 30531 d. Destitute Agricultural Labourers Pension : 1347 e. Destitute and Deserted Wives Pension : 16945 f. Unmarried Poor Women Pension : 1914

Total : 212560

ii. Dr.Muthulakshmi Reddy Ammaiyar Ninaivu : ---- Mahapperu Udhavi Thittam (National Maternity Benefit Scheme) : 7325

iii. Marriage Assistance a. Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Ninaivu Thirumana Udhavi Thittam : 1959 b. Marriage Assistance for daughter of Poor Widows(E.V.R. Maniyamai) : 1 c. Dr. Dharmambal Ammaiyar (Widow

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Remarriage ) Thittam : 0 d. Marriage Assistance to orphan girls : 12 e. Dr.Muthulakshmi Ammaiyar Ninaivu Kalappu Thirumana Nidhi Udhavi Thittam : 43

iv. Aid for Handicapped : Nil

v. Aid for others (specify) : Nil vi. Women Welfare Co-operative Societies : 4 vii. Training Centers : 1 viii. Mahalir suya uthavi kuzhukkal (i) Group : 19548 (ii) Member : 324585 ix. Women Development Centre : Nil x. Beneficiarias : Nil xi. Uzhavar Santhai : 9

24. NUTRITIOUS MEALS PROGRAMME

Name of the Programme No.of Total Centres Beneficiarias i. Purachi Thalaivar M.G.R. : 2374 272825 ii. I.C.D.S : 2998 278318

25. REVENUE ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

a. Revenue Divisions : 3 b. Revenue Taluks : 13 c. Revenue Firkas : 52 d. Revenue Villages : 842

26. LOCAL BODIES a. Corporations : 1 b. Municipalities : 11 c. Panchayat Unions : 20 d. Special Village Panchayats : 16 e. Village Panchayats : 743

27. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

a. No.of Development Divisions : 3 b. No.of Blocks Covered : 20 c. Population Covered (in Lakhs) : 39.36 d. Area Covered (in Sq.Km.) : 5920.18

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28. POLICE AND PRISONS

i. Police Police Force i. Local : 1162 ii. Armed Reserve : 534 b. Police Stations : 64 c. Police Outposts : 4 ii. Prisons a. Central Prisons : 2 b. Other Prisons : 6

LEGISLATURE i. Members of the Legislative Assembly a. Elected : 13 b. Nominated : Nil ii. Members of Parliament () : 2 iii. Members of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) : Nil

29.BANKS AND INSURANCE i. Bank Primary Co-op. Banks : 175 ii. Life Insurance a. Offices : 22 b. Policies Issued : 173572 c. Sum Assured (Rs.in Crores) : 351.046

30.NATURAL RESOURCES :

a. Name of the Minerals found in the District : VERMICULITS

31. GENERAL

1. Name of the important Pilgrim Centers :

a. Vellore Port Jalagandeeswarar Temple b. Murugan Temple c. Sholingur Narasima Swamy Temple d. Rathinagiri Balamurugan Temple e. Jalagamparai Eswaran Koil f. Virinjipuram Margapandeeswarar Temple g Ranganathar Temple h. Sripuram,Golden Temple,Ariyur.

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2. Name of the Important Tourist Centers :

a. Vellore Port b. Muthu Mandapam, Vellore River - bed c. Delhi Gate , Arcot d. Thippusulthan Mahal, Arcot e. Amirithi forest f. Morthana Dam, Gudiyatham g. Kavalur Observatory h. Elagiri Hills

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1. AREA AND POPULATION 1.1 AREA, POPULATION, LITERATES – SEXWISE BY BLOCKS AND MUNICIPALITIES

Sl. Name of the No Blocks/ Population Literates Municipalities

Area(sq.km) Persons Male Female Persons Male Female (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) Municipalities 1. Vellore 10.54 185803 91342 94461 143342 74338 69004 2. Arcot 7.51 55955 27782 28173 44382 23254 21128 3. Ranipet 8.19 50764 24278 26486 41117 20489 20628 4. Walajah 2.66 47498 23422 24076 35991 18882 17109 5. Arakkonam 9.06 78395 38810 39585 64133 33235 30898 6. Gudiyatham 4.79 91558 45135 46423 70921 37073 33848 7. 18.76 114608 56382 58226 87198 44847 42351 8. Vaniyambadi 8.98 95061 46992 48069 70696 36501 34195 9. Thirupattur 4.65 64125 31903 32222 48874 25546 23328 10. 7.61 51271 25285 25986 35344 18634 16710 11. Dharapadavedu 14.24 38833 19063 19770 31835 16320 15515 12. 16.06 44786 22655 22131 32797 17709 15088 13. 16.06 56951 28207 28744 46186 23863 22323 14. Jolarpet 13.06 29662 14596 15066 22079 11838 10241 Blocks

1 Vellore 121.25 407101 200609 206492 311021 162345 148676 2 Kaniyambadi 136.39 125666 62144 63522 93140 50176 42964 3 Anaicut 546.93 163343 81166 82177 107318 59149 48169 4 Gudiyattam 330.53 293813 146066 147747 209262 112924 96338 5 Pernambut 559.90 249951 123287 126664 167813 89664 78149 6 K.V. 226.53 128679 63772 64907 90485 49412 41073 7 Katpadi 206.37 214673 108193 106480 164881 88950 75931 8 Wallajah 225.54 249080 122986 126094 186175 99086 87089 9 Sholingur 284.26 150802 75400 75402 104945 58268 46677 10 Arcot 260.32 206051 102515 103536 150764 81365 69399 11 Thimiri 352.33 139884 69819 70065 94583 52873 41710 12 Arakkonam 188.44 172570 86378 86192 130364 70360 60004 13 298.30 153586 76496 77090 102546 57267 45279 14 355.13 177870 89031 88839 117555 66380 51175 15 373.92 202758 102374 100384 139497 76321 63176 16 Kandili 287.44 146890 74897 71993 95790 54144 41646 17 229.36 92241 46433 45808 58749 32979 25770 18 Jolarpet 291.26 200722 101004 99718 131832 73520 58312 19 430.34 236158 118219 117939 155348 84000 71348 20 Madhanur 215.64 224493 110899 113594 161860 85172 76688 District Total 6062.35 4941601 2457540 2484061 3548823 1906884 1641939

Source: Census of India 2011.

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1.2.POPULATION BY BROAD INDUSTRIAL CATEGORIES OF WORKERS

District Tamil Nadu

Sl.No Industrial Category % to % to Persons total Persons total workers workers

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 1. Total Main Workers 1355681 80.47 27942181 85.0

Cultivators 153286 9.10 4248457 12.9 Agricultural Labours 256040 15.20 9606547 29.2 Household Industry Manufacturing, Processing, 106582 6.33 1364893 4.2 Servicing and Repairs 839773 49.84 17664784 53.7 Other Workers 2 Marginal Workers 329099 19.53 4942500 15.0

3 Total Workers 1684780 100.00 32884681 100 4 Non Workers 2236678 -- 39262349 _

_ _ Total Population 3921458 72147030

Source: Census of India 2011.

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1.3 POPULATION BY RELIGION

Persons in District Sl. Rural Urban Total Religion No Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total

1 Hindu 1033987 1026298 2060285 478067 478010 507664 1512054 1504908 13170256 7

2 Muslim 30280 29944 60224 145491 145056 410995 175771 175000 1172761

3 Christian 22680 23294 45974 26827 29676 148451 49507 52970 399379

4 Sikh 112 82 194 186 155 729 298 237 1993

5 Buddhist 60 52 112 138 130 492 198 182 1364

6 Jain 155 173 328 1612 1549 3817 1767 1722 11123 7 Other Religions 53 38 91 113 93 388 166 131 1073 8 Religions not stated 763 748 1511 559 336 3917 1322 1084 10240

Source: Census of India 2011.

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1.4 POPULATION BY AGE GROUPS

Sl.No Age Groups Persons in Persons in Tamil Percent to total in Districts(in’00’) Nadu(in ‘00’) District Tamil Nadu (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 1. 0-14 2. 15-29 3. 30-44 4. 45-59 NOT AVAILABLE 5. 60 and above Total

Source: Census of India 2011.

1.5 POPULATION OF THE DISTRICT DECENNIAL GROWTH

Population Period Region Percentage Variation Since

(Subject to the period of previous Census [ 2011 availability) Census] [2001]

(1) (2) (3) (4) 3477317 Total 3936331 13.20 2169319 Rural 2234344 3.00 1307998 Urban 1701987 30.12

Source: Census of India 2011.

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1.6 SALIENT FEATURES 0F 2011 CENSUS -- BLOCK AND MUNICIPALITY WISE

Sl. Name of the Density per sq. Females per Increase in Urban/Rural No Block/Municipality km 1000 males Population Population since 2001 in % in % Municipalities 1. Vellore 17628.37 1034.146 4.84 45.64 2. Arcot 7450.732 1014.074 12.02 27.44 3. Ranipet 6198.291 1090.947 7.45 20.38 4. Walajah 17856.39 1027.922 61.15 19.07 5. Arakkonam 8652.87 1019.969 -0.37 45.10 6. Gudiyatham 19114.41 1028.537 0.12 33.42 7. Ambur 6109.168 1032.705 15.04 51.05 8. Vaniyambadi 10585.86 1022.919 10.86 40.25 9. Thirupattur 13790.32 1009.999 5.34 31.63 10. Pernambut 6737.319 1027.724 N.A 20.51 11. Dharapadavedu N.A. 2727.037 1037.088 18.09 12. Melvisharam N.A. 2788.667 976.8704 21.96 13. Sathuvachari N.A. 3546.139 1019.038 13.99 14. Jolarpet N.A. 2271.21 1032.201 14.78 Blocks

1 Vellore 3357.53 1029.33 12.84 84.96/15.04 2 Kaniyambadi 921.37 1022.17 13.53 44.54/55.46 3 Anaicut 298.65 1012.46 12.67 24.34/75.66 4 Gudiyattam 888.91 1011.51 9.18 47.37/52.63 5 Pernambut 446.42 1027.39 17.02 36.93/63.07 6 K.V.Kuppam 568.04 1017.80 8.40 4.13/95.86 7 Katpadi 1040.23 984.17 28.36 64.12/35.88 8 Wallajah 1104.37 1025.27 17.36 62.44/37.56 9 Sholingur 530.51 1000.03 12.04 20.46/79.54 10 Arcot 791.53 1009.96 13.96 53.35/46.65 11 Thimiri 397.03 1003.52 8.10 24.02/75.98 12 Arakkonam 915.78 997.85 9.90 57.59/42.41 13 Nemili 514.87 1007.77 9.19 17.53/82.47 14 Kaveripakkam 500.86 997.84 12.72 15.07/84.93 15 Tirupattur 542.25 980.56 2.73 31.63/68.37 16 Kandili 511.03 961.23 12.41 10.00/90.00 17 Natrampalli 402.17 986.54 -2.18 11.26/88.74 18 Jolarpet 689.15 987.27 18.54 25.76/74.24 19 Alangayam 548.77 997.63 13.56 57.82/42.18 20 Madhanur 1041.05 1024.30 15.94 51.05/48.95 664.90 1006.60 12.77 42.90/57.10

Source: Census of India 2011

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1.7 SALIENT FEATURES 0F 2011 CENSUS -- BLOCK AND MUNICIPALITY WISE

Sl. Name of the Literacy rate among S.C. Population S.T. Population in No Block/Municipality in % % Male (%) Female (%)

Municipalities 1. Vellore 91.49 81.51 14.16 0.18 2. Arcot 93.69 83.33 10.31 0.15 3. Ranipet 94.36 86.22 34.30 0.04 4. Walajah 90.59 78.79 14.79 0.21 5. Arakkonam 95.46 86.18 27.10 1.11 6. Gudiyatham 91.77 80.81 16.80 0.10 7. Ambur 90.30 81.91 16.83 0.57 8. Vaniyambadi 89.31 81.07 15.15 0.09 9. Thirupattur 90.63 81.33 18.33 0.43 10. Pernambut 85.35 74.03 23.57 0.02 11. Dharapadavedu 94.42 86.15 13.70 0.18 12. Melvisharam 89.53 77.39 8.99 0.03 13. Sathuvachari 94.10 85.61 10.07 0.14 14. Jolarpet 91.12 75.73 17.89 1.79 Blocks

1 Vellore 90.86 80.21 17.46 0.46 2 Kaniyambadi 90.03 74.89 17.67 0.91 3 Anaicut 82.51 65.80 23.37 7.85 4 Gudiyattam 86.79 72.52 24.16 0.49 5 Pernambut 83.06 69.76 34.59 1.01 6 K.V.Kuppam 86.76 70.35 27.11 0.58 7 Katpadi 91.06 78.78 15.68 0.77 8 Wallajah 90.55 76.85 19.90 0.35 9 Sholingur 86.89 68.97 16.85 0.77 10 Arcot 89.56 75.04 17.11 0.32 11 Thimiri 84.94 66.31 27.06 1.08 12 Arakkonam 91.02 77.33 28.32 1.68 13 Nemili 84.30 65.65 28.89 1.46 14 Kaveripakkam 84.19 64.61 28.43 1.48 15 Tirupattur 84.67 70.76 24.28 1.04 16 Kandili 82.21 65.25 17.54 2.50 17 Natrampalli 80.42 63.21 15.89 0.19 18 Jolarpet 82.58 65.80 12.39 2.43 19 Alangayam 81.66 68.83 16.14 9.85 20 Madhanur 86.90 75.76 25.93 2.10

Source: Census of India 2011

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2.CLIMATE AND RAINFALL

2.1 MONTHLY RAINFALL DATA- MONTHWISE AND SEASONWISE (In Millimetres)

Year: 2016-2017

Period Normal Rainfall Actual Rainfall % Variation (1) (2) (3) (4) 1.South West Monsoon Period

June'16 65.9 120.2 82.40 July'16 107.3 132.09 23.10 August'16 129.0 45.84 -64.47 September'16 163.9 56.36 -65.61 Total 466.1 354.49 -23.95 2.North East Monsoon October'16 163.2 22.78 -86.04 November'16 127.2 5.14 -95.96 December'16 58.3 111.56 91.36 Total 348.7 139.48 -60.00 3.Winter-Period January'17 8.1 27.59 240.62 February'17 6.8 0 -100.00 Total 14.9 27.59 85.17 4.Hot-Summer P17riod March'17 9.2 1.35 -85.33 April'17 22.3 6.73 -69.82 May'17 75.0 55.44 -26.08 Total 106.5 63.52 -40.36 TOTAL 936.2 585.08 -37.50

Source: Dept. of Economics & Statistics, Chennai-6.

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2.2 TIME SERIES DATA OF RAINFALL BY SEASONS (LAST 21 YEARS)

Year: 1996-97 TO 2016-17

South West North East Winter Hot Weather Total Monsoon Monsoon Season Season S Sl . No Year

Normal Actual Normal Actual Normal Actual Normal Actual Normal Actual %Deviation –or =) (+ from Normal 1 96-97 448.8 819.2 379.3 616.2 23.2 8.9 102.1 99.7 953.4 1544.6 (+)62.0

2 97-98 448.8 288.0 379.3 312.1 23.2 0.0 102.1 27.9 953.4 628.0 (-)34.1

3 98-99 433.1 509.1 362.2 436.2 23.6 30.9 105.1 65.2 924.0 1012.4 (+)9.5

4 99-00 433.1 194.0 362.2 295.2 23.6 30.9 105.1 62.1 924.0 582.2 (-)65.8

5 2000-01 435.0 415.3 362.2 238.3 23.4 3.7 105.7 106.8 925.7 764.1 (-)17.5

6 2001-02 435.00 369.9 362.2 243.4 23.4 2.1 102.2 76.4 922.8 691.8 (-)21.32

7 2002-03 451.1 254.2 351.7 251.4 18.2 0.0 101.4 65.0 922.4 570.6 (-)38.1

8 2003-04 442.0 582.9 353.0 242.2 20.3 1.7 101.7 282.9 917.0 1109.9 (+)21.0

9 2004-05 442.0 379.3 353.0 240.4 20.3 1.5 101.7 184.5 917.0 805.7 (-)12.1

10 2005-06 442.0 407.5 353.0 685.1 20.3 4.8 101.7 200.3 917.0 1297.7 (+)41.52

11 2006-07 442.0 422.1 353.0 308.1 20.3 1.0 101.7 124.3 917.0 855.5 (-)6.0

12 2007-08 442.0 579.5 353.0 441.1 20.3 14.3 101.7 160.8 917.0 1195.7 (+)30.4

13 2008-09 442.0 312.3 353.0 370.5 20.3 2.4 101.7 83.1 917.0 768.3 (-)16.2

14 2009-10 442.0 434.4 353.0 238.8 20.3 9.5 101.7 132.1 917.0 814.8 (-)11.1

15 2010-11 442.0 456.8 353.0 410.7 14.9 34.4 106.5 110.0 916.4 1011.9 (+)10.42

16 2011-12 535.8 441.0 378.4 438.7 13.9 8.1 102.2 103.7 1030. 991.5 (-)3.78 3 17 2012-13 535.8 420.2 378.4 461.6 13.9 36.7 102.2 85.8 1030. 1004.1 (-)2.54 3 18 2013-14 466.1 453.9 348.7 204.6 14.9 4.8 106.5 97.4 936.2 760.7 (-)18.7

19 2014-15 466.1 400.0 348.7 183.5 14.9 1.6 106.5 165.7 936.2 750.8 (-)19.8

20 2015-16 466 444.8 348.7 747.7 14.9 0.9 106.5 82 936.1 1275.4 (+)36.0

21 2016-17 466.1 354.49 348.7 139.48 14.9 27.59 106.5 63.52 936.2 585.08 (-)37.50

Source: Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

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3.AGRICULTURE

3.1.Soil Classification

Year: 2013-14 Sl.No. Sandy and Clay and Black Taluk Red Loam soil Sandy Loam Clay Loam Cotton Soil 1. Arakonam 12234 ha 36711 20495 1393 14.53 % 43.6% 24.34% 1.65% 2. 6065 24539 13667 170 10.09% 40.83% 22.7% 0.28% 3. Arcot 6261 10852 17956 2232 19.32% 20.8% 57.9% 4.27% 4. Vellore 4902 12461 11832 9.16% 23.3% 22.13% -- 5. Gudiyatham 5119 29997 24814 -- 4.98% 26.5% 21.96% 6. Vaniyambadi 8675 29228 9397 -- 10.32% 34.79% 11.18% 7. Thirupathur 5638 35048 19964 225 4.98% 30.98% 17.64% 0.19%

Source: Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

3.2.LAND UTILISATION (Area in Hectares) Year: 2016-17 Sl.No. IX .Classification Blockwise District (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Forest see next 5648 page 2. Barren and Uncultivable uses 20444

3. Land put to Non-Agricultural uses 80738

4. Cultivable Waste 5648

5. Permanent Pastures and Other Grazing Land 3922

6. Land Under Miscellaneous Tree Crops and Groves not included in Nett 2954 Area Sown

7. Current Fallows 77602

8. Other Fallows Land 83025

9. Net Area Sown 155398

10 Reserve Forest 156639

11. Geographical Area According to Village Papers 592018

12. Total Cropped Area 185013

13. Area sown more than once 29615

Source: ‘G’ Return.

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TABLE - 3.2 (CONTD)

DISTRICT : VELLORE Year : 2016-17

Sl. Name of the No

Block sown Total Total Total fallow fallow . Forest Net sown Net grazing land grazing land Reserve Forest Reserve Forest Current fallows fallows Current Cultivable waste waste Cultivable Fallow other than current than othercurrent Fallow MISC trees crops & groves & crops trees MISC Barren & Unculturable Land Land Unculturable & Barren not included in the net area netarea the in included not Land put non Agricultural use non Agricultural putLand Permanent pastures and other and other pastures Permanent 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1 Arakonam 0 195 5028 88 195 235 1714 8143 3546 19144 669 19813 2 Kaveripakkam 0 300 7386 319 380 362 3938 11635 9934 34255 431 34686 3 Nemili 0 67 7508 98 590 319 1926 9956 9221 29686 0 29686 4 Walajah 17 1677 6020 646 92 17 908 8695 4220 22293 2169 24462 5 Sholingher 0 2348 5248 352 209 322 4814 3857 10716 27866 1131 28997 6 0 1126 5656 873 180 697 1490 15815 6939 32779 5462 38241 7 Arcot 0 527 4335 628 144 214 1116 9252 5002 21221 92 21312 8 Vellore 0 790 3516 103 25 64 1761 2438 2855 11555 5858 17413 9 Anaicut 0 1449 3092 250 22 24 6953 0 9444 21234 24882 46116 10 Kaniyambadi 0 1400 2164 157 63 69 1570 2638 4445 12508 10741 23249 11 Katpadi 0 1586 2904 226 117 67 2545 2911 4823 15181 771 15952 12 K.V.Kuppam 0 668 3531 246 58 43 4990 1241 7593 18071 4595 22666 13 Gudiyatham 0 1471 4948 98 94 24 3655 701 11477 22470 11111 33581 14 Pernampet 0 1679 3788 515 363 179 5317 896 11854 24593 31664 56257 15 Madanur 823 745 2846 264 25 49 7538 68 4097 16455 23550 40005 16 Alangayam 1891 1000 2234 217 233 49 6872 734 10289 23521 12613 36134 17 Natrampalli 2211 1108 1607 144 734 16 6700 560 5281 18364 653 19017 18 Jolarpet 555 1104 3609 68 82 83 64 5412 363 9754 7338 17092 19 Thirupathur 0 643 2778 335 173 103 2759 434 11940 19166 7577 26743 20 Kandili 151 561 2535 17 143 31 5914 2681 11962 23999 5332 29331

District Total 5648 20444 80733 5644 3922 2967 72544 88067 146001 424115 156639 580753

Source: ‘G’ Return.

