CENSUS 1971 S:rnRI:rnS 20 PART X-A & B TRIPURA ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES, TOWN AND VILLAGE DIRECTORY AND PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOI( SOUTH TrRDlPURA DBST~~CT A. K. BHATTACHARVVA OF THE TRIPURA CIVIL SERVICE D/rector of Census Operations Tripura SOUTH rrRIPURA DISTRICT LIST OF 1911 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS. TlUPURA ( All the Census publications of the State will bear series-10 ) Part I-A General Report Part I-B General Report Part I-C • Subsidiary Tables Part II-A General Population Table, Distribution of Popula­ &. tion, Mothertongue, Scheduled Castes and Part II-C(i) ~ Scheduled Tribes. Part II-BCi) } Part II-B(ii) Economic Tables Part I1-B(iii) Part II-C(ii) } Social and Cultural Tables, Migration and Fertility Part II-D Tables. Part III Establishments Reports and Tables Part IV Housing Report and Tables Part V Special Tables and Ethnographic notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Part VI-B Special Survey Reports on Selected Towns. Part VI-C Survey Reports on Selected Villages Part VII-A Administrative Report - Enumeration &. } For official use only Part VII-B Administrative Report -- Tabulation Part IX­ State Census Atlas (District Census Handbook) Miscellaneous Special Study on Tea-Industry of Tripura (Tentative) (sTATE GOV?RNMENT PUBLICATION) Part X~A &. B Village &. Town Directory and Village &. Urban block.wise Primary Census Abstract. Part X.C Analytical Report, Administrative Statistics and District Census Tables. CONTENTS Pagol PREFACE lX-XI FIGURES AT A GLANCE xn ~ ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES XIII-XXVII PART X-A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY Explanatory Note to District Census Handbook 1-13 Village Directory and its Appendices 15 Udaipur Sub-division 16-25 Amarpur Sub-division 26-47 Belonia Sub-division 48-81 Sabroom Sub.division 82-87 Appendix I 89 Land use data for non-municipal town Appendix II 90-91 Sub-division wise Abstract of Educational, Medical and other amenities TOWN DIRECTORY Statement I Status, growth history and Functional Category of Towns 94-95 Statement II Physical Aspects & Location of Towns. 1969 94-95 Statement III Civic Finance, 1968-69 94-95 Statement IV Civic and Other Amenities, 1969 96-97 Statement V Medical, Educational, Recreational and Cultural 96-97 Facilities in Towns, 1969 Statement VI Trade, Commerce. Industry and Banking, 1969 96-97 Statement VII Population by Religion, 1971 98-99. PART X-B VILLAGE AND URBAN BLOCK WISE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT Explanatory Notes to Primary Census Abstract 103-107 Primary Census Abstract, South Tripura District 108-109 " " " Udaipur Sub..division 108-119 " " " Amarpur .. 120-145 Belonia It 146-183 .. " " Sabroom 184-189 " " " It PREFACE The compilation and publication of village-wise data fOf the fpral areas and blockwise data for the urban areas were first introduced in 1951 Census as a part of Census Publication Programme. The 1951 Census in Tripura was conducted under the General supervision of the Census Superintendent of Assam 'and no District Census Hand­ book was published in respect of Tripura. It was for the first time during 1961 Census that a separate Census Superintendent was appointed for Tripura and the operation was conducted by him. As Tripura was then a single district territory upto August 1969 only one District Census Handbook was compiled for the entire territory of Tripura in 1961 Census. The publication of the District Census Handbook of 1961 Census is thus the first such independent publication from Tripura. The District Census Handbook for 1961 was decided to be published in two sections, as the book if published in one volume, would not at all be handy. It took a longtime to publish even section I of the District Census Handbook of 1961 which actually came out of the press in the early part of 1972 only when the data for 1971 Census was already at hand. Hence, on consideration of the fact that the publication of Section II of the District Census Handbook for 1961 at this stage would be of little use to the Government Departments and others, the publication of the same has been abandoned. The District Census Handbook has proved to be very useful to the various Departments of the State Government since its first publication after 1951 Census, the quality of data and its purview have undergone changes towards improvement of the Hand­ book in keeping with the needs of the data users. I am being approached by various Government Departments as well as private and public institutions for village level data of 1971 Census which goes to show the importance and urgency of this publication. As Tripura has been divided into administrative districts with effect from 1st September, 1970, three separate