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ERODE DISTRICT PROFILE – 2016-17

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION

North Latitude Between 10 36’ and 11 58’

East Longitude Between 76 49’ and 77 58’

1. AREA AND POPULATION

i. Area (Sq. Km.) : 5722

CENSUS 2011

ii. Population : 2251744

a. Male Population : 1129868

b. Female Population : 1121876

c. Rural Population : 1093768

d. Urban Population : 1157976

iii. Density : 391

iv. Literates : 1492662

a. Male : 828300

b. Female : 664362

v. Main Workers (Census 2011)

a. Total Workers : 1195773

b. Male Workers : 732083

c. Female Workers : 463690

d. Rural Workers : 635104

e. Urban Workers : 560669

f. Cultivators : 173376

g. Agricultural Labours : 331414

h. Household Industry : 48960

i. Other Workers : 55730

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j. Marginal Workers : 84722

vi. Non-Workers : 1055971

vii. Languages Spoken in the District:

1. Tamil 2. Telugu 3. English

4. Urdu 5. Rajasthani 6.Malayalam

7. Hindi 8.Kannada

2. VITAL STATISTICS:

i. Birth : 30142

ii. Death : 20271

iii. Infant Deaths : 546

iv. Birth Rate (Per 1000 Population) : 13.3

Death Rate (Per 1000 Population ) : 9.0

vi. Infant Mortality Rate (Per 1000

Live Births)

Combined Expectation of life at Birth : NA

a. Male :

b. Female :

Viii. No. of Deaths of Woman due to

Problems related to child birth

a. At the time of delivery :

b. During Pregnancy :

c. After Child birth

(Within 42 days) :

3. TEMPERATURE

a. Plains i. Maximum : N.A

ii. Minimum : N.A

b. Hill Stations

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i. Maximum : N.A

ii. Minimum : N.A

4. RAINFALL (in mm)

a. Normal

i. South West Monsoon : 229.8

ii. North East Monsoon : 314.6

iii. Winter Season : 16.1

iv. Hot Weather Season : 142.4

b. Actual

i. South West Monsoon : 209.68

ii. North East Monsoon : 73.95

iii. Winter Season : 14.3

iv. Hot Weather Season : 143.65

5. AGRICULTURE

I. a. Total Cultivated Area (Hec) : 137627.509

b. Net Area Sown (Hec.) : 134299.694

c. Area Sown more than once (Hec.) : 3327.815

d. Area and Production of Area (Hec.)

Principal Crops

i. Paddy (Rice ) : 694

ii. Millets and Other Cereals : 18763.455

iii. Pulses : 4369.414

iv. Sugarcane (Gur) : 19370

v. Groundnut : 17164

vi. Gingelly : 277

vii. Cotton : 689

e. Agricultural Land Holdings (Agricultural Census 2010-2011)

i. Holdings : 197532 Nos.

ii. Area : 266012 Hec

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iii. Average Size of Holdings : 1.346 Hec

II a. Important Agricultural Crops

1. Paddy 2. Sugarcane 3. Cotton 4. Ground nut 5. Maize 6. Turmeric 7. Onion 8. Chillies

9. Vegetables 10. Coconut 11.Tapiaco 12.Banana

b. Important Non-Agricultural Crops :

1. Teak 2. Casuarinas 3. Eucalyptus 4. Tea

5. Co Co 6. Pepper 7. Garlic 8. Flowers

6. IRRIGATION

I i. Net Area Irrigated by : (Hec.)

a. Government Canals : 16945.24

b. Private Canals : --

c. Tanks : 11.74

d. Tube Wells : 25275.89

e. Open Wells : 45385.42

f. Supplementary Irrigation Wells : 0

g. Other Sources : 0

Total Net Area Irrigated : 87618.29

ii. Gross Area Irrigated : 90751.28

a. Name of Rivers

1. Cauvery 2. Noyyal 3. Bhavani

b. Name of the Lakes

1. Odathurai 9. Periya Yeri 2. Appakkudal 10. Ananthasagaram 3. Chennasamudram 11. Sanjeevarayan

4. Murali 12. Gettisamudram 5. Anthiyur 13. Vemphathi 6. Kavilipalayam 14. Kattupalayam 7. Vellode 15. Kollapalayam 8. Nallur