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3.3 AREA AND PRODUCTION OF CROPS

Year: 2016-17 Production Area Productivity % to the total Crops in Sl.No In hec. Kg./hec. area sown tonnes

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 1. A.FOOD GRAINS: a) Cereals & Millets i) Paddy 44570 275577 5323 24.09 ii) Cholam 5350 17541 2783 2.89 iii) Cumbu 2460 12145 4720 1.33 iv) Ragi 4518 26133 4010 2.44 v) Samai 2208 2120 942 1.19 vi) Maize 3102 27919 7779 1.68 b) Pulses i) Redgram 13375 23166 1697 7.23 ii) Green gram 2743 2063 785 1.48 iii) Black gram 3720 2597 870 2.01 iv) Horse gram 4735 9450 1011 2.56 2. B.OIL SEEDS i) Groundnut 34173 96847 2798 18.47 ii) Coconut 20470 1876* 9017 11.06 iii) Gingelly 357 161 721 0.19 iv) Sunflower 7 79 1487 0.01 3. C.OTHER CROPS i) Sugarcane 5936 612864 84000 3.21 ii) Cotton 12130 3735 466 6.56 iii) Chilies 1310 885 975 0.71 iv) Turmeric 554 1974 4745 0.30

* - in lakh nuts, - in nuts per hectare

Source: Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai.6

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3.4 .AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY In Number Sl.No. Item 2006 (1) (2) (3) 1. Ploughs a) Wooden 38465 b) Iron 17633 c) Total 56098 2. Water Pumps for Irrigation Purpose a) Worked by Oil Engine 2380 b) Worked by Electric Power 14859 c) Total 17239 3. Tractors a) Government 4 b) Private 902 c) Total 906 4. Sugarcane Crushers a) Worked by Power 12 b) Worked by Bullocks 771 c) Total 783 5. Oil Ghanis a) 5 Kg. & above 96 b) Less than 5 Kg. 0 c) Total 96

Source: Based on 18th Quinquennial Livestock Census-2006

3.5.NUMBER AND AREA OF OPERATIONAL LAND HOLDINGS

Size Class of Number Area holdings (Hectares) S.C. S.T. OTHER TOTAL S.C. S.T. OTHERS TOTAL S (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) Below0.5 19555 3272 198197 221084 4428.93 820.59 44687.62 49951.37 0.5- 1.0 6891 3183 78033 88124 4820.99 2364.07 54905.91 62102.04 1.0 – 2.0 3354 2754 45798 51951 4481.26 3790.83 62773.96 71110.48 2.0 – 3.0 606 1015 11162 12820 1432.84 2419.78 26546.86 30486.89 3.0 – 4.0 180 389 3627 4214 602.68 1349.23 12385.50 14398.84 4.0 –5.0 37 225 1536 1804 163.76 991.19 6803.90 7985.92 5.0 –7.5 21 188 1108 1321 121.90 1106.87 6560.60 7813.20 7.5 –10.0 15 63 282 362 134.29 556.44 2378.23 3087.31 10.0 –20.0 2 29 121 158 20.11 361.84 1514.94 1985.73 Above 20.0 0 2 11 20 0 42.45 406.28 776.51 Total 30661 11120 339875 381858 16206.76 13803.29 218963.80 249698.29

Source: 9th Agricultural Census 2010-11

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3.6 CONSUMPTION OF CHEMICAL FERTILISERS AND PESTICIDES

Year: 2014-15 Fertilizers ( in MT ) Pesticides Nitrogenous Phosphoric Potassiu Total Dust Liquid ( N ) (P2 O5) m ( NPK ) ( in MT ) ( in KL ) ( K2 O) ( 1) ( 2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 51535 9125 9678 70338 99.00 9208.00

Source: Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai.6

3.7 REGULATED MARKETS

Year: 2016-17 No.of Regulated No.of Sub - Quantity arrivals Receipts Name of Markets Regulated ( in MT.) ( Rs in Lakhs ) Crops Markets ( Product wise ) ( Product wise ) ( 1) ( 2) (3) (4) 1.Ground nut 758.83 6.09

2.Paddy 135835.79 175.79 3.Ginglly 113.8 0.58

4.Cane gur 3595.07 10.36

5.Chilies 20.61 0.46 6.Ragi 265.81 0.75 1 7.Cholam 32.55 0.06 12 8.Cumbu 56.47 0.21 9.Horse gram 209.06 0.45 10.Tamarind 4.15 0.04 11.Coconut 47331.45 97.13 12.Red gram 8.64 0.13 13.Castor 1.08 0 14.Cotton 6353.52 20.55 15.Varagu 0.77 0.02 Total 194587.6 312.62

Source : District Market Committee Office , Vellore-2

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3.8 CROP INSURANCE SCHEME FOR THE FASLI YEAR 2013-14

Season Name of the Name of the No.of Premium No.of Amount Crop Block Experiment Collected Beneficiaries Sanctioned s ( Rs ) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Kaniyambadi -- Anaicut -- Madhanur -- Gudiyatham -- Pernampet -- K.V.Kuppam -- Sholingur -- Kharif 2012 Paddy, Walajah -- (01.04.2012 to Sugarcane, Arcot -- 1234000 1012 9697000 30.09.2013) Groundnut, Timiri -- Banana, Arakkonam -- Turmeric Nemili -- Kaveripakkam -- Thirupattur -- Jolarpet -- Kandhili -- Natrampalli -- Alangayam -- Anaicut -- Sholingur -- Paddy, Walajah -- Sugarcane, Arcot -- 138000 396 4614000 Rabi 2012 -13 Banana, Timiri -- (01.10.2012 to Turmeric Arakkonam -- 31.03.2013 Nemili -- Kaveripakkam -- Total -- 1372000 1408 14311000

Source : 1. Assistant Administrative Officer , Agriculture insurance Company of India Ltd, Chennai. 2. Joint Registrar of Co-op Societies, Vellore-1.

3.9 SERICULTURE

For the Fasli Year: 2015-16 Area under Sl.No Production of Name Of the Block Mulberry Value in Rs. Cocoons(Tonne) (In Acre) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1 Vellore 0.00 0 0 2 Kaniyambadi 0.00 0 0 3 Anaicut 102.00 23166.00 6694974.00 4 Arcot 62.75 8629.00 2493781.00 5 Thimiri 32.00 8352.00 2413728.00 6 Walajapet 74.50 17185.00 4966465.00 7 Sholingur 131.25 13200.00 3814800.00 8 Arakkonam 73.00 10255.00 2963695.00 9 Nemili 10.00 2585.00 747065.00 10 Kaveripakkam 50.75 5075.00 1466675.00 11 Gudiyatham 135.75 40281.00 11641209.00 12 K.V.Kuppam 38.00 10824.00 3128136.00 13 Pernambut 117.00 23527.00 6799303.00 14 Katpadi 89.00 19648.00 5678272.00 15 Alangayam 314.50 79239.00 22900071.00 16 Madhanur 126.00 36052.00 10419028.00 17 Thirupathur 279.25 74533.00 21540037.00 18 Natrampalli 320.25 94958.00 27442862.00 19 Kandili 65.50 36680.00 10600520.00 20 Jolarpet 160.25 76119.00 21998391.00 Total 2181.75 580308.00 167709012.00 Source : Assistant Director Of Sericulture. Vaniyambadi. District Hand Book 2016-17 40 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore

4. IRRIGATION

4.1 Sources of Water Supply –Blockwise Year: 2016-17

Sl. Name of the Canals Wells used Tube Wells used Reservoir Tanks No. Block Numbers Length for irrigation Wells for Domestic s (Nos.) (Km.) purpose only Purpose only

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) 1 Vellore 101 170 1107 7 9363 21 2 Kaniyambadi 0 0 3015 333 1066 39 3 Anaicut 0 0 7851 8 1428 58 4 Gudiyattam 54 184 7236 0 414 73 5 Pernambut 40 84 5426 0 1169 1 31 6 K.V.Kuppam 12 12 6751 50 429 34 7 Katpadi 10 15 2190 368 3743 55 8 Wallajah 20 35 4008 3 2905 113 9 Sholingur 32 18 5229 206 2294 101 10 Arcot 42 89 5041 4 2970 53 11 Thimiri 56 86 8268 0 836 120 12 Arakonam 4 8 2199 23 9127 70 13 Nemili 32 64 5661 326 415 108 14 Kaveripakkam 30 60 7446 91 896 99 15 Tirupattur 26 49 4092 317 5769 1 73 16 Kandili 57 69 4058 783 748 119 17 Natrampalli 16 19 3529 206 837 32 18 Jolarpet 30 50 4880 739 2032 1 93 19 Alangayam 7 12 3604 86 2963 55 20 Madhanur 35 43 2963 197 3310 8 Total 604 1067 94554 3747 52714 3 1355 Source: - Deputy Director of Statistics, Vellore.

4.2 ACTUAL AREA IRRIGATED BY SOURCES (Area in Hectares) Year: 2016-2017 Area Irrigated Source Number Net Gross I.Surface Water: 1. Canals i) Government Canals 604 6187 ii) Private Canals --- 6354 -- -- 2. Tanks i) Large 420 33777 ii) Small 935 33862 12630 12822

3.Flow Irrigation i) Major & Medium ------ii) Minor ------4. Lift Irrigation: i) Major & Medium -- -- ii) Minor -- -- 5. Ponds i) Lift Irrigation -- -- ii) Minor -- --

6. Other Sources: i) Lift Irrigation ------ii) Flow Irrigation ------II Ground Water: 1. Public ------2. Private Tube Wells/Bore Wells 10432 19000 14848 Dug bore Wells 4841 3. I) open well With Pump sets 77576 61966 iii) Without Pump sets Total 15273

Source: Deputy Director of Statistics, Vellore.

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4.3 AREA IRRIGATED BY CROPS

Year: 2016-17

Area Sl.No. Crop (in Hect.)

1 Paddy 44570 2 Cholam 173 3 Cumbu 1286 4 Maize 2147 5 Ragi 2735 6 Sugarcane 5936 7 Onion 53 8 Fruits and Vegetables 10088 9 Gingelly 252 10 Groundnut 2667 11 Coconut 20434 12 Sunflower 4 13 Cotton 194 14 Greengram 1241 15 Blackgram 1181 16 Chillies 1311 17 Turmeric 554

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4.4 Details of Dams, Tanks, Wells and Bore Wells

Year: 2016-17 Dams & Reservoirs Tanks

Sl. Name of the

No. Block use area mcft mcft Dams Dams No. of No. Water canals canals canals Height Height spread wellsin use No. of Bore No. Capacity Capacity Capacity Irrigated Lengthof Lengthof No.of Wells inWells No.of Gross area Gross

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13)

1 Vellore 0 1107 33 2 Kaniyambadi 0 3015 121 3 Anaicut 0 7851 282 4 Gudiyattam 0 7236 650 5 Pernambut 1 261.33 0 5426 500 6 K.V.Kuppam 1 11.00 0 6751 1 7 Katpadi 0 2190 0 8 Wallajah 0 4008 242 9 Sholingur 0 5229 110 10 Arcot 85 5041 1752 11 Timiri 0 8268 209 12 Arakkonam 0 2199 522 13 Nemili 0 5661 1129 14 Kaveripakkam 0 7446 786 15 Tirupattur 1 112.2 0 4092 125 16 Kandili 0 4058 0 17 Natrampalli 0 3529 75 18 Jolarpet 1 54.24 0 4880 0 19 Alangayam 0 3604 111 20 Madhanur 0 2963 37 94554 6637 Total 4 54.24 85

Source: Deputy Director of Statistics, Vellore.

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5.ANIMAL HUSBANDARY

5.1 LIVESTOCK POPULATION Year : 2016-17

Sl.No. Classification Numbers

1. 1.Cattle 556632 2.Buffalow 16103 3. Sheep 383270 4. Goats 324052 5.Poultry 6504799 6. Others 89933

Source: Regional Joint Director of Animal Husbandry, Vellore-4.

5.2 VETERINARY INSTITUTIONS AND ANIMALS TREATED BLOCK WISE Year : 2016-17 Veterinary Institutions Other Units

Sl. Name of the No Block ries Animal Treated Units Mobile Animal Upgraded Upgraded Centers Disease Disease Castration Performed Hospital Clinician Sub-Centre Sub Centers Dispensa- investiga- tion Unitstion Poly Clinic Poly Clinic

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 Vellore -- -- 5 1 1 1 -- -- 65099 139 2 Anaicut -- -- 6 -- 1 ------74590 471 3 Kaniyambadi -- -- 5 ------57864 169 4 Arakkonam -- -- 6 ------41989 66 5 Sholingur -- -- 6 ------54929 140 6 Nemili -- -- 7 -- 4 ------62290 72 7 Kaveripakkam -- -- 9 -- 2 ------57262 24 8 Thimiri -- -- 7 -- 2 ------93298 304 9 Wallajahpet -- 2 4 -- 2 -- 1 -- 41801 429 10 Madhanur -- -- 7 -- 1 ------78023 413 11 Arcot -- -- 7 -- 1 ------59145 281 12 Tirupattur -- 1 5 -- 3 -- 1 -- 75914 387 13 Jolarpet -- 1 6 ------1 -- 76908 392 14 Kandili -- -- 5 -- 2 ------75969 396 15 Natrampalli -- -- 4 ------76822 397 16 Alangayam -- -- 6 ------76515 401 17 Pernampet -- -- 9 -- 2 ------108832 476 18 Gudiyattam -- 2 6 ------65686 71 19 K.V.Kuppam -- 1 5 -- 1 ------40821 56 20 Katpadi -- 1 3 -- 1 ------33671 136 Total -- 8 118 1 23 1 3 -- 1317431 5220

Source : Joint Director of Animal Husbandry, Vellore-4

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5.3 NUMBER OF VETERINARY HOSPITALS

Year : 2016-17 Sl.No. Name of the Block Number of Government Hospitals Private Hospitals (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 Tirupattur 1 -- 2 Gudiyattam 2 -- 3 K.V.Kuppam 1 -- 4 Katpadi 1 -- 5 Jolarpet 1 -- 5 Wallajah 2 -- 6. Vellore Clinician Centre 1 --- Total 9

Source : Joint Director of Animal Husbandry, Vellore-4

5.4. DAIRY DEVELOPMENT

Year : 2016-17 Name and address of milk Quantity of milk Name of the Block Value of Milk produced Sl.No produced in ‘000’ liters / Urban Town Societies Nos. Rs.in Lakhs

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 1 Vellore 22 6335 164710 2 Kaniyambadi 25 10462 272012 3 Anaicut 25 17058 443508 4 Arcot 13 2112 54912 5 Thimiri 40 24874 646724 6 Walajapet 13 4480 116480 7 Sholingur 20 18258 474708 8 Arakkonam 07 240 6240 9 Nemili 17 2381 91906 10 Kaveripakkam 10 3247 84422 11 Gudiyatham 37 5289 137514 CO-OP. SOCIETIES

12 K.V.Kuppam PRODUCERS’ 26 5805 150930 13 Pernambut 16 900 23400 14 Katpadi 41 7291 189566 15 Alangayam 18 2920 75920 16 Madhanur 18 6273 163098 17 Thirupathur 14 1030 26780 18 Natrampalli 08 7895 205270 19 Kandili 11 950 24700

20 Jolarpet MILK 14 12050 313300 Total 395 139850 3636100

Source : Deputy Registrar ( Dairy ), Vellore

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5.5 FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION

Year : 2016-2017

SL. Name and address of Inland fish Catch Marine Fish Catch Number of Fisherman No fishing centers ( Tonne) ( Tonne) engaged

1 Vellore Fort & Vellore 359.635 -- 251 2 Kaniyambadi 44.035 -- 38 3 Anaicut 27.352 -- 185 4 Arcot 15.902 -- 190 5 Timiri 20.795 -- 61 6. Walajapet 77.064 -- 154 7 Sholingur 79.511 --- 114 8. Arakkonam 132.553 --- 152 9. Nemili 135.780 --- 30 10 Kaveripakkam 84.404 --- 87 11 Gudiyatham-Mordana dam 150.460 --- 210 12 K.V.Kuppam 19.570 --- 59 13 Pernampet 78.730 -- 51 14 Katpadi 66.055 -- 25 15 Alangayam 31.804 -- 28 16 Madhanur 34.250 -- 186 17 Thirupathur 79.515 -- 83 18 Natrampalli 33.027 -- 31 19 Kandhili 67.280 --- 33 20 Jolarpet 33.030 -- 40

District Total 1570.752 --- 2008

Source : Asst. Director of Fisheries, Gandhi nagar Vellore-6.

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6. BANKING AND INSURANCE

6.1 NO.OF BRANCHES/DEPOSITS/ADVANCES POSITION

Sector wise Credit Details(In Crores) Credit Agri NFS OPS Items Nos Deposits Advances Deposits (In Crores) (In Crores) Ratio SBI GROUP 55 3803 3166.29 83 NATIONAL BANKS 71 9778.5 8539.44 87 PVT. BANKS 74 1795.38 1920 107 T.I.I.C. 1 0 30.29 0 2329.65 283.15 1029.81 VDCCB 35 1153.81 1163.11 101 RRB 8 67.02 88.34 132 GRAND TOTAL 244 16597.71 14907.47 510

6.2 INSURANCE SCHEME Year : 2016-17

Name of the Insurance No.of Polices Sum No.of Amount paid in Branches Issued Assured beneficiaries compensation 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. LIC, Vellore. 22 169576 3648.59 cr 1,98,361 825.31 cr 2. PLI HPO, Vellore 1 269 9.77cr 1029 --

3. HPO, Tirupathur 293 369 2.16Cr 243 28316912 PLI

4. HPO, Arakkonam 2 242 9.98Cr 210,39,714 PLI

5. The Oriental 9 70208 238.453Cr 105312 172.955Cr insurance Company Limited

Source : 1. Regional Manager, LIC. Ltd., Vellore. 2. Senior Superintendent of Post Office, Vellore-4 3. Superintendent of Post Office, Thirupathur. 4. Superintendent of Post Office, Arakkonam 5. Manager , National Insurance Ltd, Vellore 6. Manager , New India Assurance Ltd.,Vellore 7. Manager , United Insurance Ltd , Vellore 8. Manager , Oriental Insurance Ltd , Vellore

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7. CO-OPERATION

7.1 CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES (Rupees in Lakhs) Year : 2015-16

Sl. No.of Loans No.of Type of the Member Share Working No Societi Advances Outstandin Over due Employ Societies -ship Capital Capital es g ees (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) 1. District Central Co- 1 140752 5119.37 14181.05 15176.5 117071.44 1141.53 189 operative Bank 2. Primary Agricultural 175 559146 4525.31 92168.81 80646.91 82228.43 6915.83 952 Cooperative Bank 3. Farmer Service 1 9822 47.96 486.35 426.23 508.62 74.92 24 Co.op.Society 4. Lamp Society 2 6276 75.48 452.00 245.00 937.00 62.96 16 5. Co.op.Primary Agrl& 9 68029 304.18 5879.13 5854.91 4379.57 606.16 31 Rural Dev.Bank 6. Co.Op.Urban Bank 10 90179 748.45 51328.60 38130.56 28327.48 2430.67 91 7. Employees Co- 69 23340 5224.34 36208.31 - 38397.94 743.38 83 operative Bank 8. Co-operative 7 50933 60.58 621.90 - 149.64 3.92 104 Marketing Society 9. Students Co- 5 829 0.71 4.05 - - - - operative Stores 10. Vegetables Growers 1 50 0.09 2.51 - - - 1 Co-op Marketing Society 11. Primary Co-operative 16 60287 9.15 68.51 - 7.45 - 70 Stores 12. Labour Contract ------Society 13. Co-operative Canteen 2 881 0.38 2.52 - - - 0 14. Dt. Consumer Co-op. 1 1242 3.63 137.19 - 22.40 - 212 Wholesale Stores 15. Dt. Co-operative 1 1066 - - - - - 1 Union 16. Dt. Co-Op. Printing 1 389 4.75 115 - - - - Press 17. Dt. Training Institute 1 356 0.39 - - - - - 18. Automobile Spare 1 755 1 4.93 - - - - Parts Co-op. Society 19. Food Processing Co------Op. Society 20. Urban Credit Society 6 22482 4.23 7684.05 - 6518.72 433.24 32

Source: Joint Registrar of Co-op Societies , Vellore Region, Vellore.

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8. CIVIL SUPPLIES

8.1 No.of Fair Price Shops

Year : 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Total No.of Shops Taluks URBAN RURAL MIXED TOTAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 Taluks Total No. of Shops 1 Vellore 103 62 0 165 2 Arcot 25 134 0 159 3 Katpadi 33 151 0 184 4. Walajahpet 55 132 0 187 5 Arakkonam 34 118 0 152 6 Gudiyatham 28 87 0 115 7 Vaniyambadi 30 93 0 123 8 Tirupathur 30 160 0 190 9 Ambur 32 111 0 143 10 Anaicut 11 94 0 105 11 Natrampalli 3 83 0 86 12 Nemili 16 99 0 115 13 Pernambut 14 82 0 96 District Total 414 1406 0 1820

Source : District Supply Officer, Vellore-9

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8.2 QUANTUM OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES DISTRIBUTED AND THEIR RETAIL PRICES Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Issue Price Scale of Supply Commodity per Kg. (1) (2) (3) (4)

1 RICE RICE

Super Fine Free 1 Unit =12kg

Common Free 1 ½ Unit =14kg

2 Wheat 7.50 2 Units =16kg

3 Sugar 13.50 2 ½ Units =18kg

4 Palmolin Oil 25.00 3 & above =20kg

5 Sooji Nil Total --

Maida Nil AAY = 35 kg

Kerosene 13.90 WHEAT Rural 6 13.80 District hqrs = 5 Urban 7 Others Other areas = 3

Toor Dhall 30.00 SUGAR

8 Udhur Dhall 30.00 500 Gms per Head

Maligai Item NIL Maximum 2 Kgs.

Atta Nil

Kerosene

Regular Cards 0 1 Cylinder Cylinder District Hqrs. 10 Litres 3 Litres

Municipality 6 Litres 3 Litres

Town panchayat 5 Litres 3 Litres

Village Panchayats 3 Litres 3 Litres

LOF Cards 0 1 Cylinder Cylinder District Hqrs. 3 Litres 3 Litres

Municipality 3 Litres 3 Litres

Town panchayat 3 Litres 3 Litres

Village Panchayats 3 Litres 3 Litres

Source : District Supply Officer, Vellore.9.

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8.3 NO.OF RATION CARDS ( RURAL AND URBAN )

Year : 2016-17

Region No.of Ration Cards No. of Rice Cards RURAL 348442 -- URBAN 636565 -- DISTRICT TOTAL 985007 --

8.3 Cont. NO.OF RATION SHOPS

Year : 2016-17

Full Time Part Time Ladies shop Total (Full time) 915 892 13 1820

Source : District Supply Office, Vellore.9.

8.4 QUANTITY SUPPLIED

Year : 2016-17

Sl.No Items Quantity Supplied (MT) Quantity Supplied (MT) April-2016 allotment March – 2017 allotment 1 Rice 164045 18104.313

2 Wheat 1164 928.604

3 Sugar 1685 1477.756

4 Palm Oil 735000 (Packets) 752895 (Packets)

5 Toor Dhall 716 849.321

6 Udhur Dhall 460 0

7 Kerosene 1248 (KL) 1188 (KL)

Source : District Supply Office, Vellore.9.

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9.COMMUNICATION

9.1 Post offices doing postal business only Year : 2016-17

Post office Doing Postal Sl.No Name of the Postal Division business only ( Nos.) (1) (2) (3) Division 1 Vellore 150 2. Arakkonam 241 3. Tirupathur 293 Total 684

9.2 NO.OF TELEPHONE EXCHANGES, CAPACITY AND NO. IN USE

Sl.No Item Numbers (1) (2) (3) 1 Number of Telephone Exchanges 86 2 Number of Equipped Capacity 106600 3 Number of Direct Exchange Lines 50172 4 Number of Junction lines(TAX) 6076 5 Number Telephones in use 50172 Source : 1. District Telecommunication office, Vellore. 2.Commercial Officer, o/o Telecom Vellore.1.

