Selected Socio - Economic Indicators - 2007

REGION - WISE SOCIO - ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF UNION TERRITORY OF PUDUCHERRY

Items	Year	Unit	Union Territory	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam
Area
Area	2001 Census	Sq.km.	479	293	160	9	17
Density	"	per sq.km.	2034	2510	1067	4092	1847
Towns	"	No.	6	3	1	1	1
Population	2001 Census	lakh	9.74	7.35	1.71	0.37	0.31
Urban Population	"	%	66.57	68.81	43.58	100.00	100.00
Rural Population	"	%	33.43	31.19	56.42	--	--
Male	"	%	49.98	50.2	49.5	46.6	50.6
Female	"	%	50.02	49.8	50.5	53.4	49.4
Decadal growth	"	%	20.62	20.88	17.22	10.11	54.67
Sex ratio	"	per ‘000 Males	1001	990	1022	1147	975
Literacy rate
Persons	2001 Census	%	81.24	80.66	81.94	95.66	73.72
Male	"	%	88.62	88.44	89.40	97.64	78.82
Female	"	%	73.9	72.84	74.68	93.98	68.50
Projected Population - 2007		in lakh	10.89	8.23	1.88	0.39	0.39
Rain fall	2006-07	mm	--	1133	986	3281	1427
Agriculture
Net area sown	2005-06	' 000Hect.	20.713	12.950	6.489	0.624	0.650
Gross area irrigated	"	"	29.384	21.983	6.723	0.043	0.635
Food grains Production	"	' 000 M.T	55.147	41.089	11.743	--	2.315
Fish Production
Marine	2006-07	M.T	33792	17219	11765	3835	973
Inland	"	"	5510	3300	1570	--	640
Animal Husbandry
Milk Production	2006-07	M.T.	44713	33895	9592	374	852
Egg Production	"	in. lakh	107.36	73.95	29.58	1.30	2.53
Public Health
Hospitals	2006-07	No.	8	5	1	1	1
Chest Clinic	"	"	1	1	--	--	--
Primary Health Centres	"	"	39	27	11	1	--
Community Health Centres	"	"	4	2	1	1	--
Sub-Centres
Urban	2006-07	No.	25	17	--	4	4
Rural	"	"	52	35	17	--	--
ESI Dispensaries	"	"	14	11	1	1	1
Items	Year	Unit	Union Territory	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam
Doctors	"	"	586	410	98	43	35
Nurses	"	"	1271	847	278	86	60
Beds	"	"	2561	1607	645	207	102
Education
Primary
i. No. of Institutions	2006-07	No.	319	216	75	15	13
ii. No. of Students	"	%	100	69.72	15.65	5.59	9.04
Middle
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	118	81	30	5	2
ii. No. of Students	"	%	100	65.84	26.93	5.16	2.07
Secondary
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	155	112	27	6	10
ii. No. of Students	"	%	100	71.47	17.72	3.42	7.39
Higher Secondary
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	92	71	15	5	1
ii. No. of Students	"	%	100	83.02	12.02	4.60	0.36
Teacher Pupil Ratio
Primary	2006-07		1:21	1:21	1:16	1:27	1:56
Middle	"		1:20	1:19	1:21	1:22	1:32
High/Higher Sec.	"		1:27	1:28	1:27	1:21	1:25
No. of girls per 100 boys
Primary	2006-07	No.	95	94	97	101	97
Middle	"	"	91	91	93	90	96
High/Higher Sec.	"	"	101	102	103	83	105
Public Distribution System
No.of Fair Price Shops	2006-07	Nos	438	318	84	18	18
Ration shops run by co-operative institution	"		399	290	73	18	18
Labour and Employment
State Government Employees	2005-06	No.	28229	21545	4664	1169	851
Central Government Employees	"	"	4200	3996	110	48	46
Autonomous Bodies Employees	"	"	7982	6936	866	78	102
Local Bodies Employees	"	"	2591	2038	396	61	96
Items	Year	Unit	Union Territory	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam
Banking
No. of scheduled commercial banks	As on March 2007	No.	95	68	20	5	2
Deposits	"	Rs. in Crore	3932	3178	534	173	47
Credit	"	“	1856	1573	215	46	22
Population per Office	"	No.	10256	10814	8540	7366	15697
Transport
Road length (PWD)	2006-07	km.	677.525	440.344	188.417	22.319	26.445
Regd. Motor vehicle	"	No.	47917	40609	6394	493	421
Tourism
Tourist arrival	Jan to June 2007	No.	409611	347518	62093	--	--
i. Foreign Tourist	"	“	28022	27894	128	--	--
ii. Domestic Tourist	"	“	381589	319624	61965	--	--
Co-operative
No. of Societies	2006-07	No.	510	362	87	26	35
Membership	"	000 No.	530.89	383.62	93.34	37.09	16.84
Primary Agriculture Credit Societies	"	No.	53	46	6	1	--
Membership	"	"	82051	73044	8830	177	--
Rural Development
No. of groups formed under SGSY	2006-07	No.	163	125	38	--	--
No. of Houses constructed under IAY	"	"	261	224	28	3	6
Mandays generated under SGRY	"	Lakh Mandays	0.589	0.315	0.197	0.007	0.070
State Domestic Product (Base Year 1999-2000)
Gross State Domestic Product (at Current Prices)	2006-07	Rs. in lakh	629928	--	--	--	--
Net State Domestic Product (at Current Prices)	"	"	569772	--	--	--	--
Per capita Income (at Current Prices)	"	In Rs.	52669	--	--	--	--