CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 SERIES 18 RAJASTHAN STANDARD URBAN AREAS (Supplement to Part II-A General Population Tables) U. B. MATHUR Dy. Director of Census Operations, Rajasthan PREFACE ONE OF THE CONCEPTS developed at the time of the 1971 Census was that of the Standard Urban Area. Its essentials were that it should have a core town of a minimum population size of 50,000 persons; its contiguous areas made up of other urban as well as rural administrative units should have close mutual socio-economic links with the core town; and, there should be probabilities of the entire area getting fully urbanised in the period of the next two or three decades. The idea behind the development of this· concept was that it is necessary to have a comparative data for such growing areas continuously for at least three decades to enable one to have a really meaningful picture. This thought replaced the 1961 Census concept of the Town-Group which was composed of the independent urban units of the vicinity, not necessarily contiguous to one another but which were to some extent inter-dependent. It was later felt that the population data for such Town-Groups became incomparable from Census to Census as the boundaries of the towns themselves changed and the intermediate areas were left out of account. This was also stressed at one of the symposia of the International Geographic Union in 1968. It was in this way that the concept of the Standard Urban Area came to be developed for adoption at the 1971 Census. We hope the information presented here will be found useful by social scientists, administrators and planners. We believe that such data for the various standard urban areas for successive Censuses will yield much more interesting information for them to study the urbanisation and development around large urban nuclei. In the preparation of this volume Sarval Shri S. P. Kashyap and M. M. Goyal have been very helpful. Others who had assisted in this work are mentioned overleaf. U. B. MATHUR Jaipur Dy. Director of Census Operations. 15th August, 1974. Rajasthan OTHER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF ASSOCIATED WITH mls WORK In data processing: 1. Shri R. N. Verma 2. Shri T. C. Patui 3. Shri Moti Singh· In preparation of mops: I. Shri M. L. Kumawat 2. Shri D. L. Verma 3. Shri R. S. Sharma SUPPLEMENT TO PART II-A STANDARD URBAN AREAS LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CENSUS OF INDIA 1971-,-SERIES-18 RAJASTHAN IS BEING PUBLISHED IN THB FOLLOWING PARTS : A-GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PUBLICATIONS Part I·A General Report. Part I·B An analysis of the demographic, social, cultural and migration patterns. Part I.C Subsidiary Tables. Part II·A Gener!ll Population Tables. (Published) Standard Urban Areas-Supplement to Part II-A. (The Present Volume) " " Part II-B(i) Economic Tables (Tables B-1 Part A and B-Il). (Published) Part II-B(li) Economic Tables (Tables B-1 Part Band B-I1I to B-IX). Part II-C(i) Social and Cultural Tables (Tables C-VU and C-VIII). Part II-C(ii) Social and Cultural Tables (Tables C-I to C·VI and Fertility Tables). Part H-D Migration Tables. Part lII-A Establishments Report. (Published) Part III-B Establishment Tables. (Published) Part IV Housing Report and Tables. (Pubiished) Part V Special Tables and Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes. Part VI-A Town Directory. Part VI-B Special Survey Report on Selected Towns. Part VI-C Survey Report on Selected Villages. Part VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration. } For official use only. Part VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation. Part IX Census Atlas. B-GOVERNMBNT OF RAJASTHAN PUBLICATIONS Part IX-A Administrative Atlas. (Published) Part X-A & X·B District Census Hand Book-Town and Village Directory & Primary Census Abstract. (Published, Population Statistics 1971. (Published). 