9.3 NO.OF PUBLIC CALL OFFICES ATTACHED TO EACH EXCHANGE

Year : 2016-17

No.of Public Call Offices Sl.No Name of the Exchange Centre With STD/ ISD Without STD/ ISD

1 Vellore District 255 679

9.4 NO.OF PERSONS WAITING FOR PHONE CONNECTION Year: 2016-17

Sl. No.of Persons Waiting for the Name of the Exchange Centers No Phone Connection 1. Vellore District -Nil-

Source : 1. District Telecommunication Officer, Vellore. 2.Commercial Officer, o/o G.M.Telecom, Vellore.

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10. ELECTRICITY

10.1 No.of Power Station

Year : 2016-17

Sl. Name of the Power Year of Installed Station Net Unit No Stations Operation Capacity Generation Consumption Sent out ( M.U.) ( M.U.) ( M.U) ( M.U.) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Hydro 2 Thermal Does not Arise 3 Gas Turbine 4 Wind Mills Source : 1. Superintending Engineer, TNEB., Vellore.6. 2.Superintending Engineer, TNEB. Thirupathur.

10.2 QUANTUM OF POWER PURCHASED

Year : 2016-17

Power Purchased Sectors Name Power Purchased in M.U. (1) (2) NIL NIL

10.3 POWER CONSUMPTION SECTOR WISE

Year : 2016-17

Sl.No Sectors Consumption in M.U % of Consumption Vellore Tirupathur Vellore Tirpathur 1 Industries 397.00 87 22 14.03 2 Agriculture & Huts 277.00 35 16 5.66 3 Domestic 649.00 349 37 56.47 4 Commercial 111.00 54 6 8.74 5 Public lightening & 148.00 8 Public Works 63 10.19 6 Miscellaneous 77.00 16 4 2.59 7 Railway Line 114.00 14 6 2.27 Total 1773.00 618 100.00 100.00

10.4 PEAK DEMAND AND ENERGY OUTPUT

Year : 2016-2017

Details Power Demand Vellore Tirupathur (1) (2) (3) 1. Instantaneous Peak demand 448.23 in MVA 330 MW per month 2. Sustained peak demand 397.12 278 MW per month

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10.5 REVENUE FROM ELECTRIC SCHEMES AND COST PER UNIT

Year : 2016-2017

Sector Cost per unit in Rs. Income in Rs.in Lakhs Vellore Tirupathur Vellore Tirupathur 1. Government 2. Public 5.46 Nil 68240 Nil 3. Private Total

Source : 1. S.E., Vellore Electrical Division, Vellore.6. 2. S.E., Tirupathur Electrical Division, Tirupathur.

10.6 TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY Year : 2016-2017

Sl.No Item Unit Achievement Vellore Thirupathur (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1 H.T. Lines KM 87.12 110 2 L.T. Lines KM 347.916 170 3 Distribution Transformers KVA 49913 22560 4 Domestic Nos 18340 9620 5 Industrial ,, 602 187 6. Commercial ,, 4238 2437 7 Public Water Works ,, 265 141 8 Public Street Lights ,, 879 762 9 Agricultural ,, 433 428 10 Huts ,, 0 0 11 Others ,, 0 59

10.7 CAPACITY OF TRANSFORMERS Year : 2016-2017 Sl.No Name of the SUB STATION No. of Transformer Voltage Ratio Capacity in MVA (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1 Vellore 3 110/11 48 1 110/33 16 2 Sathumadhurai 2 110/11 20 3 Kilpallipet 2 110/11 20 4 Sathuvachari 2 110/11 20 5 Thorapadi 2 110/11 32 6 Fort round Indoor SS 2 33/11 16 7 Katpadi 2 110/11 32 1 110/33 16 8 Karnambut 2 110/33 32 1 110/11 16 9 Vaduganthangal 2 110/11 32 10. 3 33/11 11.30 11. Gandhinagar(UM) 1 33/11 8.00 12. Serkadu 1 33/11 8 13. Arcot 1 110/33 16 2 110/11 20 14. Timiri 1 110/33 16 2 110/11 32 15. Mambakkam 2 110/11 20

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16. 2 33/11 16 17. Kathiyavadi 2 33/11 10 18. Pootuthaku 1 33/11 3.15 19. Mugundarayapuram 1 110/11 16 20. Sipcot 3 110/11 48 21. Ranipet 2 33/11 16 22. Pudupadi 2 33/11 10 23. Ozhugur 1 33/11 5 24. Walajah 2 33/11 16 25. Sholingur 2 110/33 50 2 110/11 32 26. Kaveripakkam 2 110/33 32 2 110/11 32 27. M.V.Puram 2 110/11 32 28. Banavaram 1 33/11 8 29. Panapakkam 1 33/11 8 30. Peruvalayam 1 33/11 8 31. Mosur 2 110/33 32 2 110/11 32 32. Pallur 2 110/11 32 33. Salai 2 110/11 20 34. Arakkonam 2 33/11 16 2 33/11 16 35 Punnai 1 110/33 16 36 2 110/11 20 37 Arakonam UM SS 1 33/11 8 38 Singarapet 3 230/110 150 39 2 230/110 200 40 Tirupattur 5 110/33-11 64 41 Pakkam 5 110/33-11 62 42 Vinnamangalam 2 110/11 20 43 Vadakathipatty 3 110/33-11 36 44 Anaicut 2 110/11 20 45 Paravakkal 3 110/33-11 36 46 Pernambut 2 110/11 20 47 Chinnavarigam 2 110/11 20 48 Vaniyambadi 4 110/33-11 64 49 Alangayam 3 110/33-11 30 50 Singarapet 3 110/33-11 40 51 Ambur 2 110/11 26 52 2 33/11 16 53 Kandhili 2 33/11 13 54 Koratty 2 33/11 16 55 Natrampalli 2 33/11 16 56 Kethadapatty 1 33/11 8 57 Sedukkarai 2 33/11 16 58 1 33/11 8 59 Kavalur 1 33/11 0.5 60 Vadapudupet 1 33/11 1 61 Matrapalli 1 33/11 8 62 Mittur 1 33/11 8 63 Tirupattur 2 33/11 16 64 Kurusilapet 1 33/11 8 1 110/33 16 65 Itchipudur 1 110/11 16 District Hand Book 2016-17 56 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore

10.8 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION Year : 2016-2017

Electrified during the year Electrified upto the year Towns Villages Hamlet Agricultural Towns Villages Hamlet Agricultural (Hut) Pumpset Pumpset (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Vellore ------433 ------35093 76767

Tirupathur ------428 All Towns, Villages, Hamlets have 65352 been electrified Circle

10.9 NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE FAULT REPORT OFFICES Year : 2016-2017

Sl.No Name of the Block/ Name Of the Station / Sub Station No. of fault reported Municipality (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Tirupattur Block 110/33-11 KV Tirupattur SS 9 2. Kandhili Block 33/11 KV Kandhili SS 3 3. Vaniyambadi Municipality 110/11 KV Vaniyambadi SS 4. 110/11 KV Vaniyambadi SS 21 5. 33/11 KV Natrampalli SS 4 6. Alangayam Block 110/11 KV Alangayam SS 9 7. 110/33-11 KV Vadakathipatty SS 6 8. Ambur Municipality 110/11 KV Ambur SS 8 9. 110/11 KV Anaicut SS 8 10. Anaicut Block 110/11 KV Anaicut SS 8 11. Gudiyatham Block 110/33-11 KV Pakkam SS 12. Gudiyatham Municipality 110/33-11 KV Pakkam SS 12 13. Pernambut Block 110/11 KV Pernambut SS 14. Pernambut Block 110/11 KV Pernambut SS 15. Pernambut Block 110/11 KV Pernambut SS 9 Source : S.E., Vellore Electrical Division, Vellore.6. S.E., Tirupathur Electrical Division, Tirupathur.

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11.EDUCATION

11.1 STUDENTS ABSTRACT FOR THE YEAR 2016-17

NAME OF THE NAME OF THE COURSE OFFERED BOYS GIRLS TOTAL UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY 40 46 86 ADVANCED MSC SCIENCES (SAS) PHYSICS 15 21 36

BTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY 255 415 670 APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 30 132 162 BIOMEDICAL GENETICS 7 77 84 MSC BIOTECHNOLOGY 50 126 176 BIOTECHNOLOGY(INTEGRATED -5 YEARS) 130 321 451 MTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY 18 42 60

SCHOOL OF CATERING AND BSC CATERING AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT 22 2 24 HOTEL MANAGEMENT

CHEMICAL ENGG 99 38 137 CIVIL ENGG 1166 97 1263 BTECH SCHOOL OF Mec. Spl.CHEMICAL ENGG 166 29 195 CIVIL AND CHEMICAL BTECH-EVE CIVIL ENGG 13 5 18 ENGINEERING (SCALE) ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGG 34 25 59 MTECH STRUCTURAL ENGG 91 36 127 BSC COMPUTER SCIENCE 289 132 421 COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGG 2745 542 3287 COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WITH 224 106 330 VIT SPECIALIZATION IN BIOINFORMATICS UNIVERSITY BTECH VELLORE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WITH 632 014 144 22 166 COMPUTER SPECIALIZATION IN INFORMATION SECURITY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MSC COMPUTER SCIENCE 18 17 35 (SCOPE) COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGG 110 109 219 CSE - INFORMATION SECURITY 8 9 17 MTECH COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WITH 13 13 26 SPECIALISATION IN BIG DATA ANALYTICS

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGG 910 163 1073 SCHOOL OF BTECH ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGG 221 78 299 ENGINEERING (SELECT) CONTROL AND AUTOMATION 41 19 60 MTECH POWER ELECTRONICS 83 33 116 BIOMEDICAL ENGG 108 116 224

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGG 2272 515 2787 BTECH ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING WITH SPECIALIZATION WITH 115 25 140 SCHOOL OF INTERNET OF THINGS AND SENSOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGG 18 31 49 (SENSE) COMMUNICATION ENGG 49 56 105 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 78 43 121 MTECH NANOTECHNOLOGY 23 13 36 SENSOR SYSTEM 26 24 50 VLSI DESIGN 134 76 210 District Hand Book 2016-17 58 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore

TIFAC MTECH AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS 37 7 44 BCA BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION 238 175 413 BSC MULTIMEDIA AND ANIMATION 116 45 161 BTECH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 927 237 1164 SCHOOL OF INFORMATION MCA MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 319 178 497 TECHNOLOGY & MSSE SOFTWARE ENGG 727 506 1233 ENGINEERING COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION ENGG 37 18 55 (SITE) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 56 40 96 MTECH SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 11 8 19 SOFTWARE ENGG (INTEGRATED) 606 334 940 MECHANICAL & ENERGY ENGG 358 14 372 MECHANICAL ENGG 3064 74 3138 BTECH MECHANICAL WITH SPEC.IN AUTOMOTIVE 257 8 265 ENGG SCHOOL OF PRODUCTION AND INDL ENGG 212 25 237 MECHANICAL BTECH-EVE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 49 2 51 ENGINEERING M.Des. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 24 1 25 (SMEC) AUTOMOTIVE ENGG 94 5 99 CAD/CAM 85 2 87 MTECH MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 62 3 65 MECHATRONICS 56 2 58 SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND BCOM BACHELOR OF COMMERCE 236 156 392 LANGUAGES (SSL) SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE B. ARCH ARCHITECH 33 47 80 (VSPARC)

VIT BUSINESS BBA BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 212 121 333 SCHOOL (VITBS) MBA MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 141 87 228 M. Phil 0 2 2 MS-BY-RES 62 23 85 RESEARCH Ph. D 426 240 666 Integ PhD 0 6 6 MT-BY-RES 37 25 62 GRAND TOTAL 1824 5945 2419

Source : Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

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11.2 COLLEGES FOR GENERAL EDUCATION, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Year: 2016- 17 No. of the Students Sl.N Teache Name of the Institution Institutio Tot o Boys Girls rs n al (1) ( 2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) 1. Government Colleges 1. Muthurangam Govt. Arts College, Vellore – 2036 867 2903 82 632002. 1 2. Government Thirumagal Mills College, 1456 1822 3278 65 Gudiyatham. 1 3. Arignar Anna Govt. Arts College for Women, -- 1305 1305 131 Walajapet. 1 4. Government College of Education, Vellore – 45 53 98 6 632006. 1 2 Aided Colleges 1. , Vellore –9. Day time 1 -- 1040 1040 45 Auxilium College, Vellore –9. Evening time 1 10 2412 2422 129 2. D.K.M. College, Vellore. 1 -- 2086 2086 82 3. C. Abdul Hakeem College, Melvisharam. 1 1335 -- 1335 65 4.Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur.-UG 1 580 457 1037 40 Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur.-PG 99 93 192 13 5. Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi. 1 1788 -- 1788 67 6. Mazharul Uloom College, Ambur. 1 615 -- 615 28 7.Voorhees College, Vellore-Day Time 1 1105 693 1798 67 Voorhees College, Vellore-Evening Time 1 1261 361 1622 69 8.Jamia Darusalam Arabic College, Oomerabad 1 164 -- 164 04 9. Islamiah College(Woman), Vaniyambadi 1 -- 1321 1321 51 3. Self Financing Colleges ------1.Arcot Sri Mahalakshmi Women’s College, 1 -- 2775 2775 100 Villapakkam. 2. Adhiparasakthi College of Arts and Science, 504 920 1424 53 G.B.Nagar, Kalavai. 1 3.Auxilium College of Arts and Science for 1 -- 2327 2327 129 women,Katpadi 4.Islamiah Women’s Arts and Science -- 1900 1900 60 College,Vaniyambadi 1 5.Mercurry College of Arts and Science, 144 91 285 13 Thandalam, Kaveripakkam. 1 6. Arakkonam Arts and Science College, 164 217 381 32 Itchiputhur, Kaveripakkam. 1 7. Marudhar Kesari Jain College, Vaniyambadi 1 -- 2380 2380 121 8.Marappan Lakshmiammal Arts and Science 105 158 263 19 College(Co-Ed), Kurumberi,Tptr. Taluk 1 9.Jothi’s College of Arts and Science, Katpadi, 424 221 645 24 Vellore. 1 10.Sacred Heart College,Self Finance Arts & 1 1304 1314 2681 140 Science College 11. Mazharul Uloom College, Ambur. 1 306 66 372 48 12.S.S.S College of Art, Science and 1 650 820 1470 60 Management,Arcot 13.Kaveripakkam College of Arts&Science, 1 430 230 660 23 Kaveripakkam 14. K.M.G. College of Arts And Science, 1 1120 600 1720 72 Ammanangkuppam 15.Imayam College, Vaniyambadi 1 467 203 670 24 16.Vanavil Arts & Science College, Natrampalli 1 158 162 320 21 17. M.M.E.S. College, Melvisharam 1 0 1530 1530 60

Source : Joint Director, Collegiate Education, Vellore-6.

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11.3 COLLEGE FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Year: 2016-2017

S. No.of Students Teachers Name of the Institutions No Institutions Male Female Total 1. Saraswathi Velu College of Engineering 1 585 195 780 136 Jumbukulam Road, Melvenkatapuram, -631102 2. Priyadarshini Engineering College,Vaniyambadi 1 951 467 1418 165

3. Adhiparasakthi Agricultura and Horticulturall 1 363 481 844 49 College,G.B.Nagar,Kalavai, Vellore. 4. Government College of Education, Vellore-6. 1 32 85 117 05 5. C.Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering & Technology, 1 1529 820 2349 148 Hakeem Nagar, Melvisharam – 632509. 6. GGR College of Engineering, Pillaiyarkuppam, 1 311 92 403 140 Perumugai, Vellore – 632009.

7. Adhiparasakthi Engineering College 1 544 365 909 72 G.B. Nagar, Kalavai. 8. Engineering College, Kandili. 1 608 246 854 114 9. Bharathidasan Engineering College, Natrampalli. 1 777 199 976 93 10. Christian Medical College, Vellore 1 349 535 884 743 11. JPKM School of Nursing , Vellore-632 009. 1 ---- 55 55 7 12. John’s College of Nursing, Sathumadurai, Kaniyambadi. 1 -- 150 150 17 13. Ganadipathy Tulsis Engineering College, Kaniyambadi. 1 1431 191 1622 120 14. Kennedy Catering College, Katpadi Main Road, Vellore-6. 1 8 1 9 2 15. Ranipettai Enggineering College, 1 371 137 508 40 Thenkadappanthangal,Ranipet

16. Thanthai Periyar Govt. Institute of Technology 1 833 483 1316 45 17. John’s College Engg & Technology for Women, 1 -- 15 15 20 Sathumadurai, Kaniyambadi. 18. GLOBAL Institute of Engineering and Technology 1 1051 343 1394 66

19 Idhaya College of Arts & Science college, pudupalayam 1 0 948 948 41

11.4 COLLEGES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION. STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Year: 2016-2017

Sl.No No.of Students Name of the Institutions Teachers Institutions Boys Girls Total Albakiyathur Sahihath Arabic College, Vellore- 2 1 1 280 0 280 24 ( Oriental parel Islamic Religion )

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11.5 SCHOOLS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION, STUDENTS TEACHERS

Year: 2016-2017

Sl. No.of Students Teach No Name of the Institutions Institution ers s Boys Girls Total 1. Primary Schools 2094 150977 142531 293508 6689 2. Middle Schools 551 94312 88619 182931 4349 DEEO. Total 2645 245289 231150 76439 11038

High Schools

1. Adhi Dravidar Welfare Schools 8 1245 978 2223 1622 2. Govt.High Schools 169 45925 44123 90048

3. Municipal High Schools 6 1234 1147 2381 91 4. Fully Aided Schools 27 4745 4402 9147 201 141 5. Private Schools 97 5256 4230 9486 215

6. Forest Schools 1 1245 878 2123 97

7. Central Govt.High School 3 585 267 852 23

8. CBSE 8 0 0 0 0 0 9. Impaired 1 0 0 0 0

High Schools Total 320 60235 56025 116260 2390

Higher Secondary Schools

1. Adhi Dravidar Welfare Schools 7 4615 4045 8660 3185 2. Govt.Higher secondary Schools 143 65258 58321 123579 3. Municipal Higher secondary Schools 3 1242 2472 3714 210 4. Fully Aided Schools 45 34137 26345 60482 1256 184 5. Private 88 32667 29787 62454 6. Forest Schools 1 580 285 865 24 7 Central Govt.High School 1 445 240 685 22

8. CBSE 3 1100 998 2098 65 9. Impaired 1 440 320 760 20

Higher Secondary Schools Total 292 140484 122813 263297 4966

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11.6 SCHOOLS FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Year :2016-2017

Sl. No TTI Name Students Students I YEAR II YEAR Grant Teachers Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Total Male Female Total 01 DIET, Ranipet 4 85 89 1 48 49 138 7 11 18 02 G.G.T (Girls) - 16 16 - 20 20 36 - 2 2 03 B.M.T (Girls) - 9 9 6 6 15 - 6 6 04 CONCORDIA - - - - 2 2 2 1 2 3 05 Mary Immaculate - 11 11 - 16 16 27 - 5 5 06 UNION 7 - 7 3 1 4 11 3 2 5 07 Bharath - 2 2 1 5 6 8 2 3 5 08 Dr. Radhakrishna - 5 5 5 - 5 10 5 - 5 09 N.D.M - - - 1 1 2 2 2 1 3 10 VANI ------@ 11 CKS ------@ 12 Sri Krishna - 2 2 - - 2 2 4 5 9 13 Sigaram 10 35 45 7 20 27 72 1 2 3 14 Sri Sitheeshwarrar - 24 24 - 10 10 34 5 2 7 15 Vallalar - 13 13 1- - - 13 3 3 6 16 Christian 3 17 20 2 14 16 36 3 7 10 17 Karunya 2 33 35 3 32 35 70 5 2 7 18 St. John’s 1 9 10 2 4 6 16 4 3 7 19 Sri Mahalakshmi - 27 27 - 17 17 44 - 6 6 20 Mercury 4 8 12 5 13 18 30 6 - 6 21 Kennady 5 7 12 5 4 9 21 5 - 5 22 Thiruvalluvar - - - 1 24 25 25 1 2 3 23 Meera 6 74 80 - 2 2 82 5 3 8 24 KKS Mani ------@ 25 Duraimurugan - 3 3 - - - 3 3 2 5 26 Sri Vidyavihar 10 2 12 3 9 12 24 6 - 6 27 Matheri 1 4 5 3 15 18 23 1 4 5 28 Kalviulagam ------@ 29 Get ------@ 30 Devan ------2 - 2 31 Mahathma Gandhi - - - 4 4 8 8 4 3 7 32 G.P ------@ 33 Dr. Davidraja ------@ 34 Sri.Bharathi ------@

11.7 SCHOOLS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Year :2016-2017

Sl. Students Name of the Institutions No.of Institutions Teachers No Boys Girls Total

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) NIL

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11.8 INSTITUTIONS FOR OTHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Year: 2016-2017

Teacher Sl. No.of Students s No Name of the Institutions Institution Femal s Male Total e (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) 1. Maragathambigai ITC, Karadikudi, Vellore-632107. 1 20 2 22 3 2. Sri Sitheshwarar Polytechnic, Kalavai Road, Arcot. 1 761 27 788 29 3 Tirupattur Polytechnic College,Tirupattur. 1 454 -- 454 30 4. Sri Venkateshwara I.T.C.,Maruthi Nagar,Gandhi Nagar West,vellore. 1 138 22 160 10 5. Ranipet I.T.C., , Walajah 1 137 7 144 10 6. Priyadarshini I.T.C.,Marapattu Village,Girisamuthiram Post, Vellore 1 50 4 54 10 7. Sri Ramachandra I.T.C.,Sathiya Nagar,Sipcot,Ranipet, Vellore 1 78 2 80 6 8. Valluvaa I.T.I. Gandhi Nagar, Vellore-632006. 1 35 -- 35 5 9. K.A.R.Polytechnic College, Solur,Ambur. 1 253 12 265 27 10. Sri Krishna I.T.C., Tiruthani Road, Arakkonam. 1 130 -- 130 7 11. Thanthai Periyar Government I.T.I., Vellore-632002. 1 1181 230 1411 14 12. Sri Krishna Polytechnic,Tiruthani Road, Arakkonam. 1 826 78 904 41 13. Government I.T.I., Vellore-632010. 1 572 107 679 41 14. Pandiyan Polytechnic College, Tirupattur. 635602. 1 907 28 935 49

15 Worth technical pparel centre katpadi 1 57 05 62 17 16. Vidhyas ITI, Kalavai. 1 88 3 91 7 17. Rajagopal Polytechnic College,Gudiyatham 1 1300 339 1639 19 18. Katpadi Industrial Institute, Katpadi 1 64 1 65 08 19. Priyadharshini Polytechnic College, Vaniyambadi. 1 623 58 681 40 20. Sri Venkateshwara Poly. College, Kaniyambadi. 1 863 101 964 92 21. Thanthai Periyar EVR Govt. Polytechnic College, Vellore. 1 400 79 479 12 22. Government I.T.I., Arakkonam-631004 1 331 24 355 12 23. Tamilnadu I.T.C. Arakkonam-3. 1 114 2 116 8 24. Asian Industrial School, Thorapadi. Vellore 2 51 -- 51 4 25.. Islamiah I.T.C., Vaniyambadi. 1 136 121 16 26. Tamilaga I.T.I. Vellore 1 120 -- 120 7 27. Bharathidasan I.T.C., Anaicut 1 30 30 60 7 28. Kennedy I.T.C., Vellore-6. 1 128 24 152 18 29. Kennedy HM & CT Agaramcherry 1 ------30. Auxilium T.T.C, Thiruppathur 1 80 4 84 8 31. Nethaji I.T.C., Kaveripakkam 1 55 9 64 7 32 Guru Ragavendhra Polytechnic College, Veppur 1 609 140 749 35

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11.9 HOSTALS AND INMATES BY COMMUNITY

Year : 2016-17

No.of Hostals Most Backward Class Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe and Denotified Backward Class Communities Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) 32 18 50 2 -- 2 ------

11.9 Continous

No.of Inmates Most Backward Class Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe and Denotified Backward Class Communities Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total ( 13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) 2040 1011 3051 100 -- 100 ------Source : District Adi – Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Office, Vellore.

