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CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 Series-27 ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS Paper 1 of 1991 PROVISIONAL POPULATION TOTALS ASHOKKUMAR Director of Census Operations, Andaman and Nicobar Islands CONTENTS Pages ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (v) FIGURES AT A GLANCE 1 Statement showing Provisional Population Totals at the level of Union Territory, Districts and Tehsils 2 1991 CENSUS ENUMERATION IN ACTION 3-16 MAPS AND CHARTS Chart showing district and tehsil-wise population 17 Map 1-Decennial Population Growth Rate 1981-91 19 Map 2-Density of Population 21 BACKGROUND NOTE 23-25 BRIEF ANALYSIS OF RESULTS 26-30 PROVISIONAL POPULATION TABLES 1. Distribution of population, sex ratio, growth rate and density of population by districts 31 2. Percentage decadal variation in population since 1901 32 3. Cities with population of 100,000 and above 33 4. Literacy' 34 5. Distribution of population, sex ratio and density of population at all-India level 35 6. Literacy at all-India level 36-37 APPEN61CES 1. List of Principal, District and Sub-Divisional Census Officers, Census Charge Officers 38-39 2. List of officials who worked in the Provisional Population Totals-1991 Census Project 40 CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES 1. Houselist 41 2. Household Schedule 42-43 3. Individual Slip 45-46 (iii) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The organising of decennial census is a sort of joint venture of Union Government, State Government and public at large. Unless all the three partners of this joint venture have full confidence and co operation this massive exercise will not be successful. I am fortunate that in this territory this joint venture worked smoothly and successfuny. The first exercise of conducting census operations in the form of houselisting operation began on a sound footing and this process continued smoothly till the stage of enumeration which ended on 5th March, 1991. The then Chief Secretary, A & N Administration, Shri Gorakh Ram, lAS inaugurated the training of census officers organised in connection with the houselisting operations and the Hon'ble Lt. Governor, A & N Islands, Lt. Genl. Ranjit Singh Dyal (Rtd.) inaugurated the census training of census officers relating to enumeration. They assured the census officers that the A & N Administration will provide all available resources and help to ensure timely and smooth completion of the whole process of census work I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to A & N Administration and Central Government Departments who extended their whole hearted co-operation by sparing men and materials whenever required. I am also deeply indebted to Shri A.R. Nanda, Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India whose commitment and dedication to complete the census operations in time inspired me and my officers to complete all phase in time. It was because of his inspired leadership, mature advice and gentle guidance that it was possible for us to complete successfully this massive and gigantic task of conducting census operations not only in time but also with perfection. Shri Mahandra Nath, Jt. Registrar General, India and Shri N. Rama Rao, Dy. Registrar General (C & T) also always responded to our calls and extended all help and guidance. They never allowed us to feel that we are working in a very remote and isolated territory by providing guidance either over telephone or through letters. ' I am also thankful to the Officers of A & N Administration viz., S/Shri H.D. Birdi, Secretary (Stat.), S.K. Tripathi, Research Officer (AC) for timely issuing census instructions at the level of A & N Administration. I am also thankful to Shri D. Balasubramaniam, Police Radio Officer and his team of dedicated workers who always came handy and helped us in sending timely wireless messages to far flung and isolated corners of this territory and also taking the pain to deliver to us urgent messages immediately on their receipt from the Census Charge Officers. The All India Radi~, Port Blair and Publicity Department of A & N Administration and Central Government took special interest in giving wide publicity about the census operations. They proved of great help in creating a census consciousness amongst the masses about the importance and usefulness of census data and census work. My thanks are due to S/Shri M.P. Suri, Station Director, AIR, BK Bose, Publicity Officer and SK Paul, Director, IP & T of A & N Administration, who were always ready to help us in broadcasting/in publishing our educative news