sets of District Census Handbook are being published for the State for the first time. The 1961 District Census Handbook was printed and published b~ the State Government from their own Press at Agartala at their own cost on the basis of the manuscript and general printing instructions issued by this Directorate. This time the State Government have agreed to print the Handbooks in private press at Calcutta at their own cost. The District Census Handbook of 1971 Census consists of the data upto the village level and enumerators' block level in the rural and urban areas respectively. This is for the first time that each Handbook contains a general account of the District and its people, on the area, houses, population, availability of general amenities and distribution of popUlation by livelihood classes for each village and town. Moreover a uniform procedure in presenting the different data upto the lowest census unit has been adopted in 1971 Census for the first time. The part in which Census information of the urban area have been given has been named as "Town Directory" ( x ) and that of rural areas as tbe "Village Directory". In addition to the list of villages, the names of villages arranged alphabetically have also been included at the very beginiug of the Village Directory for convenience of reference. It was first decided lo publish the District Census Handbook in three parts namely. Part A: (I)-Town Directory (2)-Village Directory Part B: (I)-Village/Urban blockwise Primary Census Abstract Part C: Analytical report, Administrative Statistics and Census Tables. Three separate volumes of the District Census Handbook were first decided tq be published for each district but it was felt that the size of the volumes would be too small if Part A and Part B are published separately. As the data for Parts A and B were ready almost simulta­ neously and a combined volume would be handy, it has been decided to publish Part A and Part B of the District Census Handbook in one volume and Part C in a separate volume for each District. Accordingly this combined volume of Part A and B of the District Census Handbook is brought out in this book. It may be mentioned here, in brief, the various information is assembled and pre~ sented in this volume of the District Census Handbook, Part A and B. Part A of the volume consists of the Village and Town Directory. In this Part the various amenities available in the village or the town, as the case may be, are indicated. II_? the case of the Town Directory the religion-wise population of the town has also been shown. It may be pertinent to state here that a village including small hamlets in the hills known as such by their local names has been taken as the lowest census unit. These villages have no fixed or defined geographical boundary. It has, therefore, not been possible to show the total areas of all the villages in the Village Directory. Even in the cases where the areas have been shown, the same is purely guess work or eye estimation and on the basis of the information received from the local knowledgeable sources. The information collected for each village within the District is presented Su b- Division-wise in the Directory. But in the case of towns, the number of towns in each District being small, the information in respect of the towns have been shown within the District with separate Code Number for them under the District. No. Code Number has been assigned to the towns with reference to the Sub-Divisions. The data Village Directory relate to the year 1970-71. The compilation of the data for Village and Town Directory according to the All-India time schedule was to be completed in the first phase of the Census Operation, i.e, by the time of the house1isting and housenumbering operation. The entire census operation has been done through the agency of the State Government officials. Due to some objections raised by these officials engaged in the Census work, this work had to be qeferred and taken up at the time of actual enumeration in March, 1971. If these data were collected at the time of the first phase of the operation, these would have related to the year 1969-70 as in other States. Part-B: In part B of this volume, i.e. in the Primary Census Abstract, one may have a village-wise or urban blockwise information about the occupied residential houses, number of ( xi ) houses, population, the number of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, literate and educated persons, category-wise workers, and non-workers. The data collected by the Census Enumerators have been scrutinised and compiled in this Directorate. After sCflftiny of the Village Directory forms, it was found that filled in forms for many of the village had not been sent along with the Census records forwarded by the Sub­ Divisional Census Officers.