CENSUS OF INDIA 2001 GENERAL POPULATION TABLES JAMMU & KASHMIR (Table A-1 to A-4) r~~ lo~£1i'E6 DIRECTORATE OF CENSUS OPERATIONS JAMMU & KASHMIR Data Product Number 01-009-200 l--Cen.Book (E) (ii) CONTENTS Page Preface v Figure at a Glance lX-X GENERAL NOTE 1-11 Basic Census Concepts and Definitions - 2001 Census 11-15 TABLE A-I: NUMBER OF VILLAGES, TOWNS, HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION AND AREA Note 19 Statements 20-28 Fly-Leaf 29 TABLE A-I (Part-I) & (Part-II) 30-41 A-I Appendix-1 Change in territorial units 42-43 A-I Annexure Inter District territorial transferes 44-46 TABLE A-2 : DECADAL VARIATION IN POPULATION SINCE 1901 Fly Leaf 48 Statements 49-53 TABLE A-2 54-57 Appendix Districts at the 2001 Census showing the 1991 area and population according to territorial jurisdiction in 1991, change in population of 1991 adjusted to jurisdiction of 2001 58 TABLE A-3 : VILLAGES BY POPULATION SIZE CLASS Fly Leaf 61 Statements 62-65 TABLEA-3 66-73 Appendix 74-75 TABLE A·4 : TOWNS AND URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS CLASSIFIED BY POPULATION SIZE CLASS IN 2001 WITH VARIATION SINCE 1901 Fly Leaf 79-80 Statements 81-106 Alphabetical list of towns 107-108 Alphabetical list of Urban Agglomerations 108 TABLE A-4 109-128 Appendix-l 129 Houselist and Household Schedule 131-134 (iii) PREFACE The Indian Census has a tradition to tabulate the data collected during each decennial Census with the consideration of their utility to Government planners, Research Scholars and other data users who have thirst for such data for use in their various projects with which they are associated. The scope of Tabulation of Census data is limitless. But the focus has always been to produce basic data as quickly as possible for its immediate use by various agencies and data users. The present publication contains A-series Tables together with several appendices and statements generated from the basic data presented in StatelDistrictffehsilffownlWardlVillages - Primary Census Abstract. The compilation and tabulation of the data of A-series tables have involved a considerable amount of stannous work which was ably completed by the Central Tabulation Unit of the Directorate of Census Operations under the able supervision of Sh. Khursheed Ahmad, S.l. Gr.-I who never feels tired to do offlce work even on holidays with great zeal and dedication. It was his team leadership which made it possible to complete write up within stipulated time frame. My thanks are also to Sh. Syed Gh. Gouse Qadri, S.1. Gr.-II who had to exert a great deal in preparing the I st draft of the publication. I have no option but to endorse that this book would have not emerged as interesting as it has emerged now without the ablest efforts of Sh. Syed Gh. Gouse Qadri, who worked day in and day out to complete this publication. It would not have been possible for me to bring out this publication without the sincere efforts made by S/Shri Gh. Jeelani, S.l. Gr.-II. N.A. Jan, Vijay Kumar Moza, Sr. Compilers and Gh. Hassan Wani, Compiler. All of them deserve sincere thanks. Sh. Ieelani who has a sharp eye and mind to manoeuvre with any kind of Statistical data and his expertise in the Census and tabulation has added value to this publication. Other officials who deserve mention having been associated with Mapping and Computerization are acknowledged separately. I am greatly thankful to Sh. D.K. Sikri, Additional Secretary, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Sh. K. Narayanan Unni, Deputy Registrar General (C&T), Sh. Anand Kumar, Joint Director, Sh. Jagan Lal, Assistant Director (C&T) Office of the Registrar General, India, for their inspiration, valuable instructions and guidance received from time to time. (c.s. Sapru) Deputy Director (v) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My complements are also due to the following officials of the Census Directorate who worked very hard in preparing the Maps and diagrams and also to the officials associated with Computerization of manuscript: Mapping: S/Shri 1. A.M. Shagoo Sr. Drawing Assistant (Rtd.) 2. V.K. Punjabi Draughtsman 3. Ab. Qayoom Sheerwani Draughtsman 4. Dilshad Akhtar Draughtsman CRC: Mir Basharat Ahmad S.1. Gr.-II Computerisation : S/Shri 1. Mir Basharat Ahmed S.1. Gr.