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CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 SERlES 10 MRDHYfl PRRDESH POPULATION TOTALS (PROVISIONAL) A. K. PANDYA of the Indian Administrative Service DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS MADHYA PRADESH PREFACE When arrangements were being finalised to release Paper 1 of 1971, it was not contemplated to bring out a.Supplement in about a month's time in view of the fact that all the seven Tables prescribed by the Registrar-General, India, were being included in the initial Paper. However, it was later on decided to bring out a Supplement in view of the demand for tahsil-wise figures for the rural sector and change in population figures of certain towns communicated by the district authorities after release of Paper 1. The latter eventuality has resulted in a marginal change of 0.05 per cent in the composition of urban population to total population. 2. To meet the demand of tahsil-wise figures, Table VIII has been prepared and in view of changes in the composition and break-up of urban population, Table IV published in Paper I has been reproduced after making necessary corrections, while Tabie V has been recast with necessary: corrections to give some additional information. Table IX has been included to give break-up of workers into rural and urban sectors,. category-wise, for each district. Table X has been prepared to give an idea about the proportion of househo ids to houses and average size of a household. 3. An effort has been made to make the contents of this Supplement as little repetitive as possible. All the same, figures in Table IV in respect of Chhatarpur, Sehore, Sagar, Bilaspur and Raipur districts and in Table V in respect of Burhanpur (Class I), Mhow Cantonment and Shivpuri (Class II) and Hoshangabad and Narsimhapur (Class III), towns will have to be read alongwith figures given in Paper I because of changes that ha,ve occurred in respect of growth-rate and sex-ratio. In fact, difference in respect of Burhanpur city is considerable. Necessary explanations for the variations in Tables IV and V have been given at the appropriate places while discussing the data presented in this supplement under the caption "Analysis of Results". 4. Four new maps and one chart have been included to make the figures and analysis more meaningful and easily understandable. 5. I wish to place on record my gratitude to Shri A. Chandra Sekhar, Registrar-General, India, for having acceded to my request to bring out this Supplement, to Shri B. G. Josh;, Controller, Government CentrafJ Press, and his team for having agreed to print the Supplement and completing the job expeditiously and to the members of my staff associated with Paper I and this Supplement (see Appendix) for the pains taken in compilation of the data and preparation of maps and charts, thereby assisting me in making the initial Paper and this Supplement aft comprehensive as possible withjn the time available. BHOPAL, A. K. PANDYA 28th May, 1971 CONTENTS Page 1. Analysis of Results. 1 2. Chart and Maps. 7 3. Tables. 13-42 IV-Rural and Urban Composition of Popula- 14 tion. V-Population of Cities and Towns, Growth- 16 rate, Literacy and Sex-ratio. VIII-Tahsil-wise Population, Growth-rate, 26 Literacy and Sex-ratio. IX-District~wise Primary Census Abstract. 34 X-Houses and Households in Madhya 40 Pradesh. 4. Appendix. 43 ANALYSIS 9F RESULTS In Paper 1 the provisional population figures of the State as revealed by the 1971 Census, which stand at 41,650,664 on the sunrise ofApril 1, were discussed from the point of view of size and dispersal ofpopulation, growth-rate, density of population, sex-ratio, literacy, rural-urban dispersal, growth of cities and towns and work-participation rate. In this Supplement, a passing reference is being made regarding rural-urban dispersal and growth of cities and towns in order to explain Table IV, which has been published again after necessary corrections, and Table V which, apart from some corrections, carries additional infor mation also. Further, a detailed discussion has been attempted, of course on the basis of provisional figures, of varying growth rates oftahsils of the State, growth ofliteracy in the rural and urban sectors, the ratio of workers in different categories to total population and total workers in the rural and urban areas, the average size of households in the rural and urban sectors and rural-urban sex-ratio. RURAL-URBAN