Census of India 1971

CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 SERIES 11 MAHARASHTRA PART VI-A TOWN DIRECTO~Y· R. B. CHARI OF TaB INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE Director qfCensus Operations, Maharashtra CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 Central GovernD1ent Publications Census Report, Series Il-Maharashtra, is published' In the following P drts IF-A and B Gen:rJ RepO_~t, I-C Subsidiary . Tables II-A General Population Tables II-B(i) General EconoIDlc Tables II-BCii) ::.. General Economic Tables-contd. Social and Cultural Tables Part 11-0,._ii) Social and Cultural Tables-contd. lJ-D MIgration Ta ble::, II I-A Establishment Report and Subsidial y Tables III-B Est4blishment Tables IV Housing Report and Tables v Scheduled Ca<;tes dnd Scheduled Tribes in Maharashtra-Tables VI-A Town Dire('tory [the present volume] VI-B SpeCial Survey RepOl to; on Selected Towns VI..,..C Survey Reports On Selected VIllages , VII • Report On Graduates and Technical Personnel VIII-A Administration Report-Em.lneratkn (Fot ojficwl use only) VIII-B • • Administration Report-Tabulation (For ojficlQ1 use onlY) IX Census Atlas of Maharashtra State GovernlD.ent Publications 26 Volumes of Dbtrict Census Handbooks 1U Engli~h 26 v.oJ~mes' of ~s~q Census Handbooks In Marathi I I I , Z \ 0 \ (5 '" ::; i '" _0. o <0 ,N ] o o ,Q) >- c: !!f .2 oC .. :r ~ III ... ... ~ ~ .!! :E ~ . Z '< o '< 0 ~ _.... ,.._ III ~ or: < " '" ~ > > '"-<_, u o I I I I I -_,.. _. I IW !"'. "V·""""""/ '~ ( \ .: .. o ~ .. ~ I ~ rV) ·i FOR.:£WORD 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 ameniees; medical, educatiopal, 1 ecreational 'and cultural facilities; trade, commerce, industry and banking and population by religion. The primary census abstrac/t of each town will also be presented in this directory. The rationale for providing wide range of other infolmation along with the primalY census data of each town deriv-es from the fact that the demographic data of the census are on the one hand the products of t~'e inter-play of a number of economic, cultural and social factors; on the, other hanp, the demographic situation in its totality influences the economic, social and cultural developments of villages, towns and areas of higher order. It is this dyna~ic inter-relationship which is intended to be highlighted, by b:ringing together census and non-census statistics and other data in the town directory. Along with the qualitative and quantitative data, suitable maps have also been included in the directory. One map proposes to bring out the spatial I relations of the towns of different size-groups and functional 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. In the context of these two sets of visual presentation, one important den10graphic character of the town, the gradience of the distribution of the population in different densities, is proposed to be brought out 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 Studies Division in the Office of the ,Registrar General, India, under the guidance of my colleague Dr. B. K. Roy Burman, Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies). Tha data have been compiled in the offices of the Directors of Census Operations. In the ';ompilation_ of the data a large- number of sources had to be tapped. I avail of this opportunity to thank all my coll~agues associated with the project, and also the various official and non-official agencies without whose cooperation it would not have been possible to collect the manifold data for all the towns of the country. New Delhi A. CHANDRA SEKHA~ January 31, 1972 Registrar General, India ACKNOWLEDGEMENtS It has been the practice in past gensuses to collect information regarding certain basic amenities available in' each village and town. In 1961, this information was compiled along with'the primary census data for each village and town and included in the primary census abstract published in the district census handbooks. At the 1971 census, the number of items on which village-wise and town-wise, data were c<?llected had inc~eased. so much .that it was found necessary to present them In separate sectIons, VIZ., town dIrec tory \ and village directory, in the dIstrict cenSus handbook, instead of publishing them in the primary census abstract itself. In addItion to the town d.j.rectory published in the district census handbooks for towns in the district~ it was ~so decided in 1971 to publish a town directory for the entire state covering all the towns, municipal and otherwise. This town directory includes, besides primary census data for each town, such other items as;civil administration, status and growth of towns, functional catego