CENSUS OF INDIA 1981 PARTS XIII-A&B VILLAGE & TOWN DIRECTORY VILLAGE & TOWNWISE PRIMARY -CENSUS ABSTRACT SERIES-8 JAMMU & KASHMIR BADGAM DISTRICT DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK A. H. KHAN, Of the Indian Administrative Strvice Director ~f Census 0 p~rations Jammu & Kashmir ",' "<tENSeS OF INDIA I()Xl .LIST OF PUBLICATIONS .I Central Go.\(erqQ1..;~Ht ~blica'rlons-Census of India 198]-Series 8-Jammu & Kashmir is being Published in the following parts. Part Subject Subject No. Part No. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 3 I Administration P. '_~ports I-A £Administration Report - Enumeration J-B £Administration Report - Tabulation II General Population Tables II-A General Population Tables II-B Primary Census Abstract III General Economic Tables III-A B-Scries Tables of 1st priority III-B B-Series Tables of 2nd priurity IV S0Cilli & Cultur3l Tahles IV--A C-Series Tables of 1st priority IV-B C-Series Tables of 2nd priority V Migration Tables V--A D-Series Tables of 1st priority V-B D-Series Tables of 2nd priority VI Fertility Tables VI-A F - Series Tables of 1st priority VI--B p- Series Tables of 2nd priority VII Tables on Houses and di,:::bJrd population VIII Household Tables '11TI-A HH Series Tables covering material of constructions of houses VIII-B Contain Tables HH-17. HH-17 SC & HH--17 ST IX Special Tables on S. C. and S. T X Town Directory Suney Reports on Towns and Villages X-A Town Directory X-B Survey reports on selected towns X-C Survey reports on selected villages XI Ethnographic studies on S.C. & S. T. XU Census Atlas Union & State/U.T. Census Atlas XII-A Admn. Atlas XIII District Census Haodbook* XIII-A ) Combined Village & Town Directory XIII-B ) Village-wise/Urban Ward-wise Primary Census Abstract £ not for sale * These are State Governments' publications CONTENTS Page No. I. Foreword i-ii 2. Preface including acknowledgements iii-v 3. (i) Administrative Divisions of Jammu and Kashmir as in 1981 Frontispiece (ii) Map of the district 1 4. Abstract of the important statistics of the district 3-4 5. Analytical Note i} C~nsus concepts. 7-8 ii) Brief history of the district and the District Census Handbook 8 iii) Scope of Village Directory, Town Directory Statements and PCA 8-10 iv) Physical Aspects. 10-11 v) Major Characteristics 11-13 vi) Major social and cultural events . 13 vii) Brief descript ion of places of religious, historical or archaeological im­ portance in villages and places of tourist interest in the towns of the district 13-16 viii) Brief analysis of the village and Town Directory and PCA Data based on inset tables 16-26 Part-A-VilJage and Town Dirt·ctory Section I-Village Directory (a) Tehsil Chadura (i) Map 29 (ii) Alphabetical list of villages • 31-33 (iii) Note explaining the codes used. in the Village Directory. 34-35 (iv) Village Directory 36-45 Tehsil Badg9m (i) Map .17 (ii) Alphabetical li~t If villagt's (iii) Villages Oirector!' TebsiJ Beerwab (i) Map 67 Oi) Alphabetical li~t of villa~e" 69-71 (iii) Village Directc)ry 72-85 (b) Appendices (!~!V) to tbe Vllill;;" Directory 80-89 7. Section II-To~n Directory (i) Note explaining the codes used in the Town DiJt!ctory 92 Oi) Town Directory statements (I to VI) 93-98 Part B--Primary Census Abstract (j) District peA (a) Tehsil-wise Total, RuraL Urban 100-103 (ii) lehsil-wise peA (a) Village-wise } 104-143 (b) Town-wise (within the town, ward wise) (iii) Special PCA on Scheduled Caster, (Total, Rural, Urban) 144-145 FOREWORD The district census handbook (DCH),complicd in the referrent village the distance in broad by the Census Organisation on behalf of the ranges from the nearest place where the amenity State Governments, is one of the most is available may be given. The restructuring valuable products of the Census. The DCH is of the format of the village directory and in­ constantly referred to by plann:rs, administrators, corporating more exhaustive data on infrastruc­ acadenricians and rese~lfchers. It is inter alia ture aspect particularly in relation to amenities used for delimitation of constituencies, formu­ and land-use pattern is expected to further meet lation of local ievel and regional plans and as the need of micro level plannig for rural areas, an aid to District administration. The district It is expected to help not only in local area census handbook is the only publication which planning but regUlating the provision of goods provides Primary Census Abstract (PCA) data and services as well, so as to minimise the up~o village level for the rural areas and ward­ regional imbalances in the process of develop­ wise for each city or town. It also provides ment. A few new items of information have