Census of India 2011 JAMMU & KASHMIR PART XII- SERIES-02 A DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK KISHTWAR VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY DIRECTORATE OF CENSUS OPERATIONS JAMMU & KASHMIR CENSUS OF INDIA 2011 JAMMU AND KASHMIR SERIES - 2 PART XII-A DISTRICT CENSUS HAND BOOK KISHTWAR VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY DATA DIRECTORATE OF CENSUS OPERATIONS JAMMU AND KASHMIR Motif Mata Machailwaali Every year thousands of devotees pay visit to the Holy Shrine with the faith undeterred and to receive the blessings of Mata Machailwaali situated around 30 kms away from Gulabgarh village, Padder. The yatra was initially started by Thakur Kulbir Singh of Bhaderwah who was serving in Jammu & Kashmir Police Department and was posted in Machail. The yatra with Holymace, starts from Chinote(Bhaderwah) during the month of August with a lot of zeal and fervor amidst the chants of MaaChandi. Devotees from Jammu start their journey from the Lakshmi Narayan Mandir (PaccaDanga) after taking the obeisance and join the yatra at Bhaderwah from where it takes off to Kishtwar and then to Atholi (Padder) in Padder. The Holymace is welcomed enroute by thousands of devotees at various villages with them offering free Langars at Gulabgarh, Massu, Kundhail, Chishoti, Hamori and Machail. Contents Page No. Foreword 1 Preface 3 Acknowledgements 4 History and Scope of the District Census Handbook 5 Brief History of the District 6 Analytical Note 7 (i) Physical Features 7 (a) Location and size, (b) physiography, (c) Type of soil (d) Flora and funna, (e) Drainage (f) Underground Water resources (g) Climate (h) Cropping pattern (i) Irrigation (j) Forest (k) 7-15 Fishery (l) Animal husbandary (m) Power (n) Industries (o) Gram Panchayat its composition, jurisdiction and role in the development and its economy, Power and Functions. (ii) Census Concepts 16 (iii) Non-Census concepts 22 (iv) 2011 Census findings 31 (a) Distribution of population in rural-urban areas, 32 (b) size class and status of towns, Population Growth, Density and Sex Ratio,Literacy, Work participation rate, Religion, Availability of university education in the District, 34 (c) Mother Tongue, Religion and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes of earlier Censuses. 37 (d)Brief Note on Primary Census Abstract 39 (v) Brief analysis of PCA data based on inset tables 1 to 35. 42 (vi) Brief analysis of the Village Directory and Town Directory data based on inset tables 36 to 45. 78 (vii) Major social and cultural events ,natural and administrative developments and significant activities during the decade . 88 (viii) Brief description of places of religious, historical or archaeological importance in villages and places of tourist interest in the towns of the district. 89 (ix) Scope of village and Town Directory - column heading wise explanation and coverage of data. 91 (x) Section I - Village Directory 94 (i) List of Villages Merged in Towns and Outgrowths at Census 2011 94 (ii) List of Villages as Outgrowths in Census 2011 94 Community Development (C.D.)wise Village Directory Data 95 C.D. Block : Kishtwar 96 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 96 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 97 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 98 Contents Page No. C.D. Block : Drabshalla 105 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 105 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 106 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 108 C.D. Block : Nagseni 121 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 121 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 122 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 123 C.D. Block : Marwah 130 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 130 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 131 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 132 C.D. Block : Warwan 139 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 139 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 140 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 141 C.D. Block : Dachhan 148 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 148 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 149 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 150 C.D. Block : Padder 157 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 157 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 158 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 159 C.D. Block : Inderwal 172 (i) C.D. Block Maps showing Tahsil boundary 172 (ii) Alphabetical list of Villages along with location code 2001 and 2011. 173 (iii) Village Directory in prescribed format. 174 (d) Appendices to Village Directory 181 Appendix - I : Summary showing total number villages having Educational, Medical and other amenities in villages - C.D. Block level. 181 Appendix - I A :Villages by number of Primary Schools. 185 Appendix - I B :Villages by Primary, Middle and Secondary Schools. 