CENSUS 1961 ,t\NDHRA PRADESH DI5TBI£T [ENSUS HANDBOO~ ~HITTOUR DISTHI[T A. CHANDRA SEKHAR OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE Superintendent of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 1965 Price; Rs. 10.00 or 2J sb" dar $ 3.60 c 1961 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS, ANDHRA PRADESH CENTRA.L PUBLICATIONS STATE REPORTS &: TABLES PART I rGeneral Report (with Sub~parts) ••. -i Report on Vital Statistics l Subsidiary Tables PART II-A General Population Tables PART II-B(;) Economic Tables (B-1 to B-IV) PART I1-B{ii) ... Economic Tables (B-V to B.IX) PART I1-C .,. Cultural and Migration Tables PART III ... Household Economic TabJes PART IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments (with Subsidiary Tables) PART IV-D Housing and Establishment Tables PART V-A .... Special Tables for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART V-B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART VI .. Village Survey Monographs PART VII-A (i) PART VU-A (ji) (- Handicraft Survey Reports (Selected Crafts) PART VII-B Fairs and Festivals PART VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration 1- (Not for Sa/e) PART VIIl-B Administration Report-Tabulation ) PART IX State Atlas PART X Special Report on Hyderabad City STATE PUBLICA.TIONS DISTRICT CENSUS HAND BOOKS A District Census Hand Book for ~'ach of the 20 Districts in Andhra Pradesh PRINTED BY BAHUJANA P1UNT1NG PRESS, HYDERABAD roB. THE DIRECTOR. OF PJtINTING, HYDERABAD PREFACE The District Census Handbook is an innovation introduced at the 1951 Census. The Handbooks are compiled by the Census Office but published by the State Government. They proved to be very popular and valuable publications in considerable demand by the public as well as the official users of the Census data. At the 1961 Census, therefore, it was decided not only to continue the publication of the District Census Handbook but to greatly improve upon its precursor of 1951. The present District Census Handbook may be conveniently divided into four parts. The first part consists of a narrative description of the physical features and history of the district, the social and econo­ mic characteristics of the people and the progress made by the district in each field of administration over the past decades. This is supplemented by a gazetteer of places. The second part consists of administra­ tive statistics of various departments. The third part is based mainly on the present Census returns and consists of statistical tables giving the particulars of population, sex ratio, the economic composition, lite­ racy, language and migration data. etc. The fourth part consists of Village and Town Directory which is perhaps the vital part of the Handbook giving vilIagewise and town wise particulars of area, households, population, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, literacy, broad categorisation of working population, etc. Against each village and town the educational, medical, public health, and transport facilities, etc., if available, have also been indicated. At the end of the fourth part a tabular statement of fairs and festi­ vals, information about which had been collected through the Census enumerators will also be found. The pages of each part are numbered separately. The Handbook is enriched with two district maps one showing the administrative divisions and important communications, rivers, etc., and the names of all important places of above 5,000 popUlation and the other showing the tal uk wise density of population. In the Village Directory portion of the Handbook, before the statistics of each taluk are presented, a taluk map showing the village and town boundaries with the location code num ber of each village and town marked will also be found. Thlls the District Census Hcndbook is a self-containt'd and convenient book of reference about almost all rna tters pertaining to the district. The Handbooks are no doubt coming rather late, a few years after completion of the Census count. This delay, if at all it can be called delay, could not be helped. The very detailed sorting of Census slips and compilation of the elaborate 1961 Census ta bles were time consuming; the administrativeparticulars for . incorporation in the Handbooks had to be collected from different departments and other sources On profor. mae that were fiflalised and circulated from this office; the preparation of the excellent maps of the district and the talu~s, attempted this time, also required considerable time; and lastly the printing of these volu­ minous repor'ts which had to be done very carefully was a laborious process. All the same it is hoped that these Handbooks will serve as valuable sources of reference about all matters pertaining to the district and help one to assess the impact of the Five