CENSUS OF INDIA - 1991 SERIES - 23 TAMIL NADU DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK COIMBATORE PART XII A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY K. SAMPATH KUMAR of The Indian Administrative Service DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS, TAMILNADU CONTENTS Page No Fnreward VlI- VIII Prd~lce lX-XIlI District Map Facing Page 1 Important Statistics of the District 1-2 Analytical Norte: --- li I Census Concepts Rural and Urban areas,Urban Agglomerations, 3-5 census house/ Household,Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes, Main worker, Marginal workers, Non-workers etc. lii) History of the District Census Handbook including scope of 5-9 village and Town Directory (iii) Early History and formation, Jurisdisctional changes, Location and 10-21 Physiography, Climate and Rainfall,electricity and power, land and land use pattern,water supply, welfare scheme implemented for SC/ST,agriculture, irrigation, animal husbandry, fishery, industries, transport and communications, education,health, places of historical, religious and archaeological importance, soil, minerals and mining, rivers., (iv) Brief analysis of the village and Town Directory and Primary 22-33 Census. Abstract data, etc., PART -A : Village And Town Directory 35 Section -I Village Directory Note explaining the codes used in the village Directory. 37-39 1. Karamadai CD Block 41 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 43 ii) Village Directory Statement 44-47 .., Annur CD Block 49 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 51 ii) Village Directory Statement 52-55 3. Avanashi CD Block 57 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 59 ii) Village Directory Statement 60-63 4. PeriyanayakkanpaJayam CD Block 65 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 67 ji) Village Directory Statement 68-69 (iii) Page No 5. Sarkarsamakulam CD Block 71 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 73 ii) Village Directory Statement 74-75 6. Perur CD Block 77 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 79 ii) Village Directory Statement 80-81 7. Thondamuthur CD Block 83 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 85 ii) Village Directory Statement 86-89 8. Madukkarai CD Block 91 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 96 ii) y'ilJage Directory Statement 94-95 9. Tiruppur CD Block 97 i) Alphabetical list ofViUages 99 ii) Village Directory Statement 100-103 .. 10. Pongalur CD Block 105 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 107 ii) Village Directory Statement 108-109 II. Sulur CD Block 111 i} Alphabetical list of Vi llages 113 ii) Village Directory Statement 114-115 12. Palladam CD Block 117 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 119 ii) Village Directory Statement 120-123 13. Sulthanpet CD Block 125 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 127 ii) Village Directory Statement 128-131 l-l. Kinathu Kadavu CD Block 133 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 135 ii) Village Directory Statement 136-139 15. Pollachi North CD Block 141 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 142-143 ii) Village Directory Statement 144-149 16. Pollachi South CD Block 151 i) Alphabcticallist of Villages 153 ii) Village Directory Statement 154-157 17. Anamalai CD Block 159 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 161 ii) Village Directory Statement 162-165 (iv) Page No 18. Uudimangalam CD Block 167 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 169 ii) Village Directory Statement 170-173 19. Madathukulam CD Block 175 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 177 ii) Village Directory Statement 178-179 20. Udumalaippattai CD Block 181 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 182-183 ii) Village Directory Statement 184-189 20. Valparai CD Block 191 i) Alphabetical list of Villages 193 ii) Village Directory Statement 194-195 Annexure-I Statement showing C.D.Blocks coming under each taluk 196 Appendix-I C.D.Blockwise abstract of educational, medical and other 197-199 amenities Appendix-II Land utilisation data in respect of non-municipal towns. 200-202 Appendix-III E.D.Blockwise lillt of villages where no amenities are available 203 Appendix-IV List of villages according to the proportions of SC/ST's to total 204-218 population by ranges Section-n: Town Directory 219 Note explaining the code~ used in the Town Directory 220-221 Statement-I Status and growth history 222-225 Statement-II Physical aspects and location of towns, 1989 226-230 Statement-III Municipal finance, 1988-89 231-235 Statement-IV Civic and other amenities, 1989 236-241 Statement-IVA: Civic and other amenities in notified slums, 1989 242-245 Statement-V Medical. Educational, recreational and cultural facilities. 