in the Daily Telegrams, Dweep Samachar and also exhibiting census films through their media programmes to inculcate the Importance of census amongst the rural masses. The Director of Shipping Services, Cdr. Tilak R. Dewan and the Dy. Director of Shipping, Capt. Kaushal Gupta also deserve my sincere thanks for providing us timely help in sending census parties to various far flung islands and also adjusting sailing programmes for collection of census materials from various points. I am also thankful to the Department of Lighthouses and Lightships who helped us in organising the census operations in non-synchronous areas of Narcondam island. In my office, I was assisted by very able team of officers and staff headed by Shri Balwant Singh, Deputy Director of census operations. It was because of the untiring and sustained efforts of Shri Balwant Singh and his teams of dedicated colleagues particularly, S/Shri M.L. Puri, Asst. Director of Census Operations, P.K.T. Nair, K.N. Mishra, B.N. Mishra, V.O. Koshy, Pradip Oas Gupta, all Statistical Assistants and Shri K.V.K. Nair, Senior Stenographer that the operations could be conducted witn clock work precision. They all deserve special mention. I am also thankful to all the Principal, District, Sub-Divisional Census Officers, Census Charge Officers and Special Census Charge Officers, Supervisors and Enumerators at all levels for conducting the fl&ld operations successfully in their respective areas. Shri S.P. Prabhakar, Principal Census Officer of district of Andamans and Shri Narendra Singh, Secretary, Port Blair Municipal Board (Census Charge Officer) deserve special appreciation for handling a non-cooperation movement organised by a section of people tactfully. ASHOKKUMAR of the Indian Administrative Services PORT BLAIR Director of Census Operations Dated, the 28th March, 1991 Andaman & Nicobar Islands (vi) FIGURES AT A GLANCE CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 Provisional Population Totals-Andaman and Nicobar Islands A. Population Total 277,989 Males 152,737 Females 125,252 B. Decennial Growth 1981-91 (a) Absolute 89,248 (b) Percentage 47.29 C. Density of Population 34Pe~onsperSq.Km. D. Sex Ratio 820 Females per 1 ,000 Males E. Literacy Rate (Per cent) Total 73.74 Mates 79.68 Females 66.22 1991 CENSUS (Provisional Figures) STATEMENT SHOWING A COMPARATIVE PICTURE OF THE POPULATION Total Population Decennial Growth Density of Rates (Percentage) Population Union Territory/ Population in 1981 Population in 1991 1991 DistrictjTehsil (and rank) (and rank) 1971-81 1981-91 (per Km2j 2 3 4 5 6 A& N Islands 188,741 277,989 +63.93 +47.29 34 Andamans district 158,287 238,968 + 69.3!? +50.97 37 Diglipur tehsil 15,702 23,694 +65.81 +50.90 27 (4) (4) Mayabunder tehsil 13,954 21,488 +65.27 +53.99 16 (7) (5) Rangat tehsil 24,289 33,305 +60.12 +37.12 31 (3) (3) " Port Blair tehsil 76,329 122.427 +79.55 +60.39 61 (1) - (1 ) Ferrargunj tehsil 28,013 38,054 +56.72 +35.84 37 (2) (2) Nicobars district 30,454 39,021 +40.57 +28.13 21 Car Nicobar tehsil 15,486 19,252 + 14.68 +24.32 149 (5) (7) Nancowry tehsil 14,968 19,769 +83.41 +32.08 11 (6) (6) 2 CENSUS IN ACTION \ I Hon.'ble Lt. Governor, A & N Islands, Lt. Genl. Ranjit Singh Dyal, PVSM, MVC, ADC (Retd.) is__j . inaugurating Training of Census Officers at Port Blair 5 Training Seminar of Census Officers in progress at Port Blair 6 In remote islands Census Workers used Hodies as the means of transportation 7 ( Loading and unloading of Census Materials 8 Hon'ble Lt. Governor, A & N Islands, Lt. Genl. Ranjit Singh Dyal, PVSM, MVC, ADC (Retd.) is being enumerated at Raj Bhawan 9 Shri Manoranjan Bhakta, M.P. is being enumerated 10 Shri K. Kandaswamy, Counsellor is being enumerated Shri Projit Kumar Sarkar, Counsellor is being enumerated 11 · Shri Takap Ringu, lAS, Chief Secretary is being enumerated 12 Supervision of Census Enumeration by the Census Charge Officer 13 Contact/ Enumeration with Shompens tribal 14 Contact/Enumeration with Jarawas tribal 15 Contact/Enumeration with Sentinelese tribal 16 CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 Provi S ional Results DI ST RIC TAN 0 T A 'H S I L W I 5 E POPULATION 17 ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS TAHSILWISE DECENNIAL POPULATION GROWTH 1981-91 KILOMETRES 20 10 0 20 40 60 BOUNDARY, DISTRICT ............ ........ ........... _. _. __ _ 93° ANDAMANS 94° BOUNDARY, TAHSIL ............................... .... ........ , •. LANDFALL I. <l, EAST I. WES T I. , .: NARCONDAM I . 0 (I ND IA ) ........................................ -.......... , . w C' 93 NICOBARS (/) :-A\. CAR NICOBAR I. 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