SERIES 20 TAMILL NADU PART; XIII :A', DISJRIGT * CENSUS, HANDB,O.OK ;:' VI~LAGE'AN'D TOWN\DIREC·TORY' A.'P.:MUTHUSWAMI .~ of, thel Indian"Administrative; Service " Director ,:: Or! Census' 'Operations' ; Tamil' Na'du.' , , Prioe Rs.. PUBLISHED BY GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU aND PRINTED BY THE PIRECTOR OF STATIONERY AND PRINTING AT GOVERNMiENT CENTRAL pRESS. MADRAS-GOO 079. CONTENT~ 'Fexeword iii Preface v District Map .. viii ,Important Statistics .. AnalYtical Note (i) Census Concepts: Rural and Urban areas. Census House/Household, Scheduled Castes! Scheduled Tribes. Literate, Main Worker, Marginal Worker, Non-Worker, etc. til) HistorY ofthe District Census Handbook including Scope of Village and Tov.n riIfctClY arc PrimarY Census Abstract . , .iii) History of the District and its formation Jurisdictional changes, Physical Aspects-Location and Physiography~Area and Population-Soil-Oimate and Rainfall-Rivers-Hills. Coastline, Mines and Minerals. Flora and Fauna, Forestry-Land and Landuse pattern, Agriculture-Irrigation and Power, Animal Husbandry, FisherY, lndustries-Medium and Large IndustrY, Cottage Industry, Trade and Commerce, Transport and Communication, Social and Cultural events, Places of Historical, Religious, Archaeologicalimportance and Tourist interest .. Brief analysis of the Village and Town Directory data SECTION I-VlLLAGEDIRECTORY Note explaining the codes used in Village Directory 2~· 1. SATYAMANGALAM TALUK­ (i) Taluk Map · . Facing 32 ,(ii) AI phabeticaJ list of Villages 33.35· {m) Village Directory Statement 36.48 Z. GOPICHETTlPALAIYAM TALUK­ (i) TaJuk Map · . Facing 5i' (Ii} Aiphabeticallist of Villages 51.53 (Ji) Village Directory Statement 54-65 f. BHAVANITALUK- 6) Taluk. Map · . Facing 6&: 6i) Alphabetical list of Villages I:Ei9-71 (iii) Village DirectorY Sta ternent 72-83 4. ERODE TALUK­ (i) Taluk Map · . Facing B6 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages 87-89 fiii) Village Direcocy Sta tement .. 90- 103 (0 Taluk Map ., . • • Facing 106 tii) Alphabetical list of ViII ages 101-109 (iii) Village Directory Statement Uf).12S PR 1l-2-A (ii~ '. BHAR.APURAM TALUK­ (i) Taluk Map Facing 128 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages 129-131 (iii) Village Directory Statement 132-149 Appendix-I Talukwise Abstraxct of Educational, Medical and other amenities ISO-lSI Appendix-II Land utilisation data in respect of nO!1-mu!1icipl 1ov,!1s 152 Appendix-Ill Talukwise list of Village where no amenities are available 153 Appendix-IV. List of Villages according to the Proportion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to the total Population by ranges . • • • • 154-175 SECTION II-TOWN DIRECTORY Note explaining the codes used in Town Directory 179.-181 Statement-I Status and Growth History 182-135 Statement-IT Physical Aspects and Location of Towns, 1979 189 Statement-Ill Municipal Finance, 1978-79 193 Statement-IV Civic and other amenities, 1979 194-197 Statement-IV-A Civic and other amenities in notified slums, 1979 198-199 Statement-V Medical, Educational,Recreational and Culturalfacilities,1919 200-293 Statement-VI Trade, Commerce, IndustrY and Banking, 1979 204-297 AppendiX-Towns showing their outgrowths with Population 280 RalOOnsibility for the correctne;s of internal details shown in the maps rests with tho publisher. FOREWORD. The District Census Handbook (DCH), complied by the Census Organisation on behalf oftko State Government, is one of the most valuable products of the Census. The DCH is constantly referred to by planners, administrators, academicians and rescarchers. It is inter alia used for delimitation of constituencies, formulation of local level and regional plans and as an aid to dis­ trict administration. The District Cens,lls Hand book is the only publication which provides Prim«ry Census Abstract (peA) data upto village level for tbe rural areas and wardwise for each city or town. It also provides data on infrastructure and amenities in villages and towns, etc. The District Census Handbook series was initiated during the 1951 Census. It cbntained im­ portant census tables and PCA for each village and town of the district. During 1961 Census, the scope of the DCH was enlarged and if contained a descriptive account of the district, admi­ nistrative statistics, census tables and a village and town 'iirectory, including PV A. The 1971 DCH series was planned in three parts. Part-A related to village and town directory, Part-B to village and town PCA and Part-C comprised of analytical report, administrative statistics, district census tables and cC)rtain analytical tables based on PCA and amenity dat~. in respect of villages. However, in some sLtes, it' was confined to district census tables and 111 a. few cases altogether given up due to delay in compilation and Printing. While designing the format of 1981 nCR series, some new features along with the restruc­ turing of the format of village and town directory have been attempted. At the same time, cOll,l­ parability with the 1971 data ]13.:; also been kept in view. All theamenities except power supply in the village have been brought together in the village directly with the instruction that in case an amenity is not available in the refferrent village, the distance in broad ranges from the nearest place where the amenity is available may be given. The restructuring of the format of the village directory and incorporating more exhaustive data on illfracture aspect, particularly in relation to aminities and land-use pattern, is expected to further meet the need of micro level planning for rural areas. It is expected to help not only in local area planning but regulating the provision of go@ds and services as well, so as to minimise the regional imbalances in the process of development. A few new items of information have also been introduced' to meet some of the requirements of the Revised Minimum Needs Programme. Such new items of information as adult literacy centres, primary health sub-centres and community health workers in the village have been in­ troduced in the village directory with this objective in mind. The new item on approach to the village is to have an idea ab.:mt the villages in the district which are inacceSsible. A new eolumn, "Total population and number of households" has been introduced ~o examine the correlation of the amenities with the population and number of household they serve. Addition of two more appendices, listing the villages where no amenities are avaialable and according to the proportion of Scheduled Caste aml Scheduled Tribe population to the t~tal population, has also been made with this view in mind. The formats of the town directory have also been modified to~meet the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme by providing information on a few new items. A new statement on civic and other amenities in slums in Class-I and Class II towns (Statement IV-A) has been intro­ duced with this objective in mind. It is expected that this will help the planners to Chalk out programmes on provision of civic amenities for the improvement of slums. The columns on Scheduled Caste and SCheduled Tribe population in statement IV relating to civic and other amenities and adult litracy classes/centres under educational facilities in statement V are are also added inter alia with this view. A significant addition is class'oftown in all the seven statements of the town directory. The infracture of amenities in urban areas of the country can be best . analysed by taking the class of towns into consideration. The addition of the columns on civie .administration status and population in a few statements also serve this purpose. (iv) The format of the Primary Census Abstract for the villages and town bas been formulated in the light of changes in the economic and other questions canvassed through the Individual Slip ef 1981 Census. I . In ord;:r to avv~J. "::clay ill publication of 1981 DCH series, it has been so designed that Part-A of tile volum;; contains village and town directly and Part-B the ,PCA of villages and towns inducling the Scheduled elste and Scheduled Tribe PCA upto TalukjTown levels. At the begining of the DCH, a detailed analyticn.! note supported by a number of inset tables based on PCA and non-census data in relation to the infracstruture has been introduced to enhance its value. The district and taluk level maps, depicting the boundaries and other important features. have been inserted at appropriate places to further enhance the value of the publication. This publiatioll is a joint ventures of the State Government and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected and compiled in the State under the direction of Shri A.P. Muthu­ swami, I.A.S., the Director of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu on behalf of the State Government which has borne the cost of printing. The task of planning, designing co-ordination of this pu blica­ tion was carried out by Shri N.G. Nag, Deputy Registrar-General (Social Studies) of may office. Dr. B.K. Roy, Deputy Registrar-General (Map) provided the technical guidance in the preparation of the maps. Data received from Census Directorates have been scrutinised in tbe Social Studies­ Division at the headquarters under the guidance of Shri M.M. Dua, Senior Research Officer, I am -thankful to all who have contributed in this project. NywDELHI, P. PADMANABHA, 2~h April, 1982. REGISTRAR-GENERAL, INDlA. PREFACE It has been the trdlitil,n of the Gov('Tllm';r.! (Ji LIT.] N:.cdu to publish immeJide1y ; fter each census, a Dist.rict CensL's H::ndbC'ok separately fOI each district containing the Census statistics. ~sides <:'ther v2.1uable d('.t;~ of ke<d impc rt~.nce }'C r tht: liS{; of the State Government, district ad'lninistmticu, resc~~rch :;ClL Lrs <ond <..~hcl" d..:.w uscrs. The first series of District Census Hand­ books were brcught out immecddy ,fter the 1951 Census, and the present publie<Ltion aftu the 1981 Census is the fourth in the series.