ries, phyt'ical aspects, municipal finance, civic and other amenities, trade and industry. Compiling town data, especially of the non-census variety, from different sources called for close co-operation from government offices and local bodies. I offer my thanks to all municipal and cantonment authorities in the state,. revenue officers of the Central and state government -offices concerned who readily supplied the information required for tbe tewn directory. I am grateful to Shri A. Chandra Sekhar, former Registrar General, India, and Dr. B. K. Roy Burman, Deputy Registrar General India, for their valuable suggestlons and guidance during compilation of the directory. In the Maharashtra census office Shl'i D. V. Rangnekar,. Deputy director (HQ):, organised the collection and compilation of this directory. The tabulation work was looked after by Shri D. S. Pilpile, Tabulation officer, and Sarvashri M. S. Paradkar and B. V. Pawar, Statistical assistants. The introductory note was prepared by Shri A. W. Mahatme, Assistant director (Tech.). Shri R. N. Pongurlekar, Tabulation officer, Shri S. Y. Pradhan, Artist, and the staff of the cartography unit spared no pains in preparing the maps included in this directory. I deeply appreciate the help we received from Shri J. G. Keskar, Director, and Shri W. R. Wakankar, Deputy director, town planning and valuation department. They provided the town planning maps which formed the basis of the town maps presented in the volume. Sarvashri C. M. Kane and M. K. Abhyankar looked after the printing of the publication. I am grateful to Shri S. R. Sethi, Manager, and Shri Y. Viswanathan, Assistant manager (Tech.), Government of India Press, Nasik, for printing this volume. BOMBAY 11 March, 1975 R. B. CHARI CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS \ . v INTRODUCTION 1 Annexure I List of non-municipal towns by population size classes 31 Annexure II Statement showing for each city in Maharashtra the number towns reporting it as the nearest city 32 Annexure III Li~t of towns not directly connected by rail 33 Annexure IV ',Extracts of relevant production codes from National I Industrial Classification, 1970 35 Statement 1 Status, growth history and functional category 44 Statement II iPhysical aspects and location 58 Statement III Municipal finance 1968-69 78 Statement IV Civic and other amenities, 1969 . 92 Statenrrent V Medical, educational and cultural racilities~ 1969. 108 Statement VI Trade,. commerce, industry and banking, 1969 138 Statement VII Population by religion 158 Townwise Primary Census Abstract 178 APPENDICES Appendix I Districtwise lists of towns and their 1971 census location Code numbers • • • 231 Appendix Il Towns in Maharashtra arranged in decending order of 1971 population with growth rate and sex-ratio 236 Appendix III Towns in each district of Maharashtta arranged in descending o~'der of 1971 population 240 MAPS Urban centres 1971 . Frontispiece Progress of urbanisation 6 Functions of class I urban centres 40 Functions of class II urban centres 41 Functions of class III urban centres 42 Functions of class IV urban centres 43 Schematic maps of 22 towns 245-268 INTRODUCTION For the first time in the history of Indian cenSus, Once civic stltus is confened on a place, it is not a town directory providing information in respect of usual to examine whether it has continued to retain its every town is being brought out as a census publica urban character. A place which already has a munici tion. The population figures relate to the primary pal councilor corporation or a cantonment board, re census abstract, variat!ons in population from 1901 gardless of any other consideration, is treated as a town to 1971 and diHribution of population by religion. for cen<;us purposes. The following tests are otherwise Other data in the directory have been collected by applied to determine whether the place should be trea the cenSus organisation from the concerned govern ted ~s a town for that particular census-(l) whether ment and municipal departments. it will have a populatIOn of at least 5,000 at the concer ned census; (Ii) whether the density of population ",ill E loch d!3trict cenSi.ts handbook will incorporate be at least 1 000 per square mile (or 400 per square data in respect of the towns in that district. Table kilometre); (iIi) whether, according to the results of A-IV of Part II· A cDntaining general population tables the latest census, at lea3-t three-fourths of the male also provides the urban population of each town, e;a~h workmg populatlOn is enga?ed in pursuits outside of ;ize class of towns during the last seventy years (1901 agricultUl e.

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