11.10 SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDENTS BY COMMUNITY

Year: 2016-17

Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe Most Backward Class and Backward Class Denotified Communities No.of Amount No.of Amount No.of Amount No.of Amount Beneficiaries (Rs.) Beneficiaries ( Rs. ) Beneficiaries ( Rs.in ‘000’ ) Beneficiarie ( Rs.in ‘000’ ) s (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 11264 103.016 crore 2800 11 crore ------Source : District Adi – Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Office, Vellore.

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12. FISHERIES

12.1 FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT Year: 2016-17

1. Area

a. Total Coastal Line of the District b i. Total Inland Fresh Water spread Area Does not Arise ii. Estuaries and Brackish Water Area c. Marine Fishing Village

2 Fish Production Item Quantity Value M.tonnes ( Rs.in Lakhs ) Inland Fish Products (Tonne) 1 1570.752 188490.240 3. Inland Fisheries Development Nil -- - a. Freesing Plants Nil - - b. Ice plants, Cold storage’s and walk in coolers Nil - - c. Sea food manufacturing units in private sector Nil - - d. Fisheries Training Centre Nil - - i. Marine Nil - - ii. Inland Nil - - e. Fishing Vessels Nil - - f. Active Marine fishermen Nil - 4. Export Nil - - Fish and Fish Products Nil - - a. Quantity (Tonne) Nil - - b. Value ( Rs, in Lakhs ) Nil - -

Source :Inspector of Fisheries, Gandhinagar, Vellore.6.

12.2 ESTIMATED MARINE PRODUCTION / INLAND PRODUCTION

Year : 2016-2017

Sl.No Name of the Block / Quantity Value Rs. Muncipality ( Tonnes) In Lakhs (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Vellore 359.635 251 2. Kaniyambadi 44.035 38 3. Anaicut 27.352 185 4. Arcot 15.902 190 5. Timiri 20.795 61 6. Walajapet 77.064 154 7. Sholingur 79.511 114 8. Arakkonam 132.553 152 9. Nemili 135.780 30 10. Kaveripakkam 84.404 87 11. Gudiyatham 150.460 210 12. K.V.Kuppam 19.570 59 13. Pernampet 78.730 51 14. Katpadi 66.055 25 15. Alangayam 31.804 28 16. Madhanur 34.250 186 17. Tirupathur 79.515 83 18. Natrampalli 33.027 31 19. Kandili 67.280 33 20. Jolarpet 33.030 40 Total 1570.752 2008

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12.3 NUMBER OF FAMILIES ENGAGED IN FISHING Year : 2016-17 Sl. Name of the Number of Families NO Municipality/ Block Engaged 1. Vellore 251 2. Kaniyambadi 38 3. Anaicut 185 4. Arcot 190 5. Timiri 61 6. Walajapet 154 7. Sholingur 114 8. Arakkonam 152 9. Nemili 30 10. Kaveripakkam 87 11. Gudiyatham 210 12. Pernampet 59 13. Katpadi 51 14. K.V.Kuppam 25 15. Madanoor 28 16. Alangayam 186 17. Tirupattur 83 18. Jolarpet 31 19. Natrampalli 33 20. Kandili 40 Total 2008

Source :Inspector of Fisheries, Vellore-6.

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13 HANDLOOM

13.1 NO.OF FOCAL CENTRES AND LOCATION DETAILS

Year : 2016-17

Name of the Block/ Name / Location of the Focal Sl.No Numbers Municipality centres (1) (2) (3) (4)

1 Gudiyatham 33 Gudiyatham

2 K.V.Kuppam 1 K.V.Kuppam

3 Katpadi 1 Katpadi

4 Vellore 1 Sathuvachari

5 Arcot 1 Pootuthakku

6 Ambur 1 Ambur

7 Thirupattur 3 Thirupattur, Reddyvalasai, Kunichi

8 Kaveripakkam 2 Minnal , Cheery Iyyampettai , Ramapuram 9 Sholingur 4 Sholingur

10 Arakkonam 10 Guruvarajapettai,

TOTAL 57

Source: Assistant Director of Handlooms, Vellore.

13.2 NO.OF SOCIETIES & VARIETYWISE PRODUCTION

Year: 2016-17

Mixture of Artsilk & Cotton Silk Artsilk Polyster No.of Cotton Socie Value Length Value Length Value Length Length Value Length Value ties (Rs. in Meter (Rs. In’000’) in Meter (Rs. In’000’) in Meter in Meter (Rs. In’000’) in Meter (Rs. In’000’) In’000’) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)

57 30.712 170872 ------

Source: Assistant Director of Handlooms, Vellore.

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13.3 NO.OF POWERLOOMS & EMPLOYEES WORKING

Year: 2016-17

No.of Powerlooms No.of Employees working (1) (2) Nil Nil

Source: Assistant Director of Handlooms, Vellore.

13.4 NUMBER OF FAMILIES ENGAGED

Year : 2016-17

Number of families Engaged in Sl.No Name of the Block Hand looms Power Looms 1 2 3 4 1 Gudiyatham 5546 -- 2. K.V.Kuppam 373 -- 3. Katpadi 200 -- 4. Vellore 272 -- 5. Arcot 165 -- 6. 205 -- 7. Ponnai 77 -- 8. Ambur 110 -- 9. Thirupattur 542 -- 10. Kaveripakkam 247 -- 11. Sholingur 874 -- 12. Arakkonam 1975 -- TOTAL 10586 --

Source: Assistant Director of Handlooms, Vellore.

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14. HANDICRAFTS

14.1. NAME & ADDRESS OF HANDICRAFTS Year: 2016-17

Sl.No. Name of the Block/ Municipality Name & Address of the Handicrafts (1) (2) (3) 1 MUNICIPALITY Nil 2. BLOCK Nil

14.2 ARTICLES AVAILABLE IN HANDICRAFTS

Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Handicrafts Articles available in the Handicrafts 1 NO HANDICRAFT NIL

14.3 VALUE OF ARTICLES PRODUCED & SOLD Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the handicraft Value of articles provided Value of articles sold ( Rs. In Lakhs ) ( Rs. In Lakhs) (1) (2) (3) (4)

NIL

14.4 NO.OF FAMILIES ENGAGED IN HANDICRAFTS Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Block/ Municipality No.of the families engaged No.of Handicrafts

(1) (2) (3) (4) NIL

Suorce : Assistant Director of Khadi & Village Industries, Vellore.

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15. HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE

15.1 HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES BED STRENGTH DOCTORS AND NURSES Year: 2016-2017 Indian Medicine Modern Grand Ayurvedic, Siddha, Homoeopathy Classification Medicine Ayurvedic Siddha Unani Total Total Unani Combained (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) 1. Hospitals 13 ------13 2. Dispensaries 0 ------0 3. Primary Health Centers 0 ------0 4. Health Sub Centers 0 ------0 5. Other Medical Institutions 0 ------0 6. Bed Strength 1173 ------1173 7. No.of Doctors 167 ------167 8. No.of Nurses 212 ------212

15.2 NO.OF ALLIED PATHOLOGICAL UNITS AVAILABLE Year: 2016-2017

Sl.No No.of Pathological Name of the Block/ Municipality Units (1) (2) (3) 1. Govt. Hospital, Arcot. 2. Govt. Hospital, Walajah. 3. Govt. Hospital, Arakkonam. 4. Govt. Hospital, Gudiyatham. 5. Govt. Hospital, Vaniyambadi.

6. Govt. Hospital, Tirupathur. NIL NIL 7. Govt. Hospital, Kalavai. 8. Govt. Hospital, Sholingur. 9. Govt. Hospital, Pernampet. 10. Govt. Hospital, Ambur. 11. Govt. Vellore Medical College Hospital,Vellore Source : Joint Director of Health, Govt. Pentland Hospital, Vellore

15.3 DISEASE WISE PATIENTS TREATED Thirupathur Govt. Hospital Year : 2016-17 Sl.No Name of the Disease No.of Patients Treated

(1) (2) (3) 1. Tuber Closis 225 2. Enteric Fever 250 3. P.V.O 1984 4. Whooping Cough 0 5. Leprosy 1261 6. Fits 320 7. Br.Asthma 1850 8. Hypertension 18642 9. Gastritis 28538 10. Multiple Injury 3824 11. Normal Labour 1694 12. P.S.Done 1274 13. D.U.B 2183 14. A.G.E 4112 15. Janundice 38 16. Anaemia 6012 17. Nyd Chest Pain 6600 18. Burns 68 19. Ulser Stomach 388 20. Insect Bit 2652 21. Viral Fever 10080 22. Diabetic Mellitus 13563 23. All other Fractures 1656 24. Siddha 36330 25. Primary Complex 3 26. Rabis 0 27. Dysentry 1230 Total 144777

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15.3 DISEASE WISE PATIENTS TREATED – 2016-2017 ESI Hospital, Vellore

No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. Tuber Closis 42 2. Enteric Fever 18 3. P.V.O 683 4. Whooping Cough 0 5. Leprosy 0 6. Fits 141 7. Br.Asthma 204 8. Hypertension 2442 9. Gastritis 414 10. Multiple Injury 748 11. Normal Labour 0 12. P.S.Done 0 13. D.U.B 342 14. A.G.E 135 15. Janundice 3 16. Anaemia 198 17. Nyd Chest Pain 495 18. Burns 16 19. Ulser Stomach 131 20. Insect Bit 0 21. Viral Fever 691 22. Diabetic Mellitus 7122 23. All other Fractures 376 24. Siddha 4352 25. Primary Complex 0 26. Rabis 0 27. Dysentry 0 Total 18553

15.3 DISEASE WISE PATIENTS TREATED – 2016-2017 Government Police Hospital, Vellore No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. Tuber Closis 0 2. Enteric Fever 0 3. P.V.O 868 4. Whooping Cough 0 5. Leprosy 0 6. Fits 0 7. Br.Asthma 310 8. Hypertension 3752 9. Gastritis 4300 10. Multiple Injury 0 11. Normal Labour 0 12. P.S.Done 0 13. D.U.B 2 14. A.G.E 558 15. Janundice 12 16. Anaemia 568 17. Nyd Chest Pain 122 18. Burns 35 19. Ulser Stomach 2214 20. Insect Bit 92 21. Viral Fever 4318 22. Diabetic Mellitus 4213 23. All other Fractures 0 24. Siddha 0 25. Primary Complex 0 26. Rabis 0 27. Dysentry 232 Total 21599

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15.3 DISEASE WISE PATIENTS TREATED GOVT. HOSPITAL, ARCOT.

Sl.No. Name of the Diseases No. of patients Treated 1. Typhoid Fever 163 2. Fever 369 3. Dog bite 1134 4. Unknown Bite 29 5. Cardic disease 468 6. Hyper tension 15384 7. Urinary Tract Infection 37 8. Lower resprotary infection 73 9. Malaria 0 10. Upper resprotary infection 0 11. Copd 66 12. Jaundice 0 13. Diabeties 11892 14. Chickenguniya 0 15. burns case 6 16. Eye cataract surgery 875 17. Chalarin Eye surgery 368 18. VDRL 3392 19. Acute myocardial Infection 27 20. HIV positive 22 21. HIV Cases investigation 4064 22. Tuber ppare diognsis 2279 23. Tuber ppare Positive 87 24. Antinatal Cases 1240 25. Labour cases 168 26. MTP 1 27. Lscs 90 28. P.S. Cases 220 Total 42454

15.3 Disease wise Patients Treated – 2016-2017 Govt. Hospital Walajapet, Vellore District

No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. Typhoid Fever 61 2. Para Typhoid Fever 0 3. Food Poisoning 41 4. Amoebiasis 21 5. Extra Pulmonary 63 6. Leprosy 0 7. septicaemia 0 8. Viral Diseases 23 9. Malaria 3 10. Syphillis 0 11. Gonococceal Infection 0 12. Other infectious of Parasitic Disease of late effects of infections and 0 Parasitic Disease 13. Filariasis 10 14. Disorders of Thyroid gland 25 15. Diabeties Mellitus 906 16. Nutritional Deficiencies 61 17. Other Protein Caloric malnutrition 0 18. Anoemias 367 19. Mental disorders 500 20 Epilepsy 256 21. Diseases of the eye and adnexa 37 22. Disease of the Ear and Mastoied process 243 23. Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart 0 24. Hypertensive Diseases 1068 25. Isehemic heart Diseases 453

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26. Disases of Palmonory Circulation and other forms of heart Diseases 25 27. Diseases of the upper respiratory treat 1362 28.. Acute Bronchitis and bronchicolitis 181 29. Influenza (P.U.O.) 0 30. Bronchitis, Chronic & Unspecified emphysema & Asthma 1349 31. Disease of Teeth and Supporting structure 1038 32. Ulcer of Stomach & Duodenum 1201 33. Hernia 70 34 Urinary tnact infection 902 35. Diseaes of male Genital organs 70 36. Hydrocele 342 37. Utero-vaginal Prolapse 52 38. Menstrual Disorders 478 39. Spontaneous Abortion 122 40 Legally induced Abortion 16 41. Normal Delivery 772 42. Indirect Obstetric Causes 56 43. Direct Obstetric causes 1315 44 Disease of skin and subcutaneous Tissue 838 45. Fracture of Upper limb 650 46. Fracture of lower limb 300 47. Dislocations,sprains and strains 600 48. Instracranial and internal injuries including nerves 20 49. Open Wounds & Injury to Blood vessels 60 50 Burns 0 51. E-470 Railway Accidents 28 52. E-472 Other Road Vehicle Accidents 30 53. Accidental Poisoning 97 54. Suicide & Self imflicted Injury 606 55. Homicide & Injury Puposily imflicted by other persons 781 56. Other Violance 180 57. Accidental Falls 400 58. Accident caused by Fire & Flams 20 59. All Other except the above all category 0 Total 16728

15.3 Disease wise Patients Treated – 2016-2017 Govt. Medical College Hospital Adukamparai, Vellore District

No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. Typhoid Fever 60 2. Para Typhoid Fever 0 3. Food Poisoning 23 4. Amoebiasis 0 5. Extra Pulmonary 0 6. Leprosy 9 7. septicaemia 158 8. Viral Diseases 2 9. Malaria 25 10. Syphillis 0 11. Gonococceal Infection 0 12. Other infectious of Parasitic Disease of late effects of infections and 0 Parasitic Disease 13. Filariasis 18 14. Disorders of Thyroid gland 2 15. Diabeties Mellitus 522 16. Nutritional Deficiencies 0 17. Other Protein Caloric malnutrition 12 18. Anaemias 776 19. Mental disorders 14 20 Epilepsy 10 21. Diseases of the eye and adnexa 0 22. Disease of the Ear and Mastoied process 1 23. Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart 240 24. Hypertensive Diseases 3289 25. Isehemic heart Diseases 93 26. Disases of Palmonory Circulation and other forms of heart Diseases 18 27. Diseases of the upper respiratory treat 135 District Hand Book 2016-17 74 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore

28.. Acute Bronchitis and bronchicolitis 0 29. Influenza (P.U.O.) 1 30. Bronchitis, Chronic & Unspecified emphysema & Asthma 251 31. Disease of Teeth and Supporting structure 5 27. Ulcer of Stomach & Duodenum 9 28. Hernia 2 29. Urinary tract infection 215 30. Diseaes of male genital organs 6 31. Hydrocele 129 32. Utero-vaginal Prolapse 199 33. Menstrual Disorders 26 34. Spontaneous Abortion 79 35. Legally induced Abortion 8 36. Normal Delivery 6056 37. Indirect Obstetric causes 0 38. Direct Obstetric causes 0 39. Disease of skin and subcutaneous Tissue 3 40. Fracture of Upper limb 10 41. Fracture of lower limb 54 42. Dislocations,sprains and strains 92 43. Instracranial and internal Injuries including nerves 87 44. Open Wounds & Injury to Blood vessels 964 45. Burns 257 47. E-470 Railway Accidents 46 53. E-472 Other Road Vehicle Accidents 5087 54. Accidental Poisoning 3947 55. Suicide & Self inflicted Injury 43 56. Homicide & Injury Puposily inflicted by other persons 3512 57. Other Violance 20 58. Accidental Falls 2189 59. Accident caused by Fire & Flames 55 60. All Other except the above all category 48273 Total 77032

15.3 Disease wise Patients Treated – 2016-2017 Govt. Hospital Gudiyatham,

No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. OUT PATIENT CASES 578578 2. Minor Operations 9237 3. Emergency Cases 26250 4. Medical Cases 4541 5. Accident Cases 4472 6. Dental Cases 2159 7. S.T.D 373 8. A.I.D.S 0 9. T.B. 189 10. Leprosy 0 11. Snake Bite 94 12. Dog Bite 2489 13. Anti natal O.P. Cases 3196 14. Hypertension 26250 15. Diabetic 25336 16. Fever etc 17739 TOTAL 700903

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15.3Disease wise Patients Treated – 2016-2017 Govt. Hospital, Pernampet. No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. ADD 3692 2. APD 3886 3. PUO 1948 4. DM 5282 5. Hypertension 6293 6. Burns 8 7. Cop D 4575 8. Br.Asthma 2921 9. Aneamia 4320 10. Poison 38 11. CCF 20 12. AGN 3 13. PT 1076 14. Branhitis 427 15. UTC (Renalcohie) 2314 16. Entric Fever 1675 17. Snake Bite & Insect Bite 83 18. Road Traffi Accidents 216 19. Gastritis 4234 20. Aneamia 0 21. Deliveries 483 22. Tubertomy Operation 139 23. MTP C TAT 4 24. Abortions 0 25. Worm Infestation 265 26. Antenatal Case Checkup 669 27. Carfies Tooth 562 28. Arthrities 6579 29. Muscular Keleral 5672 30. Conjunctivitis 56 31. Rhinitis / Simsitis 6359 32. Diabettes 0 33. Rheumatic Heat Disease 16 34. Abdominal Colic 6212 35. Chest Pain 67 36. Mtalgia / Low back heak 3562 TOTAL

15.3Disease wise Patients Treated – 2016-2017 Govt. Hospital, Arakkonam No. of patients Sl.No. Name of the Diseases Treated 1. Pneumonia 70 2. Enteric Fever 3349 3. PUO 10209 4. Diabetic Mellitus 3414 5. Hypoglsemia 155 6. Burns 55 7. Acid Peptic Disease 1156 8. Br.Asthma 937 9. Haemoptysis 10 10. H.T 127 11. CCF 11 12. DUB 55 13. PT 40 14. Malaria 35 15. (Renal colic) 59 16. Viral Fever 309 17. Snake Bite & Insect Bite 275 18. Road Traffi Accidents 1385 19. Nephritis 0 20. Electric Shock 317 21. Deliveries 625 22. Tubertomy Operation 412 23. MTP 30

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24. IHD 30 25. Allergy 20 26. Appendicities 15 27. Head Ache 37 28. Arthrities 55 29. Accident Fall 75 30. Myocardial Infarction 30 31. Encphalities 0 32. Diabettes 357 33. Rheumatic Heat Disease 0 34. Jaundice 10 35. COPD 97 36. BullPoring 0 37. Back Pain 30 38. DUB 30 39. PID 50 40. Cellulities 25 41. Tetanus 0 42. Abdominal Pain 120 43. Cyst 10 44. Antenatal 3375 45. PS 412 46. LSCS 224 47. Cataract 1035 48. Leprosy 70 TOTAL

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15.4 DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL

Year : 2016-2017 No. of Tech. Total Out No. of No. of No. of Persons/ Others Name of the Hospital Patients Beds Doctors Nurses Para (Office staff) Treated Medical Staff Taluk Hospital 1.Govt.Vellore Medical College 750 53 135 36 118 739353 Hospital, Vellore. 2.Govt .Pentland 100 12 20 6 3 557896 Hospital, Vellore 3. Govt. Hospital,Arcot. 82 11 10 7 3 364909 4. Govt. Hospital, Walajah. 84 19 25 12 3 661372 5. Govt. Hospital, Arakkonam. 162 16 20 19 4 701344 6. Govt. Hospital, Gudiyatham. 130 23 26 21 4 578608 7. Govt. Hospital, Vaniyambadi. 112 23 22 14 6 586492 8. Govt. Hospital, Tirupathur. 210 22 33 19 7 926430 9. Govt. Hospital,Ambur. 109 14 17 11 5 499694 10. Govt. Hospi. Natrampalli 30 7 6 3 3 179403 Non-Taluk Hospital 11. Govt. Hospital, Kalavai. 22 3 7 2 0 154271 12. Govt. Police Hospital Vellore 16 1 3 5 0 15837 13. ESI Hospital, Vellore 50 7 13 5 5 28358 14. Govt. Hospital, Sholingur. 72 6 14 8 5 363617 15. Govt. Hospital, Pernampet. 30 9 7 4 2 207704 16. Govt. Hospital, Anaicut 30 6 5 9 4 45994 TOTAL 220 32 49 33 16 815781 Source : 1. Joint Director of Health Services, Vellore-1. 2. Dean, Govt. Vellore medical college Hospital, Vellore-11

15.4(a) DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL(SIDDHA)

Year : 2016-2017 No. of Tech. Total Out No. of No. of No. of Persons/ Others Name of the Hospital Patients Beds Doctors Nurses Para (Office staff) Treated Medical Staff Taluk Hospital 1.Govt.Vellore Medical College 0 1 0 3 0 34718 Hospital, Vellore. 2. Govt. Hospital,Arcot. 5 1 0 2 0 28732 3. Govt. Hospital, Walajah. 5 2 0 5 0 62720 4. Govt. Hospital, Arakkonam. 5 2 0 4 0 63412 5. Govt. Hospital, Gudiyatham. 5 1 0 2 0 37984 6. Govt. Hospital, Vaniyambadi. 5 1 0 2 0 38306 7. Govt. Hospital, Tirupathur. 5 2 0 4 0 39812 8. Govt. Hospital,Ambur. 5 1 0 2 0 35577 9 Govt. Dist Hd. Qrs. Siddha 25 3 3 9 3 105661 Hospital, Vellore Non-Taluk Hospital 9. Govt. Hospital, Kalavai. 0 1 0 2 0 24315 10. Govt. Hospital, Sholingur. 5 1 0 2 0 32831 11. Govt. Hospital, Pernampet. 5 1 0 2 0 32303 TOTAL 70 17 3 39 3 536371 Source : District Siddha Medical Officer, Govt. Pentland Hospital, Vellore-1.

