CENSUS 1961 ANDHRA PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK A D I L A"8 AD DISTRICT A. CHANDRA SEKHAR OF THE INDIAN ADMINIS'IRATIVE SERVICE Superintcndent of Census Opel'a!icns, Andhra Pradesh PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 1968 Price: Rs. 8.50 P. or 19 Sh. 10 d. or S 3.06 c. 1961 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS, ANDHRA PRADESH (All the Census Publications of Andhra Pradesh bear Vol. No. II) CENTRAL PUBLICATIONS STATE REPORTS & TABLES PART I-A (1) . General Report (Chapters I to V ) PART I-A (ii) General Report (Chapters VI to IX) PART I-A (iii) General Report (Chapters X to XII ) PART I-B Report on Vital Statistics PART J-C Subsidiary Tables PART II-A General Population Tables PART JI-B (i) Economic Tables (B-I to B-IV) PART II-B (ii) Economic Tables (B-V to B-IX) PART II-C Cultural and Migration Tables PART III Household Economic Tables PART IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments (with Subsidiuy Tables) PART IV-B 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 (46) PART VlI-A (1) '1 PART VII-A (2) f Handicrafts Survey Reports (Selected Crafts) PART VII-A (3) ) PART VII-B (1-20) Fairs and Festivals (Separate Book for each District) PART VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration I,. (Not far sale) PART VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation j PART IX State Atlas PART X Special Report on Hyderabad City STATE PUBLICATIONS DISTRICT CENSUS HAND BOOKS A District Census Hand Book for each of the 20 Districts in Andhra Pradesh PRINTED BY T N R PRESS, HYDERABAD FOR THE DIRECTOR OF PRINTING, 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 pr.esr,pt '1)istri&t Census Handbook may be conveniently divided into four parts. The first part consis~s'of a \ral~ktive:d-escription of the physical features and history of the district, the social and economic charaet.eristics of the people an~ the progress made by the district in each field of administration over the past deca9.~.'This i~~Vi'pJ~mented by'.a-gazetteer of places. The second part consists of administrative statistics of variol!"s #departments. 'rIte third· ps,'rt is based mainly on the present Census returns and consists of statistical tables giving the particula;; ·of,.p9Pulation, sex ratio, economic composition, literacy, language and migration data et~.:·:rh~tourth part conslsots of Village and Town Directory which is perhaps the vital part of the Hand­ book givil;g':;'~l~gewise and to·.,riwise particulars of area, households, population, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, literacy, broad categorisation of working population, etc. Against each village and town the educationl, 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 festivals, 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 com­ munications, rivers etc., and the names of all important places of above 5,000 population and the other showing the talukwise density of population. In the Village Directory portion of the Handbook, before the statistics of each taluk are presented, a tal uk map showing the village and town boundaries with the location code numbet of each village and town marked will also be found. Thus the District Census Handbook is a self-contained and convenient book of reference about almost all matters 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 tables were time consuming; the administrative particulars for in­ corporation in the Handbooks had to be collected from different departments and other sources on proformae that were finalised and circulated from this office; the preparation of the excellent maps of the district and the taluks, attempted this time, also required considerable time; and lastly the printing of thes e voluminous reports which had to be done very carefully was a laborious process. All the same it is hoped that these Hand­ books 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 planning for the future. The credit for the compilation of this Handbook goes chiefly to Shri P.S.R. Avadhany, Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations. A compi­ lation of this type and magnitude could have taken much