CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 SERIES 2 ANDHRA PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK GUNTUR PARTS XII - A &. B VILLAGE &. TOWN DIRECTORY VILLAGE It TOWNWISE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT R.P.SINGH OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS ANDHRA PRADESH PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 1995 FOREWORD Publication of the District Census Handbooks (DCHs) was initiated after the 1951 Census and is continuing since then with .some innovations/modifications after each decennial Census. This is the most valuable district level publication brought out by the Census Organisation on behalf of each State Govt./ Uni~n Territory a~ministratio~. It Inte:­ alia Provides data/information on· some of the baSIC demographic and soclo-economlc characteristics and on the availability of certain important civic amenities/facilities in each village and town of the respective ~i~tricts. This pub~i~ation has thus proved to be of immense utility to the pJanners., administrators, academiCians and researchers. The scope of the .DCH was initially confined to certain important census tables on population, economic and socia-cultural aspects as also the Primary Census Abstract (PCA) of each village and town (ward wise) of the district. The DCHs published after the 1961 Census contained a descriptive account of the district, administrative statistics, census tables and Village and Town Directories including PCA. After the 1971 Census, two parts of the District Census Handbooks (Part-A comprising Village and Town Directories and Part-B com~iSing Village and Town PCA) were released in all the States and Union Territories. Th ri art (C) of the District Census Handbooks comprising administrative statistics and distric census tables, which was also to be brought out, could not be published in many States/UTs due to considerable delay in compilation of relevant material. In 1981, some new features alongwith the restructuring of the formats of Village and Town Directory were introduced in the DCHs. These were published in two parts for each district after the 1981 Census. While Part-A comprised Village and Town Directories, the PCA of Villages and Towns (ward-wise) including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe PCA upto tehsil/town level were provided in Part-B. To illustrate, all the amenities except electricity, were brought together in the Village Directory and if an amenity was not available in the referrent village, the distance in broad ranges from the nearest place having such amenity was given. Information on some new items such as adult literacy centres, primary health sub-centres and community health workers in the village were provided so as to meet some of the requirements of the Revised Minimum Needs Programme. Similarly, information on approac,h to the village was also n(ovided for the first time in the Village Directory so as to give an idea about the number of inaccessible villages in each district. In case of Town Directories also, keeping in V:dW the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme, a Statement IV-A on slums was provided so as to enable the planners to chalk 6ut the programmes for providing better civic and other amenities in the slums. In this statement details on civic and other amenities were reported for the slums of class I and class II towns. Apart from this, one column on the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes population and another on adult literacy classesj centres were added in statements IV and V respectively. The manner of presentation of the DCHs for the 1991 Census is by and large the same as followed in 1981. However, the format of PCA has been restructured Slightly in the 1991 Census for the benefit of data users. Nine-fold industrial classification of main workers has been giv~n as against four-fold industrial classification presented in the 1981 Census. In addition to this, the sex-wise population in the 0-6 age-group has also been included in PCA for the f~rst time with a. view to enabling data users to compute more realistic literacy rate as a" children below 7 years of age have been treated as illiterate at the time of the ~991 C~nsus. It is expected that the above mentioned modifications will help the planners In chalking out more effective developmental programme: . One of the most i.mportant inn.ovations. in the 1991 Census is the Community Development Bloc~-Ievel presentation of data In the Village Directory and PCA instead of the traditional Tahsll/TalukjPS level presentation. It is expected that the presentation of Village Directory and PCA data at C.D. Block level will help the planners in formulation of micro-level developmental plans, as the C.D. Block is the lowest administrative unit for developmental planning. In order to facilitate the task of administrators, planners and researchers intending to use Village Directory /PCA data, either from the magnetic tapes/ floppies or from the published records, both the computer and manual codes for each village have been provided for the 1991 Census alongwith the corresponding codes of 1981, This publication is a joint venture of the State Govt, and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected and compiled under the direction of Shri R,P. Singh, lAS, Director of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad on behalf of the State Government which has borne the cost of printing. The task of planning, designing and co-ordination of the publication was initiated by Dr. K,P.lttaman, former Deputy Registrar General, (Social Studies) and Shri M.M. Dua, Joint Director, For the sake of uniformity in presentation of information/data and for preparation of analytical note depicting the salient features emerging from a micro­ level analysis of .census/non-census data, a model District Census Handbook from each state and union territory was thoroughly scrutinised in the Social studies Division under the guidance of Shri M.K.Jain, the present Deputy Registrar General (S,S). This task was carried by Shri A.K.Singh, Deputy Director who was assisted by Shri N.S. Soam, Assistant Director and his staff. Technical guidance in·the preparation of the maps was initially provided by Dr. B.K.Roy former Deputy Registrar General (Map) and later by Mrs, !·tinati Ghosh, the present Deputy Registrar General (Map). I am thankful to all those who have contributed to this project. New Delhi A.A. Nanda the 11th June, 1992. Registrar General, Jndia PREFACE The District Census Handbooks (DCHs.) are an important set of Census publica­ tions brought out by the Census Organisation which contain basic da~a covering wide spectrum of information on socio-economic aspects. As in the past, this publication is being brought out by the Census Directorate, Andhra Pradesh, on behalf of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The present volume is fifth in the series of Census Handbooks. The foreword of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, provides· the reader with the historical background of the DCHs. and also brings out the importance, scope and significance as well as the changes affeCted over the period since ·1951. As per the publication programme of 1991 Census, this volume h.as to be published in two parts-part A, which apart from presenting certain analytical notes mainly deals with non-census data collected from various functionaries of the State Government at different levels, which are presented in the shape of Village and Town Directories; Part B contains detailed census data for villages and. towns. However, Part A and B are presented in a single volume for the convenience of the reader~ The maps presented in the Handbook at the level of district and revenue division depicting certain important physical features and demographic details constitute an important part of this publication. One of the important changes in the 1991 publications vis-a-vis the 1981 publications, is· the p~esentation of the Primary Census Abstract with the nine-fold industrial classification of workers as against the four~fold division· of 1981. The year 1985 saw a total reorganisation of the administrative units below the district level in Andhra Pradesh when 1110 Mandals replc;lced 316 Talukas. In all the previous Handbooks, the data was presented tehsil/taluka-wise. This time the data has been presented 'Mandai Praja f>arishad' • wise instead of Revenue Mandal­ wise as. explahled in Chapter-3. The data in. respect of statutory towns is presented separately. In the preparation of the DCHs., the role of the Andhra Pradesh State Government is of paramount importance in as much as the entire cost of publication is met from the State Government funds. Further, we have had the ready and whole hearted cooperation of the State Government staff at various levels in compiling the non-census data for this publication; Much of the data received from the field, Le. Mandai Revenue Officers, Pan­ chayat and Municipal Officials had to be. cross-checked with other existing data to ensure consistency· and correctness. This process of reconciliation contributed to considerable delay in bringing out these volumes. Hopefully, these handbooks would serve as valuable sources of reference for the academicians, researchers, as well as, planners and administrators & non-governmental organisations. JV I take this opportunity, to acknowledge the devoted work turned out by various officers/staff in bringing out this volume. A compilation of this type and magnitude is made possible only by the diligent efforts of a hierarchy of officials. The basic work was done by Smt.P:A.M.Tayaru and her team of dedicated workers under the guidance of Sri C.S. Bose (Assistant Director) who deserve all the credit for this. Initial drafting of the report was done by Sri Ch.Krishnamurthy, Deputy Director, Census, who was on deputation with us during the period.