CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 SERIES - 23 TAMIL NADU DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK SALEM PART XII A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY K. SAMPATH KUMAR OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS TAMIL NADU CONTENTS Page No. Foreward V IX Preface District Map . Facing Page 1 Important Statistics of the District 1 Analytical Note: 3 il Census concepts. Rural and Urban areas. Urban Agglomerations, Census Houses/ Households. Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes. Main workers. Marginal-workers. Non-workers. etc. 5 il) History of the District Census Hand book including scope of Village and Town Directory. 11 - 27 iii) Salem District - Introduction. brief history of the district, formation, jurisdictional changes, physical aspects, hills, rivers/canals, soils, flora and fauna, climate and rainfall, land and land use, minerals and mining, electricity, forests, agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, industries, education, health, tenancy, transport and communication, Trade and commerce, social and cultural events, places of historical. religious, archaeological importance and tourist interest. iv') Brief analysis of the Village, Town Directory and Primary Census Abstract, etc .• 28 - 45 PART-A: VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY SECTION-I: VILLAGE DIRECTORY Note explaining the codes used in the Village Directory 48 1. Yercaud C.D. Block i) AlphabeticalUst of villages 51 ii) Village Directory Statement 54 2. Kadaiyampatty C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 69 Ii) Village Directory Statement 70 3. Omalur C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 76 iiI Village Directory Statement 78 4. Taramangalam C.D. Block i) Alphabetical ltst of villages 89 iiI Village Directory Statement 90 5. Kolathur C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 95 ii) Village Directory Statement 96 6. Mecheri C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 101 iiJ Village Directory Statement 102 7. Nangavalli C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 109 ii) Village Directory Statement 110 8. Idappadi C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 115 it} Village Directory Statement 116 i 9. Konganapuram C.D. Block Page No. 1) Alphabetlcallist of villages 121 11) Village Directory Statement 122 10. Mac. Donald'sChoultrY C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 127 ii) Village Directory Statement 128 11. Mallasamudram C.D. Block t) Alphabetical list of villages 133 ii} V1llage Directory Statement 134 12. Sankari C.D. Block i) Alphabetlcallist of villages 141 ti) Village Directory Statement 142 13. Veerapandl C.D. Block i) Alphabetlcalllst of rtllages 150 ii) Village Directory Statement 152 14. Salem C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 161 iiJ Village Directory statement 162 15. Panamarathupattt C.D. Block t) AlphabetiCaIlist of villages 169 ii) Village Directory Statement 170 16. Ayodhiyapattinam C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 176 Ii) Village' Directory Statemeni 178 17. Valapady C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 188 Ii) Village Directory Statement 190 18. Peddanatckenpalayam C.D. Block i) Alphabeticall1st of villages 198 ii) Village Directory Statement 200 19. Attur C.D. Block iJ Alphabetical list of villages 211 if) Village Directory Statement 212 20. Talavasal C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 219 ii} Village Directory Statement 220 21. Gangavalll C.D. Block i) Alphabeticall1st of villages 229 ii} Village Directory Statement 230 22. Vennandur C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 239 ii) Village Directory Statement 240 23. Rasipuram C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 249 ii) Village Directory Statement 250 24. Namagiripet C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 257 ii) Village Directory Statement 25. Kollihills C.D. Block i} Alphabetical list of villages 267 ii) Village Directory Statement 268 Ii 26. PaIl1palayam C.D. Block Page No. i) Alphabetical list of villages 275 11) Village Directory Statement 276 27. Ttruchengodu C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 283 11) Village Dlrectory Statement 28. Elachipalayam C.D. Block t) Alphabeticall1st of villages 293 11) Village Directory Statement 294 29. Namakkal C.D. Block i) AlphabetJcallist of villages 303 11) Village Directory Statement 304 30. Puduchatram C.D. Block 1) Alphabeticalllst of villages 311 11) Village Directory Statement 312 31. Sendamangalam C.D. Block 1) Alphabetical list of villages 321 11) Village Directory Statement 322 32. Erumaipatty C.D. Block 1) ....\lphabeUcall1st of villages 329 11) Village Directory Statement 330 33. Mohanur C.D. Block ij Alphabeticalllst of villages 337 11) Village Directory Statement 338 34. Kabllamalai C.D. Block 1) Alphabetical list of villages 345 ii) Village Directory Statement 346 35. Paramathy C.D. Block i) Alphabetical list of villages 353 ii) Village Directory Statement 354 Annexure-I Statement showing the C.D. Block coming under each taluk 358 Appendix-I C.D. Block abstract of educational, medical and other amenities 359 Appendix-II Land utilisation data in respect of non-municipal towns 367 Appendix-III C.D. Blockwise list ofv1llages where no amenities are available 371 Appendix-IV List of villages according to the proportion of SC 1ST to the total population by ranges 372 SECTION-II: TOWN DIRECTORY Note explaining the codes used in the Town Directory 399 St~ement-I Status and Growth History 400 Statement-II Physical Aspects and Location of towns. 1989 408 Statement-III Municipal Finance. 1989-90 415 Statement-IV Civic and other amenities. 1989 419 Statement- IVA Civic and other amenities in notified slums. 1989 424 Statement-V Medical. educational. recreational and cultural facilities. 1989 429 Statement-VI Trade. Commerce. Industry and Banking. 1989 435 Appendix Towns showing their outgrowths With population 442 ill 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 Govemment/Union Territory administration. It inter-alia provides data/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 DCR was initially confined to certain important census tables on population, economic and socia-cultural aspects as also the Primary Census Abstract (PCA) of each village and town tward-wise) 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. Mter 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/Union Territories due to considerable delay in compilation of relevant material. In 1981. some new features along with 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 peA of villages and towns (ward-wise) 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 meet 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. keeping in view the requirements of the Minimum v 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 th-e slums. In t11.is statement details on civic and o'th~r amenities were reported for the slums of Class 1 and Class II towns. Apart from thiS, orie column on the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population and another on adult literacy classes/ centres were added in Statements 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 wokers has been given as against four-fold industrial classification presented in the 1981 Census. In addition 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 Block level presentation of data in the Village Directory and PCA instead of the traditional ,Tahsil/Taluk/PS level presentation. It is expected that the presentation of Village Directory and PCA data at C.D.