CENSUS OF INDIA, 1961 PUNJAB DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK No.2 ROHTAK DISTRICT R.L.ANAND Superintendent of Census Operations and Enumeration Commissioner~ Punjab Published by the Government of Punjab 1966 ~ t, ROHTAK DISTRICT ~ ( I'. .to \II Q .c: It: CL .I ~ j', a: L. '< .'...... ..,., ,:"",.- o + i ~ .".._j , , i 1\ :r I I , _"'1 \ " I , , ...... ~ , "! '·oJ ._.J ..... o 'I.. " G REFERENCE .-..... STATE 80UNDAilY DISTRICT TAHSIL JI" BROAD GAUGE RAILWAY MILC. -++++ METRE GAUGE RAILWAY S 0 10 METALLED ROAD I , I I I i i UNMETALLED ROAD 10 o RIVER KILOMETR'ES ~ --- ElOSTING CANAL ® DISTRICT HEADQUARTER 0 TAHSIL p, ID 'URBAN eENTRE ,,'L-_______________-l CENSUS -OF tNDIA 1961 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Part I-A General Report Part IV-B Part I-B Report on Vital Statistics Part V-A Part I-C(i) Subsidiary Tables Part V-B Part I-C(ii) Subsidiary Tables Part II-A General Population Tables Part VI Part II-BCi) General Economic Tables (Tables B-1 to B-IV, B-VIII and B-IX) Part VII-A Part I1-B (ii) General Economic Tables (Taples B-V to B-VII) Part VII-B Part H-C (i) Social and Cultural Tables Part VIII-A Part II-C (ii) Migration Tables Part VIII-B Part III Household Economic Tables Part IV-A Report on Housing and Establish- Part IX \ ments B-PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes of District Census Handbooks :- DCH-l Hissar DCH-ll Ludhiana DCH-2 Rohtak DCH-12 Ferozepur DCH-3 Gurgaon .DCH-13 Amritsar DCH-4 Kamal ®CH-14 Gurdaspur ~il DCH-5 Ambala . CH-15 Kapurthala DCH-6 Simla DCH-16 Bhatinda OCH-7 Kangra DCH-17 Sangrur DCH-8 Lahaul and Spiti DCH-18 Patiala DCH-9 Hoshiarpur DCH-19 Mahendragarb DCH-IO lullundur PREFACE Tbe main reports and statistical volumes pertaining to the 1961-census fall under three broad groups on the basis of territory coverage. The All-India Reports and Tables compiled in the office of the Registrar General, India, encompass the entire country. The reports compiled by the State Superintendents relate to individual States and Centrally Administered Territories. The third group consists of District Census Handbooks the scope of which is limited to individual Districts, and they give information for each town and village. The Hand­ books have been compiled by the Superintendent of Census Operations, but are published by the State Govern­ ment. The District Census Handbooks were published for the first time at the 1951-census. They proved very useful with the officers working in Community Development Blocks, Tahsils and Districts, and were ~onsul­ ted in connection with elections and by students of social sciences interested in local problems. It was, therefore, decided to continue with this series at the 1961-census. This Handbook contains the essential census data for each , village and town (according to wards) in the District. Besides, some very useful information collected from various State Departments has been included in it, trying to make it a self-contained book of reference for the District. The book is divided into four parts. Part [ is mostly descriptive and consists of four chapters. Chapter I introduces the District, giving information on its location, physical features, climate, fauna and flora, towns and places of interest, a brief history of the District and its administrative machinery. In Chapter II are discussed the use of land, main crops and irrigation, industries, trade and 'commerce, and communications. In Chapter III the salient features of popUlation are discussed. Chapter IV deals with social and developmental activities, and achievements during the First and Second Five-Year Plans. In Part II are presented the statistics secured from various Government Departments relating to rainfall, temperature, land utilisation, irrigation, area and yield of principal crops, livestock, industry co-operation, education, printing and publishing, entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, transport and communications, community development activities, banks and insurance, and justice. The_n comes a Table on the fairs and festivals in the District. The Tables relating to the 1961-census are presented in Part III. Part IV contains a Directory of Villages and Towns, showing the location of educational institutions, hospitals and dispensaries, post and telegraph offices, electrification and protected water-supply; area; number of occupied residential houses and households living therein; popUlation; persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number of literate and edu­ cated persons; number of workers in nine broad industrial categories; and number of non-workers. The book contains several maps. There is a map of the District showing the administrative boundaries, • roads and railways, rivers and canals, and location of towns. Another map shows the distribution of popUlation in the District