CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 PUNJAB DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK No. 16 BHATINDA DISTRICT R.L. ANAND Superintendent oj Census Operations, Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory oj Chandigarh. Published by the Government of Punjab 1967 BHATtNDA DISTRICT REFERENCE D•• TIIICT .OUNDAIIY ____ _ TAHIIL .ROAD GAUGE RA.L'AY._." ___ _ METRI METALLED ROAD .... UNWETALLED II.V.II .. CANAL __ .... --~ DlnlllCT HEADQUARTI". _" .. ® TAHIII. -...--0 UReAN CENTRE _'" ..... ~O 5 o 10 MILES ... ..., , .... 15 ill. i. ~ ..' r: :::::cor ... o 15 KILOMETRES CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS The publications relating to Punjab bear Volume No. XIII, and are bound separately as follows:- Part I·A General Report Part IV·A .. Report on Housing and Establish­ ments Part I·B .. Report on Vital Statistics Part IV·B .. Tables on Housing and Establish­ ments Part I·C(i) · . Subsidiary Tables Part V·A · . Special Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part I·C(ii) Subsidiary Tables Part V·B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part II·A General Population Tables Part VIj Village Survey Monographs : 44 in number. each relating to an individual village Part II·B(i) General Economic Tables (Tables Part VlI-A · . Report on Selected Handicrafts .~ B·I to B-IV, B-VIII and B-IX) foe.l1,I~ Part II·B(ii) General Economic Tables (Tables Part VII-B · . Report and Tables on Fairs and B-V to B-VII) j Festivals Part II·C(i) .. Social and Cultural Tables Part VIII-A · . Administrative Report : Enumera­ tion (Not for sale) Part II·C(ii) .. Migration Tables Part VIII-B ., Administrative Report : Tabula­ tion (Not for sale) Part III Household Economic Tables Part IX Socio-Economic Atlas B-PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes of District Census Handbooks:- DCH-l Hissar DCH-l1 Ludhiana DCH-2 Rohtak DCH-12 · . Ferozepur DCH-3 Gurgaon DCH-13 Amritsar DCH-4 Karnal DCH-14 Gurdaspur DCH-5 Ambala DCH-15 Kapurthala DCH-6 Simla DCH-16 Bhatinda DCH-7 Kangra DCH-17 · . Sangrur DCH-8 Lahaul & Spiti DCH·18 Patiala DCH-9 Hoshiarpur ·. -DCH-19 Mahendragarh DCH·IO · . Jullundur PREFACE The reports and statistical volumes pertaining to the 1961-census fall under three broad groups on the basis of territory coverage. The All-India Reports and Tables compiled in the office of the Registrar General, India, encompass the· ntire country. The reports compiled by the State Superintendents relate to individual States and Centrally Administered Territories. The third group consists of District Census Handbooks, the Scope of which is limited to individual Districts, and they give information for each town and village. The Hand­ books were compiled by the Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, but the State Government has undertaken their publishing. The District Census Handbooks were published for the first time at the 1951-census. They proved very useful with the officers, working in Community Development Blocks, Tahsils and Districts, and were consul­ ted in connection with elections, as also by students of social sciences interested in local problems. This Handbook contains the essential census data for each village and tQwn (according to wards) in the District. Besides, some other useful information has been included in it, thus making it a self-contained book of reference for the District. The book is divided into four parts. Part I consists of four chapters ... Chapter I introduces the District, giving information on its location, physical features, climate, fauna and flora, towns and places of interest, a brief history of the District and its administrative machinery. In Chapter II are discussed the use of land, main crops and irrigation, industries, trade and commerce, and communications. In Chapter III the salient features of population are discussed. Chapter IV deals with social and developmental activities, and achieve­ ;lIlCnts during the First and Second Five-Year Plans. ~"i;.-'c1 In Part n are presented the statistics secured from various Government Departments relating to rainfall, temperature, land utilisation, irrigation, area and yield of principal crops, livestock, industry, co-operation, education, printing and publishing, entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, transport and communications, community development activities, banks and insurance, and justice. At the end appears a Table on the fairs and festivals in the District. The Tables relating to the 1961-census are presented in Part III. Part IV contains a Directory of Villages and Towns, showing which among them' have educational institutions, hospitals and dillpensaries, post and telegraph offices, electrification and protected water-supply; area; number of occupied residential houses and households living therein; population; persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number of literate and educated persons; number of workers in nine broad industrial