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7.ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

i. Veterinary Institutions

a. Veterinary Hospitals : 6

b. Veterinary Dispensaries : 95

c. Clinician Centres : 2

d. Sub centres : 23

ii. Livestock and Poultry Population (19th Live stock census)

a. Cattle : 39678

b. Buffaloes : 11881

c. Sheep : 183482

d. Goat : 329927

e. Poultry : 1390650

8. DAIRY DEVELOPMENT

a. Dairies : 1

b. Milk Chilling Plants : 3

c. No. of milk co-operative Societies : 703

Total ( Ltr) : 112278412

d.Value of Milk Produced(Crores) : 725.43

9. FISHERIES

a. Length of Coastal Line (Km.) : Nil

b. No. of Coastal Blocks : Nil c. No. of Coastal Centres : Nil d. Marine Fish Production (Tonne) : Nil e. Inland Fish Production (Tonne) : 41.871

10. FOREST

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A. Forest Area (Hec.)

a. Reserved Forests : 88131.56

b. Reserved Lands : ---

c. Unclassified Forests : ---

B. Out-turn of Forest Product

1. Timber (Cu.m.) : ---

2. Fuel wood (MT) : 2679 MT

3. Pulpwood (MT) : ---

4. Sandalwood) : 0.496 MT

5. Rubber (MT) : ---

6. Bamboo (Tone) : ---

7. Tea (Green Leaves M.T) : ---

8. Wattle Bark (MT) : ---

9. Cashew (Tonne) : ---

11. ELECTRICITY

A. Generation of Electricity a. Hydro (Million Units) : 108.21152

b. Wind Mill Generation (M.W) : Nil

c. Thermal : Nil

d. Power Purchased (Wind Mill) : N.A

e. Gas Turbine : Nil

B. Consumption of Electricity (in M.U.) Kwh/Annual a. Agriculture : 819.46

b. Industry : 494.46

c. Commercial : 306.06

d. Domestic : 669.23

e. Public Lighting & Water Works : 130.67

f. Sales to Licensees : 0

g. Sales to Other States : 0

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h. Miscellaneous : 13.67

Rural Electrification

1. Number of Pumpsets Electrified : 1344

2. Number of Villages Electrified : All

3. Number of Hamlets Electrified : All

12. ENTERPRISES : RURAL URBAN

1. No. of Agri. Enterprises : 93482 91781

2. No. of Non Agri. Enterprises : 208046 227239

3. No. of Enterprises:

a. With Premises : 18314 39385

b. Without Premises : 7586 12860

c. Inside Household : 67582 39536

13. INDUSTRIES.

A. 1. No. of Working Factories (Registered) : 12382

2. No. of Man days Lost (Lakhs) : ---

3. No. of Trade Unions : ---

4. No. of Strikes : ---

5. No. of Lockouts : ---

6. Micro Scale Industries : 11111

7. Medium Scale Industries : 19

8. Small Scale Industries : 1252

9. Cottage Industries. : 1035

10. No. of New factories set up : 9250

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14. KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES

Production Sales (in Lakhs) (Rs. in Lakhs)

a. KHADI

1. Cotton Yarn 38.03 --

2. Woollen -- 2.05

3. Silk -- 35.01

4. Polyester Khadi 40.29 30.27

b. Cotton Khadi 84.89 51.10

c. VILLAGE INDUSTIRES

Soaps 94.41

Leather Goods 54.74

Others Specify 18.94

(Honey, paper Bag, Handicraft and extra)

