CENSUS 1 971 PARTS X-A & B TOWN & VILLAGE DIRECTORY SERIES-5 VILLAGE & TOWNWISE GUJARAT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT DISTRICT CENSUS GANDHINAGAR HANDBOOK DISTRICT C. C.DOCTOR Of the Indian Administrative Service Director of Census Operations Gujarat '0 , i *@©i ! a: ~ U ~z :r 2 0 .0 ..z ....... "0 .. z« • 0"_, Oz~ij~ Q.- I '0 " .' O~H)f".lIv,., oA- III ""clrr, < : .., °ol t- 1/1 ... ~ III ..J 2 ,.. ::I °..J • ~ "OttA I- U 0 0 z~ .,." a: ... l- N ...0 en " -0 " '0 '0... ..... CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ~entral Government Publications-Census of lJ1q~a .1971-S~ie·,-~-Gujarat . is ,.being publIshed in the following parts: Part Subject) covered Npmber 1-1\ General Report , , , I-B Detailed Analysis of the Demographip, Social, Cultural a!nd Migration P~tterns. I-C Subsidiary Tabks. II-A General Population Tables ( 'A' Scrieh). t II-B . r-:conomic Tables ('B' Series). II;.-C(i) Distribution of PopUlation, l'v1other tongue and Rdigion, Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes. Other Social & Cultural Tables and Fertility.Tables, Tables on Household Com­ position, Single Year Age, Marital S¥tus, Educational Levels, Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes, etc., Bilingualism. III Establishments Report and Tables ('~; Series). IV-A Housing Report and Housing Subsidi~ry Tables. IV-B Housing Tables. V Special Tahks and Ethnographic Notqs on Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes. VI-A Town Directory:' VI-B Special Survey Reports on Selected 1owns. Vl+-C' . Survey Reports on Selected Villages . .' VIJ Special Report on Graduate and Tec~nical Personnel. ! VIIT-A Administration Report-Enumeration.' } VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation. For official use only IX Census Atlas. DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK X-A Town and Village Directory. X-B Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract. X-C Analytical Report, Departmental Statistics aqd District Census Tables. CONTENTS Pages PREFACE v-x FIGURES AT A GLANCE xi-xii ALPHABETIC LIST OF VILLAGES xiii Part-A-Town and Village Directory General Note 3-4 Introductory Note on Town and Village Directory 5-15 Tqwn Directory and its Appendices Statement I Status, Growth Histor~;i\nd Functional Category of "Towns 19 Statement II Physical Aspects and Location of Towns, 1969 20 Statement III Civic Finance, 1968-69 21 Statement IV Civic and Other Amenities, 1969 22 Statement V Medical, Educational, Recreational and Cultural Facilities in Towns, 1969 23 Statement VI Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking, 1969 24 Statement VII Population by Religion, 1971 25 Appendix I List of Urban Areas as per Location Code Numbers 26 Village Directory Gandhinagar Taluka 27-33 Abstract of Amenities at each Taluka/Mahal 34-35 Part-B-Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract General Note iii Primary Census Abstract Gandhinagar Taluka 5-13 Block Directory showing Jurisdiction of Enumerator's ~ . ......_ Blocks in the Urban Areas 15 MAPS District Map Fron tispiece O{lndhina~ar Taluka facin~ Page - 1 PREFACE The District Census Handbooks are being Part B published regularly since 1951. Earlier they were (1) Urban Block and VilJagewise Primary brought out under the name of "Village Hand­ Census Abstract books" and contained only the population totals. They are prepared by the Census Organisation PartC on behalf of the State Government and published by the latter. They are the first to be published (1) Analytical Report in the series of 1971 Census publications, which (2) Administrative Statistics are now to foJlow. The need for making avail­ able to the State Government, the Census data (3) Census Tables as early as possible after the taking of the count, bas been recognised since long. It is a matter of It was originally decided that each part deep satisfaction that the present volume is being would be brought out separately. But since the published within a year of the taking of the data for parts A and B has been prepared Census. almost at the same time, it is decided to combine these parts into one volume. Part C wbich bas The data cQllected during 1971 Census was to await the collection of official statistics from tabulated initially at three Regional Tabulation various Departments of the State Government Offices at Sural, Rajkot and Bhavnagar for and preparation of Census Tables, would be rural areas and one more Tabulation Office at published separately. Ahmedabad which dealt with the slips of urban areas only. The data abstracted at the Regional The Town Directory consists of information offices was brought to Ahmedabad where it was about the status, growth history and functional compiled for the State as a whole and is noW category of towns and their pbysical aspects, being published. location, Municipal finances, civic and other amenities like sewerage, protected water supply, The District Census Handbook contains fire fighting service, electrification etc. It also primary data upto the village level for rural contains information about medical. educational, areas and enumerator's block level for urban recreational and cultural facilities