CENSUS,' OF INDIA 1961 MADHYA PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK BETUL DISTRICT Q. JAGATHPATHI OF THE INDIAN ADMIN1STRATIVE SERVICE SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS QPERATIONS. MADHYA PRADESH PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MADHYA PRADESH 1964 1961 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS, MADHYA PRADESH :All the Census Publications- of this State wiU bear Volume No. VIII) • PART I General Report including Subsidiary Tables {in Sub-Parts) PART II-A Genera} Population Tables PART II-B Economic Tables (in Sub-parts) PART II-C Cultural and Migration Tables (in Sub-Parts) PART III Household Economic Tables PART IV Housing and Establishment Tables (in­ (in Sub-parts) cluding Subsidiary Tables) and Report PARTV Special Tables for Scheduled Castes and (in Sub-parts) Scheduled Tribes PART VI Village Survey Monographs (A Separate Sub­ part for each Village Surveyed) PART VII Survey of Handicrafts of the State (A Separate Sub-part for each Handicraft Surveyed) PART VIII-A Administration Report - Enumeration PART VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation PART IX Maps STATE PUBLICATIONS DISTRICT CENSUS HAND BOOKS District Census Hand-books for each o~'tPe 43 Districts in Madhya Pradesh PREFACE The publication Df Distrkt Census Hand-books, which was blegun in tne 1951 Cen$us., represents a significant step in the process of making census statistics available for the smaller territDrial units basic to executive and develDpmental administratiDn. Apart frDm the fact that the prDper implementation of pDlicy depends Dn the ability Df the administrative authDrities . cDncerned to. quantify accurately the vari~bles involved, it is at these levels that pDlicies get really thoroughly tested; also, pDlicies can fail-arid prDbably have failed-because their statistical basis was weak. It is undoubtedly necessary that gaps in statistics at 1Dwer levels be filled as rapid~y as possible. It was not possible at this Census to base all census statistics on the development block as the unit mainly because in 1961 there were many areas nDt till then cDvered by blocks. The cDverage had becDme complete by abDut the middle Df 1963 and it is not unlikely that the 1971 Census will recognise the block as the basic field unit as much fDr purposes of presentatiDn as for Dperational purposes. 2. What we have tried to. do in the 1961 Census Hand-boDks is to make them mDre informative by the· inclusion of as many categories ofnDn-census statistics as possible; some Df these are climate, agriculture, cD-operation, industry, bank­ ing, education, health etc. There is also an introductory note to each Hand­ book high-lighting the more striking features. It has not been pDssible fDr the Census OrganisatiDn to check the accuracy of the figures supplied by various authDrities; it is to be hoped that some other organisation, better equipped fDr the purpose, will take up this task. 3. For the seventeen districts of Mahakoshal (Part of erstwhile Madhya Pradesh) and fDr Panna and Tikamgarh districts of erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh, which are part of the present State of Madhya Pradesh, the area figures for districts and tahsils furnished by the Director of Land Records and presented in Table A-I are internally inconsistent in the sense that the tahsil areas do not add up to the district area. This inconsistency arDse from the fact that, in the case of these districts, the district area includes, but the tahsil areas exclude, 'forest' area for whim -the tahsilwise breakup was nDt then available. Later on, while this Hand-boDk was in the press, the DirectDr Df Land Records brDught out revised area figures fDr the year 1962-63 for tahsils and districts, which among other improvements, dO,..,fiot suffer from the defect Df internal 2 in<:onsistency even in case of these nineteen districts. Revision of Table A-I on the basis of these area figures was not feasible at this late stage; the only alternative was to print these revised area figures also in this Hand-book. 4. One unfortunate fact about these Hand~books is that they became avail­ able to the users rather late in the decade. This is partly due to the conside:rable time required for the collection of information from various authorities and partly to difficulties in printing. Owing to the fact that State presses, with a heavy back.. log of printing weighing down on them, would ~nd it impossible to print all the District Census Hand-books themselves, arrangements have been made for printing them in private presses. If these Hand-books are to h~ve a useful life of more than four or five years of inter-censal decennium, more expeditious methods for the collection of non-census statistics, for the preparation and checking of the manuscripts and for printing will have to be devised. 