CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 SERIES 17 - PUNJAB PART VI-A TOWN DIRECTORY P. L. SONDm B.a.nADA of the Indian Administrative Service 01 &be ...... CIfII ........ EX OFl'IOIO DIRECTOR OF CEl'lSUS DEPU'lY DIRBOfoB or ..... Operations ~ PUNJAB PUlUU 7.- ,~. N r---~--~r---------------------'----------------------'-----------------------r--~" PUNJAB 33• ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS 1971 MILES 16 o 16 .2 ICILOMETIn 20 o 20 .0 32- n - .f.... o 31 II- 0, 30 30- ' BOUNDARY. INTERNATIONAL •• , •• , .... _._._ DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS..... STATE / U, T, •• ," , , ,', •• __._ TAHSIL HEADQUARTERS... 0 DISTRICT ... ,.,., ....... _._._._ DISTRICT KAPURTHAU, , •• , • K TAHSil., I" ,.' I a., ~'I ___ .. _ •••_ DISTRICT ROf'AR ... .. .. ...... R STATE CAPIT,AL •• , ...... , ....,.... • N.I. r. DI$!III('T HEADOU"R'ERS ",Ill. ALSoO -TAHSIL "£.6,"",,,.7£.1, o 2. AOW'NISTIIATrVI[ ~£ADQUA.ATIR$ OF PUNJ"B STATI ' .... AT CHAND'GAII" (UN'O~ T ..."'O.,,) 211' 74 EAST OF GREENWICH 7"'" '''I'lD "ON iUAV£Y 0' INDIA N'" WIT... 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C]JNSUS~OFJNDIA, 1971 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS The 1971 Census Reports on Punjab will bear uniformly Series No. 17 and will be published in the following parts :- Part I-A General Report Part I-B General Report (Deta.iled analysis of the Demographic, Social, Cultural and Migration Patterns) Part I-C Subsidiary Tables Part II-A General Population Ta.bles Part II-B Economic Tables Part .II-C( i) Mothertongue, Religion and Scheduled Castes and S0heduled Tribes Tables Part II-C(ii) Social and Cultural Tables and Fertility Tables "Part III Establishment Report a.nd Tables Part IV Housin~ Report and Tables Part V Special Tables and Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe3 Part VI-A Town Directory (Present book) 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 VIU-A Administration Report-Enm:peration (For official use only) Part VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation (for official us only) Part IX Census Atlas Part IX-A Administrative Atlas B-STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIO.lj: Part X District Census Handbooks for each district in three Parts Part A- Village and Town Directory Part B-Village land, Townwise Primary Census Abstract Part C-Analytical Report, Administration Statistics and District Census Tables NOTE :- PaJitl!! A and B of the Distric.t Census Handbooks have been printed in one volume. (i-ii) CONTENTS :PAGES FOREWORD (iv) PREFACE (v) INTRODUCTORY ADIlVsis on sfateDl8Dts aBd t&wnwise primary OODIUS Allstta6t 1-50 STATEMENT I ~tatllS, Growth Histoty and Fnnctional Categary of Town'S 52-57 STATEMENT 11 Physical ARpoots and Location of Towns, 1969 58-63 STATEMENT III }Itmi~ipa.l Finance, 1968-1969 64-71 STATEMENT lV Civic atrd other Amenities, 1969' 72-79 STATEMENTV Medical, Educational~ Recreational and Cultural Faciiities in 'tm\'1ls, 19® 80:-91 STATEMENT VI 'l'rdUe, (4,orilinerce, Industry and Banking, 1969 92-99 STATEMENT VII Population by religion" 19U ••• lOO-IC7 APPENDIX I TJ!t~ looat~on t)f the T(nm i'I'l the State, i.e., District and Tahsil i1fltl th-e geogra;phic8!l Cootdinates ... 108-110 ApPENDIX II fowns _ttranged in the Order of Poplllation size and the Alpha- betical ol'der shown agai1rst Mch . .. i 11-113 ApPENDIX In Towns arranged District-wise within it il'l. the order of :Popula- tion size . 114:-117 TOWNWIS£ YRlMARY CENgUS ABSTRACT 118-145 ApPEXDIXIV ... List sh')wing t,he names ')[ s'}hedulerl castes in the Sta.te 146 MAPS (i) Aclrninistrative Divisions, Punjab, ]971 Fr~ntispiece (ii) tJ'tflltll Ce'Il.tres- by size of Population, 1971 (~ii) 11ttetceusaJ' chari_ge of P-opnIation of urban OOBlircs : 1- 1961~7:i JFaciftg page 50 (it)) Sex_BMiio of Ul!'~ centres, 1971 (T» Flldetioos of urba.n, 6Mtres (t,i) Schematic maps 9f Amritsar City, Ludhiana City, Jullundur City, Patiala City, Batala, Phagwara, Khanna } lIaoiog pag9 14& Kartarpur, Dhuri and Zira Towns (iii) FOREWORD _ One of the special features of 1971 Census is a compilation of directory of all the towns of India. It includes seven statements giving the status, growth history and functional category of towns, physical aspects and location; civic and other amenities, medical, educational, recreational and cultural facilities; trade, commerce, industry, bank­ ing and population by religion. The Primary Census Abstract of each town will also be presented in this directory. The rationale for providing wide range of other information alongwith the primary census data of each town derives from the fact that the demographic data of the census are on the one hand the pro­ ducts Qf the inter-play of a number of economic, cultural