Extracts from AIBEA circular dated 6th July, 2015
Recently Govt. of India has issued the Gazette notification for the Census as of 2011. It is the 15th Census in India beginning from 1872 and 7th since our independence.
Some data from the Census:
Population as per this Census in 2011: 121,01,93,422
Rank: No. 2 with 17.5% of world population ( 1st is China: 19%)
No. of Districts: 640
Most populace State : UP
Least populous State: Sikkim
Most populated metro : Mumbai : 1,84,14,288
Most Literate State : Kerala ( 94 %)
Least Literate State : Bihar ( 64 %)
Sex Ratio : 940 Female : 1000 Male
Literacy of Male : 82.14 %
Literacy of Female : 65.46 %
Highest populace District: Thane, Mumbai
100 % Literacy District : Palakkad, Kerala
100 % Banking State : Kerala
100 % Banking District : Palakkad
Increase in population from last census in 2001 to 2011: 18.1 crore
Some disturbing facts:
- Total household: 24.39 cr; Rural households accounted for 17.91 cr (73%)
- 30 % of Indian rural households doesn’t have land and depend on casual labor for subsistence.
- As many as 2.37 crore (one in eight) families in villages live in houses of one room with ‘kaccha’ walls and roof.
- 23.52 % rural families have no literate adult above 25 years
- 74 % of the rural households survived on a monthly income of less than Rs 5,000 of its highest earner
- 51 % of the households are engaged in casual, manual labour and 30 % in cultivation.
- 7 in 10 homes in rural live on less than Rs 200 a day
- 18.06 lakh people are still engaged in manual scavenging
- Households with destitutes or those living on alms is over 6.68 lakh
- As many as 4.08 lakh households rely on rag-picking.
