GENERAL
| |
| Headquarter
|
Dehradun
|
| Total area
|
3088.00 |
sq.km. |
|
Relative CMIE
Index of Developement
|
142.00 |
| Forest area
|
2200.56 |
sq.km.
|
|
Population
Growth per annum
|
2.91 |
| Net sown
area
|
550.57 |
sq.km. |
|
Population
density(persons/sq.km)
|
332.00 |
| Net Irri.
area
|
217.53 |
sq.km.
|
|
Urbanisation
|
50.26 |
| Occupied
Houses
|
189.30 |
thousand |
|
Literacy
|
69.50 |
| Total Population |
1025.68 |
thousand |
|
Male
literacy
|
77.95 |
| Total Males
|
556.43 |
thousand |
|
Female
literacy
|
59.26 |
| Total
Females
|
469.25 |
thousand |
|
Urban
literacy
|
81.04 |
| Urban
Population
|
515.48 |
thousand |
|
Rural
literacy
|
57.34 |
| Urban Pop
Male
|
282.32 |
thousand |
|
Workers as % of
total population
|
34.54 |
| Urban Pop Female |
233.16 |
thousand |
|
Agriculture
& allied activ.
|
35.29 |
| Rural
Population
|
510.20 |
thousand |
|
Mining & quarrying
|
0.22 |
| Rural Pop Male
|
274.11 |
thousand |
|
Mfg.(non-household) industries
|
11.34 |
| Rural Pop Female |
236.09 |
thousand |
|
Households industries
|
0.86 |
| Total Literates
|
597.39 |
thousand |
|
Construction workers
|
4.78 |
| Tot
Male Lits
|
367.11 |
thousand |
|
Other services
|
47.51 |
| Tot
Fem Lits
|
230.27 |
thousand |
|
Forest area as % of reporting area
|
69.76 |
| Rur
Literates
|
239.97 |
thousand |
|
Net
sown area as % of reporting area
|
17.45 |
| Rur
Male Lits
|
154.96 |
thousand |
|
Gross Irri.area as % of reporting
area
|
38.78 |
| Rur
Fem Lits
|
85.01 |
thousand |
|
Average size of operational holding
|
0.92 |
| Urban Literates
|
357.42 |
thousand |
|
Fertiliser consumption per Hect.
|
46.00 |
| Urban Male Lits
|
212.16 |
thousand |
|
Value of output of major
crops/hecta
|
4282.00 |
| Urban Fem Lits
|
145.26 |
thousand |
|
Value of output of major
crops/capit
|
357.00 |
| Rur
Male Litcy
|
68.27 |
%
|
|
Per
capita food grains production
|
93.00 |
| Rur
Fem Literacy
|
44.39 |
% |
|
Road length per 100 sq.kms
|
40.12 |
| Urb
Male Litcy
|
86.96 |
%
|
|
Post offices per lakh population
|
23.40 |
| Urb
Fem Literacy
|
73.71 |
% |
|
Telegraph offices per lakh
population
|
7.12 |
| Total Workers
|
354.30 |
thousand |
|
Bank branches per lakh population
|
13.36 |
| Main workers
|
332.55 |
thousand |
|
Per
capita bank deposits
|
10105.00 |
| Total SC Pop
|
137.46 |
thousand |
|
Per
capita bank credit
|
1891.00 |
| SC
Pop Rural
|
77.29 |
thousand |
|
Per
capita bank credit to agricultur
|
244.00 |
| SC
Pop Urban
|
60.18 |
thousand |
|
Per
hectare bank credit to agricultu
|
2923.00 |
| Total ST Pop
|
84.08 |
thousand |
|
Per
capita bank credit to SSI
|
124.00 |
| ST
Pop Rural
|
81.00 |
thousand |
|
Per
Capita Bank Credit to Industries
|
901.00 |
| ST
Pop Urban
|
3.07 |
thousand |
|
|
| |
|
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TOWNS,
VILLAGES AND AMENITIES
The district, at present
comprises of 6 Tehsils, namely Dehradun, Chakrata,
Vikasnagar, Kalsi, Tyuni and Rishikesh And 6 Community
Development blocks, viz, Chakrata, Kalsi, Vikasnagar, Sahaspur, Raipur
and Doiwala.
