CENSUS OF INDIA, 1971 SERIES 19 TAMIL NADU PART X-A DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY THE NILGIRIS K. CHOCKALINGAM of the Indian Administrative Service DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS. TAMIL NADU AND PONDICHERRY. 1 972 PRICE: Rs. 3-65 Ps. PREFACE It has been the practice si~ce 1951 to publish for each District a Census Handbook. containing the Census Statistics for each Village and town in the District together with certain administrative statistics collected from the various Departments of the State Government. This pUblication was compiled by the Census Department and published by the State Govefllment. The contents of the District Census Handbook have been considerably improved during the subsequent Censuses and in 1971 this pUblication is being brought out in three s~parate parts- Part - A - Village and Town Directory Part - B ~- Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract; and Part - C - Analytical Report and Administrative Statements and District Census Tables. The history and origin of the District Census Handbook have been given in the Introduc­ tory Note of this volume. The present volume of Part-A has two sections-Village Directory and Town Directory. In the Village Directory, basic information relating to the villages such as Educational. Medical; Drinking water supply, Electricity, Communications, Post and Telegraphs facilities as well as information on area; staple-food, land use data and other allied information are given. In the second section viz. Town Directory, information for the Towns about the Status, growth history, functional category, Physical aspects, Municipal finance, Civic and other amenitie:s are presented. Details about the Medical. Educationalf Recreational facilities available in the towns as well as particulars regarding Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking are also given. The population particulars of the towns as per 1971 Cen sus together with the population of these towns since 1901 and Religiom composition of the population in 1971 are also furnished. The details other than popUlation particulars presented in these statements have been obtained from the concerned Dapartments of the State Government for which I am thankful to the Collector. I am also grateful to the Revenue subordinates as well as the Municipal Commissoners for the assistance that they have rendered. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Sri A. Chandra Sekhar, Registrar General, India, for the guidance gi yen to me and for continuing the publication of the District Census Handbooks during 1971 Census also. K. CHOCKALINGAM, Director of Census Operations, Tamil Noiu & Penlicherry. CONTENTS Page N,. Preface - - ... - v Part-A VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY Introductory Note - ••• - vii-xiii I. VILLAGE DIRECTORY: Amenities and land use Appo:dix- ] Land use particulars of Non-city urban area (Non-municipal area) Appendix - II At stract shov.ing Educational, Medical and other amenities available in Taluks. Alphabetical List of Villages 1. Gudalur Taluk ... 1- 6 2. Ootacamund Taluk ... ... - 7-12 3. Coonoor Taluk ••• ... 13-18 II. TOWN DIRECTORY: Sta te ment r-~ tatus, Grov. th History and Functional Category of Towns 22-25 Statement II-Physical Aspects and Location of Towns, 1969 26-29 Statement Ill-Municipal Finance, 1968-69 -.. - 30-33 Statement IV-Civic and other amenities, 1969 - - ... 34-37 Statement V-Medical, Educational, Recreational and Cultural Facilities in Towns, 1969 •.:. 38-41 Statement VI-Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking, 1969 42-45 Statement VII-Population by religion, 1971 ... 46-49 MAP District Map of the N ilgiris Frontispiece ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is my pleasant duty to acknowledge the able assistance given by the following Officers and Staff of my Office in the preparation of this volurne. 1. Shri V. Selvaraj, I.A.S., Deputy Director 2. Shri T. R. Rajagopalan, M.A., Deputy Director 3. Shri M Panchapakesan, B.Sc .• Investigator 4. Shri Anser Ahmed, M.A., Tabulation Officer 5. Smt. R. Rukmani, M.A., Computor 6. Shri N. L. Jagatbeesan, Computor 7. Shri P. Victor Jayaraj, B.A., U.D.Co 8. Shri N. Bo Muruganandam. B.I\., DoT).C. 9. Shri No Chandaran, Drasftman K. CHOCKALINGAM, Director oj C(:nslls Operations. (vii) NILGIRIS DISTRICT VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY INTRODUCTORY NOTE General: The District Census Handbook for each district presenting the Census data for the villages and towns of the District is being published from 1951 Census. Till then, tbe village statistics showing merely the number of houses and population by religion in respect of each Village and Town were published as supplement. In 1951,. the general population tables, economic tables and village-wise and town-wise statistics relating to the Taluks were presented as Part I and Social and Cultural Tables as Part II. In 1961 also, the District Census Handbook was published in two volumes. In Volume-I, all the