5. The Census Organisation is grateful to the Government of Madhya Pradesh for having been so kind as to undertake the publication of these Hand­ books and to the Superintendent, Government Printing and his organisation­ particularly the Assistant Superintendent, Printing, Government Regional Press, Indore and his staff-for the printing arrangements made. The inspiration behind this ambitious venture is that of our indefatigable Registrar General, Shri Asok Mitra, to whom we are all deeply grateful. Our thanks are also due to the various authorities who supplied us with all the necessary statistics. G. 1AGATHPATHI dONTENtS Pages Notes and Explanations i-vii Appendix I Standard Industrial Classification .. viii-xvi AppendIx II National Classification of Occupations xvii-xxiii Selected Statistics .. Selected Statistics of India, Madhya Pradesh, Divisions, Districts and Important Towns of Madhya Pradesh xxiv-xxxiii Revised Area and Density Figures xxxiv-xxxvi Introducing the District xxx vii-lxxviii PART I A-GENERAL POPULATION TABLES 3-7 Table A-I Area, Houses and Population 3 Appendix I Statement showing 1951 territorial units constituting the present set up 3 Appendix II Number of villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population under 5,000 4 Appendix III Houseless and Institutional population 4 Table A-II Variation in population during sixty years S Appendix District and. Tahsils showing 1951 population according to their territorial jurisdiction in 1951 changes in area and population involved in those changes 5 Table A-III Villages classified by population .. 6 Table A-IV Towns (and Town Groups) classified by population in 1961 with variation since 1901 7 B-ECONOMIC TABLES 10-83 (i) General Economic Tables 10-57 Primary Census Abstract 10-11 Table B-1 Workers and non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 12-13 Table B-III Part A Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels in urban. areas on~)J Part B Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels in rural areas only 14-15 Table B-IV Part A Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work at Household Industry 16-17 2 Table B-IV Pages Part B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in Non-Household Industry. Trade, Business. Profession or Service . 18-21 Part C Industrial classification by Sex and Divisions, MajorGroups 22-29 and Minor Groups of persons at work other than Cultivation Table B-V Occupational Classification by Sex of persons at work other than Cultivation 30-43 Table B-VI Occupational Divisions of persons at work .other than cultivation classified by Sex, Broad Age-groups and Educational l~vels in urban areas ~n/y 44-47 Table B-VII - Part A Persons working principally (i) As Cultivators, (ii) As Agri- cultural Labourers or (iii) At Household Industry classi­ fied by Sex and by Secondary work (I) At Household Industry, (li) As Cultivator or (iii) As Agricultural Labourer 48-49 Part B Industrial Classification by Sex of persons working in Non­ Household Industry, Trade Business, Profession or Service who are also engaged in Household Industry 50-53 Table B-Vrn Part A Persons unemployed aged 15 and adove by Sex, Broad Age­ groups and Educational levels in urban areas only 54-55 Part B Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by Sex and Educa­ tional Levels in rural areas only 54-55 Table B-IX Persons not at work classified by Sex, Broad Age-groups and type of activity 56-57 (ii) Household Economic Tables 59-83 Table B-X Sample Households Ci) engaged neither in Cultivation nor in Household Industry, (it) engaged either in Cultivation or Household Industry but not in both and (iii) engaged both in Cultivation and Household Industry for all areas 59 Table B-XI Sample Households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of l~nd cultivated in rural and urban areas separately 59 Table B-XII Sample Households engaged in cultivation only classified by size of land cultivated and number of family workers and hired workers in rural and urban area Y separately 60-63 Tabl. B-XIII Sample Households engaged both in cultivation and household industry showing size of land cultivated classified by principal household industry in rural and urban areas separately 64-65 3 Pages Table B-XIV Sample households engaged only in household industry classified by principal household industry in all areas 66-69 Part A Households classified by major groups of principal house- hold industry and number of persons engaged 66-67 Part B Households classified by minor groups of principal household industry 68-69 Table B-XV Sample households engaged both in cultivation and house- hold industry classified by size of land in rural and urban areas separ-ately 70-73 TableB-XVI Sample principal household