It has 17 towns and 764 villages (746 inhabited villages and
18 uninhabited villages).
The urban
population of the district as percentage of total population in the
census
years 1981 and 1991 is indicated below. It also
shows the
sex
ratio (females per 1000 males) and density (population per sq
km)
in
the
urban population of the district.
|
|
|
District
|
Urban Population |
Sex ratio 1991 |
Density |
|
%
of |
(Females per 1000 |
Population |
|
total population |
males) |
per sq.km. |
|
1981 |
1991 |
Total |
Rural |
Urban |
|
| Dehradun
|
48.86 |
50.68 |
851 |
878 |
825 |
329 | |
|
Amenities:
Number (with
percentage) of villages having one or more
amenities in the district as per 1991 census
follow:
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Sl.
Number of
Percentage
No.
Amenities
inhabited villages
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1. Education
541
72.52
2. Medical
732
98.12
3. Drinking Water
746
100.00
4. Post and Telegraph
185
24.80
5. Market/Hat
78
10.46
6. Communications
299
40.08
7. Approach by Pucca Road
305
40.88
8. Power supply
685
91.82
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COMMUNICATIONS
The district is
served by roads and to some extent by rails. Dehra Dun and
Rishikesh are the two railway terminials of the northern railway. The
length
of railway line in Dehra Dun district is 64.50 kms. The district
is served by a
total
length
of 2383 kms of roads. Of the total road length the State Public
Works Department manages 1528 kms of which State Highway accounts for
144 kms., main district roads 265 km other district and
village roads 1119 kms. Besides 501 kms of roads are
managed by the local bodies and about 354kms managed by other state
departments.
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AGRICULTURE AND
IRRIGATION
Agriculture in
the Dun Valley is carried on the same way as in the plains, but in the hill areas,
it requires hard labour and skill. The
facilities for irrigation from canals
and rivers are abundant but there is great deficiency
of
manure.
Cultivation in the hill tract of Dehra Dun tehsil and throughout
the Jaunsar Bhabar area is of two descriptions, regular and
intermittent.
The hills, however, contain very little level
ground and terraced cultivation is therefore, the
rule.
Intermittent cultivation consists of small patches of hill sides
cleared of shrubs and grass usually by fire.
These
patches
are cultivated for a year or so and then left fallow
both to recuperate and also to enable the coarse grass to grow. In the
district there are two harvests, the kharif sown in June or
little earlier in the hills and reaped in September and October and
the rabi sown in October-November and reaped in march in the plains
and in April and May in the hills. Paddy is one of the most important
kharif
food crops in the district. Many kinds of rice are sown in
the
area, both superior and
interior.
The district is famous for its basmati rice. Other important
kharif crops are maize, mandus, jhangora, sonk, urd, kulath, tor
(arhar) and sugar cane. Wheat is the principal crop of rabi
and is
grown in almost all parts of the district.
Barley
and mustard are other important rabi crops.
The important
fruits grown in the district are the mango, guava, peach, grape,
strawberry,
pear,
lemon
and litchi. Dehra Dun is famous for its litchi.
Among
vegetables, potato is the most important crop. Potato
cultivation in the Mussoorie hills is an old and
established industry. Besides, catering to the needs of the town of the
district,
a
considerable portion of the production of potato is exported
to other districts of the state.
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ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Live stock plays an important role in rural areas
in raising the
income
of
mall
scale farmers. Cows and buffaloes are the main
sources of milk, while male cattle are used for
ploughing the fields. Sheep and goats are also
reared
in
great
number,
both
for meat and wool. Wool is of immense
importance
and is used for making home-spun woollen cloth and blankets. The
production
of milk per milch animal is very low. Action is
being
taken
for the improvement of breed of the cattle. There is ample scope for poultry
development
in
the
district.
