Census of India 2001
Information on the
contents of the CD on
village and town administrative units location codes
1. This CD contains the
location codes adopted in Census 2001 for ensuring hundred percent
coverage and also presentation of statistical data and maps. There are two
different sets of codes namely the location codes for villages and the
location codes for the towns. The Location Code Structure adopted in
Census 2001 is described below
Administrative
Area |
Number of digits |
State/ Union
territories |
Two digits (within the country) |
District
|
Two digits (within the state/ut) |
Sub-district
|
Four digits (within the district) |
Village
|
Eight digits (within the state/ut) |
Town |
Eight digits (within the district) |
Ward |
Four digits (within the town) |
2. The general pattern
followed in coding of any geographical unit was a serpentine one, except
for the wards in the towns, beginning from the North-west corner and
completing at the farthest South-east corner within the defined higher
level of the geographical hierarchy. In so far as the State/Ut is
concerned Jammu & Kashmir has code number 01 (north-west corner) and code
number 35 (south east corner) has been allotted to Andaman & Nicobar
Islands. Generally the administrative unit below a district is a
sub-district, for example Tehsil or Taluk. However, in certain states and
union territories exceptions had to be made since the nomenclature for
sub-districts is not uniform throughout the country. For example, in
Orissa Police station is the sub-district, in
West Bengal it is the Community Development Block and so on. The
geographical units adopted as sub-districts in various States and
Union territories are
listed in Annexure-I.
3. After the completion
of Houselisting Operation, three new states namely, Uttaranchal,
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were created in November, 2000 barely three
months before the commencement of Population Enumeration. These states
were carved out of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar respectively.
This resulted in redoing the coding exercise in all the jurisdictional
units of these six affected states and much time and effort initially put
in had to be invested again to ensure that the processing of Houselisting
records is not adversely affected among other things.
4.
In
Assam, Mizoram and Orissa
there are a few sub-districts which cut across the district jurisdictions.
In such situations these sub-districts only have been provided a separate
series of code numbers beginning with 9 viz. 9000, 9001 etc., whereas
those sub-districts which do not violate the district boundaries have been
given the normal code numbers i.e. 0001, 0002 etc. the sub-districts which
cut across two districts are 1) Sidli Circle (Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon
districts), 2) Dhakuakhana Circle ( Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts) and
3) Subansiri Circle (Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts) in Assam, 4)
Tlangnuam Rural Development Block (Kolasib and Aizawl districts), 5)
Thingsulthliah Rural Development Block (Aizawl and Serchhip districts) and
6) East Lungdar Rural Development Block (Champhai and Serchhip districts)
in Mizoram and 7) Ramagiri Police Station (Ganjam and Gajapati districts)
in Orissa.
5. One of the major
initiatives taken in the Census 2001 was the allotment of Permanent
Location Code Number (PLCN) to each and every village within the State and
not within a sub-district as in the earlier censuses. PLCN was thus
assigned as one continuous number from the first village in the first
district to the last village in the last district. PLCN is an eight digit
unique location code number with the first six digits representing the
code number of the village and the last two digits are by default two
zeros '00' as future provision. These zeros are reserved as buffer to be
used for coding any new village(s) that may come up between two existing
villages in future. For example, if a new village comes up between two
villages with PLCNs 01254600 and 01254700, the new village will be
allotted PLCN 01254601 and so on.
6. There are 17 villages
in Bihar and 12 villages in West Bengal which are spread across two
sub-district. Two villages in
Bihar cut across districts. These villages have been given same
location codes although they appear twice in the database. The list of
such villages is given in Annexure - II.
7. The location code
number for a town in every state is also an eight digit number starting
with the digit 4 situated at the extreme left acting as the unique
identifier for any town in the state. The next two digits depict the code
number of the district in which the town falls followed by two digits
representing the town serial number in the district. There are three zeros
at the end as buffer mainly to meet the requirement of bringing the number
of digits to eight to match the number of digits in the PLCN for the
villages. Thus a town location code number 40305000 represents the town
serial number 5 of the district number 03 in a State.
8. There are ten towns in
the country that spread over more than one district. These are 1)
Devaprayag (Tehri Garhwal and Garhwal districts) in Uttranchal, 2) Delhi
Municipal Corporation (all the nine districts) and 3) New Delhi Municipal
Council (NDMC) (New Delhi, Central, Sourth West and South districts) in
Delhi, 4) Imphal, Municipal Council (Imphal West and Imphal East
districts), 5) Lilong, Nagar Panchayat, (Thoubal and Imphal East
districts), 6) Nambol, Municipal Council (Bishmipur and Imphal West
districts) and 7) Samurou, Nagar Panchayat, (Thoubal and Imphal West
districts) in Manipur, 8) Siliguri, Municipal Corporation (Darjiling and
Jalpaiguri districts) in West Bengal, 9) Greater Mumbai, Municipal
Corporation (Mumbai Suburban and Mumbai districts) in Maharashtra and 10)
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts) in
Andhra Pradesh. Although, the parts of such towns falling in two
different districts have been coded independently, the last five digits of
these towns are the same since the same town serial numbers have allotted
within the districts to these different town parts. However, the district
code being an element of the eight-digited town code structure; the same
town has two different eight digited codes. For example, Siliguri (M.Corp.)
falling in two districts, namely, Darjiling (01) and Jalpaiguri (02) has
codes 40109000 and 40209000 respectively.
9. A statement showing
district-wise number of sub-districts, towns (statutory and census) and
villages (inhabited and uninhabited) is given in Annexure – III.
10. The Village and Town
Codes are available as separate excel files for each State and Ut. The
various columns of the excel sheet containing the village location codes
have the following information
Column 1 State/Ut
Code
Column 2
District Code
Column 3
Sub-district Code
Column 4 Village
Code (2001)
Column 5 Name of
the State/District/Sub-district/Village
Column 6
Community Development (CD) Block Code
Column 7 CD
Block name
Column 8 Village
Code (1991)
The columns
of the excel sheet containing the town codes have the following
information
Column
1 State/Ut Code
Column
2 District Code
Column
3 Town Code
11. In Kerala and Tamil
Nadu, there are a few villages which fall in more than one CD Block. This
list is being kept as a separate in the CD and will appear on clicking at
the appropriate location.
Abbreviations Used
Abbreviations of civic
status of cities or towns :
C.B. |
- |
Cantonment
Board/Cantonment |
C.M.C. |
- |
City Municipal Council |
E.O. |
- |
Estate Office |
G.P. |
- |
Gram Panchayat |
I.N.A. |
- |
Industrial Notified Area |
I.T.S. |
- |
Industrial Township |
M. |
- |
Municipality |
M.B. |
- |
Municipal Board |
M.C. |
- |
Municipal Committee |
M.CI. |
- |
Municipal Council |
M.Corp. |
- |
Municipal
Corporation/Corporation |
N.A. |
- |
Notified Area |
N.A.C. |
- |
Notified Area
Committee/Notified Area Council |
N.P. |
- |
Nagar
Panchayat |
N.T. |
- |
Notified Town |
N.T.A. |
- |
Notified Town Area |
S.T.C. |
- |
Small
Town Committee |
T.C. |
- |
Town Committee/Town Area
Committee |
T.M.C. |
- |
Town Municipal Council |
T.P. |
- |
Town Panchayat |
T.S. |
- |
Township |
C.T. |
- |
Census Town |
U.A. |
- |
Urban Agglomeration |
O.G. |
- |
Out Growth |
|