15.MEDICAL AND HEALTH

I. Modern Medicine (Govt)

a. No. of Hospitals : 8

b. Dispensaries : 1

c. Primary Health Centres (Wings) : 68

d. Health Sub Centres : 311

e. Other medical Institutions : 0

f. Beds in Hospitals and Dispensaries : 1615

g. Total Number of Doctors : 374

h. Total Number of Nurses : 475

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II. Indian Medicine

a. District Hospital : 10

b. Dispensaries : 2

c. Primary Health Centres : 26

d. Beds in Hospitals and Dispensaries : 49

e. Total Number of Doctors : 37

f. Total Number of Nurses : 3

16. EDUCATION

1. Universities : Nil

2. Arts and Science Colleges : 20

3. Colleges for Professional Education

Medicine

i. Allopathic : 1

ii. Indian Medicine : 0

iii. Homoeopathy : 0

b. Engineering :

c. Agriculture (Forest) :

d. Veterinary : 0

e. Law : 0

4. Colleges for Special Education :

5. Pre Primary Schools : 114

6. Primary Schools : 875

7. Middle Schools : 316

8. High Schools : 99

9. Higher Secondary School : 134

10. Teacher Training Institute (Govt.+ pvt) : 12

11. No. of Fresh entries : Male Female

(I to V STD) : N.A N.A

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12. No. of students passed at

a) High school (X STD) :

b) Higher Secondary School (XII STD) :

13. No. of children never enrolled in School : Nil

14. EGS - Education Guarantee Scheme : ---

17. TRANSPORT

A. Road Length (Km.)

1. National Highways : 60.400

2. State Highways : 322.893

3. Corporation and Municipalities Road : 924.736

4. Panchayat Union and Panchayat Road : 1183.447

5. Town Panchayat Road : 1478.983

6. Other District Roads : 842.846

7. Others (NABARD & Village Roads) : Nil

8. Major District Road : 302.200

B. Registered Motor Vehicles During End of the

Year Year

1. Commercial : 13719 19281

2. Non-Commercial : 170067 493572

C. Railway Length

1. Route Length (Km.)

i. Broad Gauge : 90

ii. Meter Gauge : --

2. Track Length (Km.)

i. Broad Gauge : 136

ii. Meter Gauge : --

3. Number of Railway Stations : 11

D. i. Number of Sea Ports : --

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ii. Name of the Port : --

E. i. Number of Air Ports : --

ii. Name of the Air Port : --

F. Name of the Export and Import Commodities

i. EXPORTS: 1. Textile 2. Turmeric 3. Sugar 4.Edible oil

ii. IMPORTS: 1. Dyes Fabric 2. Chemicals

18.COMMUNICATION

a. Post & Telegraph

1. Post Offices doing postal business alone : 289

2. Post Offices doing Post & Telegraph business : NIL

b. Telephones

1. No. of Telephones in use : 54744

2. No. of Public Call Offices : 1560

3. No. of Telephone Exchanges : 80

4. No of Cell phone Tower : 320

19.CO-OPERATION

1. Erode Dist. Central Co-operative Bank Ltd, Erode : 1 2. Primary Agri. Co-operative Bank : 162 3. Primary Agri. And Rural Development Bank : 7 4. Urban Bank : 5 5. Primary Co-operative Stores : 17 6. Employees Co-op Credit Society : 50 7. Consumer Co-op. Wholesale Stores : 3 8. Co-op. Marketing Societies : 5 9. Vegetable Growers Co-Op. Marketing Societies : 0 10. Student Co-op. Stores : 13 11. Diesal Loco railway Employees Coo-op Society : 0 12. Co op. Prinding Press Society : 1 13. District Co-op Union : 1 14. Labour Contract Society : 0 15. Sathy Lamb Society : 1 16. Land Colonisation : 3 17. Lift Irrigation coo-op Society : 0