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15.5 PROGRESS OF FAMILY WELFARE PROGRAMMES

Year : 2016-17 Users of conventional Sterlisation IUD Users of oral pills Sl. Name of the Block/ contraceptives No Municipalty Target Achivement Target Achivement Target Achivement Target Achivement (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) 1. Vellore District 26000 18272 22500 22301 8700 3899 4100 1839 2. Christian Medical --- 2776 -- 198 -- 2270 -- -- College, vellore-4 Source : 1. Deputy Director, Medicine and Rural Health Works and Family welfare. District Family Welfare Board, Vellore-1. 2. Director, Christian Medical Hospital, Vellore.

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16. HOUSING 16.1 PLAN SANCTIONED, BUILDING COMPLETED UNDER PRIVATE SECTOR

YEAR: 2016-2017 Sl.No Name of the Panchayat / Room Unit Private Sector Municipality/ Corporation (1) (2) (3) (4) Muncipality Plan Sanctioned 1. Vellore corporation -- 746 2. Arcot -- 212 3. Ranipettai -- 92 4. Melvisharam -- 8 5. Walajah -- -- 6. Arakonam -- 83 7. Gudiyatham -- 161 8. Permambut -- 26 9. Ambur -- 85 10. Vaniyambadi -- 101 11. Thirupattur -- 33 12. -- -- Total -- 1547 Townpanchayat Plan Sanctioned 1. Pallikonda -- -- 2. Odugathur -- -- 3. Pennathur -- -- 4. Thiruvalam -- -- 5. Udayandiram -- 12 6. Ammoor -- 24 7. Sholingar -- -- 8. Timiri -- -- 9. -- -- 10. Kalavai -- -- 11. Thokkalam -- -- 12. Nemili -- -- 13. Panapakkam -- -- 14. Kaveripakkam -- -- 15. Alangayam -- 10 16. Natrampalli -- -- Total 46

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16.2 PLANS SANCTIONED, BUILDING COMPLETED UNDER PUBLIC SECTOR

Year: 2016-2017 Sl.No Name of the Panchayat Room Unit Size Public Sector /Municipality/Corporation (1) (2) (3) (4) Muncipality No.of Buildings Above –Rs. Below –Rs. 25 25 Lakhs Lakhs 1. Vellore Corporation -- 8 -- 2. Ranipet -- 0 -- 3. Walajapet -- 5 - 4. Arakkonam -- 0 -- 5. Gudiyatham -- 0 -- 6. Ambur -- 8 -- 7. Vaniyambadi -- 0 -- 8. Arcot -- 0 - 9. Tirupathur -- 0 -- 10. Melvisharam -- 1 -- 11. Pernambut -- 0 -- 12. Jolarpet -- 0 -- Total -- 22 -- Panchayat Union 1 Arakkonam -- 35 -- 2. Nemilli -- 37 -- 3. Kaveripakkam -- 133 - 4. Walajapet -- 54 -- 5. Sholingur -- 61 -- 6. Arcot -- 50 -- 7. Thimiri -- 18 -- 8. Vellore -- 20 - 9. Kaniyambadi -- 21 -- 10. Anaicut -- 58 -- 11. Katpadi -- 45 -- 12. Gudiyatham -- 56 -- 13. K.V.Kuppam -- 95 - 14. Pernampet -- 90 -- 15. Madhanur -- 87 -- 16. Alangayam -- 68 -- 17. Natrampalli -- 23 -- 18. Thirupathur -- 117 - 19. Jolarpet -- 181 -- 20. Kandili -- 72 -- Total -- 1321 --

16.3 AMOUNT INVESTED IN HOUSING AND BUILDING ACTIVITY UNDER PUBLIC SECTOR

Year: 2016-17

Residential Percentage Non- Residential Percentage Total Rs. In Rs. In ‘000’ to total Rs. In ‘000’ to total ‘000’

NOT AVAILABLE

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16.4 CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY OF TAMILNADU HOUSING BOARD

Year : 2016-17

Sl.No Mame of the Scheme Number (1) (2) (3) 1 Middle Income Group Housing/Higher Income Group Nil Housing Schemes

16.5 CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY OF TAMIL NADU SLUM CLEARANCE BOARD

Year : 2016-17

Sl.No Item Achivement (1) (2) (3) 1. Number of Tenements sanctioned for construction 2. Number of Tenements constructed 3. Amount sanctioned ( Rs.in Lakhs ) NOT APPLICABLE 4. Amount spent ( Rs.in Lakhs ) 5. Number of Tenements occupied 6. Rent received ( Rs.in Lakhs )

16.6 INDEX NUMBERS OF BUILDINGS COST IN URBAN CENTRES ( 1999-2000=100 )

Year : 2015-16 Building Index Construction Building Sl.No District Urban Other Building cost for Cost Centres Charges materials Building Labour Index (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 1 VELLORE 273.22 397.41 241.15 300.69 Source: Department of Economics & Statistics, Chennai-6.

16.7 LABOUR CHARGES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

Year: 2016-17

Charges of Male Construction Workers Charges of Female Construction Workers (1) (2) NOT AVAILABLE Source: Department of Economics & Statistics, Chennai-6.

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17.INDUSTRIES

17.1 RESULTS OF ANNUAL SURVEY OF INDUSTRIES 2012-13 IN VELLORE DISTRICT (FACTORY SECTOR )

Sl No. Subject Value 1 No. of factories 2074 2 Factories in Operation 741 In lakhs 3 Fixed Capital 299208 4 Physical Working Capital 361180 5 Working Capital 419226 6 Invested Capital 660387 7 Outstanding Loan 137812 8 Interest Paid 16876 9 Total Value of Output 1781016 10 Total Input 1259804 11 Gross Value Added 521213 12 Net Value Added 488933 13 Net Fixed Capital Formation (NFCF) 20702 14 Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) 52981 15 Net Income 466662 16 Profit 311838 Source: Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

17.2 ESTIMATES OF OUTPUT AND VALUE ADDED BY MANUFACTURE BASED ON ANNUAL SURVEY OF INDUSTRIES 2012-13 (Rs.in Lakhs )

Year: 2016-17 Value of Valu No. of Industry Group Description of the output e factor Industry Rs. In ies add Lakhs ed (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

NOT AVAILABLE

17.3 INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No Name of the product Unit of quantity Production

(1) (2) (3) NOT AVAILABLE Source: Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

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17.4 PRODUCTION AND VALUE OF MAJOR MINERALS

Year: 2016-17 Name of the District Name of the Minerals Quantity Value ( Rs. In ‘000’)

(1) (2) (3) (4)

Quartz 40.00 tones 6800 VERMICULITE 1110.45 166500 Vellore BLACK GRANITE 2009.203 cbm 7333972 COLOUR GRANITE 975.774cbm 4000000 STONE(BLUE METAL) 1249023 cbm 86350006 EARTH & BRICK EARTH 32733 cbm 805320 Source: Assistant Director of Mines & Minerals, Collectorate, Vellore-9.

17.5 PRODUCTION OF HANDLOOM CLOTH

Year : 2016-2017 Sl.No. Name of the Item Quantity In Metres Salesin MTS 1. Gada 471585 391946 2 Towel 16135 18617 3. Normal Lunghi 699940 812718 4. 60s x 60s Cotton Sarees 50860 42477 5. Low Cost Sarees (FDS) 1832680 1694442 Total 3071200 2960200 Source : Assistant Director of Handlooms, Vellore.

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17.6 SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES FORMAT TO BE ADOPTED IN FUTURE AS PER NIC CODE 2008 TWO DIGIT REPORT ON UAM- YEAR 2016 - 2017

Industry group-wise number of UAM units

Division as Sl. Industry Group Description : Investment per NIC No. (As per NIC 2008) on Plant and No.of units Employ-ment 2008 Machinery registered Nos. (Value in lakhs)

Manufacture of Food Products & Beverages 574 7242 2699 1 10 &11 Manufacture of Tobacco Products 12 2 7 17 2 Manufacture of Textiles 13 247 1917 1640 3 Manufacture of Wearing Apparel 14 65 1966 1256 4

5 Manufacture of Leather and related products 15 392 20770 14018 Manufacturing of Wood, Products of Wood, Cork, Except 16 127 744 580 6 Furniture manufacture of articles of straw &plaiting materials

Manufacturing of Paper and Paper Products 17 80 1759 775 7 Printing and Reproduction of Recorded Media. 18 59 470 225 8 Manufacturing of Coke, Refined Petroleum Products 19 4 260 30 9

10 Manufcature of Chemicals and Chemical Products 20 372 2829 2050 Manufcature of pharmaceuticals,medicinal chemical and 21 25 1297 220 11 botanical products

Manufacturing of Rubber and Plastic Products 22 48 1083 378 12 Manufacturing of Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products 23 168 1397 1150 13 Manufacturing of Basic Metals 24 46 2178 362 14 Manufactureof Fabricated Metal Products, ExceptMachinery & 25 602 14755 6809 15 Equipment

Manufactureof computer,electronic and optical Products 26 12 99 65 16 Manufactureof electrical equipments 27 71 1468 422 17 Manufacturing of Machinery and equipment N.E.C 28 51 989 339 18 Manufacturing of Motor Vehicles, Trailers and semi trailers 29 9 550 101 19

Manufacturing of Other Transport Equipment 30 6 179 95 20 Manufacturing of Furniture 31 32 264 187 21 Other manufacturing 32 201 2892 1801 22 TOTAL : 3193 65115 35219

Source : District Industrial Centre, Vellore -6.

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17.7 KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRUIES

Year: 2015-16 Sl.No Industry Production Sales Employments ( Rupees in No.of Persons Lakhs ) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Cotton -- 16.24 -- 2. Wollen -- 1.16 - 3. Silk -- 37.73 - 4. Polyster -- 3.00 - 5. Leather Goods 1.53 1.53 7 6. Honey -- 0.70 -- 7. Carpentry &Blacksmithy 152.87 157.52 30 8. Soap -- 8.25 Total 154.40 225.43 Source: Assistant Director of Khadi and Village Industries, Vellore.1.

17.8 NO.OF PRINTING PRESS Year: 2016-17 Sl.No District Number (1) (2) (3) 1 Vellore 6

Source: District Inspector of Factories, Vellore.1.

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18. FACTORIES 18.1 REGISTRED AND WORKING FACTORIES

Year: 2015 -16

Sl.No Item Numbers (1) (2) (3) 1. Factories on the register at the beginning of the year 1377 2. factories added during the year 53 3. Factories removed during the year 14 4. Factories on the register at the end of the year 1416 5. Number of working factories 1019

18.2 EMPLOYMENT IN WORKING FACTORIES

Year: 2015 -16

Sl.No Factories No.of Factories Male Female No.of Workers 1. Garments 7 398 1540 1938 2. Textiles 2 520 430 950 3. Tanneries 217 2140 560 2700 4. Engineering 406 13377 798 14175 5. Sugar 1 317 118 435 6. Foot Ware 158 10241 8008 18249 7. Matches 13 50 30 80 8. Fire Works 3 8 0 8 9. Lungi Packing 0 0 0 0 10. Fiber 0 0 0 0 11. Dairy Product 5 108 76 184 12. Sole Plant 0 0 0 0 13. Silk Reeling 0 0 0 0 14. Rubber Product 3 126 44 170 15. Card Board Box 8 82 64 146 16. Leather Gloves 0 0 0 0 17. Auto Mobiles 17 1658 288 1946 18. Plastic 4 38 22 60 19. Mats 1 8 3 11 20. Granite 10 98 55 153 21. Paper Product 3 38 15 53 22. Bricks 15 426 123 549 23. Mineral Water 3 18 15 33 24. Agro Foods 3 73 32 105 25. Leather Goods 27 1028 958 1986 26. Glue 0 0 0 0 27 Aluminium Metal 18 128 98 226 28. Food Products 12 490 141 631 29. Home Care 5 125 98 223 30. Others 78 22858 8934 31792 Total 1019 54353 22450 76803 Source : District Inspector of Factories, Vellore.1

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18.3 UNIONS: INDUSTRIAL, DISPUTES BY STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS GHERAOS

Year: 2016-2017

Sl.No Items Numbers

1. No.of Registered Trade Unions -- 2. STRIKE: a. No.of Strikes 3 b. No of workers involved 1217 c. No of Mandays lost 18891 3 LOCKOUTS: -- a. No.of Strikes -- b. No of workers involved -- c. No of Mandays lost -- 4 GHERAOS: -- a. No.of Strikes - b. No of workers involved -- c. No of Mandays lost -- Source : District Labour Office, Vellore

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19. LOCAL BODIES 19.1 MUNICIPAL BODIES AREA AND POPULATION BY GRADES

Year : 2016-2017 Classification of Population Sl. No. Number Area (Sq.Km.) Municpal Bodies (In ‘000’) 1. Corporations 1 87.95 345.885 2. Special Grade 0 0 0 3. Selection Grade 4 35.05 321.292 4. First Grade 3 21.36 225.908 5. Second Grade 2 21.25 80.426 6. Third Grade 2 23.67 96.057 7. Township Committee 0 0 0 Note: Area and Population are as per Census

19.2 MUNICIPAL BODIES BY TALUKS

Year : 2016-2017 Grade of Municipal Councils Township Sl.No. Taluk Corporations Total Special Selection First Second Third Committees 1. Arakkonam NIL 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2. Arcot NIL 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3. Wallajah NIL 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 4. Vellore 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5. Gudiyatham NIL 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6. Vaniyambadi NIL 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7. Thirupathur NIL 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 8. Katpadi NIL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9. Ambur NIL 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 10. Anaicut NIL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11. Natrampalli NIL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12. Nemili NIL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13. Pernambut NIL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Total 1 0 4 3 2 2 0 12

19.3 PANCHAYAT UNIONS ,VILLAGE PANCHAYATS/TOWN PANCHAYATS

Year : 2016-17 Village Sl.No. Panchayat/special District Panchayat Union Village Panchayat Town pachayat Village Panchayat

753/22 Vellore 1. Arakkonam 1. Thakkolam 2. Nemili 2. Panapakkam 3. Nemili 3. Kaveripakkam 4. Kaveripakkam 4. Walajahpet 5. Ammoor 5. Sholingur 6.Sholingur 6. Arcot NIL 7. Thimiri 7. Thimiri 8. Kalavai 9.Vilapakkam 8.Vellore NIL 9. Kaniyambadi 743 10.Pennathur 10.Anaicut 11.Pallikonda 12.Odugathur 11.Gudiyatham NIL 12.Pernampet 13.Udayendiram 13.K.V.Kuppam NIL 14.Katpadi 14.Thriuvalam 15.Alangayam 15.Alangayam 16.Madhanur NIL 17.Thirupathur NIL 18.Kandili NIL 19.Natrampalli 16.Natrampalli 20.Jolarpet NIL District Hand Book 2016-17 89 Deputy Director of Statistics ̶ Vellore

19.4 REVENUE DIVISIONS, TALUKS, FIRKAS AND REVENUE VILLAGES

Year : 2016-17 Sl.No. Revenue Divisions Revenue Taluks Revenue Firkas Revenue Villages 1. Vellore 1.Vellore 4 51 2.Katpadi 5 85 3.Gudiyatham 2 45 4.Anaicut 4 61 5.Pernambut 3 52 2. Ranipet 1.Walajah 5 83 2.Arakkonam 4 68 3.Arcot 5 102 4.Nemili 4 77 3. Thirupathur 1.Thirupathur 5 63 2.Vaniyambadi 4 48 3.Ambur 5 77 4.Natrampalli 2 30 TOTAL 13 52 842

19.5 TAX COLLECTED BY TOWN PANCHYAT

( Tax Collected Rs.in Thousands ) Year : 2016-2017

Vacant Enterta Sl. Name of the Town Property Vehicle Water Building House Professio Land inment Others No Panchyat Tax Tax Charges Plan Tax Total -nal Tax Tax Tax

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOWN PANCHAYAT 1. Takkolam 1178 432 0 1076 964 0 0 0 694 4344 2. Nemili 1007836 625906 0 1236565 292969 0 0 0 2340593 5503869 3. Panapakkam 0 462631 0 1547360 149880 55910 1520313 0 2484295 6220389 4. Kaveripakkam 1897 730 0 2318 459 0 0 0 26468 31872 5. Sholingur 6502.15 3160.25 0 4881.3 0 0 0 0 15760.72 30304.42 6. Ammoor 1113 341 0 1310 446 395 0 0 2402 6007 7. Vilapakkam 759 316 0 410 167 164 0 0 139 1955 8. Timiri 1540 878 0 1442 438 186 0 0 864 5348 9. Kalavai 1546 444 0 620 149 68 0 0 1310 4137 10. Thiruvalam 1182 511 0 854 424 140 0 0 674 3785 11. Pennathur 1407.59 1949 0 348.6 123.78 35.35 0 0 49 3913.32 12. Pallikonda 29.05 9.7 0 19.05 1.55 0.07 0 0 0.3 59.72 13. Odukkathur 768 422 0 482 132 0 0 0 128 1932 14. Alangayam 1960.00 680.00 0 150.00 151.00 0.42 0 0 1988.00 4929.42 15. Natrampalli 1849.42 740.03 0 678.825 295.879 0 0 0 284.522 3848.676 16. Udaiyendram 970.00 232.00 0 700.00 89.00 38.00 0 0 0 2029.00

0 0 0 1030537 1099382 2799215 1520313 4875650 TOTAL TOTAL 446689.2 56936.84 11828723

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19.5 TAX COLLECTED BY CORPORATION/MUNICIPALITY/

( Tax Collected Rs.in Thousands ) Year : 2016-17

Vacant Enterta Sl. Property Vehicle Water Building House Name of the Municipality Professional Land inment Others No Tax Tax Charges Plan Tax Total Tax Tax Tax

1 Vellore Corporation 63387.10 18480.30 0 10029.69 740.00 222.825 0 0 18610.62 111070.5 2 Gudiyatham Municipality 17577 3496 0 5295 0 246 0 0 0 26614 3 Pernampet 35.76 10.72 0 22.36 0 0.65 0 0 0 69.49 4 Arcot 10534.486 4047.962 0 5646.264 125 1173.431 0 0 652.000 22179.14 5 Arakonam 47982 22620 0 18210 0 372 0 0 0 89184 6 Thirupathur 17655 2989 0 6548 429 62 0 0 217 27900 7 Jolarpettai 26.71 4.34 0 8.36 9.18 1.17 0 0 0 49.76 8 Vaniyambadi 221042.02 3600.00 0 5931.00 0 164.00 0 0 0 230737.02 9 Melvisharam 474 129 0 1335 243 0 0 0 198 2379 10 Walajah 8771.27 1097.061 0 2143.169 316.590 248.901 0 0 3917.152 16494.143 11 Ranipet 122.57 1396 0 1192 0 0.80 0 0 0 2711.37 12 Ambur 173.85 32.22 0 21.18 20.06 3.83 0 0 39.66 0 Total 387781. 57902.6 0 56382.02 1882.83 2495.607 0 0 23634.43 529388.4

19.5 TAX COLLECTED BY PANCHAYAT UNION

( Tax Collected Rs.in Thousands ) Year : 2016-2017 Name of Vehi Vacant Enterta Sl. the Property Professio- Water Building House cle Land inment Others No Panchayat Tax nal Tax Charges Plan Tax Total Tax Tax Tax Union 1 Arakkonam 186.76 26.58 0 85.00 5.80 2.32 0 0 27.00 333.46 2. Nemili 0 16.43 22.08 0 0 28.78 0 0 67.30 3. Kaveripakkam 483.374 4620.931 0 1655.760 0 0 3196.199 0 78.925 10035.189 4. Walajha 0 1759.653 0 1772.321 0 0 1665798 0 0 5197.772 5. Sholingur 1000.8 3811.480 0 1586.10 9.680 0 1318.200 0 0 7726.26 6. Arcot 0 1720.095 0 3940.351 536.095 0 2232.871 0 286.768 8716.18. 7. Timiri 664.071 979.129 0 1055.485 0 0 708.815 0 21.164 3428.664 8. Vellore 285.255 1284.130 0 2244.040 297.0 0 1652.609 177.156 340.0 6280.19 9. Kaniyambadi 0 1114.135 0 745.065 0 0 890.184 0 129.430 2878.814 10. Anaicut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11. Katpadi 0 1562.611 0 2023.481 919.754 0 2431.771 0 8025.594 14963.211 12. K.V.Kuppam 0 8.15 0 4.10 0 0 7.65 0 0 19.9 13. Gudiyatham 0 1650.915 0 0 0 0 0 1125.677 0 2776.592 14. Pernampet 16.18 14.23 0 7.46 0 10.48 0 0 3.12 51.47 15. Alangayam 0 30.06 0 38.66 0 0 10.13 0 7.22 86.07 16. Madhanur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17. Tirupattur 12.026 1458.50 0 684.946 0 0 1348.549 0 0 3504.021 18. Jolarpet 242.272 1271.783 0 1128.290 478.094 0 2362.314 8.262 166.599 5657.614 19. Kandili 0 2442 0 2089 0 0 36382 0 0 40913 20. Natrampalli 0 25.00 0 13.00 0 0 61.00 0 0 99.00 TOTAL 2890.738 23795.81 0 19095.14 2246.423 12.8 1718429 1311.095 9085.82 104018.5

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19.6 Rural Development Activities

Year : 2016-17 No. of Works taken up No. of Works Completed Sl.No Name of the Scheme Physical Financial Physical Financial (In Rs Lakhs) (In Rs Lakhs) 1 IAY 10187 4049.41387 123 49.90725 2 IAY-UPGR - - - - 3. PAR - - - - 4. RIS - - - - 5. NREGS 16228 32255.77 14696 31902.65 6 AGAMT - - - - 7. SSS 58 304.79 45 279.77 8. THAI 456 5302.01 205 1602.61 Source : District Rural Development Agency, Vellore

20. LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

20.1 NO.OF PERSONS REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR AND TOTAL NO.OF PERSONS WAITING UPTO THE END OF THE YEAR AS PER LIVE REGISTER

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No. Type of Employment Exchange No.of Persons Total No.of persons registered during the waiting upto the end of year the year

(1) (2) (3) (4)

1. Men 27764 26306

2. Women 26736 23311

Total 54500 49617

Source: District Employment Exchange, Vellore

20.2 NUMBER OF THE PLACEMENTS DURING AND UPTO THE END OF THE YEAR

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No Type of the employment Placements during Placements upto exchange the year the year (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 Men 92 109 Women 69 85 Total 161 194 Source: District Employment Office, Vellore.

