CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 SERIES-9 HIMACHAL PRADESH Paper I of 1991 (Supplement) PROVISIONAL POPULATION TOTALS H. S. ATWAL of the Indian Administrative Service Director of Census Operations, HIMACHAL PRADESH IDMACHAL PRADESH CENSUS FAMILY 1991 DIRECTOR H. S. ATWAL, lAS JOINT DIRECTOR K. C. Suri DEPUTY DIRECTOR G. S. Pabla ASSISTANT DIRECTORS D. N. Sharma (A) C. 1. Sharma (T) D. R. Khanna (T) INVESTIGATORS S. K. Bhandari, Jai Pal Singh, Baboo Ram, M. S. Negi, A. S. Negi, Y. C. Negi, T. N. Bharat, P. C. Naini, Baldev Singh, H. S. Grover STATISTICAL ASSISTANTS Rattan Chand, R. S. Negi, R. K. Sharma, N. C. Chakraborty, Ram Singh Thakur, Shant a Pars had, R. D. Bali, C. M. Azad, G. N. Narta, Chander Mohan, Laiq Ram, Ram Lal, G. S. Thakur, Dhirender Parshad, Usha Kumari, Malkiat Rai, Surender Mohan, Narpat Ram, Suresh Yadav, Ramesh Chand Chandel, Neelam Sharma COMPUTORS Krishan Dass, J. D. Pandiar, Parma Ram, Neema Devi, Anil Thakur, R. S. Chandel, S. S. Nainta, Sunita Rani, Mohar Singh Chauhan, Shanta Sharma, Trilok Chand r; ASSISTANT COMPILERS Amarjeet Singh Bhalla, Shashi Paul, Ravi Sood, Kashmir Chand Sharma, Vidya Sharma, Surekha Verma; Bhikham Ram, Amarjeet Singh Jassal, Krishan Lal Sharma ADMINISTRATION SECTION Jamit Singh Thakur D. R. Sen Suharu Ram KanshiRam M: C. Jaswal P. S. Guleria Atroo Ram Ramesh Chand Babu Ram Sharma Pavan Kumar Chand Salhotra Maya Sukh 1. K. Dubey Virender Singh Dhanvir Singh Negi Puran Chand R. D. Arvind Nokh Ram Bala Ram Saju Ram Kapil Kumar Sood Om Parkash Joginder Lal Pritam Singh Diwaker Dutt Sharma Surinder Kumar Het Ram Ramesh Chand Tulsi Dass Parvesh Kumar Bali Ram Pardeep Kumar Shiv Kumar Sharma Sudha Seth Dhyan Dass Kewal Chand Karam Cband Sankhyan Bhoop Ram Sarup Chand Labhu Ram Preni Parkash Sukh Ram Om Parkash Daulat Ram Leela Devi PERSONAL MAP SECTION PRINTING SECTION Piare Lal Thakur J. P. Purohit J. C. Gautam Gian Chand Veena Thakur Sohan Lal Quami Pun am Arora Tuka Ram Wanikar Scm Ktishan Sharma Krishan Chand Parma Nand Sharma Bhagat Ram Sharma Het Ram Verma Vitus Shanker Lal Parihar Jagdish Singh K,iran Kumar Principal Censlls Officers, Special Census Officers and District Census Officers associated with Houselistbzg Operations and Actual Enumeration 1991 Name of District Principal Census Officer Special Census Officer District Census Officer ( .A. _____, ( , ( -'I._ , Housel isting Enumeration Houselisting Enumeration Houselisting Enumeration --------- 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chamba V. C. Pharka V. C. Pharka K. S. Narang K. S. Narang Charnel Singh Charnel Singh (For pangi Sub.Division) Kangra S. Roy S. Roy Balbir Tcgta Balbir Tegta Hamirpur B. S. Chauhan B. S. Chauhan R.S. Negi R. S. Negi Una Rajmani Tripathi R. K. Jaill M. L. Nahar M.L. Sharma Bilaspur S. K. Dash S. K. Dash M. L. Sharma Subhash Ahluwalia Mandi A. R. Basu Ajai Mittal Rajesh Kumar Rajesh Kumar Kullu C. P. Pandey C. P. Pandey V. C. Katoch V. C. Katoch Lahul & Narender Narendcr S. K. .B. Negi S. K. B. Negi S. K. B. Negi S. K. B. Negi Spiti Chauhan Chauhan (For Spiti Sub-Division) (For Spiti Sub-Division) Shimla 1. J. P. Negi 1. P. C. Kapoor Kashmir Chand Kashmir Chand 2. R. K. Jain 2. R. K. Jain (For Shimla (For Shimla M. Corp.) M. Corp.) Solan Partha Sarthi Vincet Chaudhry A.1. Jain A. 1. Jain Mitra Sirmaur Bhim Sen Bhim Sen Bharat Bhushan Bharat Bhushan / Kinnaur S. S. Chandel S. S. Chandel Akshay Sood CENSUS OF INDIA 1991 LIST OF PUBLICA nONS A. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PUBLICA nONS PART I-A Administration Report-Enumeration") ~ For official use only PART I-B Administration Report-Tabulation J PART II-A General Population Tables PART II-B Primary Ccnsus Abstract PART III-A & B Gcneral Economic Tables PART IV-A Social and Cultural Tables (C-Series tables of first stage covering age, sex and marital status, composition of population, single year age returns, educational levels, school attendance and bilingualism) PART IV-B Social and Cultural Tables (C-Series tables covering mothcr tongue, religion of population and household composition) PART V-A & B Migration Tables PART VI Fertility Tables PART VII Tables on Houscs and Household Amenities PART VIII Special Table!. 011 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART IX Town Directory PART X Ethnographic Notes and Special Studies on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART XI Census Atlas B. STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION PART XlI-A & B District Census Handbook-Village and Town Directory, Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract (v-vi) CONTENTS Pages 1. Preface ix-x 2. Figures at a glance xi 3. Maps and diagrams Administrative Divisions 1991 Comparative area by districts 1991 Population size by districts 1991 Growth of population 1901-91 Areas of female dominant sex ratio 1991 Compa~ative sex ratio since 1901 with India and neighbouring states Comparative growth of population with India and neighbouring states 