DISTRICT AT A GLANCE 2016 PUDUKKOTTAI PUBLISHED BY DISTRICT COLLECTOR, PUDUKKOTTAI COMPILED BY DISTRICT STATISTICAL OFFICE, PUDUKKOTTAI PUDUKKOTTAI DISTRICT – SOCIO ECONOMIC PROFILE Geographical Position : North Latitude Between 9° 50' and 10° 40' East Longitude Between 78° 25' and 79° 15' Topography : Pudukkottai District is well endowed with natural resources of land and sea, bounded by the marine hedge of Bay of Bengal in the east conjoined by the southern districts viz, Trichy, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram and Thanjavur. It admeasures an area of 4663.29 sq.kms with a coastal length of 42 kms. The District is composed by 3 Revenue Divisions, 12 Taluks, 45 Firkas and 763 Revenue Villages. At the developmental front, it has 13 Blocks, 497 Village Panchayats, 2 Municipalities and 8 Town Panchayats. Demography : The 2011 census places Pudukkottai District with a population of 16,18,345 females being numerically superior with 8,15,157 as against 8,03,188 males. The rural population is about 13,01,991 and the urban population is about 3,16,354. The total literates number 11,10,545 with 6,08,776 males and 5,01,769 females. The Literacy rate is 77.19 percent with male literacy being 85.56 percent and female literacy being 69.00 percent. As for sex ratio it is 1015 females per thousand males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for 17.60 percent and 0.08 percent respectively. Soil type : Black soil, Red loamy, Sandy coastal Alluvium, Red sandy soil are found to be popular in this district. Temperature : The temperature ranges from a maximum of 41.2C to minimum of 23.1C. April to June are the hottest months and November to January are the coldest months. Climate : High temperature throughout the year. Generally a dry and hot climate prevails in this District. Rainfall : The actual annual rainfall was put at 978.8 mm during 2015-16 against the normal rainfall of 887.4 mm for the district. The annual precipitation is higher than normal rainfall by 91.4 mm. About 227.5 mm is received in South West Monsoon, 673.6 mm, is received in North East Monsoon, no rainfall is recorded for winter and 77.7 mm is received in Hot Weather Period. 1 River : In Pudukkottai District, four major rivers namely, Vellar, Agniyar, Pambar and Kundar are found. Besides the District has 17 small rivers also. It is to be noted that the four major rivers specified above, have the capacity to irrigate annually, an ayacut are of 51,448 hectares. Cropping : Pudukkottai District is predominantely an agricultural district. Paddy, Pattern groundnut, sugarcane, maize and cashewnuts are the major crops grown in this district. Gross area sown and gross area irrigated under food and nonfood crops stood at 1,23,722 Hectares and 1,00,993 hectares respectively during 2015-16. About 18.37 percentage of the gross area sown was rain fed. Cropping : Net area sown increased from 115421 hectares during 2014-15 to Intensity 118844 hectares during 2015-16 thus registering an increase of 2.97 percent. Area sown more than once increased by 49.86 percent. Gross area sown increased by 4.25 percent during this period. Cropping intensity increased from 1.028 during 2014-15 to 1.041 during 2015-16. Agricultural : According to 9th Agricultural census 2010-11 total number of farmers Holdings stood at 3,78,796 having total operational holding of 2,22,712 hectares. Farmers having size as low as 0.59 hectare, is uneconomical to cultivate. Out of 3,78,796 farmers, marginal farmers accrued for 85.08 percent, followed by small farmers 10.00 percent, small medium farmers 3.79 percent, medium farmers 1.01 percent and large farmers 0.12 percent. Main : Majority of the people depend on Agriculture and allied activities. In Occupation the urban areas, the livelihood is earned through organized and unorganized sectors. According to 2011 census, the district has a total of 3,87,679 households. There are a total of 7,61,693 workers comprising of 1,92,462 cultivators, 2,34,344 agricultural labourers, 10,170 household industries, 2,03,272 other workers and 1,21,445 marginal workers. District : The Net District Domestic Product for Pudukkottai District for the Income year 2011-12 is estimated as Rs.9,94,875 lakhs at current prices and Rs.6,18,188 lakhs at constant (2004-05) prices. The NDDP accrued from primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy is estimated at Rs. 2,25,351 lakhs, Rs. 2,22,393 lakhs and Rs. 5,47,131 lakhs respectively at current prices. For the same sectors above, the NDDP is computed as Rs.1,00,230 lakhs, Rs.1,37,375 lakhs and Rs.3,80,583 lakhs respectively at constant (2004-05) prices. 