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21. LEGAL SERVICES 21.1 JUDICIAL DIVISION AND ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

Year : 2016-2017 Sl.No Item Number (1) (2) (3) 1 Principal District Judge 1 2. Presiding Officer, Principal Labour Court 1 3. Additional District and Sessions Judge 5 4. Subordinate Judges 9 5. District Munsif 5 6. Principal District Munsif 3 7. Additional District Munsif 3 8. Principal District Munsif – cum Judicial 3 Magistrate 9. Additional District Munsif – cum Judicial 1 Magistrate 10. The Official Receiver 1 Total 32

21.2 RESULTS OF CIVIL AND REVENUE CASES IH THE COURTS OF ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CIVIL SUITS REGULAR

Year: 2016-2017 Item Number (1) (2) Chief Judicial Magistrate Nil Special Judicial Magistrate Nil Judicial Magistrate Nil Total Nil

21.3NATURE OF FREE LEGAL AVAILABLE AND NO.OF BENEFICIARIES, NO.OF CASES DISPOSED OF IN LOK ADALAT DURING THE YEAR. Year: 2016-2017 Sl.No Nature of free legal No.of beneficiaries No.of cases disposed of in Lok Adalat (1) available (2) (3) (4) 1. M.C.O.P. Cases 796 383 2. Civil Cases(Su its) 135 64 3. Matrimonial Cases 16 8 4. Cheque Cases 42 21 5. Pre-Litigetion 748 374 Total 1737 850 Source : Principal District Judge, Vellore-9

21.4 NO.OF ADVOCATES PRACTICING IN COURTS

Year: 2016-2017 Sl.No Name of the Court No.of Advocates Practicing (1) (2) (3) 1 Sessions and JMI to Vellore 587 2 JMI to Thirupattur 469 3 DM / JM Vaniyambadi 122 4 JM, Gudiyatham 135 5 JM, Ambur 80 6 JM, Arakkonam 218 7 JM, Katpadi 66 8 JM, Walajapet 40 9 JM, Arcot 43 10 JM, Sholingur 26 11 JM, Ranipet 231 Total 2017 Source : Principal District Judge, Vellore-9

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22. LIBRARIES 22.1 LIST OF HEAD AND BRANCH LIBRARIES IN THE DISTRICT Year : 2016-17 Sl. No. of Books Number of Place/Name of the Head/Branch Members No. Available Readers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1 Vellore Thanthai Periyar E.V.Ramasamy District Central Library 180694 30739 149126 2 Vellore Women’s Branch Library 30446 4718 23207 3 Kasba, Branch Library 29061 2034 46425 4 Anaicut, Branch Library 29822 2172 21149 5 Ammoor, Branch Library 27011 2270 29148 6 Arakkonam, Branch Library 47836 6026 37822 7 Andiyappanur, Branch Library 22181 2386 10176 8 Ambur, Branch Library 43672 5753 54141 9 Alangayam, Branch Library 30198 2698 18730 10 Arcot, Branch Library 45864 7186 32048 11 Ranipet, Branch Library 44908 6902 45476 12 Udayendiram, Branch Library 19595 1939 11813 13 Thellur, Branch Library 25063 2973 21401 14 Odugathur, Branch Library 24362 2487 35240 15 Kathazhampattu, Branch Library 21992 1279 16480 16 Kaniyambadi, Branch Library 26333 2665 13897 17 Kandhili, Branch Library 22976 3006 25791 18 Kalavai, Branch Library 26901 2639 13506 19 Gandhi Nagar, Branch Library 35767 4210 31760 20 Kaveripakkam, Branch Library 34022 2869 19660 21 K.V.Kuppam, Branch Library 28640 2870 11248 22 Gudiyatham, Branch Library 48947 10142 82628 23 , Branch Library 23811 1827 31906 24 Kurisilapattu, Branch Library 20872 1469 10786 25 Sathuvachari, Branch Library 38822 4413 50480 26 Sipcot, Branch Library 39725 3334 19536 27 Sholingur, Branch Library 30876 5502 61461 28 Takkolam, Branch Library 23968 2399 27644 29 Dharapadavedu, Branch Library 32779 3372 50605 30 Timiri, Branch Library 32014 2940 24228 31 Thiruvalam, Branch Library 15785 1692 16083 32 Tirupathur, Branch Library 54510 11759 76234 33 Thuthipet, Branch Library 17894 1848 21920 34 Thorapadi, Branch Library 31113 2707 1609 35 Nacharkuppam, Branch Library 18456 1765 21748 36 Natrampalli, Branch Library 25580 3531 14342 37 Nemili, Branch Library 22662 2553 32430 38 Pachoor, Branch Library 15972 1197 28694 39 Panapakkam, Branch Library 23619 2669 20172 40 Paradharami, Branch Library 15117 976 6970 41 Pasumathur, Branch Library 21820 1509 20577 42 Pallikonda, Branch Library 27437 2568 18085 43 Pernambut, Branch Library 24212 2205 8821 44 Perampet, Branch Library 21568 2304 16590 45 Ponnai, Branch Library 23202 2143 19631 46 Madapalli, Branch Library 23532 2342 37381 47 Madhanur, Branch Library 21498 2106 24527 48 Minnal, Branch Library 22640 2020 15887 49 Melvisharam, Branch Library 23907 1574 14161 50 Valathur, Branch Library 22617 998 38816 51 Vaniyambadi, Branch Library 46394 8693 134855 52 Wallajah, Branch Library 41046 5863 49489 53 Virinchipuram, Branch Library 22911 1722 15466 54 Vinnampalli, Branch Library 21725 1718 12355 55 Vilappakkam, Branch Library 21670 1620 18084 56 Jolarpet, Branch Library 29786 3298 17305 57 Vellakuttai, Branch Library 13879 1596 14162 58 Konavattam, Branch Library 20104 1262 21642 59 Asiriyar Nagar, Branch Library 20907 1135 16668 60 V.G.Rao Nagar, Branch Library 17004 1372 8679 61 Anvarthiganpet, Branch Library 16702 936 18853 62 Lalapet, Branch Library 16475 1141 15154 63 Kazhinjur, Branch Library 11752 744 7230 64 Swamy Nagar, Branch Library 17490 1428 14696 65 Thirunagar, Branch Library 13349 892 14592 66 Bharathi Nagar Extn., Branch Library 10459 563 9527 67 Pennathur, Branch Library 15930 1245 14215

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68 Perumapattu, Branch Library 7922 711 24867 69 Athippattu, Village Library 7074 626 13358 70 Ariyur, Village Library 11663 667 6931 71 Alamelumangapuram, Village Library 7648 735 8140 72 Azhinjikuppam, Village Library 13342 572 13491 73 Anandalai, Village Library 7973 1602 22111 74 Itchiputhur, Village Library 12514 603 10535 75 Irunapattu, Village Library 15663 870 13724 76 Idayakuppam, Village Library 5990 268 14160 77 Edapalayam, Village Library 15717 613 8222 78 , Village Library 16261 892 10426 79 Kallapadi, Village Library 7861 600 16841 80 Kadapperi, Village Library 7111 483 13895 81 Karadikuppam, Village Library 13104 572 13430 82 Kadhirimangalam, Village Library 10078 710 16366 83 Kavanur (Thimiri), Village Library 10132 651 13097 84 Kavanur (K.V.Kuppam), Village Library 14443 1000 14547 85 Kattuppakkam, Village Library 7305 637 14828 86 Kiliththanpattarai, Village Library 7665 741 13912 87 Kizhvenkatapuram, Village Library 13365 996 9634 88 Koorampadi, Village Library 11358 449 11634 89 Kodaikkal, Village Library 7244 569 15630 90 Sayanapuram, Village Library 6140 349 8708 91 Chandrapuram, Village Library 4996 497 8948 92 Sampathurayanpet, Village Library 11092 652 14003 93 Chinnaperumalkuppam, Village Library 7060 484 13282 94 , Village Library 15903 1136 17853 95 Su.Pallippattu, Village Library 11351 879 9404 96 Sumaithangi, Village Library 13787 830 15909 97 Chozhavaram, Village Library 10286 1504 12387 98 Thanigaipolur, Village Library 10963 573 12271 99 Thathireddipalli, Village Library 6051 437 14749 100 Thamaraippakkam, Village Library 15697 1158 11978 101 Thirumalperu, Village Library 13459 922 12742 102 Thirupparkadal, Village Library 10701 522 15866 103 Thennandhiyalam, Village Library 12210 380 10489 104 Nattham, Village Library 13071 1048 11375 105 Navlockpuliyangannu, Village Library 13886 974 14660 106 Naganathi, Village Library 12723 558 11017 107 Palayathondanthulasi, Village Library 8308 365 12785 108 Parandapalli, Village Library 11013 559 11685 109 Paranchi, Village Library 11526 592 15043 110 Brammapuram, Village Library 7267 590 12471 111 Punganoor, Village Library 13235 636 13809 112 Pudumangadu, Village Library 10349 690 14276 113 Pennagar, Village Library 10545 791 7577 114 Poigai, Village Library 17812 1802 15437 115 Ponneri, Village Library 17564 1164 15293 116 Mallappalli, Village Library 11532 648 8561 117 Marudhalam, Village Library 10874 575 13307 118 Marankandigai, Village Library 10516 582 10864 119 Mittapet, Village Library 9415 493 11605 120 Melpatti, Village Library 11548 535 20587 121 Melpadikottanatham, Village Library 11009 705 12579 122 Melkalathur, Village Library 10105 756 13215 123 Melarasampattu, Village Library 10096 621 6704 124 Melnethappakkam, Village Library 13929 517 6940 125 Melapulam, Village Library 13858 1205 9077 126 Mosur, Village Library 10240 789 9936 127 , Village Library 7499 679 32306 128 Valarpuram, Village Library 10668 706 14659 129 Vadacheri, Village Library 11196 1143 11172 130 Valayathur, Village Library 10413 872 6401 131 Vanapadi, Village Library 15297 916 16727 132 Vazhaipandhal, Village Library 11297 562 4616 133 Virudampattu, Village Library 7937 498 11555 134 Vishamangalam, Village Library 10964 741 16461 135 Velam, Village Library 11771 753 33768 136 Jambukulam, Village Library 12478 714 21290 137 Jayapuram, Village Library 4425 491 11612 138 Edayampatti, Village Library 5041 601 14074 139 Senthamangalam, Village Library 5004 551 8901 140 Neelakandarayanpettai, Village Library 5110 458 1793 Source: District Library Officer, Vellore.

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22.2 NUMBER OF LIBRARIES HOUSED IN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS / RENTAL BUILDINGS.

Year: 2016-17 Libraries in LLA Libraries in Rental Libraries in Rented Total Number of Libraries Buildings Buildings free Buildings Buildings (1) (2) (3) (4) 78 2 60 140 Source: District Library Officer, Vellore.

22.3 NUMBER OF READING ROOMS Year : 2016-17

No. of Sl. Name of the Local Bodies Name and place of Libraries Reading No. Room (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 VELLORE CORPORATION Thanthai Periyar E.V.Ramasamy District Central Library, 5 Vellore. Women’s Branch Library, Vellore 1 Branch Library, Kasba 1 Branch Library, Gandhi Nagar 2 Branch Library, Barathi Nagar Extension 1 Branch Library, Sathuvachari 2 Branch Library, Thorapadi 1 Branch Library, Swami Nagar 1 Branch Library, Konavattam 1 Branch Library, Tharapadavedu 1 Branch Library, Kazhinjur 1 Branch Library, Thirunagar 2 Branch Library, V.G.Rao Nagar 2 Village Library, Viruthampattu 1 Village Library, Ariyur 1 Village Library, Alamelumangapuram 1 2 MUNICIPALITIES GUDIYATHAM Branch Library, Gudiyatham 1 VANIYAMBADI Branch Library, Vaniyambadi 1 ARAKKONAM Branch Library, Arakkonam 1 WALAJAPET Branch Library, Walajapet 3 RANIPET Branch Library, Ranipet 1 Branch Library, Sipcot 1 ARCOT Branch Library, Arcot 1 THIRUPATTHUR Branch Library, Thirupatthur 1 Branch Library, Asiriyar Nagar 1 AMBUR Branch Library, Ambur 1 MELVISHARAM Branch Library, Melvisharam 1 JOLARPET Branch Library, Jolarpet 1 PERNAMBUT Branch Library, Pernambut 1 3 TOWN PANCHAYATS ALANGAYAM Branch Library, Alangayam 1 NATRAMPALLI Branch Library, Natrampalli 1 SHOLINGHUR Branch Library, Sholinghur 1 THIMIRI Branch Library, Thimiri 1 KAVERIPAKKAM Branch Library, Kaveripakkam 1

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KALAVAI Branch Library, Kalavai 1 AMMUR Branch Library, Ammur 1 PALLIKONDA Branch Library, Pallikonda 1 THAKKOLAM Branch Library, Thakkolam 1 PANAPAKKAM Branch Library, Panapakkam 1 NEMILI Branch Library, Nemili 1 UDAYENDIRAM Branch Library, Udayendiram 1 VILAPAKKAM Branch Library, Vilapakkam 1 ODUGATHUR Branch Library, Odugathur 1 THIRUVALAM Branch Library, Thiruvalam 1 PENNATHUR Branch Library, Pennathur 1 4 PANCHAYAT UNIONS ANAICUT Branch Library, Anaicut 1 Branch Library, Virinjipuram 1 Village Library, Poigai 1 Village Library, Melarasampattu 1 KAVERIPAKKAM Branch Library, Anvarthikanpet 1 Branch Library, Guruvarajapet 1 Branch Library, Minnal 1 Village Library, 1 Village Library, Itchiputhur 1 Village Library, Thanigaipolur 1 Village Library, Paranchi 1 Village Library, Marankandigai 1 Village Library, Mittapettai 1 THIRUPATHUR Branch Library, Andiyappanur 1 Branch Library, Kurisilapattu 1 Branch Library, Perumapattu 1 Branch Library, Madappalli 1 Village Library, Irunapattu 1 Village Library, Kadirimangalam 1 Village Library, Parandapalli 1 Village Library, Jayapuram 1 WALAJAPET Branch Library, Lalapet 1 Village Library, Anandalai 1 Village Library, Edapalayam 1 Village Library, Kadapperi 1 Village Library, Seekarajapuram 1 Village Library, Sumaithangi 1 Village Library, Thiruparkadal 1 Village Library, Navlakpuliyankannu 1 Village Library, Vanapadi 1 Village Library, Neelakandarayanpettai 1 KANIYAMBADI Branch Library, Kathalampattu 1 Branch Library, Kaniyambadi 1 Village Library, Kammavanpet 1 Village Library, Cholavaram 1 Village Library, Naganathi 1 KANDILI Branch Library, Kandili 1 Branch Library, Perampattu 1 Village Library, Su.Pallipattu 1 Village Library, Natham 1 Village Library, Vishamangalam 1 K.V.KUPPAM Branch Library, K.V.Kuppam 1 Branch Library, Pasumathur 1

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Village Library, Kavanur 1 Village Library, Palaya Thondan Thulasi 1 PERNAMBUT Branch Library, Thuthipattu 1 Village Library, Alinjikuppam 1 Village Library, Melpatti 1 Village Library, Vadacheri 1 VELLORE Branch Library, Thellur 1 MADANUR Branch Library, Nacharkuppam 1 Branch Library, Madanur 1 NATRAMPALLI Branch Library, Patchur 1

GUDIYATHAM Branch Library, Paradarami 1 Branch Library, Valathur 1 Village Library, Kallapadi 1 SHOLIGHUR Branch Library, Ponnai 1 Branch Library, Vinnampalli 1 Village Library, Edaiyakuppam 1 Village Library, Karadikuppam 1 Village Library, Kodakkal 1 Village Library, Chinnaperumalkuppam 1 Village Library, Thathireddipalli 1 Village Library, Marudalam 1 Village Library, Melpadikottanatham 1 Village Library, Rendadi 1 Village Library, Velam 1 Village Library, Jambukulam 1 THIMIRI Village Library, Kavanur 1 Village Library, Dhamaraipakkam 1 Village Library, Punganur 1 Village Library, Pennagar 1 Village Library, Melnethampakkam 1 Village Library, Valayathur 1 Village Library, Valaipandal 1 ARAKKONAM Village Library, Mosur 1 Village Library, Valarpuram 1 JOLARPET Village Library, Chandrapuram 1 Village Library, Ponneri 1 Village Library, Mallapalli 1 Village Library, Edayampatti 1

ALANGAYAM Branch Library, Vellakkuttai 1 KATPADI Village Library, Kilithanpattarai 1 Village Library, Birammapuram 1 ARCOT Village Library, Koorampadi 1 Village Library, Then Nanthiyalam 1 Village Library, Pudumangadu 1 NEMILI Village Library, Kattupakkam 1 Village Library, Kilvenkadapuram 1 Village Library, Sayanapuram 1 Village Library, Sambathurayanpet 1 Village Library, Thirumalperu 1 Village Library, Melkalathur 1 Village Library, Melapulam 1 Village Library, Senthamangalam 1

Source: District Library Officer, Vellore.

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23. MINING AND QUARRYING

23.1 NUMBER OF THE MINING QUARYING UNITS IN THE DISTRICT

Year: 2016-2017

Sl.No Name of the Taluk No.of Mining quarying Granite Quartz Vermiculite Stone Sand Earth (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 1 Vellore - - - 24 - - 2. Katpadi 1 - - 5 1 2 3. Walaja 6 - - 27 1 - 4. Arakkonam - - - 7 - - 5. Tirupattur 2 - 1 3 - - 6. Vaniyambadi 2 1 - 6 - 1 7. Gudiyatham 1 - - 7 1 - 8. Arcot - - - 13 1 - 9. Ambur - - - 10 - - TOTAL 12 1 1 102 4 3

23.2 CLASSIFICATION- WISE PRODUCTION DURING THE YEAR

Year : 2016-2017

Sl.No Name of the Minerals Production in Tonnes 1. Quartz 40.00 Tones VERMICULITE 1110.45 2 BLACK GRNITE 2009.203 3 COLOUR GRANITE 975.774 4 STONE 1249023 cbm 5 EARTH & BRICK EARTH 32733 cbm 6 SAND 0 Source : Assistant Director of Geology and Mining, Vellore-9

24. MANUFACTURING SECTOR

24.1 NUMBER OF FOOD AND ALLIED MANUFACTURING UNITS IN THE DISTRICT ( Rs. In Lakhs ) Year : 2016-17

Industry Description of the Value of output Value added Group Name of the Block All employees Industry Rs. In Lakhs

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) NOT AVAILABLE

Source: Department of Economics & Statistics, Chennai-6.

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25 MEDICAL SERVICES

25.1 NUMBER OF MEDICAL COLLEGES IN THE DISTRICT WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Year: 2016-17 Students Sl.No Name of the Institution Teachers Boys Girls Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 349 535 894 743 1 Christian Medical College, Vellore-2

2 Govt. Vellore Medical College 199 209 408 Adukkamparai MBBS 169 3 Govt. Vellore Medical College 24 11 35 Adukkamparai (PG) 4 Govt. Vellore Medical College 0 234 234 15 Adukkamparai (School of Nursing) 5 Govt. Vellore Medical College 45 156 201 22 Adukkamparai( Paramedical)

25.2 NUMBER OF COLLEGE OF PHARMACY WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Students Sl.No Name of the Institution Teachers Boys Girls Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

1 Christian Medical College, Vellore-2 134 128 262 241

Source : Dean, Christian Medical College, Vellore-2.

25.3 .NUMBER OF MEDICAL STORES IN THE DISTRICT ( CATEGORY- WISE )

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No Item Number of Medical Stores Others (1) (2) (3) -- 1 Medical Wholesale 301 -- 2 Medical Retail 1103 -- 3 General Merchant with medical 29 -- (Restricted) 4 Homeopathy Medical Storesd 11 -- 5 Medical Manufacture Company 8 -- 6 Blood Bank 10 -- 7 Blood(Bank)Storage 19 -- Source: Assistant Director ( Drug ) , vellore-9.

25.4 NO. OF VETERINARY COLLEGES WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Students Sl.No Name of the Institution Teachers Boys Girls Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

NIL

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26 MOTOR VEHICLES

26.1 NO.OF MOTOR VEHICLES (CATEGORY- WISE) REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR AND UPTO THE END OF THE YEAR Year : 2016-2017 Commercial Sl.No Type of Vehicles Registered End of the Year Up to the Year

1. Stage Carriage Public 951 67 Private 165 96 2. Auto Rickshaw - 4406 615 3. Ordinary Taxi - 577 114 4. Motorcab - 320 225 5. Maxicab - 232 92 6. Omni Buses - 3 3 7. Private station Vehicle and others 31 67 8. School Bus 596 46 9. Ambulance 1075 67 10. Fire Fighter 68 104 11. Light Commercial Vehicle 1800 206 12. Lorry State permit 1415 1216 National permit 1300 1142 13. Articulated Vehicle state permit 954 715 National permit 1217 512 14. Tractor/ Trailor 78 634 Total 15188 5921 Non - Commercial 1. Motorcycle 146643 1467 2. Scooter 20597 1627 3. Moped 48818 956 4. Tri- Cycle auto 0 742 5. Motor car 19769 964 6. Jeep 975 464 7. Station Wagon 1388 164 8. Tractor 3909 656 9. Three Wheeler 35 967 10. Four Wheeler 0 742 11. Roadroller 45 224 12. Others 1042 1247 Total 243221 10220 Grand Total 258409 16141 Source : Regional Transport Officer, Vellore-9

26.2 NO.OF MOTOR VEHICLES ( CATEGORY WISE ) AVAILABLE FOR HIRE PURPOSE DURING & UPTO THE END OF THE YEAR Year: 2016-2017 Sl.No Category End of the Year During the Year 1 Auto-rickshaw 8418 168 2 Taxi 683 125 3 Motor car 4786 56 4 Maxi cab 484 116 5 Omini-Buses 3 3 6 Private Station Vehicles and others 55 34 7 Ambulance 125 16 8 Light Commercial Vchicles 1662 367 9 Lorry State Permit 3167 252 10 Lorry National Permit 2447 197 Tractor / Trailor 98 24

26.3 NO.OF PERSONS ISSUED WITH DRIVING LICENCE Year: 2016-2017

Sl.No Category No.of Driving Licence issued 1. Motor Vehicle 10859 2. Light Motor vehicle 10084 3. Transport Vehicle 607 Source: Regional Transport Office, Vellore-9.

