DISTRICT  PROFILE - PART II

12.  ELECTRICITY

i. Generation of Electricity (in m.u.)
a. Hydro	:                  Nil
b. Wind Mill Generation	:                  Nil
c. Thermal	:                  Nil
d. Power Purchased	:                  Nil
e. Gas Turbine	:                  Nil
ii. Consumption of Electricity (in m.u.) Kwh.
a. Agriculture	:                951.80
b. Industry	:                686.31
c. Commercial	:                157.96
d. Domestic	:                723.38
e. Public Lighting & Water Works	:                 669.25
f. Sales to Licensees	:                   Nil
g. Sales to Other States	:                   Nil
h. Miscellaneous   Railways	:                 850.0
iii. Rural Electrification
a. Number of Pumpsets Energised	:                 140878
b.Number of Villages Electrified	:                    842
c. Number of Hamlets Electrified	:  All Hamlets Electrified.

13. ENTERPRISES                                                                                                    Rural            Urban

i. No.of Agricultural Enterprises	:            21941            2299
ii.No.of non-Agricultural Enterprises	:             49593          47967
iii.No.of Enterprises	:
a. With Premises	:              81282          66343
b. Without Premises	:                8575            3170

14. INDUSTRIES

i. No. of Working Factories (Registered)	:                   1030
ii. No. of Mandays Worked (Lakhs)	:                1642
iii. No. of Trade Unions	:                       31
iv. No. of Strikes	:                   2
v. No. of Lockouts	:                    427
vi. Large Scale Industries	:                      60
vii. Medium Scale Industries	:                     257
viii. Small Scale Industries	:                     702
ix. Cottage Industries	:                     258
x. No. of New Factories setup	:                      54
xi. Name of the Important Industries
in the  District	:
	1. BHEL Ltd.,  Ranipet
	2. TEL Ltd.,  Katpadi
	3.  Leather  &   Leather  Product  Industries
	4.  Cotton  Yarn  manufacturing   Mills
	5.  CO-op  Sugar  Mills
	6.  Engineering  Industries
	7.  Match  Industries
	8.  Beedi  Industry
	9.  Hand  Loom  & Power  Loom  Industries
	10.  Chemical Industries
xii. Name of the Industrial Park	:
	1.  SIDCO.   Katpadi
	2.  SIPCOT. Ranipet
	3.  SIDCO.   Arkkonam

15. KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES

i.	Production               Sales
	(Rs.in Lakhs)            (Rs.in Lakhs)
KHADI
Cotton	1563.44                       1837.67
Woollen	--                        1.91
Silk	--                       29.75
Polyester	--                         5.87
ii.     VILLAGE INDUSTIRES
a.  Soaps	--                         1.65
b.  Leather Goods	1.55                      0.41
c. Honey	---                        0.17
d. Others	----                       2.05
Total (i+ii)	1564.99                     1879.48

16. MEDICAL AND HELATH  (NUMBER)

i.        Modern Medicine
a. No.of Hospitals	:                  13
b. Dispensaries	:                    8 ( E.S.I )
c. Primary Health Centres	:                  76
d. Health Sub Centres	:                 454
e. Other Medical Institution	:                    1
f. Beds in Hospitals and
Dispensaries	:                1731
g. Total Number of Doctors	:                  384
h. Total Number of Nurses	:                  799
ii. Indian Medicine
a. Hospitals	:                    12
b. Dispensaries	:                      2
c. Primary Health Centres	:                     13
d. Beds in Hospitals and
Dispensaries	:                     25
e. Total Number of Doctors	:                     19
f. Total Number of Nurses	:                      3
iii. Homeopathy
a. Hospitals	:                      3
b. Dispensaries	:                     --
c. Beds in Hospitals and
Dispensaries	:                      --
d. Total Number of Doctors	:                      3
e. Total Number of Nurses	:                      --
iv. Unani
a. Hospitals	:                      1
b. Primary Health Centres	:                      1
c. No.of.Doctors	:                      1

17. EDUCATION

i. Universities	:                      2
ii. Arts and Science Colleges	:                     21
iii. Colleges   for professional Education
a.Medicine	:
(1). Allopathy	:                     2
(2). Indian Medicine	:                     1
(3). Homoeopathy	:                     1
b. Engineering Colleges	:                    11
c. Agriculture Colleges	:                     1
d. Veterinary  Colleges	:                    --
e. Law Colleges	:                    1
iv. Colleges for Special Education(Nursing)	:                     1
v. Pre Primary Schools	:                  342
vi. Primary Schools	:                 2000
vii. Middle Schools	:                  524
viii. High Schools	:                  320
ix.  Higher Secondary Schools	:                  292
x. Teacher’s Training Institute	:                    53
xi. No.of fresh entries
(I to V Std.)	:               Male          Female
	35487           33458
xii. No.of students passed at
a. High School (X Std)	:                34698  (75.8%)
b. Higher Secondary School (XII Std)	:               10356  (65.6%)

18. TRANSPORT

i.        Road Length (in Km.)
a. National Highways	:                227.200
b. State Highways	:                122.400
c. Corporation and Municipalities
Roads	:                776.720
d. Panchayat Union and Panchayat
Roads	:              3709.600
e. Town Panchayat/ Township  Roads	:                744.205
f. Others (Forest Roads)	:                   Nil
ii.   Registered Motor Vehicles
a. Commercial	:                 2543
b. Non-Commercial	:                25231
iii.  Railway Length
a. Route Length (in Km.)	:
(1). Broad Gauge	:                  165.4
(2). Metre Gauge	:                   Nil
b.Track Length (in Km.)	:
(1) Broad Gauge	:                  165.4
(2) Metre Gauge	:                   Nil
c. No.of Railway Station	:                  28
iv. Number of Sea Ports	:                   Nil
v. Number of Air Ports	:                     1
vi. Name of the Air Port	:        Vellore Aerodram
vii. Name of the Sea Port	:                    Nil
viii. Name of the Export Commodity	:
	1.  Shoes
	2.  Leather  Garments
	3.  Matches
	4.  Hand  Loom  &  Power  Loom   Clothes
	5.  Beedi
ix. Name of the Import Commodity (Interstate)	:
	1.  Redgram
	2.  Blackgram
	3.  Bengalgram
	4.  Palm oil
	Part I                               Part III

                                                                                                                                Assistant Director of Statistics,

                                                         Vellore.