CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 SERIES 10 MADHY A PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK PARTS X (A) & X(B) VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY VILLAGE AND TOWN-WISE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT OWALlOR DISTRICT A. K. PANDYA OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SBRVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS. MADHYA PRADESH PUBLISHED BY TJlE GOVERNMENT OF MADHYA PRADESH 1977 1971 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS, MADHYA PRADESH (All the Census Publications of this State will bear series No. 10) PART I Census General Report including Subsidiary (in Sub-Parts) Tables PART II-A Census Tables on population PART II-B Economic Tables (in Sub-Parts) PART II-C Social and Cultural Tables (in Sub-Parts) PART III-A Establishment Report and Subsidiary Tables PART HI-B Establishment Tables PART IV Housing Report and Tables PART V Special Tables & Ethnographic Notes on (in Sub-Parts) Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes PART VI-A Town Directory PART VI-B Special Survey Reports on selected towns PART VI-C Survey Reports on selected villages PART VII Special Report on Graduates and Technical Personnel PART VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration PART VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation PART IX Census Atlas PART IX-A Administrative Atlas STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS PART X-A Village and Town Directory PART X-B Village and Town Primary Census Abstracts PART X-C Analytical Report and Administrative statements & District Census Tables - (District Census Handbooks are published under Part X in 3 Parts-A, B & C fo!_ each of the 43 di$lricts in tht' State, Parts A and B are published in one volume). CONTENTS Page 1. Preface i-ii 2. List of Abbreviations 3. Alphabetical List of Villages 3-13 ( i) Gird Tahsil 3-7 (ii) Pichhore Tahsil 7-11 (iii) Bhander Tahsil 11-l3 PART A 1. Explanatory Note 17-29 2. Village Directory (Amenities and Land-use) 30-67 ( i) Gird Tahsil 30-45 (ii) Pichhore Tahsil 46-59 (iii) Bhander Tahsil 60-67 3. Appendix to Village Directory 68-69 4. Town Directory 70-76 ( i) Status, Growth History and Functional Category of Towns 70 ( ii) Physical Aspects and Location of Towns 70 (iii) Civic Finance 71 (iv) Civic and other Amenities 72 ( v) Medical, Educational, Recreational and Cultural Facilities in Towns 72 (vi) Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking 73 (vii) Population by Religion and Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in Towns 73 PARTB I. Explanatory Note 77-78 2. Figures at a Glance 79 3. Primary Census Abstract 80-163 Page District Abstract 80-83 Gird Tahsil 84-135 (Rural) 84-105 (Urban) 106~135 Pichhore Tahsil 136-155 (Rural) 136~I4~ (Urban) 150-155 Bhander Tahsil 156-163 (Rural) 156-163 (Urban) 162-163 PREFACE Prior to the 1951 Census, there was no regular separate publication at the district level regarding the data collected, although the seeds of the District Census Handbooks can be traced to the '~illage Lists' brought out for every district in 1901 and 'Village Statistics' of every district published in 1911 and 1941. No definite answer is for_thcoming as to why such publica'lions, giving village-wise information of occupied houses, break-up of population into males/females and li1:(!rates, were not brought out 10 1921 and 1931. The reason multi be transler from 1921 of cel1tain charges on Census previously met from the provincial revenues to the Centl'al re\'enues anti the Government of India may not have considered it necessary to publish statistics upto the village ley_el. 'Village Statistics' in 1941 were brought out by the Cellitral Pro_vinces and Berar Government and this practice of bringing out district-wise publicaJtions at the cost of the State (;'overnment has since been continuing. 2. The scope of the diSitrict-wise publications, now called the District Census Handbooks, has been undergoing change with each successive Census from 1951. In 1951, the. District Census, Handbooks only contained the Pr!mary Census Abstract and the Census tables. In view of the usefulness of separate publication for each district, improvements were made at the time' of the 1961 Census by including nOll-Census data like climate, agriculture, cD-operation, industry, educa;tion, etc. An 'Introduc­ tory Note' was also added to highlight the more stnking ieatures. Untol1tunately.r the desire to make district·wise Census publications very comprehensive lcsulted in late availability ot the books ~o the mel's. Therefore, this time the Distri~t Census Handbooks have been divitied into _three parts in order to release maximum data, -as and when finalised, so that the publications may have a usdul life of aboUit seven to eight years ot intel'-Censal decennium. Part A will contain Primarily non-Census statistics, Part B the Primary Census AbSltract and Part C various administrative statiitics with a chapter titled "Introducing the district". It may be mentioned here that su£scquently a decision has been taken to merge Parts A and B in one volume on grounds of economy. 