available at areas. It is for the first time that in 1971 the towns. Detailed information about trade, Census we are giving information about urban commerce, industry and banking is also provided areas of the State in a separate part called here. The population of the towns according to the "Town Directory". We are also giving compre­ 1971 Census by religion and Scbeduled Caste and hensive information about rural areas in the Scheduled Tribe is furnished here. The Town "Village Directory". This is further supplemented Directory is a new feature of 1971 Census and the by the Alphabetical List of Villages for facility above information has been compiled in it for tbe of reference. first time. It has been decided to bring out the The Village Directory contains comprehensive District Census Handbooks of 1971 in three information about the amenities available at tbe parts as under :- village such as educational and medical, supply of electric power, drinking water facility, Part A communication through road, rail, kutcha road, (I ) Town Directory pucca road and bus route, existence of post, telegraph and telephone facilities, etc. Further (2) Village Directory information about staple food, area under various use. like forest, cultivable land, source aDd the village officials and scrutinised at taluka extent of irrigation, cultivable waste and name level by the Statistical Assistant before returning of the nearest town and its distance, day on to tbis office. The Development Commissioner which 'bazar' is being held, if any, and its and the Director, Bureau of Economics and importance from religious, historical and archaeo­ Statistics, issued firm instructions to the field logical point of view is recorded here. staff to ensure that the information was filled and scrutinised with the utmost care. After this The Primary Census Abstract contains infor­ information was received in the CensUS mation about the number of occupIed residential Directorate. it was subjected to a very close and houses and hou~eholds. total population including rigorous checking by a eel) which was specially house less and institutional population, literacy, created for the purpose. Tbere were a number Scqeduled Caste and SChedUled Tribe population of points on which further probe became and the distribution of working population into necessary, where the information was found to nine industrial categories of workers and non­ be incomplete or inconSistent. Our greatest workers. hurdle was lhe reconciliation of area figures as The Analytical Report in Part C takes note reported by the village officials and those reported of the social, ecoQomic and demographic cbanges by tne District Inspector of Land Records. A which have occurred in the District during the series of meetings bad to be held at each last teo years. The administrative statistics are District Headquarter, where the Deputy Director obtained from various Departments of tbe Slate in charge of the District Census Handbook Uoit had to remain present aDd point out the glaring Government and presented JO this part which inconsistencies reported to the Taluka Develop­ also incorporates It few of tbe tables generated from the data derived during 1971 Census. ment Officers and District Inspectors of Land Records. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of all There are 217 towns in Gujarat and 18,709 concerned, we were ultimately able to reconcile villages. Compilation of data for such a large completely the area 'figures for each Village. number of units within such a short time was Taluka and District. indeed a formidable task. The terms and defini­ tions used in tbe schedules of the Directories It was noticed that there were minor were carefully studied and detailed instructions differences in the spellings of village names with explanatory nOles, about the maDner in reported by the Mamlatdar, Taluka Development which they were to be filled, and the source Officer and District Inspector of Land Records. from which data was to be collected were Issued Similar differences were also noticed in the total by this Directorate to the Taluka Development number of villages reported by each agency. Officers. The collection of land use data and These discrepancies were reconciled on the basis tallying of area figures for each administrative of the list of villages published by Revenue unit presented an uphill task. The Settlement Department, information obtained from taluka Commissioner aDd Director of land Records offices and other published sources. Location was requested in August 1969 to confirm some code number was given to each administrative of the presumptions and furnish necessary unit at the time of taking of the Census in guidelines to this Organisation as to how the order 10 avoid repetitIOn of their names. various figures required could be CUlled out The Census Directorate had obtained village­ from the revenue forms maintained at village wise data relating to drinking water facility. level. primary and secondary school, post, telegraph The printed forms of Village Directories and telephone, electrification etc., from the:: were lIent to the Taluka Development Officers concerned Departments.