longer time btlt 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. Draughtsman, Shri G. Pandurangam; Shri Mohinuddin Hassan and Shri M. J. Sadiq, Tracers 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 A INTRODUCING THE DISTRICT Chapter Pages I GENERAL FEATURES AI-AS II HISTORY A6-A8 nr POPULATION AND HOUSING A9-A29 IV AGRICULTURE A30-A34 V IRRIGATION A3S VI FORESTS A36-A37 VII CO-OPERATION A38-A41 ViII HEALTH A42-A44 1X SOCIAL WELFARE A4S-A48 X EDUCATION A49-ASO XI INDUSTRIES ASI-AS3 XII PANCHAYATI RAJ AS4-A63 XlII GAZETTEER A 64-A 77 PART B ADMINISTRATIVE STATISTICS SERIES I-VITAL STATISTICS Table No. Ll Births and Deaths and Deaths due to various causes for the decennium 19S1-60 Bl 1.2 Registered Birth and Death Rates, Infantile and Maternal Mortality Rates BI SERIES 2-AGRICULTURE 2.1 Rainfall B2-B5 2.2 Land Utilisation Statistics B6 2.3 Area under Principal Crops B7 2.4 Gross Area Irrigated B8 2.5 Source of Irrigation B8 2.6 Irrigation Projects with particulars of their capacity and water spread area B9 2.7 Yield rates of the Principal Crops per acre B9 2.8 Monthly wholesale price quotations in respect of staple foodgrains BIO II Table No. SERIES 2-AGRICULTuRE-Concld. Pages 2.9 Statistics of wages per worker (Average daily wages paid to skilled and Agricultural Labour) B11-B12 2.10 Government Experimental Farms B13 2.11 Grow More Food Campaign B14 SERIES 3-ANI~IAL HUSIlANDRY 3.1 Livestock and Poultry BI5 3.2 Livestock and Mortality due to contagious and other diseases BI6 3.3 Government Veterinary facilities 817 SERIES 4--iNDUSTRIES 4.1 List of Small Industries togcther with the number of establishments and persons cmployed in each of them in the various taluks of the district BI8 4.2 Total numbcr of Artisans of each category working in the district together with their daily avcrage earnings Bl9 4.3 List of Factories(Large Industrial Establishments) under the operation of the Factories Act, 1948 for the year, 1962 B20-B22 SERIES 5-ADMINISTRATION 5.1 Criminal Justice-Number of criminal cases disposed of B23 5.2 Criminal Justice-Persons convicted or bound over in 824 5.3 Civil Justice B24 5.4 Number of Judicial Officers B25 5.5 Strength of Police B25 5.6 Major Crimes reported B26- 5.7 Property stolen and recovered B26 5.8 Number of Jails with their capacity and number of prisoners lodged 827 5.9 Registered Motor Vehicles B27 5.10 Receipts realised under Motor Vehicles Act B28 5.11 Land Revenue Demand and Collections ... B28 5.12 Number of Registered documents and value of proper- ties transferred ... B29 5.13 List of Collectors who worked in Adilabad District from 1943 B29 5.14 List of Judges who presided over the Civil or District and Se~sions Court of Adilabad District from 1951 B29 SERIES 6-PUBUC HEAl-- TH 6.1 List of Medical and Public Health lnstiotiol1s B30 iii SERIES 7-EoUCATION rab1e No. Pages 7.1 Number of Primary, Secondary, Higher Secondary and other Non-Collegiate Educational Institutions together with their strength as on 31-3 -1961 B31-B32 7.2 List of Colleges and Technical Institutions together with their strength B33 SERIES 8-PRINTING PRESSES 8. I Number of Printing Presses at work and Newspapers and Periodicals published B34 SERIES 9-COMMUNICATIONS 9.1 Major Roads B35 9.2 Roads maintained by the City Municipalities 1336 9.3 List of travellers' Bungalows ." 1337-B38 9.4 Talukwise list of Railway Stations B39 9.5 Talukwise distribution of Posts and Telegraph Offices as on 1-3-1961 1339 9.6 Number of Posts and Telegraph Offices B40 9.7 Number of Post Cards, Letters, Newspapers, Parcels and Packets handled in Adilabad District B40 9.8 Number and Value of Money Orders and Indian Postal Orders issued or paid in Adilabad District B4{) SERIES 10-LoCAL BODIES 10.1 Number of Local Bodies B41 10.2 Receipts and expenditure of Adilabad Zilla Parishad B42 10.3 Receipts and expenditure of Panchayat Samithis B43 JO.4 Receipts and expenditure ofeity Municipalities B44 SERIES 11 -COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT B45 11.1 Talukwise distribution of Comm unity Development Blocks as on 1-4-1961 11.2 Expenditure incurred in each of the Community De­ velopment Blocks from inception upto 31-3-1961 ".