CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 SERIES - 23 TAMIL NADU DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK MADURAI PART XII A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY K.SAMPATH KUMAR OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS TAMILNADU CONTENTS Page No. Foreward vii - ix Preface xi - xv District Map Important Statistics of the District xvi - xvii An.alytical Note:- i. Census concepts, Rural and Urban areas, census houses/ households, Scheduled castes/ Scheduled Tribes, Main workers, Marginal workers & Non-workers etc. 1 - 2 ii. History of the District Census Handbook including scope of village and town directory. 3-7 iii. Madurai District - An outline, Introduction, brief history, jurisdiction changes, physical changes, forestry, hills, soils, minerals and mining, rivers, electricity and power, land and land use pattern, agriculture, irrigation, animal husbandry, fisheries, industry, transport and communication, climate and rainfall. education, health, social and cultural events, places of tourist importance and other facilities. 9 - 22 iv. Brief analysis of the village / town directory data based on inset tables. 23 - 35 PART-A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY SECI10N I - VILLAGE DIRECTORY 37 Note explaining the codes used in the Village Directory. .'39 1. Chinnamanur C.D. Block 41 i. Alphabetica11ist of villages 43 ii. Village Directory Statement 44 - 45 2. UUamapalaiyam C.D. Block 47 i. Alphabetical list of villages 49 ii. Village Directory Statement SO - 51 3. KambamC.D. Block 53 i. Alphabetical list of villages 55 ii. Village Directory Statement 56 - 57 4. Bodinayakkanur C.D. Block 59 i. Alphabetical list of villages 61 ii. Village Directory Statement 61 - 62 5. Periyakulam C.D. Block 65 i. Alphabetical list of villages 67 ii. Village Directory Statement 68 - 71 iii Page No. 6. Theni C.D. Block 73 i. Alphabetical list of villages 75 ii. Villa~e Directory Statement 76 - 77 7. Andipatti C.D. Block 79 1. Alphabetical list of villages 81 ii. Vi11age Directory Statement 82 - 85 8. Kadamalaikundru-Myladumparai C.D. Block 87 i. Alphabetical list of villages 89 ii. Village Directory Statement 90 - 91 9. Usilampatti C.D. Block 93 i. Alphabetical list of villages 95 ii. Village Directory Statement 96 - 99 10. Chellampatti C.D. Block 101 i. Alphabetical list of villages 103 ii. Village Directory Statement 104 - 109 11. Sedapatti C.D. Block 111 i. Alphabetical list of villages 113 ii. Village Directory Statement 114 - 119 12. Vadipatti C.D. Block 121 i. Alphabetical list of villages 123 ii. Village Directory Statement 124 - 129 13. A1an.~ananur C.D. Block 131 i. Alphabetical list of villages 133 ii. Village Directory Statement 134 - 141 14. Melur C.D. Block 143 i. Alphabetical list of villages 145 ii. Village Directory Statement 146 - 153 15. KottampaW C.D. Block 155 1. Alphabetical list of villages 157 U. Village Directory Statement 158 - 163 16. Madurai West C.D. Block 165' i. Alphabetical Jist of villages 167 - 169 ii. Village Directory Statement 170 - 179 17. Madurai East C.D. Block 181 i. Alphabetic-allist of villages 183 - 185 ii. Village Directory Statement 186 - 197 18. Tirupparangunram C.D. Block 199 i. Alphabetical list of villages 201 - 203 Ii. Village Directory Statement 204 - 211 19. Tirumangalam C.D. Block 213 i. Alphabetical list of villages 215 ii. Village Directory Statement 216 - 223 20. Kallikudi C.D. Block 225 i. Alphabetical list of villages 227 ii. Village Directory Statement 228 - 233 21. T. Kallupatti C.D. Block 235 i. Alphabetical list of villages 237 ii. Village Directory Statement 238 - 243 iv Annexure-I Statement showing the C.D. Blocks coming under each taluks 245 Appendix-I C.D. Block abstract of educational. medical and other amenities. 246 - 251 Appendix-II Land utilisation data in respect of Non-municipal towns (Census towns) 252 Appendix-III C.D. Block wise list of villages where no amenities are available. 253 Appendix-IV List of villages according to the Proportion of SC/ST to the total population by ranges. 254 - 267 SECDON II- TOWN DIRECTORY 269 Note explaining the codes used in the Town Directory 270 - 271 Statement -1 Status and Growth History 272 - 275 Statement -II Physical aspects and location of towns. 1989 276 - 279 Statement- III Municipal Finance. 1988-89 280 - 283 Statement - IV Civic and other Amenities. 1989 284 - 287 Statement - IV-A Civic and other Amenities in notified slums. 1989 288 - 303 Statement - V Medical. Educational and Recreational Cultural Facilities. 1989 304 - 309 Statement - VI Trade. Commerce. Industry and Banking, 1989 310 - 313 Appendix Towns shoWing their outgrowth with population. 