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27. NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY GENERATION

27.1 NO.OF SOLAR ENERGY GENERATION UNITS IN THE DISTRICT WIH PRODUCTION DATA

Year : 2016-17

Name and Place of Solar energy Instal Capacity Generation Sl.No. system exist (In Mega Watts) (In Mega Watts)

NIL Source : Concerned Electricity Generation Units.

27.2 NO.OF WIND MILLS GENERATING UNITS WITH PRODUCTION DATA Year : 2016-17

Name and Place of Wind Mills Instal Capacity Generation Sl.No. Generation exist (In Mega Watts) (In Mega Watts)

NIL Source : Concerned Electricity Generation Units.

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28 POLICE AND PRISONS 28.1 POLICE FORCE Year: 2015 -16 Actual Strength Sl.No Name of the Sub— Police Stations Out Posts Armed Reserved Total Stations Local Strength Strength (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) 1 Vellore 10 4 367 534 900 2 Kaniyambadi 3 17 23 3 Anaicut 3 23 24 4 Arcot 2 74 76 5 Thimiri 1 15 16 6 Walaja 4 36 37 7 Sholingar 4 32 33 8 Arakonam 4 101 103 9 Nemili 1 11 12 10 Kaveripakkam 2 31 32 11 Gudiyatham 4 75 77 12 K.V.Kuppam 3 21 22 13 Pernamput 2 25 26 14 Katpadi 3 52 54 15 Alangayam 4 28 29 16 Madanur 5 24 34 17 Thirupathur 3 129 131 18 Natrampalli 2 26 27 19 Kandili 2 28 29 20 Jolarpet 2 47 48 Total 64 4 1162 534 1733 Source: District Superintendent of Police Office, Vellore-9. 28.2 COGNIZABLE OFFENCES UNDER INDIAN PENAL CODE ( Including Attempts) Year: 2015-16 Sl.No Item Number of Cases Reported

(1) (2) (3) 1. Murder 73 2. Culpable Homicide not amounting to murder 10 3. Rape 71 4. Kidnapping And Abduction 54 5. Dacoity 04 6. Robbery 39 7. Burglary 299 8. Thefts 701 9. Riots 12 10. Criminal Breach of Trust 10 11. Cheating 115 12. Counterfeiting 30 13. Miscellaneous 6188 Total 7606

28.3 CLASSIFICATION OF CONVICTS Year: 2013 - 14 Sl.No Length of Sentences Male Female Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Below one year 123 22 123 2. Above one year and not exceeding two years 51 2 55 3. Above two years and not exceeding five years 51 11 55 4. Exceeding five years and not exceeding ten years 44 5 50 5. Exceeding ten years 3 0 3 6. Life sentence 200 20 246 7. Sentence to death 6 0 6 Total 478 60 538 Source : 1. Superintendent, Central Prison, Vellore-2 2. Superintendent, Special Prison for Women, Vellore-2

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28.4 NUMBER OF CASES REGISTERED UNDER /S.C/S.T. Act Year: 2016-17 S.No Police Station No of Cases registered 1 1 2 Arcot town 1 3 Avalur 1 4 Bagayam 1 5 Gudiyatham taluk 2 6 Jolarpet 1 7 K.V.Kuppam 1 8 Kalavai 1 9 Katpadi 1 10 Kaveripakkam 4 11 Latheri 1 12 Melpatti 3 13 Natrampalli 1 14 Umarabath 4 15 Pallikonda 4 16 Paratharami 1 17 Sholingar 2 18 Thokkolam 2 19 Timiri 2 20 Vazhapandal 2 21 Vellore South 1 22 4 23 Veppankuppam 1 Total 42

28.5 NUMBER OF THE CASES REGISTERED WOMEN AGAINST HARASSMENT AND DOWRY Year: 2015 - 16 Sl.No No.of the Cases Registered against Women Item harassment and Dowry (1) (2) (3) 1 Dowry Harassment 23 2 Dowry Death 01 3 Molestation 40 4 Eve-teasing 9 TOTAL 73

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29. PUBLIC HEALTH

29.1 PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL SERVICES RENDERED BY ORGANISTION AND INDIVIDUAL Year: 2016-2017 Sl.No Items Numbers

1. Hospitals 34 2. Dispensaries 114 3. Sanitary 0 4. Nursing Hom 8 5. Maternity & Child Welfare Clinic 15 6. Allopathy 280 7. Ayurvedic 0 8. Unani 0 9. Homeopathy 0 10. Number of Doctors 335 11. Number of Nurses 525 12. Bed Strength 630 TOTAL 1941 Source: President, Indian Medical Association, Vellore Branch, Vellore-1.

29.2 NUMBER OF PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES WITH SUB- CENTRES

Sl.No Name Of the No.of Primary No.of Sub- Centres Municipality/ Block Health Centres (1) (2) (3) (4)

1. Arakkonam 3 13 2. Nemili 6 27 3. Kaveripakkam 6 29 4. Sholingur 5 26 5. Walajah 5 22 6. Arcot 5 21 7. Thimiri 4 25 8. Vellore 5 24 9. Kaniyambadi 4 17 10. Anaicut 5 27 11. Katpadi 6 22 12. K.V.Kuppam 5 22 13. Gudiyatham 6 26 14. Pernampet 9 35 15. Madhanur 3 17 16. Alangayam 5 20 17. Tirupathur 5 20 18. Natrampalli 3 14 19. Jolarpet 6 25 20. Kandili 5 22 TOTAL 101 454

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30. PRINTING AND PUBLISHING

30.1 DAILIES AND PERIODICALS PUBLISHED BY LANGUAGE.

DISTRICT: VELLORE YEAR: 2016 -17 Sl.No Name of the News Paper Language of Publication Type of Periodicals 1. Daily Thanthi Tamil Daily 2. Malai Malar Tamil Daily 3. Dinaboomi Tamil Daily 4. Dina Malar Tamil Daily 5. Dinamani Tamil Daily 6. Dinakaran Tamil Daily 7. Tamil Murasu Tamil Daily 8. Vellore Malai Murasu Tamil Daily 9. Chennai Malai Murasu Tamil Daily 10. Tamil Makkal Boomi Tamil Every Fifteen Days 11. Bharatha Ithazh Tamil Every Fifteen Days 12. Vellore Nanban Tamil Every Fifteen Days

30.2 NUMBER OF PUBLISHERS IN THE DISTRICT OTHER THAN NEWS PAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No Name of the Block / Municipality No of Publishers

(1) (2) (3) 1 Vellore District 9 Source: District Collectorate, Vellore-9.

31.PRICE –INDICES 31.1 WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX OF TAMILNADU ( BASE YEAR 1970-71=100) Year : 2016-17 Non-Food Minerals Fuel, Power Manufatured Period Primary Articles Food Articles All Commodities Articles & Light Products 2015 3045.81 3825.03 1825.01 1584.95 2862.55 2245.84 2685.84 2016-January 3266.82 4130.50 1916.62 1577.67 2813.67 2297.83 2823.53 February 3218.06 4044.34 1927.35 1577.67 2813.66 2293.18 2795.80 March 3240.13 4083.06 1922.95 1577.67 2822.06 2296.42 2809.12 April 3252.95 4098.89 1931.36 1577.67 2891.35 2311.94 2824.95 May 3294.65 4166.48 1932.23 1577.67 2964.23 2317.59 2851.78 June 3339.08 4227.66 1950.95 1577.67 2971.12 2329.37 2880.59 July 3394.80 4299.24 1982.92 1577.67 2969.12 2343.52 2916.09 August 3426.93 4326.56 2024.29 1577.67 2734.16 2345.71 2926.33 September 3422.74 4309.04 2041.85 1577.67 2756.32 2361.54 2931.79 October 3440.02 4329.02 2049.33 1723.58 2902.12 2374.93 2951.53 November 3455.21 4350.46 2054.86 1723.58 3301.25 2381.74 2975.54 December 3454.76 4319.46 2093.43 1992.06 3694.67 2399.88 2996.09 Average 3350.51 4223.73 1985.68 1636.52 2969.48 2337.80 2890.26 Source : Department of Economics and Statistics

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31.2 CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Central Series ( BASE YEAR 2001=100)

Year : 2016-17 Period Chennai City 2015 248 2016-January 261 February 257 March 254 April 255 May 262 June 258 July 255 August 252 September 249 October 250 November 250 December 252 Average 255 Source : Director General of Labour Bureau, Shimla

31.3 CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS STATE SERIES ( BASE YEAR 2011=100) Year : 2016-17 Period Vellore City 2015 135 2016-January 142 February 140 March 137 April 138 May 141 June 143 July 142 August 140 September 141 October 141 November 140 December 140 Average 140 Source : Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

31.4 CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FOR SELECTED ESSENTIAL ITEMS IN RURAL TAMIL NADU ( BASE YEAR 1970-71=100) Year : 2016-17 Composite Period Food Fuel and Light Clothing Others Index (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) April’16 3993.00 3207.00 2248.00 4594.00 3895.86 May’16 4032.00 3220.00 2249.00 4660.00 3933.29 June’16 4053.00 3315.00 2252.00 4686.00 3958.61

July’16 4079.00 3319.00 2257.00 4715.00 3982.81 August’16 4091.00 3387.00 2292.00 4783.00 4003.73 September’16 4096.00 3541.00 2318.00 4861.00 4025.60 October’16 4109.00 3604.00 2343.00 4941.00 4047.97 November’16 4121.00 3661.00 2362.00 4990.00 4066.31 December’16 4134.00 3723.00 2388.00 5030.00 4085.43 January’17 4146.00 3759.00 2388.00 5049.00 4098.93 February’17 4164.00 3759.00 2388.00 5062.00 4114.37 March’17 4185.00 3765.00 2391.00 5075.00 4132.76 Average 4100.25 3521.67 2323.83 4870.50 4028.81

Source : Deparment of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

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31.5 CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FOR SELECTED ESSENTIAL ITEMS IN URBAN TAMIL NADU ( BASE YEAR 1970-71=100)

Year : 2016-2017

Composite Period Food Fuel and Light Clothing Others Index (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) April’16 3632.00 3152.00 2776.00 3463.00 3523.22 May’16 3643.00 3164.00 2777.00 3511.00 3540.19 June’16 3658.00 3164.00 2777.00 3516.00 3551.60

July’16 3700.00 3177.00 2786.00 3541.00 3586.87 August’16 3704.00 3192.00 2806.00 3638.00 3608.67 September’16 3710.00 3200.00 2830.00 3706.00 3626.57 October’16 3727.00 3210.00 2844.00 3779.00 3652.67 November’16 3737.00 3214.00 2861.00 3838.00 3671.16 December’16 3745.00 3215.00 2869.00 3864.00 3681.82 January’17 3754.00 3216.00 2870.00 3886.00 3692.09 February’17 3766.00 3216.00 2874.00 3890.00 3701.44 March’17 3788.00 3216.00 2874.00 3896.00 3717.96 Average 3713.67 3194.67 2828.67 3710.67 3629.52

Source : Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai-6.

31.6 The Gross District Domestic Product At Current & Constant (2011-12) Prices

(In Lakhs.)

Sl. No. Year At Current Prices At Constant Prices

1 2011-12 4069496 4069496 2 2012-13 4657806 4312203 3 2013-14 5249500 4632725 4 2014-15 5741877 4784593 5 2015-16 6173965 5045191

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31.7 Sectorwise GDDP at Current price for the year 2015-16

Sl. No Sector Price 1 Agriculture 242665 2 Livestocks 224306 3 Foresty and Logging 20394 4 Fishing 11756 5 Agriculture & Allied activities 499121 6 Mining & Quarrying 2694 7 Primary 501816 8 Manufaturing 1412880 9 Electricity, Gas & water supply services 113764 10 Construction 647922 11 Trade, Repair, Services & Restaurants 953187 12 Railways 53085 13 Transport by other means 177333 14 Storage 9021 15 Communication & Services related to Broadcasting 130009 16 Financial Services 129279 17 Real estate ownership of Dwelling & Business services 979059 18 Public administration 167754 19 Other Services 372479

32. QUALITY CONTROL

32.1 LIST OF INDUSTRIAL/ESTABLIHMENT UNITS HAVING QUALITY CONTROL FACILITIES AND THE PRODUCTS SUBJECTED TO QUALITY CONTROL

Establishment Units having, Products Subjected to Sl.No. List of Industries Quality Control Quality Control (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 T N C S C 1 Regional Lab. Vellore Paddy, Rice, Wheat, Wheat Products, Pulses 2. TNCSC Ltd.,(G) Vellore and Palm Oil 3. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Tiruvalam 4. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Arcot 5. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Walajah Paddy, Rice, Wheat and 6. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Arakkonam Pulses 7. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Gudiyatham 8. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Ambur 9. TNCSC Ltd. (G) Tirupathur Source : Concerned Office

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33. REGISTRATION 33.1 REGISTRATION OFFICES IN THE DISTRICT Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Block/ Municipalities No.of Registration Office

Municipality 1. Vellore 1 2. Arcot 1 3. Ranipet 0 4. Wallajah 1 5. Arakkonam 1 6. Ambur 1 7. Vniyambadi 1 8. Thirupathur 1 9. Gudiyatham 1 Block 8 1. Vellore 0 2. Anaicut 0 3. Kaniyambadi 1 4. Gudiyatham 0 5. K.V.Kuppam 1 6. Pernambut 1 7. Katpadi 1 8. Arakkonam 0 9. Nemili 1 10. Kaveripakkam 1 11. Wallajah 0 12. Sholingur 1 13. Arcot 0 14. Thimiri 0 15. Thirupathur 0 16. Kandhli 0 17. Natrampalli 1 18. Jolarpet 1 19. Alangayam 0 20. Madhanur 0 Total 9 GRAND TOTAL 17

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33.2 REGISTRATION AND AGGREGATE VALUE OF PROPERTIES TRANSFERRED DURING THE YEAR

Number of Aggregate value of Name of the office Registration properties transferred ( Movable and ( Moveable and immovable) immovable) (1) (2) (3) 1. Joint Registrar Office-1, Arakkonam 10676 8.82 2. Joint Registrar Office-2, Arakkonam 10373 11.82 3. Registration Office, Arcot. 9588 12.93 4. Registration Office, Kalavai. 4712 4.31 5. Registration Office, Kaveripakkam. 8459 11.64 6. Registration Office, Sholingur. 5674 4.86 7.Registration Office, Walajah. 5240 3.40 7.Registration Office, Nemili. 9862 17.86 District Registration Office, Arakkonam. 64584 75.64

8. Registration Office, Vellore. 10703 10380175045 9. Registration Office, Ambur 7327 79848406 10. Registration Office, Gudiyatham 9003 102627635 11. Registration Office, Jolarpet. 2547 50672145 12. Registration Office, Kaniyambadi 1913 33787898 13. Registration Office, Katpadi. 7605 184079352 14. Registration Office, K.V.kuppam. 2379 5562935 15. Registration Office, Natrampalli. 2468 6410067 16. Registration Office, Odukkathur. 1506 16297422 17. Registration Office, Pallikonda. 4206 11548869 18. Registration Office, Pernampet. 2646 28425215 19. Registration Office, Tirupathur. 9246 124750907 20. Registration Office, Vaniyambadi. 2547 83350748 District Registration Office, Vellore (total) 64096 11107600740 Source: Assistant Inspector of Registration ( ADMN) , Vellore-5 and Arakkonam

34.SOCIAL WELFARE

34.1 PURATCHI THALAIVAR M.G.R. NUTRITIOUS MEALS PROGRAMME CENTRES

Year: 2016-17 School Sector Social Welfare Sector Total Municipal Panchayat Union TINP ICDS Bodies (1) (2) (5) (6) (7)

2255 119 ------2374

Source : Collectorate (Noon meal), Vellore.

34.2. NO.OF BENEFICIARIES UNDER PURATCHI THALAIVAR M.G.R. NUTRITIOUS MEALS PROGRAMME

Year:2016-17 No.of Beneficiaries under age group 6 to 10 11 to 15 Panchayat Municipality Panchayat Municipality Total Union Bodies Union Bodies (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

225175 47650 272825

Source : Collectorate (Noon meal), Vellore

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34.3 NUMBER OF BENIFICIARIES UNDER FREE SUPPLY OF TEXT BOOKS AND UNIFORMS.

Year: 2013 -14 Name of the Block/ Age group 6-10 ( Standards I to V) Sl.No Municipality Uniforms Text Books Boys Girls Boys Girls (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

1 Vellore District 118274 117585 247563 ---

Source : D.E.E.O., Vellore.

34.4 NUMBER OF BENIFICIARIES UNDER OLDAGE PENSION SCHEME.

Year: 2016-2017 Indira Destitute Destitute Destitute Gandhi Destitute and Unmarried Taluk physically Agricultural National Widow Deserted Poor Women Total handicapped Labourers Oldage Pension Wives Pension Pension Pension Pension Pension (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Arakkonam 8753 1534 1250 - 1050 96 12683 Arcot 14507 1239 3989 - 1348 75 21158 Wallajah 16517 2038 6109 18 2211 189 27082 Vellore 13508 1620 4106 - 3622 488 23344 Gudiyatham 11393 1411 2549 295 940 140 16728 Vaniyambadi 7381 1470 1894 340 627 89 11801 Thirupathur 15694 1161 847 29 1344 87 19162 Katpadi 17151 1884 3392 - 1506 292 24225 Ambur 7357 1543 1690 - 631 124 11345 Anaicut 11259 1067 1835 - 2327 182 16670 Nemili 7899 1224 378 - 603 38 10142 Pernampet 5918 978 1894 606 393 78 9867 Natrampalli 6707 610 598 59 343 36 8353 Total 144044 17779 30531 1347 16945 1914 212560 6707Source: Collectorate, Vellore-9.

34.5. FREE HOUSE (IAY) DISTRIBUTED TO COMMUNITIES

Year: 2016-2017

Category Total Sl.No 1 SC 4698 2 ST 1264 3 OC 4348 TOTAL 10310 Source: District Rural Development Agency, Vellore.

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34.6 IMPLEMENTATION OF RELIEF MEASURES AND PENSION SCHEMES

Year : 2016-17

Sl. Name of the Scheme/ Relief Measures No.Of Beneficiaries Total Amount No S.C S.T Others Total disbursed(Rs.in ‘000) 1. Nalinthor Nala Thittam 956 956 12430 2. Accidental relief for Workers (death at the time of work) 210 210 12850 3. Freedom Fighters Pension Scheme -- --- 2 2 --- a) State Government(Rs.4000/- Per month) ------b) Central Government (Rs.10000/- Per month) ------c) State and Central Government 4. C.M.’s Relief Fund ------23 23 22 Road Accidents ------Riot Victim ------Others (Specify) 5. Mozhi Kavalar Pension Scheme (Rs.300/- Per month) ------3 ---

6. d) Nalintha Kalaignar Pension(Rs.1000/- Per month) ------6 --

7. Others if any (Specify) ------Source: Collectorate, vellore

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35.SANITARY SERVICES

35.1 NO.OF SANITARY WORKERS ENGAGED IN SANTATION, GARBAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND OTHER PARTICULARS.

Year: 2016-17

Corporation / Municipality No.of No.of workers engaged in Workers Garbage and Sewage Other connected works related engaged disposal with sanitation in Sanitaion 1.Vellore Corporation 563 0 0 2.Gudiyatham Municipality 91 36 75 3.Pernampet 36 35 0 4.Arcot 74 0 0 5.Arakonam 126 126 0 6.Thirupathur 126 120 6 7.Jolarpettai 160 160 160 8.Vaniyambadi 127 0 60 9.Walajah 70 7 2 10.Melvisharam 24 0 0 11.Ranipet 102 102 36 12.Ambur 66 137 0 Total 1565 723 339

35.1 NO.OF SANITARY WORKERS ENGAGED IN SANTATION, GARBAGE & SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND OTHER PARTICULARS.

Year: 2016-17

SL. Town No.of Workers No.of workers engaged in Other connected works related with No Panchayat engaged in Garbage and Sewage sanitation Sanitaion disposal 1. Takkolam 10 16 0 2. Nemili 13 13 Solid Waste Management System 3. Panapakkam 10 0 0 4. Kaveripakkam 17 17 0 5. Sholingur 27 27 0 6. Ammoor 6 6 0 7. Vilapakkam 3 3 0 8. Timiri 12 12 Self Help Group one Group 9. Kalavai 11 18 Solid Waste Management System 10. Thiruvalam 6 17 10 11. Pennathur 5 5 0 12. Pallikonda 18 18 0 13. Odugathur 8 8 8 14. Alangayam 18 18 30 15. Natrampalli 10 10 Compost Preparation 16. Udayendram 10 0 0 TOTAL 184 188 48

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35.1 NO.OF SANITARY WORKERS ENGAGED IN SANTATION, GARBAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND OTHER PARTICULARS

Year: 2016-17

Sl. Name of the No.of Workers No.of workers engaged in Other connected works related with No Panchayat engaged in Garbage and Sewage sanitation Union Sanitaion disposal 1 Arakkonam 5 0 0 2 Nemili 0 0 0 3 Kaveripakkam 0 0 0 4 Sholingur 27 27 0 5 Walajapet 141 55 86 6 Arcot 0 0 0 7 Timiri 0 0 0 8 Vellore 27 27 0 9 Kaniyambadi 0 0 0 10 Anaicut 0 0 0 11 Katpadi 53 0 0 12 K.V.Kuppam 0 0 0 13 Gudiyatham 22 0 0 14 Pernampet 0 0 0 15 Madanur 0 0 0 16 Alangayam 1 1 0 17 Tirupattur 0 0 0 18 Jolarpet 11 1 0 19 Natrampalli 6 0 0 20 Kandili 108 108 0 TOTAL 401 219 86

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35.2 NUMBER OF THE VEHICLES ENGAGED IN SANITARY SERVICES Year: 2016 -17 Sl.No Name of the Corporation/Block/ No.of Vehicles engaged in sanitary services Municipality CORPORATION / MUNICIPALITY 1. Vellore Corporation 276 2. Gudiyatham Municipality 3 3. Pernampet 6 4. Arcot 10 5 Walajah 3 6. Ranipettai 11 7. Arakonam 6 8. Thirupathur 10 9. Jolarpettai 3 10. Vaniyambadi 5 11. Ambur 8 12. Melvishram 8 TOTAL 349

1. Arakkonam BLOCK 0 2. Nemili 0 3. Kaveripakkam 0 4. Sholingur 0 5. Walajapet 160 6. Arcot 0 7. Timiri 0 8. Vellore 4 9. Kaniyambadi 0 10. Anaicut 0 11. Katpadi 8 12. K.V.Kuppam 10 13. Gudiyatham 0 14. Pernampet 0 15. Madanur 0 16. Alangayam 0 17. Tirupattur 0 18. Jolarpet 2 19. Natrampalli 1 20. Kandili 26 TOTAL 211

TOWN PANCHAYAT 1. Takkolam 15 2. Nemili 9 3. Panapakkam 25 4. Kaveripakkam 4 5. Sholingur 68 6. Ammoor 14 7. Vilapakkam 13 8. Timiri 8 9. Kalavai 9 10 Thiruvalam 16 11. Pennathur 26 12. Pallikonda 5 13. Odukkathur 5 14. Alangayam 37 15. Natrampalli 13 16. Udaiyendram 3 TOTAL 270

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36. SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH SERVICE

36.1 INSTITUTION AND LABORATORIES ENGAGED IN RESEARCH WORK

Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name and address of Institutions and Laboratories Type of Research Field

1. Asst. Soil Chemist Soil Testing Lab Soil Testing Mel Alanthur, Gudiyatham Taluk 2. Associated Propaser & Head Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Sugarcane Mel Alanthur, Gudiyatham Taluk 3. Associated Propaser & Head Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Banana & Pulses Virunchipuram, Vellore Taluk 4. Shieffin Leprosy Research and Training Centre, Karigiri. Leprosy 5. Vetrinary University Training & Research Centre, Vellore. Research, Training & Extension in Animal Husbandary 6. Kavaloor Observator, Tirupathur Planatory Research

37. STORAGE FACILITIES

37.1 LIST OF AGRICULTURAL AND NON-AGRICULTURAL STORAGE GODOWNS

Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Warehouse Capacity 1 TamilNadu Warehouseing 12500 M.T. Corporation, Vellore Warehouse, Vellore

2 TamilNadu Warehouseing 3400 M.T. Corporation, Katpadi Warehouse, Katpadi(Near VIT)

3 TamilNadu Warehouseing 21400 M.T. Corporation, Arakkonam Warehouse, Arakkonam, Vellore Dt

4 TamilNadu Warehouseing 17800 M.T. Corporation, Ranipet Warehouse, SIPCOT Complex, Ranipet.

Source: District Warehousing office.