categories; and number of non-workers. The book contains several maps. There is a map of the District showing the administrative boundaries, roads and railways, rivers and canals, and location of towns. Another map shows the distribution of population; the population of towns is shown by proportionate circles, and of rural areas by dots. For each Tahsil in the District two types of maps have been prepared, one showing the location of social amenities, and the second showing the boundaries of villages and towns. These maps were prepared by Shri Malkiat Singb. .... This publication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Government Departments, and grateful acknowledgement is made of the help received from them. Within the Census Or­ ganisation mention needs to be made of Shri Jaswant Singh Dilawary, Statistical Assistant, and Sarvshri Vishwa Mittar and JaswantLal Asstt. Compilers for preparing the Tables appearing in Part II, under the supervision of Shri T.P.Gars. P.C.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations; and of Shri Goverdhan Dass Singia, Statistical Assistant, and Sarvshri Joginder Nath Suri and Dharam Paul Jain, Computors, for preparing the Tables appearing in Parts III and IV, under the supervision of SOO Pawan Kumar, Tabulation Officer. SarvsOO Joginder Nath Suri and Ajab tal Kakkar helped in correcting the proofs in the press. Shri Sita Ram, P.C.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, paid a number of visits . to the Bhatinda District, and after collecting information by personal observations and discussions with a large number of persons, produced the draft of this Handbook. My thanks are due also to Shri K.C. Kuriyan, Controller of Printing and Stationery, and his Deputy, Shri P.S. Walia, for their personal attention in the printing of the book. R.L. ANAND CBANDIGARH : Superintendent of Census Operations, October 9,1961. Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE iii PART I-INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT 1-42 Chapter I-Introduction 3 Chapter II-Economy 15 Chapter III-Population 25 Chapter IV-Social and Developmental Activities 33 PART ll-DEPARTMENTAL STATISTICS 43-109 Explanatory Note 47 Tables 51 PART m-CENSUS TABLES 111-251 Explanatory Note 117 Tables 145 PART IV-DIRECTORY OF VILLAGES AND TOWNS 253-317 Explanatory Note 254 Directory 256 Alphabetical List of Villages 307 Bhatinda District: Tahsil boundaries, Towns, Roads, Railways, Rivers and canals Frontispiece Bhatinda District: Distribution of Population, 1961 facing page 25 Location of Schools, Dispensaries and Post Offices: 1. Faridkot Tahsil 2. Bhatinda Tahsil 3. Man§a Tahsil facing page 33 Boundaries of Villages : Faridkot Tahsil facing page 309 Bhatinda Tahsil facing page 311 Mansa Tahsil facing page 315 PART I INTRODUCTION TO TIlE DISTRICT clIAPTER 1 lNTRODUCTiON Bhatindais one of the four Districts constituting the Patiala Civil Division. It has three Tah&ils, Faridkot. Bhatinda and Mansa, all having the status of Sub-Division. there are two 8ub-Tahsils in Bhatinda Tahsil, vjz. Phuland Nathana. According to the 19.6l-censusthe population of the Districtis 1,055,177 on anarea of 2,658.2 square miles. There are in the District 680 villages including 15 uninhabited ones and 1410wns among which Bhatinda is the headquarters. Na me, Location and Boundaries.-The DIstrict lie!> in the West Indo-Gangetic plain bet ween 29° 32' 40" and 30° 50' Ie" Nortb latitude and 74° 28' 20" and 75° 46' 35" East longitude. It is bounded by Ferozepur and Moga Tahsils in the north, Muktsar and Sirsa Tahsils in the west. Fatehabad and Hissar Tahsils in the soulll and Sangrur and '8arnala Tahsils in the east. Area (Table A-I)* .-According to tIle Surveyor General, India, the area of the District is 2,658.2 square miles, but according to the Director of Land Records, Punjab, it comes to 2,706 square miles. The difference between the twO sets of figures is Jue to the different meihods of measurement adopted by the two agencies. In this tt'.xt, unless otherwise stated, the area figures supl'lied by the Director of Land Records. Punjab, have been utilized and they are referred to also as the figures according to the vHlage papers. Among the three Tahsils of the District, the area isdivided as follows :-. Tahsil Area (square miles) c Totai Rural Urban Faridkot 561.8 557.1 4.7 Bhatinda 1,256.2 1,242.6 13.6 Mansa 840.2 83).7 4.5 Total 2,658.2 2,635.4 22 8 The District occupies the 7th position in area among the nineteen Districts of the State, the largest District with an area of6,292.3 square miles is Kangra and the smallest occupying an area of575.2 square miles is Simla. PHYSICAL FEATURES The District does not have any striking natural features. It is an alluvial plain; its greatest length is 100 miles and greatest breadth 42 miles. The land in the greater part of the DistriCt is sandy. The western part of the Faridkot area is called Athar, which is generally sandy with ridges of sand bills in many places.