Year Plans and the progress each district had made in its social and economic well being over the decades and also serve as a guide in pla,nning for the future. The credit for the compilation of the Handbook goes chiefly to Shri P. S. R. Avadhany, Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations. A cj)mpilation of this type and magnitude could have taken a much longer time but for the diligent efforts of Shri Avadhany. The Handbook section of the Census Office under the Tabulation Officer Shri K. Narasimha Murthy, did a commendable work in the speedy and accurate compilation of the Village Directory and the other Statistical and Administrative Tables. Shri G. Pandurangam, Shri M. J. Sadiq and Shri N. Govind Swamy of the Cartographic Section in my office did a magnificent work as will be evident from the quality of maps that have been produced. A. CHANDRA SEKHAR Superintendent of Census Operations Andhra Pradesh CONTENTS PART-I INTRODUCING THE DISTRICT Chapter Pages I GENERAL FEATURES i-v II HISTORY vi-xiii III POPUL/I,11ON AND HOUSING xiv-xxxi IV INDUSTRIES xxxii-xxxvi V CO-OPERATION xxxvii-xl VI SOCIAL WELFARE xli-xliv VII EDUCATION xlv-xlviii VIlI HEALTH xlix-lii IX AGRICUL TURE liii-lix X FORESTS Ix-Ixiii XI PANellAYATI RAJ lxiv Ixx XII GAZETtEER Ixxi-lxxxii PART-II ADMINISTRA TIVE STATISTICS SERIES 1-VITAL STA'IISTICS Table No. 1.1 Births and Deaths and Deaths due to various causes for the decennium 195)-60 (1) 1.2 Registered Birth and Death rates, Infantile and Maternal Mortality Rates (2) SERIES 2-AGRICULTURE 2.1 Rainfall (3)-\5) 2.2 Temperature (6) 2.3 Land Utilisation Statistics (7) 2.4 Area under Principal Crops (8) 2.5 Gross Area Irrigated (C») 2.6 Sources of Irrigation (9) ii Table No. Pages SERIES 2-AGRICULTURE-Concld. 2.7 Irrigation Projects with particulars of their capacity and water spread area (10) :'.8 Yield rates of the principal crops per acre (ll) 2.9 Monthly wholesale price quotations in respect of staple foodgrains (12)-(13) 2.10 Statistics of wages Average daily wages paid to skilled and Agricultural Labour (14)-(16) 2.11 Government Experimental Farms (17) 2.12 Grow More Food Campaign (18) SERIES 3-ANIMAL HUSBANDRY :u Livestock and Poultry' ( 19) 3.2 Lives tock Mortality due to contagious and other diseases (20) 3.3 Government Veterimry facilities (21 ) SERIES 4-INDUSTRIES 4.1 List of Small Industries together with the number of estab­ lishments and persons employed in each of them in the various taluks of the district (22)-(23) 4.2 Total number of Artisans of each category working in tho district together with their daily average earnings ... (24) 4.3 List of Factories (Large Industrial Establishments) under the operation of the Factories Act, 1948 for the year 1962 (25)-(31 ) SERIES 5-ADMINlSTRA nON 5.1 Criminal Justice-Number of criminal cases filed (32) 5.2 Criminal Justice-Persons convicted or bound over in (33 ) 5.3 Civil Justice (33) 5.4 Number of Judicial Officers (34) 5.5 Strength 0 t Police (34) 5.6 M3jor Crimes reported (35) 5,7 Property stolen and recovered (35) 5.S:; Number of Jails with their capacity and nurr.i'ler of Prisol1er~ lodged Ofi) 5',9 Registered Motor Vehicles (36) 5.10 Receipts realised under Motor Vehicles Act (37) iii Table No. SERIE~ 5-ADMINISTRATION -Condd. 5.11 Land Revenue Demand and Collections (37) S.12 Number of Registered documents and value of properties transferred (38) 5.13 List of Collectors that worked in Chittoor District from 1925 (39) 5.14 List of Judges who presided over the Civil or District and Sessions Court of Chittoor from 1926 (40) SERIES 6-PUBLIC HEALTH 6.1 List of Medical and Public Health Institutions (41) SERIES 7-EDUCATlON 7.1 Number of Primary, Seconduy, Higher Secondary and other Non--Collegiate Educational Institutions together with their strength (42)-(43) 7.2 List of Colleges and Technical Institutions together with their strength (44)-(47) SERIES 8-PRINTINO PRESSES 8.1 Number of Printing Presses at work and Newspapers and Periodicals published (48) SER IES 9-COM}I{UNICA nONS 9.1 ,Major Roads (49)-(50) 9.2 Roadsmaintained by the Municipalities (51) 9.3 Lis( of Travellers' Bungalows (52)-(53) 9.4 Talukwise list of Railway Stations (54) 9.5 Talukwise distnbution of Post and Telegraph Offices (55) 9.6 Number of Post and Telegraph Offices in Chittoor Post:ll Division I (55) 9.7 Number and value of Money Orders and Indian Postal Orders issued or paid in Chittoor Postal Division (56) SERIES IO-LoCAL BODIES 10.1 Number of Local Bodies (56) 10.2 Receipts and Expenditure of Chittoor Zilla Pari~had (57) 10.3 Receipts and Expenditure of Panchayat Samithis (58) 10.4 Receipts and Expenditure of Municipalities in Chittoor District (58) iv Table No. Pages SERIES II-COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 11.1 Talukwise distribution of Community Development Blocks (59) 11.2 Expenditure