186 Appendix - I C : Villages with different sources of drinking water facilities available. 187 Appendix - II :Villages with 5,000 and above population which do not have one or more amenities available. 188 Appendix - III :Land utilization data in respect of Census Towns. 189 Appendix - IV :C.D. Block wise list of inhabited villages where no amenity other than drinking water facility is available. 189 Contents Page No. Appendix - V :Summary showing number of Villages not having Scheduled Caste population. 190 Appendix - VI :Summary showing number of Villages not having Scheduled Tribe Population. 191 Appendix - VII A :List of villages according to the proportion of the Scheduled Castes to the total population by ranges. 192 Appendix - VII B :List of villages according to the proportion of the Scheduled Tribes to the total population by ranges. 202 Appendix - VIII :Number of villages under each Gram Panchayat (C.D. block wise) 212 Section II - Town Directory 213 Notes explaining the abbreviations used in the Village Directory 213 (a) Statement - I Status and Growth History 217 (b) Statement - II Physical Aspects and Location of Towns, 2009 218 (c) Statement - III Civic and other amenities, 2009 219 (d) Statement - IV Medical Facilities, 2009 220 (e) Statement - V Educational, Recreational and Cultural facilities, 2009 220 (f) Statement -VI Industry and Banking, 2009 221 (g) Statement - VII Civic and other amenities in slums, 2009 222 (h) Appendix to Town Directory - Towns showing their outgrowth with population. 223 Foreword The District Census Handbook (DCHB) is an important publication of the Census Organization since 1951. It contains both Census and non Census data of urban and rural areas for each District. The Census data provide information on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of population at the lowest administrative unit i.e. of each Village and Town and ward of the District. The Primary Census Abstract (PCA) part of this publication contains Census data including data on household amenities collected during 1st.phase of the Census i.e. House Listing and Housing Census. The non Census data presented in the DCHB is in the form of Village Directory and Town Directory contain information on various infrastructure facilities available in the village and town viz; education, medical, drinking water, communication and transport, post and telegraph, electricity, banking, and other miscellaneous facilities. Later on, the Telegraph Services were closed by the Government of India on 15th. July, 2013. The data of DCHB are of considerable importance in the context of planning and development at the grass-root level. In the 1961 Census, DCHB provided a descriptive account of the District, administrative statistics, Census tables and Village and Town Directory including Primary Census Abstract. This pattern was changed in 1971 Census and the DCHB was published in three parts: Part-A related to Village and Town Directory, Part-B to Village and Town PCA and Part-C comprised analytical report, administrative statistics, District Census tables and certain analytical tables based on PCA and amenity data in respect of Villages. The 1981 Census DCHB was published in two parts: Part-A contained Village and Town Directory and Part-B the PCA of Village and Town including the SCs and STs PCA up to Tehsil/Town levels. New features along with restructuring of the formats of Village and Town Directory were added. In Village Directory, all amenities except electricity were brought together and if any amenity was not available in the referent Village, the distance in broad ranges from the nearest place having such an amenity, was given. The pattern of 1981 Census was followed by and large for the DCHB of 1991 Census except the format of PCA. It was restructured. Nine-fold industrial classification of main workers was given against the four-fold industrial classification presented in the 1981 Census. In addition, sex wise population in 0-6 age group was included in the PCA for the first time with a view to enable the data users to compile more realistic literacy rate as all children below 7 years of age had been treated as illiterate at the time of 1991 Census. One of the important innovations in the 1991 Census was the Community Development Block (CD Block) level presentation of Village Directory and PCA data instead of the traditional Tehsil/Taluk/PS level presentation. As regards DCHB of 2001 Census, the scope of Village Directory was improved by including some other amenities like banking, recreational and cultural facilities, newspapers & magazines and `most important commodity’ manufactured in a Village in addition to prescribed facilities of earlier Censuses. In Town Directory, the statement on Slums was modified and its coverage was enlarged by including details on all slums instead of ‘notified slums’. The scope and coverage of Village Directory of 2011 DCHB has been widened by including a number of new amenities in addition to those of 2001.