data on infrastructure and amenities in villages also been introduced to meet some 0 f the require­ and towns, etc. ments of the Revised Minimum Needs Prog­ ramme. Such new items of information as The district census handbook series was adult literacy centres, primary health subcentres initiated during the 1951 Census. It contained and community health workers in the village important census tables and PCA for each village have been introduced in the village directory and town of the dis~rict. During 1961 Census with this objective in mind. The new item on the scope of the DCH was enlarged and it approach to the village is to have an idea contained a descriptive account of the district, about the villages in the district which are administr.ttive statistics, cen~us tables and a village and town directory, including PCA. The 1971 inaccessible. A new column, "total ,population and number of households" llas been introduc­ DCH series was planned in thrce parts. Part-A ed to examine the correlation of the amenitiC5 related to village and town directory, Part-B with the popUlation and number of households to village and town PCA and Part-C comprised they serve. Addition of two more appendices analytical report, administrative statistics, di:,trict listing the villages,' where no amenities are availa­ census tables and certain analytical tables based on PCA and amenity data in respect of villages. ble and according to the proportion of schedu­ However, in stllne states it was confined to led caste and scheduled tribe popUlation to the total population has also been made with this district census tables and in a few cases altoge­ view in mind. ther given up due to delay in compilation and printing. Tbe formats of the town directory have also been modified to meet the requirements of While designing the format of 1981 DCH the Mjnimum Needs Programme by providing ser!es some new features along with the r~s- informatIOn on a few new items. A new state­ tructuring of the formats of village and town ment on civic and other amenities in slums in directory have been attempted. At the same Class-I and Class-II towns (statement IV-A) time, comparability with the 1971 data has also has been introduced with this objective in mind. been kept in view. All the amenities except It is expected that this will help the planners power supply in the village have been brought to chalk out progrmmes on provision of civic together in the village directory with the ins­ amenities for the improvement of slums. The truttiCYll that in case an amcnity is not available columns on Scheduled Castes and S~hedule.d (ii) Tribes population in statement IV relating to tables based on PC A and non census data in civic and other amenities and adult literacy relation to the infrastructure has been introduced classesicentres under educational facilities in state­ to enhance its value. The district and TehsilJ men t V ate also added inter alia with this view. Police Station/C.D. Block etc., level maps depic­ A significent addition is class of town in all ting the boundaries and other important features the seven sta tements of the town directory. have been inserted at appropeiatc places, to The infrastructure of amenities in urban (ireas further enhance the value of the publication. of the country can be best analysed by talking This publication is a joint venture of the the class of to wns into consideration. The State Government and the Census Organisation. addition of the columns on civic administration The data have been collected and compiled in status and population in a few statements also the State under the direction of Sliri A'. H. serves this purpose. Khan, lAS, Director of Census Operations, The format of the primary census abstract Jammu and Kashmir on behalf of the State for the villages and towns has be en formulated Government which has borne the cost of in the light of changes in the economic and printing. The task of planning, designing and other questions canvassed through the individual coordination of this publication was carried out slip of 1981 Census. by Shri N. G. Nag, Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies) of my office. Dr. B. K. Roy 111 order to avoid delay in publication of Deputy Registrar General (Map) provided the 1981 DCH series it has been so designed that technical guidance in the preparation of the Part-A of tbe volume contains village and maps. Data received from Census Directorates town directory and Part-B, the PCA of villages have been sfrutinised in the Social Studies Divi­ and towns including the Scheduled Castes and sion at tbe headquarters under the guidance Schedul~d Tribes PCA upto Tehsil{rown levels, of Shri M.