-II 2. Gh. Rasool Bhat Compiler 3. Muzaffar Rasool Jan Compiler 4. Himanshoo Koul Assistant Compiler 5. M.A. Koul Photostat Operator Comparing and Proof-reading: S/Shri L N.A. Jan Sr. Compiler 2. Gh. Hassan Wani Compiler (vii) FIGUREATAGLANCE JAMMU & KASHMIR TOTAL POPULATION Total Persons 10,143,700 Males 5,360,926 Females 4,782,774 Rural Persons 7,627,062 Males 3.977,652 Females 3,649,410 Urban Persons 2,516.638 Males 1.383,274 Females 1,133,364 DECENNIAL POPULATION GROWTH RATE 1991-2001 29.40% AREA IN KM2 222,236£ DENSITY OF POPULATION PER KM2 100 SEX RATIO (Number of females per 1,000 males) 892 LITERACY RATE Persons 55.52 (Excluding children in the age-group 0-6) Males 66.60 Females 43.00 PERCENTAGE Of URBAN POPULATION TO TOTAL POPULATION 24.81 PERCENTAGE TO TOTAL POPULATION (i) Main Workers Persons 25.72 Males 41.54 Females 7.98 (ii) Marginal Workers Persons 11.29 Males 8.45 Females 14.47 (iii) Non - Workers Persons 62.99 Males 50.01 Females 77.55 BREAK UP OF MAIN WORKERS PERCENTAGE AMONG MAIN WORKERS CULTIVATORS Persons 36.36 Males 35.58 Females 40.91 (ix) AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS Persons 3.95 Males 4.19 Females 2.56 HOUSEHOLD INDUSTRY WORKERS Persons 5.20 Males 4.43 Females 9.70 OTHER WORKERS Persons 54.49 Males 55.80 Females 46.83 PERCENTAGE OF SCHEDULED CASTES TO TOTAL POPULATION Persons 7.60 Males 7.52 Females 7.67 PERCENTAGE OF SCHEDULED TRIBES TO TOTAL POPULATION Persons 10.90 Males 10.80 Females 11.02 TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS 1,568,519 TOTAL NUMBER OF VILLAGES Total 6,652 Inhabited 6,417 Uninhabited 235 TOTAL NUMBER OF TOWNS 75 £ Includes 78.114 sq. km under illegal occupation of Pakistan and 5,180 sq. kmiJlegally handed over by Pakistan to China and 37,555 sq. kIn under illegal occupation of China. (x) SECTION-l- GENERAL NOTE GENERAL NOTE The first census of the third millennium and This gigantic operation, (considered by many twenty first century conducted in 200 1 has been the to be the single largest and complex peace time 14th continuous and uninterrupted Indian Census since administrative exercise in the world) was made possible 1872. Thus, 2001 Census while providing data on due to the door to door universal canvassing of the population and its characteristics will also made a Household Schedule by about 2 million enumerator's transition from one century and millennium to another. and supervisors covering 593 districts, 5464 Sub­ This data will form the benchmark for framing of the districts, 5161 towns and 638588 villages at the national welfare and development policies for the human beings level. The wmprehensive Household Schedule which living in this Country. replaced the individual slip had three parts and two Till 1931, census was a one night affair which sides A and B. Part I contained the Location mainly aimed at presenting a snapshot of the country's Particulars; Part II related to the Indi vidual Particulars population. But since 1941 and upto 1991 Census, and Part III contained questions for Household engaged count was staggered and enumeration was being done in Cu1tivationfPlantation (Annexure-I). The Part II of on Individual Slips. However, in 2001 enumeration the Household Schedule had 39 columns and 23 has been done on Household Schedules. The questions all of which were universally canvassed and questionnaire has thus gone on changing according to no sampling was resorted to during enumeration. To the changing needs and requirements of the society facilitate quick tabulation for bringing out Provisional and the country. Population Totals, provision for page totalling was made As a general rule, every person has to be in the schedule itselffor a few items namely population, enumerated at his normal place of residence, except males, females, population aged 0-6 years by sex, those who are away from their normal places of literates and workers and their categories by sex. The residence through out the period of count. These provisional population totals were put in the public persons have been enumerated at the place where they domain on 30lh March, 2001 i.e. within _ weeks of the were first found by an enumerator during the completion of the enumeration. Provisional Population enumeration period or during his revisional round. Paper-I of 2001 and Supplement to Provisional Houseless persons have been to be enumerated at the Population paper-I of2001 provided the basic statistics places they were found on the night of 28 th February, of the population, literate's upto _ district, sub-district 2001. and town level classified by sex. Through the publication The Census Act, 1948, forms the legal basis of Paper I, II and III of Provisional Population Totals. for conduct of population censuses in independent India. Subsequently, the distribution of population by rural and As in the past, the Census of India, 2001 has been urban areas and economic activity characteristics of conducted in two phases. During the first phase, the the population by rural and urban areas at district/sub­ Houselisting Operation was conducted between April district/town level were also released in electronic to September 2000. The second phase of census i.e. format. All the provisional population totals released Population Enumeration, was undertaken between so far arc also available on census website: February, 9th to 28th February (both days inclusi ve) with http://www.censusindia.nic.in a revisional round from }'t to 5th March, 2001.