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Annexure 4.3<br />

SOME MDG INDICATORS FOR SIVAGANGAI DISTRICT<br />

The second district considered for district level PRS is Sivagangai. Sivagangai district is an<br />

administrative district of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. The city of Sivagangai is the<br />

district headquarters. The district is bounded on the north by Trichy and Pudukkotai<br />

sdistrict, on the east and south by Ramanathauram district and on the west by<br />

Viruthunagar district. Sivagangai district has two revenue divisions namely Sivagangai<br />

and Devakotai. It has six taluks: Thirupathur, Karaikudi, Devakotai, Manamadurai,<br />

Ilayankudi and Sivagangai. The taluks consist of 522 revenue villages of which<br />

Sivagangai has more than 100 revenue villages.<br />

The geographical extent of the district is 4189 sq. km accounting for 3.22<br />

percent of the geographical area of Tamil Nadu state. Out of the total geographical area,<br />

land put to non-agriculture comes around 27.6 percent, forest area constitute 5.2<br />

percent, current fallow and other fallow lands constitute 33.3.5 percent which is very<br />

significant, and cultivable waste is around 4 percent.<br />

b1. Demographic Profile<br />

Total population of the district is 1153747 comprising 567805 males and 585542 females<br />

in 2001 (Table 4.1). Nearly 74 percent of the total population lives in rural area. The<br />

percentage share of SC social group was 16.4 percent and that of the SC group was 0.11<br />

percent in 2001. The density of the population was 275 persons per sq. km, lowest in the<br />

state.<br />

Majority of the population in the district derives their livelihood from activities<br />

related to agriculture and livestock rearing. The gross area under cultivation during the<br />

year 2004-05 was 111576 ha. The average size of agriculture land holding is 1.26 ha.<br />

The data reveals that most of the farmers belong to small and marginal category. The<br />

district is not blessed with perennial source of river water supply, the rainfed tank are the<br />

main source of irrigation. There are about 651 major tanks and 4260 minor tanks in the<br />

district. Next to tanks, irrigation wells help to irrigate crops to some extent. Paddy is the<br />

main crop cultivated in the district. Millets, groundnuts and sugarcane are also cultivated<br />

to a considerable extent.<br />

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