DISPER~ : 2. Although figures of urban population of Chhatarpur, Sehore, Bilaspur, Raipur and Sagar districts have undergone a <:hange with consequential effect on the rural population, the preliminary study regarding growth-rates of these districts, except Chhatarpur, does not undergo any major change. In respect ofChhatarpur, it was stated that it has shown a very low growth rate in the urban sector. The position is not all that dismal and on the basis of revised provisional figures of urban population in this district, the growth-rate works out to 42. II per cent as against the State average of 46.31 per cent. 3. Indore, Ujjain and Jabalpur districts were stated to have recorded a high growth-rate in the rural sector. This was an unfortunate slip; actually the growth-rates in these districts in the rural sector are only slightly above or below the State average of 25.72 per cent. 4. The net effect of marginal changes in the rural urban dispersal of the population is that the growth-rate for the urban sector comes down from 46.85 per cent to 46.31 per cent and that of the rural sector goes up from 24.75 per cent to 25.72 per cent. GROWTH OF CITIES AND TOWNS: 5. The break-up of 248 towns into the six classes given in Table V of Paper I has undergone a slight change. As against 36 towns indicated in Class III, there are actually 39 towns. Bhatapara, Dabra and Basoda could not find a place in this category earlier as the urban outgrowth figures were inadvertently not added to that of the main towns. Consequently Classes IV to VI now have 181 towns as against 184. 6. In Class I i.e., towns having a population of more than one lac (termed as cities), the only correction is in respect of Burhanpur. Initi~lly also there was a doubt about the reported growth-rate ofB3. 75 per cent and subsequent communication only confirmed it. The provisional population of the city is 1.051acs and not 1.50 lacs. The growth-rate works out to 28.33 per cent only. The entire reduction in the total population of Class I towns is accounted for by Burhanpur. 7. In the initial Table V, no details of towns falling in Classes IV to VI were given. Full break-up with more information has now been given and it shows that there are 74 towns in Class IV, 95 in Class V and only 12 in Class VI. 8. The growth-rate of towns in different size classes reveals an interesting phenomena. Eleven towns of Class I accounting for 17 towns (on the basis of concept of urban agglomeration) have a total population of 30.75 lacs which is 45.42 per cent of the total urban population. Class II towns, which are also eleven in number, account for a further 9.91 per cent of the urban population. Towns of Class I and Class II only have recorded a higher proportion to total urban population than what it was in 1961. Very small towns are few in the State, their number being 12 only accounting for 0.69 per cent of the total urba n population. The inset Table given below explains the relative proportions and growth-rates of diffnwt classes of towns :- Population by size class of towns Size class No. of towns Population Proportion of popu- Growth-rate lation in size class to total population ,..--------A.--__-... --:. ~ 1961 .1971 1961 1971 1961 1971 1961 1971 All classes 219 248 4,627,234 6,770,323 100.00 100.00 47.70 46.31 Class I 8* 11* 1,807,349 3,075,154 39.06 45.42 73.52 70.15 Class II 5* 11 380,245 671,098 8.22 9.91 7.03 76.49 Class III 30 39 953,166 1,266,241 20.60 18.70 55.96 32.85 Class IV 55 74 749,199 999,688 16.19 14.77 56.83 33.43 Class V 96* 95 672,111 711,321 14.52 10.51 34.92 5.83 Class VI 16 12 65,164 46,821 l.41 0.69 -56.28 -28.15 *On the basis of town-group concept, 8 towns in Class I account for 14, 5 in Class n for 7 and 96 in Class V for 97 in 1961. In 1971, II towns in Class I account for 17 on the basis of concept of urban agglomeration. GROWTH OF RURAL AREAS: 9. The growth-rate of rural areas of the State has gone up from 20.95 per cent to 25.72 per cent. Out of a total of 190 tahsils, 109 tahsils have recorded a growth-rate higher than the State average. 10. Narainpur tahsil (77.94%) and Raipur tahsil (60.35%) are first and seccnd frcm the top. The reasons for these two tahsi1s recording a very high growth-rate are not far to seek. The displaced perscIls from East Pakistan have been settled in very large numbers, in transit camps at Mana and Kurud in Raipur tahsil and on a permanent basis in the Dandakaranya Project area in Narainpur tahsil.