1989 --- 246-253 Statement-VI Trade, Commeree, Industry and Banking, 1989 254-257 Appendix Towns showing their out-growth with population 258 (v) Foreword Publication of the District Census Handbooks (DCHs) was initiated after the 1951 Census and is continuing since then with some innovations / modifications after each decennial census. This is the most valuable district level publication brought out by the Census Organisation on behalf of each State Government / Union Territory administration. It inter-alia provides data/information on some of the basic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and on availability of certain important civic amenities/facilities in each village and town of the respective districts. This publication has thus proved to be of immense utility to the planners, administrators, academicians and researchers. I The scope of the DCH was initially confined to certain important census tables on population, economic and socio-cultural aspects as also the Primary Census Abstract (PCA) of each village and town (wardwise) of the district. The DCHs published after the 1961 Census contained a descriptive account of the district administrative statistics, census tables and Village and Town Directories including PCA. After the 1971 Census, two parts of the District Census Handbooks (Part-A comprising Village and Town Directories and Part-B comprising Village and Town PCA) were released in all the States and Union Territories. The third Part C of the District Census Handbooks comprising administrative statistics and district census tables, which was also to be brought out, could not be published in many States/Union Territories due to considerable delay in compilation of relevant m·aterial. In 1981, some new features alongwith the rest ructuring of the formats of Village and Town Directory were introduced in the DCHs. These were published in two parts for each district after the 1981 Census. While Part-A comprised Village and Town Directories, the PCA of villages and towns (wardwise) including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe PCA upto tehsil/town level were provided in Part-B. To illustrate, all the amenities except electricity, were brought together in the Village Directory and if an amenity was not available in the referrent village, the distance in broad r~nw~s from thp nparest place having such amenity was given. Information on some new items such as adult literacy centres, primary health sub-centres and community health workers in the village were provided so as to meet some of the requirements of the Revised Minimum Needs Programme. Similarly, information on approach to the village was also provided for the first time during 1981 Census in the Village Directory so as to give an idea about the number of inaccessible villages in each district. In case of Town Directories also, keeping in view the requirements of the Minimum Needs Programme, a Statement IV-A on slums was provided so as to enable the planners to chalk out the programmes for providing better civic and other amenities in the slums. In this statements, details on civic and other amenities were reported for the slums of Class I and Class II towns. Apart from this, one column on the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population and another on adult literacy classes/centres were added in Statement IV and V respectively. (vii) The manner of presentation of the DCHs for the 1991 Census is by and large the same as followed in 1981. However, the format of PCA has been restructured slightly in the 1991 Census for the benefit of data users. Nine-fold industrial classification of main workers has been given as against four-fold industrial classification presented in the 1981 Census. In addition to this, the sex-wise population in the 0-6 age-group has also been included in PCA for the first time with a view to enable data users to compute more realistic Literacy rate as all children below 7 years of age have been treated as illiterates at the time of the 1991 Census. It is expected that the above mentioned modifications will help the planners in chalking out more effective developmental programmes. One of the most important innovations in the 1991 Census is the Community Development Block level presentation of data in the Village Directory and PCA instead of the traditional Tehsil!raluklPS level presentation. It is expected that the presentation of Village Directory and PCA data at C.D. Block level will help the planners in formulation of microlevel developmental plans, as the C.D. Block is the lowest administrative unit for developmental planning. In order to facilitate the task of administrators, planners and researchers intending to use Village Directory/PCA data, either from the magnetic tapes/floppies or from the published records, both the computer and manual codes for each village have been provided for the 1991 Census alongwith the corresponding codes of 1981. This publication is a joint venture of the State Government/lh administration and the Census Organisation. The data have been collected and compiled under the direction of Shri KSampath Kumar, Director of Census Operations,Tamil Nadu, on behalf of the State Government which has borne the cost of priniting. The task of planning, designing and co-ordination of the publication was initiated by DR. KP. Ittaman, former Deputy Registrar General (Social Studies) and Shri M.M. Dua, Joint Director. For the sake of uniformity in presentation of information/data and for preparation of analytical note depicting the salient features emerging from a micro lev01 analysis of Census/non census data, a model District Census Handbook from each State and Union Territory was thoroughly scrutinised in the Social Studies Division under the guidance of Shri M.K Jain, the present Deputy Registrar General (S.S.).