Census tables gLving taluk-wise data with a narrative report were publisbed and Volume-I[ was confined to present village-wise and town-wise statistics known as Primary Census Abstract which gives the basic data like population, literates. scheduled castes. scheduled tribes and the industrial classification of workers and non-workers. As these data are finalised in the first stage of tabulation itself in 1971 Census. it has been decided in this census to present the District Census Handbook in 3 parts. Part-A contains the Village and Town Directory which will show the land use pattern data. basic amenities available in the villages and the conditions of the towns. Part-B conta ins the VilJage and Town P. C. A. while Part-C presents the admi­ nistrati ve statistics collected and compiled from various departments. Census tables and a short analytical report. This method of preparing the District Census Hand­ book in 3 parts is also to facilitate the timely publication of the basic data relating to villages arid towns which are required by various departments and research scholars. Meth"d tJj Presentation: The present volume being Part-A presents the Village and Town Directory as­ the titles suggest. It lists out all the villages and towns in the State. Tbe Village Directory is presented at the taluk level and Town Directory at district level The Village Directory is presented first followed by the Town Directory. VILLAGE DIRECTORY: In the Village Directory for each tal uk. a statement showing the ViJlages, their extent. the amenities like Educational. Medical, Drinking Water Supply, Communica­ tions, Postal and Telegraphs, etc. available within each Village and the land use pattern are given. In addition to thi~. particulars in regard to staple ,food. land use data and ctrtain other miscellaneous information such as the existence of veterinary hospital, (o-operative societies, banks etc. are also furnished. An alphabetical lis of villages has also been prepared indicating the Location Code Number of th e village for purpose of quick reference. Apart from these particulars, the land use particulars of places comprising of Non-city urban un its (non-municip31 area) is given as Appendix.1. A talukwise abstract showing the total number of intistutions and number of villages where such basic amenllles like Educational, Medical, Drinking Water Supply. Communications, Postal and Telegraphs, etc. are available has also been prepared and given as Appendix II. (viii) The particulars relating to Village Directory have been collected from the (:oncerned Tabsildars for each revenue village as a whole and particulars in respect of Non­ City Urban Units (Non-MunL:ipal Units) and Municipal Units have not been furnished in the Village Directory Statement. The details of the data furnished in different columns ()f the Village Directory and the method of collection of the data on land use pattern etc. are indicated below : Location Code Number: Numbers have been assigned to the administrative units of district. taluk and village to denote their location. By a combination of these numbers. it would be possible to know the exact location of an area. The district number is given along with the name of the district on the cover page and the taluk number is shown against the taluk name in the concerned pages. The villages in each taluk are arranged in the Location Code order. The village number has been given against the name of the concerned unit and the numbers have been assigned in Arabic numerals for each taluk separately. Educatitlnal amenities: Primary School Up to Vth Standard Middle School Upto VIlIth Standard :H iSh School Upto XIth Standard lI.wer Supply: Villages having electrification facilities for agricultural purposes only are also taken as electrified and a suitable indication in this regard has been noted in the remarks column. Cmmmun;catitlns : Villages having Railway Station within a mile are taken as served by train facilities. Villages connected by road are also indicated in this column. Staple PI-tid: Food of the majority population of the village during the major portion of the year is taken as staple food. Fe-rest: This includes all actually forested area, the lands classified or administe"red as forests under any legal enactment dealing with forests whether state owned or private. If any portion of such land is not actually wooded but put to some agricultural use. that portion has been included under the appropriate heading of cultivated or uncultivated land. Irrig:Jted and unirrigaled land: Irrigated and Unirrigated covers all agrkultural land and includes net area sown with crops and or chards and also current and other fallows. As far as possible. the extent of irrigated land under different types of .irrigation as river, tank and well and the total area irrigated hav~_" a~so been indicated • . ,J. Cultivable waste: This includes lands fit for cultivation, whether or not taken up for cultivation or once taken up for cultivation but not cultivated for more than five years in succession.