and social factors; on the other hand, the demographic situation in its totality in­ fluences the economic, social and cultural development of villages, towns and areas of higher order. It is this dynamic inter-relationship which is intended to be highlighted, by bringing together census and non-census statistics and other data in the town directory. Alongwith the qualitative and quant~tative data, suitable maps have also been included in the directory. One map proposes to bring out the spatial relations of the towns of different size-groups and Func­ tional categories. Another one intends to bring out in visual focus,. the spatial pattern of distribution of functional areas inside the towns of different size groups and functional categories. l.n the context of these two sets of visual presentation, one important aemographic character of the town, the gradience of the distribution of the popula­ tion in different densities, is proposed to be brought in a third'map. It is hoped that the town directory will stimulate considerable research in the various associated disciplines in the country. The planning of the project has been done in the Social Studie.s Division in the office of the Registrar General, India under the guI­ dance of my colleague Dr. B. K. Roy Burman, Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies). The data have been compiled in the offices. of the Directors of Census Operations. In the compilation of the data a large number of sources had to be tapped. I avail of this opportunity to thank all my colleagues associated with the project, and also the various official and non-official agencies without -whose co-operation it would not have been possible to collect the manifold data for all the towns of the country. NEW DELHI )anu(J:" 31, 1972 A. CHANDRA SEKHAR Registrar General, India. PREFACE / The rationale for the Census Organisation undertaking this State ,!'own Directory, covering a wide range of non-census data in addition to the primary census data, and the scope of this publication have been ~ndicated, in brief, by the Registrar General, Shri A. Chandra Sekharp In the foreword. The production of this Directory is one of the special features of the 1971 Census. We have recognized 108 places as towns in the r.e-,organized Punjab at the 1971 Census against 109 at the 1961 Census. According to the traditional classification of towns, there are 4 Class I, 8 Class II, 22 Class III, 33 Class IV, 30 Class V and 11 Class VI towns in the State. Amritsar city with 458,029 population is at the one end and Sri Hargobindpur town with. 2,430 population at the other end. There is not a single metropolitan city in the State notwithstanding that it ranks 6th in the country in terms of urbanization at the 1971 Census. Its rank­ ing was 5th at the 1961 Census. Every fourth person in the State now lives in the urban sector. The urban population has registered an in­ crease of 244% against 80 % increase in the total population of the State in the last seven decades. But for the partition of the country in 1947, Amritsar city had a reasonable chance of growing into a metropolitan city by 1971. Ludhiana city has registered the highest population growth rate of 64.39 per cent during the 1961-71 decade. It is, how­ ever, a fact that the towns lying near the Indo-Pak border have not grown, in terms of population, as: projected. In none of the urban areas high-rise buildings have come up, thanks to the availability of land in and around an overwhelming majority of the towns. Expan­ sion of towns thus continues to be horizontal. Population densities are no doubt fairly high, compared to optimum densities, in some of the towns but it can be stated with confidence that town-dwellers in the Punjab are not facing the usual horrors of city life, in terms of envir­ onmental pollution, overcrowding, crime etc. as experienced by their counterparts in a large number of cities (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras etc.) in the States like West Bengal, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The number of .pavement dwellers is also relatively very small in our towns. ' Six out of ten of the world's people will live in cities 30 years from now, according to a special U. N. study. The figures quoted in­ dicate that the cities will h~ve to hold nearly three times as many people as,now. We do not, however, project a grim picture like that for the Punjab because heavy industrial units are not coming up ·in any· urban areas of the State. For years the Punjab youths from rura] areas have been leaving home for better jobs and more exciting life of th e towns. Now many of them are heading back for the country. It is not that they were failures in the city. Instead they claim the cities failed them.