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20.REGISTRATIONS

a. No. of Registration Offices : 18

Aggregate Value of property : 6597.42 cr

Transferred (Rs.in Croce)

c. No of Registration : 91628

21.HOUSING

i. No. of tenements constructed by

Tamil Nadu Housing Board : Construction of 178 Houses (25 HIG, 27

MIG-1, 41MIG-II & 85LIG houses at

Muthampalayam Ph-III under SFS, Erode

ii. Dy. Registrar Housing : ---

iii. No. Of Tenements Constructed by

TNSCB : ---

iv. No. Of Tenements Constructed by PHB : ---

v. Dy. Registrar Housing - Rural : ---

vi. Dy. Registrar Housing - Urban : ---

vii. Total No. of Free House Sites Distributed

a. S.C : ---

b. S.T : ---

c. BC & MBC : ---

c. Others : ---

viii. No. of households below poverty line : ---

i. IAY New houses : ---

ii. THAI New houses : ---

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22.SOCIAL WELFARE (in Nos.)

Moovalur Ramarthimam Ammaiyar

Nenaivu Thittam : 2656

b. Tamilnadu Government Kalappu Thirumana

Thittam : 12

c. Annai Therasa Nenaivu Thittam : 15

d. E.V.R Maniyammai Nenaivu Thittam : 127

e. Dr. Dharmambal Nenaivu Thittam : 4

f. Mozhi Kavalar Pension Scheme : 90

g. Nalintha Kalainger Pension Scheme : 59

23. NUTRITIOUS MEALS PROGRAMME

Name of Programme No. of Centres

i. P.T.M.G.R. : 1308

24. REVENUE ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

a. Revenue Divisions : 2

b. Revenue Taluks : 9

c. Revenue Firkas : 34

d. Revenue Villages : 375

25. LOCAL BODIES

a. Corporations : 1

b. Municipalities : 4

c. III Grade Municipalities : 1

d. Panchayat Unions : 14

e. Town Panchayats : 42

f. Village Panchayats : 225

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26. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

a. District Panchayat : 1

b. No. of Blocks Covered : 14

c. Population Covered (Lakhs) : 10.94

d. Area Covered (Sq. Km.) : --

27. POLICE AND PRISIONS

a. Police 1. Police Force i. Local (men) : 1170

ii. Women : 229

iii. Traffic : 118

2. Police Stations

i. Local (men) : 38

ii. Women : 4

iii. Traffic : 7

3. Police Outposts : NIL

b. Prisons 1. Central Prisons : 22

2. Other Prisons (Sub Jails) : 26

28. LEGISLATURE

1. Members of Legislative Assembly a. Elected : 8

b. Nominated : 0

2. Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) : 1

3. Members of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) : 0

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29. CINEMA THEATRES

a. Permanent

1. Air-conditioned : 10

2. Non-conditioned :

3. Air Cooled : 0

b. Open Air Theatres : 0

c. Semi Permanent : 3

d. Touring : 0

30.BANKS/INSURANCE

a. Bank Offices : 375

b. Primary Co-op. Banks : 162

. Life Insurance

1. Offices : 8

2. Policies Issued : 23689 Nos.

3. Sum Assured (Rs. in Crores) : 2355 Crores

31. NATURAL RESOURCES

Name of the Minerals Found in the District

1. Raw Granite 2.Lime Stones 3.Rough Stones 4. Sand

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32. GENERAL

1. Name of the Important Pilgrim Centres

1. Bhavani Sangameswarar Temple, Bhavani

2. Bannariamman Temple, Bannari

3. Erode Mariamman Temple, Erode

4. Chennimalai Murugan Temple, Chennimalai

5. Magudeswarar Temple,Kodumudi,

6. Vijayapuriamman Temple, Vijayamangalam

7. Pariyur amman Temple, Gobichettipalayam

2. Name of the Important Tourist Centres

1. Bhavanisagar Dam, Bhavanisagar

2. Kodivery Anai, Thukkanaiakkanpalayam

3. Bhavani Kooduthurai, Bhavani

4. Periyar Memorial House, Erode

5. Erode Museum, Erode

6. Birds sanctuary, Vellode

7.Cavuery padakuthurai, Kodumudi