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District - Vizianagaram
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Headquarters: Vizianagaram

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Geographical Profile

Item	Unit of Measure	Figure	Source
Area	Sq.km.	6539.00	Census 2001
Population	In Thousands	2245.10	"
Male	In Thousands	1120.12	"
Female	In Thousands	1124.97	"
Urban	In Thousands	412.09	"
Rural	In Thousands	1833.01	"
Population Growth (decadal)	%	+6.35	"
Population Density (Person/Sq.Km)	Ratio	343	"
Literacy	%	51.82	"
Male	%	63	"
Female	%	40.73	"
Urbanisation	%	17.22	Census 1991
Workers as % of total population	%	50.33	"
Workers % of main Workers
Agriculture & allied activities	%	74.73	"
Mining & Quarrying	%	0.30	"
Mfg.(Non-household) industries	%	3.79	"
Household industries	%	3.36	"
Construction	%	0.75	"
Services	%	17.07	"
Forest Area as % of reporting area	%	17.78	1997-98
Gross irrigated area as % of gross cropped area	%	35.15	"
Value of output of major crops
Per capita food grain production	Kg.	116.00	"
Road Length per 100 sq.km.	Km.	56.60	1996-97
Railway route length per 100 sq.km.	Km.	3.99	"
Post offices per 100,000 persons	Ratio	32.88	"
Bank branches per 100,000 persons	Ratio	6.16	1994-95
Per capita bank deposits	Rs.	1062.60	"
Per capita bank credit	Rs.	726.03	"
Per capita bank credit to agriculture	Rs.	208.58	"
per ha. bank credit to agriculture	Rs.	961.00	"
Per capita bank credit to SSIs	Rs.	47.99	"
Per capita bank credit to Industries	Rs.	214.22	"

Major Crops 1997-98

Crop	Area as % of District total	Quantity (In Thousand Tonnes)	Source
Rice	28.60	189	1997-98
Jowar	0.22	N	"
Cotton *	0.87	10	"
Maize	0.44	8	"
Arhar	0.44	1	"
Chillies	0.66	7	"
Sugar cane	2.18	601	"
Sesamum	5.24	3	"
* (Lint '000 bales of 170 Kgs) N=Negligible

Mandal Information