314 v FOREWORD Publication of the District Census Handbooks (DCHs) was initiated after the 1951 Census and is continuing since then with some innovations / modifications after each decennial census. This is the most valuable district level publication brought out by the Census Organisation on behalf of each State Government/ Union Territory adlninistration. It inter-alia provides datal information on some of the basic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and on availability of certain important civic amenities/ facilities in each village and town of the respective districts. This publication has thus proved to be of immense utility to the planners, administrators, academicians and researchers. The scope of the DCH was initially confined to certain important census tables on population, economic and socio-cultural aspects as also the Primary Census Abstract (PCA) of each village and town (Wardwise) of the district. The DCHs published after the 1961 Census contained a descriptive account of the district, administrative statistics, census tables and Village and Town Directories including PCA. After the 1971 Census, two parts of the District Census Handbooks (Part-A comprising Village and town Directories and Part­ B comprising Village and Town PCA) were released in all the States and Union Territories. The third Part (C) of the District Census Handbooks comprising administrative statistics and district census tables, which was also to be brought out, could not be published in many States I Union Territory's due to considerable delay in compilation of relevant material. In 1981 some new features alongwith the restructuring of the formats of Village and Town Directory were introduced in the DCHs. These were published in two parts for each district after the 1981 Census. While Part-A comprised Village and Town Directories, the PCA of villages and towns (wardwise) including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe PCA upto tehsil / town level were provided in Part-B. To illustrate, all the amenities except electricity. were brought together in the village Directory and if an amenity was not available in the referrent Village, the distance in broad ranges from the nearest place having such amenity was given. Information on some new items such as adult literacy centres, primary health sub-centres and community health workers in the village were provided so as to Ineet some of the requirements of the Revised Minimum Needs Programme. Similarly, information on approach to the village was also provided for the first time during 1981 Census in the village Directory so as to give an idea about the number of inaccessible Villages in each district. In case of Town Directories also, vii keeping in view the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme, a Statement IV -A on slums was provided so as to enable the planners to chalk out the programmes for providing better civic and other amenities in the slums. In this statement details on civic and other amenities were reported for the slums, of class I and class II towns. Apart from this, one column on the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population apd another on adult literacy classes/ centres were added in Statement IV and V respectively. The manner of presentation of the DCHs for the 1991 Census is by and large the same as followed in 1981. However, the format of PCA has been restructured slightly in the 1991 Census for the benefit of data users. Nine-fold industrial claSSification of main workers has been given as against four-fold industrial classification presented in the 1981 Census. In additiorr to this, the sex-wise population in the 0-6 age-group has also been included in PCA for the first time with a view to enabling data users to compute more realistic literacy rate as all children below 7 years of age have been treated as illiterates at the time of the 1991 Census. It is expected that the above mentioned modifications will help the planners in chalking out more effective developmental programmes. One of the most important innovations in the 1991 Census is the Community Development Blocklevel presentation of data in the villaga Directory and PCA instead of the traditional Tehsil/Taluk/PS level presentation. It is expected that the presentation of village directory and PCA data at C.D. Block level will help the planners in formulation of micro-level developmental plans, as the C.D. Block is the lowest administrative unit for developmental planning. In order to facilitate the task of administrators, planners and researchers intending to use Village Directory /PCA data, either from the magnetic tapes/floppies or from the published records, both the computer and manual codes for each Village have been provided for the 1991 Census alongwith the corresponding codes of 1981. This publication is a joint venture of the State Government/ Union Territory administration and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected and compiled under the direction of Shri. K. Sampath Kumar, Director of Census Operations', Tamil Nadu on behalf of the State Government which has borne the cost of printing. The task of planning, designing and coordination of the publication was initiated by Dr. K.P. Ittaman, former Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies) and Shri M.M. Dua, Joint Director. For the sake of uniformity in presentation of information/ data and for preparation of viii analytical note depicting the salient features emerging from a micro­ level analysis of Census/non-Census data, a model District Cen;:;us Handbook from each State and Union Territory was thoroughly scrutinised in the SOCial Studies Division under the guidance of Shri M.K.