3. Much of the delay in 'the publication of the District Census Handbooks after the 1961 Census was due to delay in collection of administrative statistics and the decision to write the Introductory Note in the head office, Separation of administrative statii>tics and Ithe decision to write the Introductory and the kind Co-operation of the State Government permitting Collectors of the 1961-71 decade to write thl:: chapter on "Introducing the DistriGt", likely to go a long way in early .publica/tion of all the parts of the District Census Handbooks; Anotherfavourable lador this time is the early decision of the State Government to per.mit printing in private presses as and when Ithe work-load on the State Government Presses is heavy and likely to result in delay in the bringing out of the District Census Handbook of any distriot. It would not be out of place to point out here that the work-load in connection with Ithe District Census Handbooks is very much more this time, not only on account of wider coverage but largely due to the decision 10 bring out the District Census Handbooks in Hindi ~s well as English. In all, there will be 172 publications, 4 per di&trict of which 2 win be in Hindi and 2 in English. Advance action was taken this time to collect the non­ f_:;ensus data and it is hoped that the combined volume of Pants A and B of all the 43 districts would be out by the end of 1973 and Part C of all the districts by the middle of 1975. This would be a definite improvement on .the 1961 performance when printing of the District Census Handbooks covered the period 1964 to 1967. 4, In his Preface to Ithe 1961 District Census Handoooks, my predecessor, Shri G. JagathpathiJ had observed thus, "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 not till then covered by blocks, The coverage had become complete by about the middle of 1963 and ilt is not unlikely that the 1971 Census will recognise the block as the basic field unit as much for purposes of presentation as for operational pur­ poses.". It has not been possible to ado pit the development block as the basic unit for operation and presentation in this Census for more than one reason.. Firstly, the office of the Block Develop­ ment Officer was aoolished in December, 1965; its resurrection in the fOTID of office of the Block Development Assistant from 2-10·69 had not taken firm root'> up to ,the time field arrangements for the 1971 Census were finaHsed. Secondly, the tahsil as a unit of field arrangements has many more advan­ tages, the ,most significant being the ready availability of that legendary functionary-the patwari-w~thout whose actIve co·operation it would be a formidable task to determine whether a habited structure in a ,cultivated field is part of village X or Y. Even, otherwise, sinre village-wise figures are available, it sJ:lOuld not be difficult for those in need of data for intermediate nnits between the village and !the tahsil, hke the .development block Or patwari halka, to compile ilt by adding figures of concerned villages. !he tahsIl has for long been a fixed unit of administration and, to my mind, should be retained tl1 preference to the development block whose jurisdiction may undergo a change in llCCordance with the pace of future development, 2 5. In conclusion, I would like to place on record my grateful Ithanks to the Government of Madhya Pradesh [or having ~ kindly agreed to undertake the publication of the Handbooks in hindi as well as english to the various governmeIllt and semi-government offices for un-hesitatingly making available the non-Censlls sta.tistics, and to the Controller, Government Press, and his staff for arranging early printing in the Government and private Presses. BHOPAL: A. K. PANDYA 6th August) 1 97a'. _ GCPB-5o-S&PD-I-6-74-9,OOO. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS I Civic Administration 32 Hospital H 33 T.B. Clinic TBC Corporation C 34 Maternity & Child Welfare Centre MCW 2 Municipality M 35 Ayurvedic Dispensary AD 3 Notified Area Committee NAC 36 ]\;ur~ing Home NH 4 Cantonment Board cn 37 Family Planning Centre FC 5 Non-Municipal; Non-Town Committee; NM 38 Veterinary Hospital VH Non-Panchayat 6 Gram Panchayat P V Electricity II Other Amenities (Sewerage & Drainage) 39 Electricity E 4') Electricity for Irrigation EI 7 Open Surface Drains OSD 41 Electricity for Industry EIN 8 Box Surface Drains BSD 9 Sewerage S VI Drinking Water Supply 10 Head Loads HL 11 Wheel Barrow WB 42 Tap Water T 12 Bullock Cart RC 43 River Water R 13 Tractor/Truck fR/J 44 Nala Water NW 14 Septic Tank Latrines ST 45 Tubewell Water TW 46 Well Water W 47 Tank Water TK III Educational 48 Fountain Water F 49 Canal C 15 Primary School PR 50 Over Head Tank OHT 16 Middle School Mid.