2 Per capita : The percapita income is estimated as Rs.64,064/- at current prices Income and Rs.39,808/- at constant (2004-05) prices during 2011-12 in this district. Drinking : The Jeeyapuram water works fills water to about 23 OHTs, through water which 212 lakhs litre of water per day is supplied to the general public sources in the areas of Pudukkottai municipality and three town panchayats namely Annavasal, Illuppur and Keeranur. Similarly the Ammayapatti water works fills 1 OHTs and pumping regularly to provide 5 lakhs litre of water per day to benefit the people in the areas of Pudukkottai municipality and Nathampannai village. In Aranthangi Municipality 8 number of OHTs are supplied with water regularly. The water supply from all these OHTs together works out to 34.20 lakhs litre per day. There are 73 OHTs are available in 8 Town panchayats in the district and they are filled with water regularly to supply water of 66.70 lakhs litre per day. Rural Water Supply :- A total 4558 habitations are covered under rural water supply schemes. Of them, 1442 habitations are fully covered with water supply and 3116 habitations are partially covered. In fully covered category, the water supply per capita per day is observed as 40 litres and above. It is 10 to 39 litres, per capita per day, in the case partially covered habitations. Ration Shop : For the year 2015-16, there were 1002 PDS outlets, which subsists about 4,33,157 households. The PDS in the district is considered to be highly eradicate in alleviating poverty. Poverty : Apparently, the great scheme, MGNREGA provides large scale employment opportunity to the rural mass in Pudukkottai district and the beneficiaries works out to 2,28,909. The Anthyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), Annapoorana (ANP), Old Age Pension Scheme (OAP) etc., feeds about 4,33,157 cardholders in the district to set them free from hunger. Moreover, certain social security schemes like pensioner for aged, physically handicapped, widow, agricultural labour, deserted wives and above 50 aged unmarried women are in operation. A total of 40610 are benefited by the schemes. It is noteworthy to observe that the vital schemes above are effectively implemented in the district with a noble aim of alleviating the poverty. 3 Education : As of 2016, there were 1103 Primary schools, 324 Middle schools, 168 High Schools, 155 Higher secondary schools, 1 Medical College, 11 Arts and Science Colleges, 11 Engineering Colleges, 1 Agri. College 1 College for Diploma in Agri, 22 Polytechnic Colleges, 18 B.Ed., Colleges, 5 Nursing Colleges, 9 Teacher Training Institutes, 3 Special Education Schools, and 13 Industrial Training Institutes in this District. Health : As of 2016, there were 15 Govt. Hospitals, 1 dispensary, 61 Primary Health Centres, 3 Urban PHC, 242 Health sub-centres and 16 Urban HSC to take care of the health care needs of the people. Birth rate, : During the year 2015-16, Birth rate is 13.8, Death rate is 3.8 and infant Death rate mortality rate is 10.8. The occurrence of the infant death during and infant 2015-16 is 135. mortality rate In the year 2013, the Birth rate for Pudukkottai District was Calculated as 18.2. As for Tamilnadu and India, the Birth rate reveals as 15.6 and 21.4 respectively. For the year 2013, the Death rate for Pudukkottai District was 6.0. In the case of Tamilnadu and India, the Death rate was 7.3 and 7.0 respectively. The figures pertaining infant mortality rate (IMR) during 2013 shows 20.4 for Pudukkottai District, whereas it was 21.0 and 40.0 for Tamilnadu and India respectively. Roads : The provision of road facility in this district is recorded as 3637.85 kms. Out of which surface road is 3564.19 kms and un-surfaced road is 73.66 kms. Industries : Pudukkottai is one of the industrially backward districts of Tamilnadu. The total number of small scale industries (MSME) is 833. Tourism : The Palaces, Fortress, Canals and Tanks built during the reign of ancient Tamil Kings are the place of interest. Besides, Temple in Avudayarkovil, Kudumiyanmalai, Chitthannavasal are very much prominent. There is a sacred place for Muslims at pallaivasal. Peacock sanctuary at Viralimalai, cave temples, temples built on the mountains are the places of interest. 4 PUDUKKOTTAI DISTRICT AT A GLANCE – 2016 1. AREA AND POPULATION – 2011 CENSUS Numbers Percentage Area (Sq.Km) 4663 Population 1618345 No. of Households 387679 Household size 4.2 By Sex Male 803188 49.63 Female 815157 50.37 By Area Rural 1301991 80.45 Urban 316354 19.55 Decadal Population Growth 158744 10.88 Density (per Sq.Km) 347 Sex Ratio (for 1000 Males) 1015 Child (0-6 years) Sex Ratio (for 1000 Boys) 960 Literates 1110545 Male 608776 54.82 Female 501769 45.18 Literacy Rate Male 85.56 Female 69.00 Total 77.19 Scheduled Caste Population 284804 Male 141428 Female 143376 % to Total Population 17.60 % of Literate S.C to Total S.C.