by dots: the popUlation of towns is shown by proportionate circles; and of rural areas by dots, one dot representing 200 persons. For each Tahsil in the District two types of maps have been prepared, one showing the location of social amenities, and the second showing the boundaries of villages and towns. These maps were prepared in the Cartographic Section in the State Census Office, jointly by Kumaris Ranbir Sokhi and Satwinder H. Singh, botb M.As' in Geography. This publication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Government Departments, and grateful acknowledgement is made ofthe help received from them. Within the Census Organisa­ tion mention needs to be made of Shri Jaswant Singh Dilawary, Statistical Assistant and Shri Vishwa Mitter, Supervisor, under the supervision of Shri T. P. Garg, P.C.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, for preparing the Tables presented in Part II and of Shri Goverdhan Dass Singla, Statistical Assistant and Sarvshri Dharam Paul Jain and Joginder Nath Suri, Tabulation Assistants, under the supervision of Shri Pawan Kumar, Tabulation Officer. for preparing the Tables presented in Parts III and IV. Shri T. P. Garg, P.C.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, paid a number of visits to the various parts of the Rohtak District, and after collecting information by personal observations and discus­ sions with a large number of persons, produced the draft of this Handbook. My thanks are due also to Shri K. C. Kuriyan, Controller of Printing & Stationery, Punjab, and his Deputy, Shri Tara Chand, for their personal attention in the printing of the book. R. L. ANAND, CHANDlGARH : Superintendent of Census Operations, January 18. 1966. and Enumeration 'Commissioner, Punjab. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE iii PART I-INTRODUCnON TO THE DISTRICT ·1-31 Chapter I-Introduction 3 Chapter II-Economy 10 Chapter III-Population 11 Chapter IV--Social and Developmental Activities 25 PARrIl-DEPARTMEN TAL STATISTICS 33-101 Explanatory Note 36 Tables 40 • PART III-CENSUS TABLES 103-253 Explanatory Note 108 Tables 136 PART IV-DIRECTORY OF VILLAGES AND TOWNS i-liii Explanatory Note ii Directory iv Alphabetical List of Villages Iv MAPS Administrative Map ofRohtak District Frontispiece Rohtak District Map showing Population Facing page 17 Maps of four Tahsils showing Schools, Dispensaries and Post Offices Facing page 2S Maps of Tahsils showing boundaries of Villages Facing pages lvii, lix. lxi & lxiii }tART t INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT CHAPTER. f INTRODUCTION Name.-The District derives its name from its headquarters town 'Rohtak' which is a corrupted formot Rohtasgarh, a name still applied to the ruined sites of two older cities; one lying immediately north of the present town and known as 'Khokhra Kot' and the other about three miles to the east. The legend goes that one Raja Rohtas foun· ded the city and named it after himself, and with this legend is also associated the name of a tankoutside Gohana town. Location & bOWldaries.-The District lies between 28°-22'·30" and 29.°17'.54" north latitude and 76°.9'.12" and 77°·10'-12' east longitude, and is compact in shape. It is bounded by Karnal and S~ngrur Districts on the north, Gur­ gaon and Mahendragarh Districts on the south, the Union Territory of Delhi and Gurgaon District on the east and Districts of Sangrur, Hissar and Mahendragarh on the west. Area.-The total area of the District according to the Surveyor General of India is 2,330 sq. miles but the Direc­ tor of Land Records, Punjab, puts it at 2,332.2 sq. miles. The District ranks ninth in area among the 19 Districts of the State. The area of each of its four Tahsils, according to Village Papers, is as follows:- Tahsil Area (Sq. miles) Total Rural Urban Gobana 553.2 551.3 1.9 Sonepat 448.4 446.7 1.7 -Rohtak 517.1 512.6 4.5 Jhajjar 813.5 810.9 2.6 PHY~CAL FEATURES The centre of the District is about 730 ft. above the sea level, and there is a gentle slope of one foot per mile from north to south up to Jhajjar and thereafter an ascent southwards. In the northern Tahsil there is also a consider­ able slope from the west to east. The District cannot claim of any grand scenery but the canals with their belts of trees, the lines of sand hills and some low rocky hills in the south-west of Jhajjar lend a variety to the landscape. River system.-Except the Jumoa, the cieep stream of which carves the eastern boundary of the District, there is no perennial river in the District. The Sahibi nadi, rising from the hills in Jaipur after passing through the Gurgaon District, flows into Rohtak. It is known for its vagries. Mention may also be made of the Kasawti nadi, a hill torrent which rises in Jaipur hills and flows through Rewari Tahsil of Gurgaon to Jhajjar Tahsil of this District, ending in Jahazgarh Jhil.