37.2 LIST OF COLD STORAGE AND GODOWNS

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No. Name and address of the cold storage

NIL Source: Concerned Department

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38.TEXTILES

38.1 No. of Ginning, Spinning and Weaving mills

Name of the Taluk No. of Ginning No. of Spinning No. of Weaving Sl.No mills mills mills (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1 Arakonam NIL 1 NIL 2 Walajahpet NIL 2 NIL 3 Gudiyatham NIL 3 NIL 4 Vellore NIL NIL NIL 5 Arcot NIL NIL NIL 6 Katpadi NIL NIL NIL 7 Vaniyambadi NIL NIL NIL 8 Tirupathur NIL NIL NIL 9 Ambur NIL NIL NIL 10 Natrampalli NIL NIL NIL 11 Anaicut NIL NIL NIL 12 Nemili NIL NIL NIL 13 Pernampet NIL NIL NIL

38.2 QUANTUM OF PRODUCTION DURING THE YEAR.

Year: 2013-14

Ginning Mills Spinnig mills production Weaving mills production Production

(1) (2) (3)

NIL 48,15,325.2 kgs NIL

Source: Concerned office

39. TRADE AND COMMERCE

39.1 NO. OF MAJOR AND MINOR TRADE AND COMMERCIAL ESTATE

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No Trade Arrivals Quantity(Quintol) Arrivals Value(Rs. In Lakhs) 1 2 3 4 1. Major-Paddy 193115.83 26917.99 2. Minor-Varagu 1471.77 5246.1 Total 194587.6 32164.09

Source: Secretary, Market Committee, Vellore-2

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40. TRANSPORT 40.1 LENGTH OF ROADS (IN KILOMETRES)

Surface Road Unsurface Grand Sl.No. Category of Roads Cement Water Bound Bituminous Total d Road Total Concrete Macadam 1 State Highways 1.690 386.020 0 387.710 0 387.710 2. Major District Road 0.000 194.900 0 194.900 0 194.900 3. Other District Road 11.140 891.465 0 902.605 0 902.605 4. Sugarcane Road 0.500 44.675 0 45.175 0 45.175 TOTAL 13.33 1517.06 0 1530.390 0 1530.390 Source: 1.Respective District Heads of Departments 2. Divisional Engineer, High Ways, Vellore

40.1A LENGTH OF ROADS ( IN KILOMETRES)

Year: 2016-2017 Sl. Surface Road No Cement Bituminous Water Total Unsurfaced Departments Grand total Concrete Bound Road Macadam (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) CORPORATION / MUNICIPALITY 1. Vellore Corporation 53.88 53.78 3.25 110.91 1.45 112.36 2. Gudiyatham Municipality 29.686 55.996 0 85.682 11.377 97.060 3. Pernambut 36.64 18.94 0 55.58 2.75 58.33 4. Walajapet 15.663 18.120 0 33.763 0 33.763 5. Ranipet 29.860 22.638 0 52.498 5.137 57.635 6. Arcot 25.156 47.854 0.983 73.993 4.377 78.370 7. Melvisharam 24.47 7.07 0 31.54 3.829 35.369 8. Arakkonam 37.414 18.573 0 55.987 1.906 57.893 9. Triuppathur 30.300 46.726 9.91 86.936 4.917 91.853 10. Vaniyambadi 24.10 55.50 0 79.60 8.20 87.80 11. Jolarpettai 11.532 14.277 0 25.809 15.424 41.233 12. Ambur 64.938 41.402 0 106.340 2.260 108.600 TOTAL 383.639 400.876 14.143 798.638 61.627 860.260 PANCHAYAT UNION 1. Arakkonam 4.40 119.55 7.60 132.05 3.80 135.35 2. Nemili 8.5 189.68 25.05 193.23 22.75 215.98 3. Kaveripakkam 10.3 266.89 11.18 288.37 56.5 344.87 4. Sholingur 11.700 9.637 3.484 24.821 4.891 29.712 5. Walajapet 8.123 0.869 0 8.992 1.910 10.902 6. Arcot 3.717 93.367 17.817 114.901 43.233 158.134 7. Timiri 1.56 141.09 40.51 183.16 47.58 230.74 8. Vellore 29.59 63.68 5.55 98.82 19.56 118.38 9. Kaniyambadi 12.30 108.86 14.70 135.86 5.84 141.70 10. Anaicut 20.950 179.675 11.360 211.985 136.015 348.00 11. Katpadi 3.20 124.34 19.70 147.24 8.70 155.94 12. K.V.Kuppam 0 36.00 4.20 40.20 2.20 42.40 13. Gudiyatham 0.85 1.15 0 2.00 4.15 6.15 14. Pernampet 4.70 200.21 42.88 247.79 29.60 277.59 15. Alangayam 0.710 294.58 5.3 300.59 80.83 381.42 16. Madhanur 0 0 0 0 0 0 17. Tirupattur 52.0 203.78 9.83 265.61 74.82 340.43 18. Jolarpet 87.58 110.4 10.0 207.98 36.7 244.68 19. Kandili 0 435.866 25.547 461.413 103.294 564.707 20. Natrampalli 4.10 61.90 32.60 98.6 61.40 160.0 TOTAL 264.28 2641.524 287.308 3163.612 743.773 3907.085

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40.1A LENGTH OF ROADS ( IN KILOMETRES)(Cont)

Year: 2016-17 Sl. Surface Road Unsurfaced Grand Total No Cement Bituminous Water Total Road Departments Concrete Bound Macadam (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) TOWN PANCHAYAT 1. Takkolam 3.66 12.34 5.52 21.52 0.51 22.03 2. Nemili 6.369 5.15 0.4 11.919 0.62 12.539 3. Panapakkam 8.919 3.899 0 12.818 0 12.818 4. Kaveripakkam 10.312 6.505 2.107 18.924 1.622 20.546 5. Sholingur 11.7 9.637 3.484 24.821 4.891 29.712 6. Ammoor 10.89 9.86 1.98 22.72 2.40 25.13 7. Vilapakkam 9.12 22.25 1.822 33.192 2.560 35.752 8. Timiri 9.191 8.891 0 18.082 1.549 19.631 9. Kalavai 9.19 7.89 0 17.08 2.54 19.62 10. Thiruvalam 5.437 13.549 0 18.986 0 18.986 11. Pennathur 8.270 7.663 0 15.933 0.954 16.887 12. Pallikonda 11.683 13.854 9.043 34.580 7.000 41.580 13. Odukkathur 8.849 7.404 0 16.253 2.378 18.631 14. Alangayam 9.485 6.900 2.420 18.805 5.595 24.400 15. Natrampalli 8.083 10.562 0 18.645 5.125 23.770 16. Udaiyendram 9.180 4.40 1.65 15.232 0.65 15.232 TOTAL 140.338 150.754 28.426 319.51 38.394 357.264 Source : 1. Divisional Engineer ( Highways and Rural Works ) Vellore-9 2. Divisional Engineer, National Highways, Vellore-1. 3. Commissioner, Municipalities 4. Executive Officer, Townpanchayats 5. Commissioner, Panchayat Union Offices.

40.2 ROAD ACCIDENTS

Year: 2015 - 16

Total No.of No.of persons No.of persons Sl.No Name of the Head Accidents injured killed (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 718 0 766 1. 304 (A) IPC (FATAL) 172 227 0 2. 338 IPC (GREVIOUS) 2318 3619 0 3. 337 IPC ( SIMPLE)

68 0 0 4. 279 IPC (NON- INJURY)

TOTAl 3276 3846 766

Source: The Superitendent Of Police, Vellore-9

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40.3 REGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLES Year:2016-17 Commercial

Stage Lorry Articulated carriage Vehicle Light Vehicle Maxicab Motor Cab School Bus Public Public Ambulance Firefighter Commercial Private Omini BusesOmini Auto rivkshaAuto State State OrdinaryTaxi Permit Permit Permit Permit Private StationPrivate National National Vehicle others &

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)

52 58 710 2 179 116 3 45 26 7 2 367 162 130 95 67

40.3 Contd. REGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLES

Commercial Non- Commercial Four Jeep Jeep Auto total Total Total Road Cycle Cycle Three Motor Roller Grand Trailor Moped Others Others Wagon Tractor Tractor Tractor Scooter Station Wheeler Wheeler Tri-Cycle MotorCar

(17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) 24 (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32)

98 2117 18035 1630 807 2 1944 1 8 140 8 6 118 156 22699 24452

Source: Regional Transport Officer, Vellore-9.

40.3 Contd. NO. OF PERSIONS ISSUED WITH DRIVING LICENCE

Year : 2016-2017 Sl.No Cateegary No.Of Driving licence issued 1 Motor Vehicle 10859 2 Light Motor Vehicle 10084 3 Trasport Vehicle 607

40.4 TRANSPORT CORPORATIONS

Year:2016-17

Name of the Year of District No.of Buses as Sl.No Headquarter Corporation Formation Covered on 3 1st March (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Tamil State Vellore 1. Transport 730 Corporation 1982 Villupuram Kanchipuram (Vpm.Dvn.II) Ltd., Vellore-9. Villupuram Tiruchi & Chennai

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40.5 SELECT INDICATORS ON OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF STATE TRANSPORT CORPORATIONS

Year: 2016-17 Sl.No Item Nos./ % (1) (2) (3) 1. Fleet Strength 730 2. Kilometers operated carried per day ( in Lakhs ) 3.50 3. Number of Passengers carried per day ( in Lakhs ) 4.71 4. Fleet Utilisation (Percentage) 95.51 5. Kilometer efficiency ( Percentage) 105.45 6. Kilometer run per liter of diesel: a) City/ Town 5.60 b) Mofussil 5.62 7. Number of routes ( sa on day) 288 8. Number of new routes introduced during the year 0 9. New village benefited during the year 0 10. Benefited villages population in lakhs 0 11. Staff strength 4596 12. Number of new buses purchased 13 Source : General Manager, ( OPN) TamilNadu Transport Corporation ( Villupuram Division II ) Ltd., Vellore-9.

40.6 RAIL WAY LINES AND STATIONS

Year : 2016-17

Broad Gauge and Item Broad Guage Meter Gauge Meter Gauge Total

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Route Length (in Km. ) 165.4 ------152.4 2. Tract length (in Km.) 165.4 ------152.4 3. number of Railway stations 28 ------28 Source: Station Master , Katpadi Railway Station, Vellore-6

40.7 PORT DEVELOPMENT

Name of the Port Vessels Entered Cargo handled Major Ports : 1. Chennai 2. Tuticorin Intermediate Ports 1. Cuddalore 2. Minor Ports NOT APPLICABLE 1. 2. 3. Pamban 4. Colachal 5. Kanniyakumari 6. Source : Concerned Port Office

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40.8 AIR PORTS Passengers ( In ‘000’) Sl.No. Airport Embarked Disembarked Transit Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 1. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, CHENNAI a) International b) Domestic 2. DOMESTIC AIRPORT NOT APPLICABLE a) Chennai b) c) Madurai d) Tiruchirappalli

40.8 Contd. Cargo Handled (Tonne) Revenue ( Rs. In Lakhs) Sl.No. Airport Embarked Disembarked Transit Pax Cargo Total (1) (2) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) 1. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,CHENNAI a) International b) Domestic 2. DOMESTIC AIRPORT NOT APPLICABLE a) Chennai b) Coimbatore c) Madurai d) Tiruchirappalli

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41. TOURISM

41.1 PLACES OF TOURIST ATTRACTION

Year : 2016-17

Tourist Place Sl.No.

1. Amirthi Forest, Vellore 2. Vellore Fort 3. Muthumandapam Vellore 4. Moorthana Dam 5. Elagiri Hills 6. Kavaloor Abservatering 7. Jallagamparai Waterfalls, Tirupathur 8. Thippusulthan Mahal, Arcot. 9. Sri puram, Ariyur (Golden temple)

Source : District Tourist Development Office

41.2 LIST OF PLACES OF WORSHIP

Year :2016-2017

Sl.No. Places Of Worship 1. Vellore Fort Jalagandeswarar Temple 2. Margapandeswarar Temple, Virinjipuram. 3. Ranganath Temple, Pallikonda 4. Murugan Temple, Thirumuruga Kirubananda Variyar Samadi, Kangeyanallur,Vellore 5. Vilvanather Temple , Thiruvalam 6. Vallimalai Murugan Temple (Hill & Cave Temple) 7. Rathnagiri Balamurugan Temple (Hill Temple) 8. Sholingur Narasimma Swami Temple (Hill Temple) 9. Thengal Asharamam 10. Murugan Temple , Kailasagiri, Pernampet 11. Gangai Amman temple , Gudiyatham. 12. Magadevamalai Shivan Temple-Kankuppam. 13 Sri puram, Ariyur (Golden temple) Source : Concerned Office

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42. VITAL STATISTICS 42.1 BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTERED (RURAL) Year: 2016-17

Sl.No Name of the Block Live Birth Registered Deaths Registered Infant Deaths

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) VELLORE HEALTH DIVISION 1 Sholingur 821 248 1 2 Kaveripakkam 14 86 0 3 Nemili 15 48 0 4 Thimiri 19 142 1 5 Takkolam 34 76 0 6 Panapakkam 29 88 1 7 Ammoor 20 95 0 8 Vilapakkam 15 65 0 9 Kalavai 18 77 0 10 Thiruvalam 24 64 0 11 Pennathur 11167 3334 536 12 Pallikonda 55 194 0 13 Natrampalli 471 111 0 14 Udaiyendram 58 126 0 15 Odugathur 40 84 1 16 Alangayam 58 126 0 Tp Total 12858 4964 540

MUNICIPALITY 1. Vellore Corporation 20666 4908 172 2. Gudiyatham Municipality 1713 593 3 3. Pernambut 897 378 1 4. Walajapet 953 382 5 5. Ranipet 685 309 3 6. Arcot 606 242 0 7. Arakkonam 1101 512 3 8. Triuppathur 6022 693 63 9. Vaniyambadi 1870 795 4 10. Jolarpettai 42 205 0 11. Melvisharam 750 237 1 12. Ambur 1398 892 3 TOTAL 36703 10146 258 Taluk wise 1. Arakkonam 416 1293 4 2. Nemili 335 1227 3 3. Walajapet 644 1656 0 4. Arcot 311 1112 0 5. Vellore 154 699 1 6. Anaicut 408 1118 1 7. Katpadi 1020 1562 0 8. Gudiyatham 2869 1256 0 9. Pernampet 285 952 3 10. Ambur 1461 1375 2 11. vaniyambadi 582 1223 2 12. Tirupattur 1637 1780 1 13 Natrampalli 948 918 1 TOTAL 11070 16171 18 All total 60631 31281 816

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42.2 BIRTHS, DEATH AND INFANT MORTALITY RATES

Year: 2016-17 Birth Death Infant Mortality 15.4 7.94 13.4

42.3 DEATH BY CAUSES

Year: 2016-2017

Sl.No Name of the Causes for the Death No.of the death

1 Typhoid fever and Paratyphoid 38 2 Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Gastro-enteritis 32 3 Tuberculosis 121 4 Rabies 1 5 Cancer 572 6 Diabetes Mellitus 1467 7 Anaemia 0 8 Meningitis 0 9 Heart Diseases and Heart Attacks 5213 10 Pneumonia 0 11 Brochitis and Asthama 438 12 Jaundice 108 13 Chronic Lever Diseases and Cirrhosis 1856 14 Ulcer of Stomach and Duodemum 308 Complecations related to Pregnancy Child Birth and 15 37 Puerperium Certain condition such as Birth - injuries, Slow growth of 16 816 Foetus and Permaturing orginating in the Perinantal period 17 Ceribrovascular(Paralysis) 3222 18 Senility 11142 19 Others not elsewhere classified 8007 20 Bites or Stings of Venomous animal 11 21 Accidental Burn 42 22 Falls and Drowing 49 23 Accidental Poisioning (other than Food Poisioning) 18 Transport accidents (Railway, Ship Board, Aircraft, Motor 24 279 and other vehicles) 25 Other accidents(not elsewhere classified) 100 26 Suicide 92 27 Homicide 34 28 Not Stated 286 Total 34289

Source: Deputy Director of Health, Vellore,

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43. WATER WORKS AND SUPPLY

43.1 NO.OF WORKERS ENGAGED IN THE WATER WORKES AND SUPPLY

Year: 2016-2017 Sl. No.of persons engaged in the Name of the Scheme No Water works and supply (1) (2) (3) Water Supply / Town Panchayat 1. Takkolam 0 2. Nemili 2 3. Panapakkam 3 4. Kaveripakkam 2 5. Sholingur 2 6. Ammoor 1 7. Vilapakkam 1 8. Kalavai 5 9. Thiruvalam 3 10. Pennathur 4 11. Pallikonda 2 12. Natrampalli 1 13. Udaiyendram 1 14. Odugathur 5 15. Alangayam 0 16. Timiri 12 Total 44 Water supply / Panchayat Union 1. Arakkonam 85 2. Nemili 142 3. Kaveripakkam 219 4. Walajapet 160 5. Arcot 90 6. Timiri 142 7. Kaniyambadi 173 8. Gudiyatham 248 9. Pernampet 161 10. Jolarpet 246 11 Kandhili 183 12. Thirupattur 261 13. Natrampalli 156 14. Katpadi 45 15. Vellore 67 16. Alangayam 131 17. Anaicut 0 18. K.V.Kuppam 200 19. Sholingur 221 20. Madhanur 0 Total 2930 Water supply / Corporation / Municipallity 1 Water Supply Scheme. Vellore Corporation 44 2 Water Supply Scheme. Gudiyatham Municipality 18 3 Water Supply Scheme. Arcot Municipality 8 4 Water Supply Scheme. Vaniyambadi Municipality 12 5 Water Supply Scheme. Arakkonam Municipality 6 6 Water Supply Scheme. Pernampet Municipality 4 7 Water Supply Scheme. Jolarpet Municipality 0 8 Water Supply Scheme. MelvisharamMunicipality 4 9 Water Supply Scheme. Thirupattur Municipality 29 10 Water Supply Scheme.Walajah Municipality 6 11 Water Supply Scheme. Ranipet Municipality 8 12 Water Supply Scheme. Ambur Municipality 38 Total 177

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43.2 NO.OF HOUSE CONNECTIONS, FOUNTAINS

Year: 2016-2017 Name of the Corporation / Sl.No No.of house Water Municipality/ Block / Town Connections Panchayat MUNICIPALITY 1. Vellore Corporation 17867 2. Gudiyatham Municipality 260 3. Pernambut 4987 4. Walajapet 5681 5. Ranipet 6736 6. Arcot 6814 7. Arakkonam 43 8. Triuppathur 8524 9. Vaniyambadi 8642 10. Jolarpettai 2030 11. Melvisharam 5236 12. Ambur 9596 TOTAL 76416

1. Arakkonam Panchayatunion 2214 2. Nemili 34350 3. Kaveripakkam 3894 4. Sholingur 4406 5. Walajapet 19348 6. Arcot 11601 7. Timiri 7892 8. Vellore 4604 9. Kaniyambadi 3786 10. Anaicut 0 11. Katpadi 11545 12. K.V.Kuppam 630 13. Gudiyatham 540 14. Pernampet 8924 15. Madanur 0 16. Alangayam 3053 17. Tirupattur 1900 18. Jolarpet 7017 19. Natrampalli 2511 20. Kandili 2098 TOTAL 130313 Townpanchayat 1. Takkolam 1818 2. Nemili 1663 3. Panapakkam 1809 4. Kaveripakkam 2710 5. Sholingur 4979 6. Ammoor 2185 7. Vilapakkam 1222 8. Timiri 31 9. Kalavai 1726 10. Thiruvalam 1436 11. Pennathur 292 12. Pallikonda 2399 13. Odukkathur 988 14. Alangayam 297 15. Natrampalli 766 16. Udaiyendram 814 TOTAL 25135 DISTRICT TOTAL 231864 Source : All Municipalities, Panchayat Unions, town Panchayats

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44.1 SAMATHUVAPURAM

Year : 2016-17

Name of Taluk Name of Block Place of Samathuvapuram 1. Vellore Anaicut Poigai

2. Arakkonam Nemili Perumbulipakkam

3. Arakkonam Kaveripakkam Gudalur

4. Walajah Walajah Ammur

5. Tirupathur Kandhili Udaiyammuthur

6. Katpadi Katpadi Semparavarayanellore

7.Vaniyambadi Natrampalli Natrampalli

44.2 UZHAVAR SANTHAI

Year : 2016-17

Name of Taluk Name of Block Place of Uzhavar Santhai 1. Vellore 1. Vellore 1. Kagithapattarai

2. Velapadi-

2. Katpadi 2. Katpadi 3. Katpadi Railway Station

3. Vaniyambadi 3. Alangayam 4. Vaniyambadi

4. Gudiyatham 4. Gudiyatham 5.Gudiyatham

5.Walajah 5.Walajah 6.Ranipet BHEL

6.Arcot 6.Arcot 7.Acot

7.Thiruppattur 7.Thirupattur 8.Thirupattur

8.Natrampalli 8.Natrampalli 9.Natrampalli

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