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INDUSTRIES
Tourist Industry
possesses tremendous possibilities of development.
On
the one
hand, there are beautiful hill resorts like "Queen of
Hills-Mussoorie", Chakrata there are places like Sahasra Dhara,
famous for its sulphur springs, religious and ancient
places like Rishikesh and Lakhmandal, Dak Pathar-ideal picnic spot and Kalsi -
place of historical importance of Ashoka's
edic.
Many institutions
of national importance like the Forest Research Institute;
Oil
and
Natural
Gas
Commission; Indain Military
Academy; Indian Institute of Petroleum and Survey of
India etc. are located in Dehra Dun which makes it a place of national
importance attracting tourists in large numbers.
A variety of
items are produced in small scale units of industries like dairy,
canning and preservation, bakery, chocolate, khandsari, teal, malt, textiles,
card
board boxes, printing, timber goods, steel furniture,
liquor,
ayurvedic medicines, resin and turpentine, tubes, leather
products, musical instruments, optical lenses, miniature bulbs, medical instruments,
agricultural
implements, utensils and hospital equipments,
sewing machines, metal goods and plaster of paris etc.
In therural
areas of the district a number of cottage and village industries
like
wool industry, handloom cloth, powerloom, durries, tailoring,
oil,
gur, rice, apiary, baskets, cots and mats,
walking sticks, pottery, brick kilns, smithy, leather flourish
etc.
Under the
sericulture scheme the Government Control Silk Farm was established
at Prem nagar in the district. The farm distributes healthy mulberry
trees to the
silk
worm rearers in the district and a good amount is earned from the
production of cocoons.
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TRADE, COMMERCE AND
EXPORT
The table given below shows most important
commodity manufactured in imported into and exported from towns
of the district.
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Name of the
towns
Most important commodity
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Manufactured
Exported
Imported
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Chakrata Cantt.
Wollen
Potato
Cotton
garments
Cloth
Celement town Soap
Soap
Foodgrains
Dehra Dun
Bulbs
Bulbs
Coal
Dehra dun
Carpets
Lime
Rice
Cantt.
Landour Cantt.
Woollen
Wood
Foodgrains
Wear
Rishikesh
Plaster
Limestone
Potatoes
of paris
Vikasnagar
Gur
Rice
Ginger
Virbhadra
Medicines
Medicines
Sugar
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The
important commodities manufactured are
woollen
wears,
bulbs,
carpets, soap, walking sticks, plaster of paris, gur and
medicines.
There are also the important commodities which are
largely
exported. The
important items imported are foodgrains, glass,
cotton cloth, coal,potato, ginger and sugar.
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FAIRS AND
FESTIVALS
Important fairs and
festivals organised in different ports of the district are mentioned
below :
Deviji, Bissu,
Jagra, Panchon, Gandhi Mela, Chandarbani, Ambika Devi, Jhanda
Mela,
Bawari,
Jyaistha Dusshehra, Mata
Bhadraj, Maru Sidh, Shivratri, Tapkeshwar sidh,
Laxman Sidh.
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EDUCATION
The ratio of
5.11 Primary Schools per 10000 population is obtained in urban areas
of the district ranging between the maximum of 15.93 in Mussoorie and
the minimum of 0.65 in Clement town Cantt.
The
ratio of Middle Schools works out to 2.42 per 10000 if urban
population in the district. The maximum ratio of 6.09 Middle
Schools is observed in Majra and the minimum of 0.65 in Clement
town
Cantt.
For every 10000 of
urban population there are 1.45 schools of Matriculation Standard. With 5.24
schools of Matriculation Standard, Landour Cantt. presents the
highest proportion per 10000 of population.
The ratio of
intermediate
Colleges works out to 0.94 colleges in urban areas of the
district. The maximum ration of 5.24
colleges is observed in Landour Cantt. Thus Landour Cantt. Shows
the highest ratio per 10000 of population of schools
of Matriculation Standard and Intermediate Colleges.
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