1901-91 Urban population 1991 Distribution of urban centres by size of population 1991 Trends in urbanisation 1971-91 Urban population 1981 and 1991 Literacy by districts 1981 and 1991 Comparative literacy rates with India and neighbouring state~ 1981 and 1991 Main workers, marginal workers and non-workers 1991 Main workers 1991 4. Data analysis 1-46 5. Provisional population tables 47-67 Table-I Population and literates by residence and sex 1991 49-51 Table-2 Percentage of urban population to total population and decennial growth rate and sex ratio by residence 51 Table-3 Population of towns 52-·54 Appendix List of Census towns of 1981 declassified in 1991 and census towns of 1981 merged with other to Table-3 towns in 1991 54 Table·4 Growth of urban population 5~ Table·5 Total workers, main workers, marginal workers and their percentage to total population 56-61 Table-6 Distribution of main workers as cultivators, agricultural labourers, workers in household industry and other workers 6. Primary Census Abstract 7. c,nsus Schedules s. Photoaraphs (vii-viii) PREFACE. 1991 Census was completed in the State on the 5th of March, 1991, in a most successful and smooth manner, despite various administrative problems like anti-MandaI agitation in the State, hazards of cli­ mate as unprecedented heavy and untimely snow-fall and most difficult terrain of the far-flung non-syn­ chronous snow-bound areas. As soon as the census operation is over, everybody is anxious to know tbe latest population trends. To satiate this desire of all, census organisation brings out Paper 1 containing provisional basic demographic data at the earliest possible. Accordingly, Paptr 1 of 1991 Census was released by the Registrar General, India, for the whole country on the 25th of March, 1991 and for the State by the Hon'ble Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Virendra Verma, on the 26th of March, 1991. This data was 'based on provisional population totals compiled from charge and district abstracts for which the credit goes to thousands of Enumerators, Supervisors, Charge Officers, City Census Officers, Di~trict Census Officf"rs, Special Census Officers and Principal Census Officers of the State as well a~ the Census Directorate staff. Releasing of the provisional figures so quickly is an important unique feature of the _Indian Census which is recognised all over the world. The broad coverage of demographic data presented in Paper 1 included population, sex ratio, growth rate, density of population, decadal variations in popu· lation since 1901, number of literates (excluding children in the age group 0-6) district-wise and sex-wise and also the information about Shimla Urban Agglomeration. The present paper is a supplementation of Paper 1 of 1991 and with wide coverage in presenting data, based on provisional totals, upto district, tahsil/sub-tahsil and town levels with further details for rural and urban areas. The demographic coverage: in this paper is presented in six tables containing :- (I) Population and literates by residence and sex-1991 (if) Percentage of urban population to total popUlation and decennial growth rate and sex ratio by residence (iii) PopuIati9n of towns (iv) Growth of urban populatiolJ, (v) Total workers, main workers, marginal workers and their percentage to total population '- (vi) Distribution of main workers as cultivators, agricultural labourers, workers in household industry and other workers. A brief write-up based on these tables has been attempted for convenient use of readers, scholars, data users and as referral indicators to various government departments till data is compiled and finalised. The possibility of sligh.11 variation between provisional and final data is a universal !>tatistical acceptance as the entire census record'is to pass through the process of matching and editing before the final compilation of Primary Census Abstracts. The entire census data has been raised through two major schedules containing various questions known as the Household Schedule and Individual Slip. The specimen of these schedules areOgiven at the end of the paper as annexure I and II. In the 1991 Census some improvements have been made over the 1981 Census and it will be worth· while to mention some special features of the present census over the 1981 Census as under: (1) Form of Houselist was modified to collect some, more information relating to housing and household amenities which was collected during the main enumeration of 1981 Census. This facilitated advance collection of information during HouseIisting and will enable tabulation of data on housing stock and amenities etc. much earlier than the last time. (2) A question about the type of fuel used for cooking by the household was canvassed for the first time through the houselist. (3) The information about tbe availability of toilet facility to the household was collected in the houselist for the rural areas also as against only the urban areas in 1981 Census.