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Bl kane r D1 s tri c t- Col. 2 ;{a ghuna th sar Rughnathsar Rural component; Bikaner Tehsil-village at Code N 0.94 4,34& Bikaner District-Col.2 bhri Ramsar t'hree Ramsar 36 Rural comn onen t; Bikaner Tehsil-Village at Code No.102 6,42& Bhara tour-Di stri ct-Col. 2 Hodoli Madoli 44 Rural COrrlP onen t Bharatpur Tehsil-village at code No.l88 12,54&: ~jmer Dlstrict-Co1.2 Boraj Kazeepura Boraj Kajeenura 56 Rural comp onent, r.jmer Tehsil-village at code No.46 IS,6@£: Bhilwara District-Col.2 .I-l.doonC:l. Atoona 68 Rural component Bhilwaru. Tehsil-village at C ooe-"'NCl.'~ --, - - -- 31: Ganganagar District-~.U.fI.' 102 ,. G"nghnagar Col.14 59 'lonk District-Last line, col. 11 99 79 67 Udaipur Di&trict- V U daiTJur Ci ty (M) col.13 2886 2806 CONTENTS PAGES PREFACE INTRODUCTION •• (i) STANDARD URBAN AREAS; MAPS & NOTES (iii) TABLE A-V : STANDARD URBAN AREAS APPEND1X: PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT OF THB STANDARD URBAN AREAS 25 INTRODUCTION IT MAY BE RECALLED that the concept of Jike communication, services, educational town-groups was used in the 1961 Census and data facilities, market facilities etc., was presented for each town· group. This was not, (c) Anticipated urban growth as a result of however, considered very useful as the town-groups locational decisions regarding the socio­ d~d not include contiguous rural areas around the economic infra-structure and servicing facili­ cIty or town, which are likely to be urbanised in the ties, and, near future. The standard urban area is a new concept developed at the 1971 Census and it implies (d) Existence of persons in_ rural areas engaged territories contiguous to a core city or town which in non-agricultural activities in large measure. are likely to be urbanised in the next twenty years. The utility of this concept lies in the fact that even It is also necessary to note the difference between a standard urban area and an Urban Agglomeration. when statutory limits of existing towns are changed, these areas do not undergo any change and this Whereas a standard urban area presents the picture increases comparability of data obtained at different of the area surrounding the core-city or town, that Censuses. Thus, standard urban areas have fixed is likely to be urbanised during the next two dacades, areas covering all the cities or towns with a popula­ an urban agglomeration represents an area consis­ tion of 50,000 and above, and, adjoining areas, ting of contiguous urban areas and such rural areas which may be rural or may be covered by smaller as are so near to being urban that it makes no towns under the intensive influence or likely to be difference. The entire area of an urban agglomera­ under the intensive influence of the core city or tion is thus already developed and has exclusively town. The standard urban areas usually have some urban composition, while, the standard urban area or all the following characteristics: has both urban and rural composition. (a) Predominent urban land use, Fourteen Standard Urban Areas have been deli­ (b) Intensive interaction with the core-towns mited in Rajasthan State which are briefly mentioned reflected in the socio-economic infra-structure in the following statement :- Name of the Component Units District Standard Urban Area Urban Rural Ganganagar Ganganagar I 13 Bikaner Bikaner 3 14 Churu Churu 2 Alwar Alwar I 12 Bharatpur Bharatpur 2 13 Jaipur Jaipur 3 66 Sikar Sikar 1 2 Ajmer Ajmer 2 23 Ajmer Beawar 8 Tonk Tonk 10 Jodbpur Jodhpur 12 Bhilwara Bhilwara 7 Udaipur Udaipur 2' Kota Kota 34 The work relating to the demarcation of these population ranges; and. Table A-IV. which presen­ areas was undertaken by us in consultation with the ted Our Towns and Urban Agglomerations classified Town Planning Department of the Government of by population sizes, and. wherein tbe population of Rajasthan and the Central Town & Country Plan­ each urban unit for the Census years from 1901 was ning Organisation of the Government of India. also indicated. Apart from these four Tables, the volume also bad the Primary Census Abstract. The Presentation of the demographic information for Table A-Vand its Appendix, presented in this these standard urban areas in Rajasthan is the volume, belong to tbe same series and show the purpose of tbis volume wbich is issued as a supple­ demographic particulars of tbe various standard ment to our Part II-A General Population Tables, urban areas in Rajasthan.