Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
Opposing Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath’s push for a vertical growth in the city, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said she won’t allow the construction of high-rise buildings as long as she is ‘alive’. “I agree with you that eventually perhaps Delhi will need high-rise buildings. But it will …
India has the highest number as well as proportion of children who are underweight and who suffer from stunting. And yet, India has no current data on the nutritional status of its population. The data available is almost a decade old since the national family health survey, which collects nutritional …
The Punjab government has decided to frame a policy for mega projects to provide houses to the public at affordable rates. An official spokesperson of the department of town and country planning said the policy would incorporate provisions like the maximum permissible area for group housing in a project, where …
Dismayed at the Census 2011 figures that highlighted the decline in child sex ratio (0-6 years) to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys as compared to 927 in 2001, over 200 civil society organisations this past week joined hands with the National Foundation for India (NFI) in launching a campaign …
Top 5% of the population had an MPCE of Rs 4,481 in rural areas and Rs 10,282 in urban areas Poorest of poor in the country survive on barely Rs 17 per day in villages and Rs 23 a day in cities, as per the latest data released by the …
India’s population will touch 1.4 billion in 2025 India will become the most populous country in the world by 2028, surpassing China, while Nigeria will have more people than the United States by 2050, a latest report has said. The World Population Prospects — The 2012 Revision, released by the …
State’s Population May Rise To 28 Crore By 2028 Lucknow:The United Nations on Friday said that the population of India is expected to surpass that of China by 2028, when both the countries will have around 145 crore people each. Uttar Pradesh, with 1/6 of India’s population, would be a …
Titled as 'The Chennai Residential Real Estate Report', it also said the housing loan market of Chennai was expected to be Rs 800-900 crore, calculated on a monthly basis The demand for housing in Chennai is expected to be in the range of 30,000-35,000 units annually, driven mainly by IT …
Ignoring concerns expressed by allies and civil society groups, the United Progressive Alliance government is all set to push for an ordinance on the Food Security Bill. The revised Bill along with Food Ministry’s 81 amendments will be tabled for approval in the Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday. Food Minister …
The UPA Government plans to call a special session of Parliament to pass the Food Security Bill after the Cabinet on Thursday deferred a proposal to pass an ordinance for implementing the same. The Food Security Bill, which the Government considers will be a game changer, aims to provide legal …
The 2012 Revision of World Population Prospects represents the latest global demographic estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. This volume provides, for each country and area, a brief description of the data sources and demographic …
Raises questions with regard to official claims of crackdown on prenatal sex determination Primary abstract of 2011 census, released on Monday, has indicated an alarming level of female foeticide in Jammu and Kashmir as a drastic decrease of 79 females per thousand of children has been noticed in the basic …
Delhi’s population, estimated at 1.67 crore, registered a rise of over 21 per cent in 10 years, higher than the national average of about 17 per cent during 2001-2011. However, the sex ratio improved with the female population growing by 24.9 per cent compared to the male population growth of …
Testing every person in India’s billion plus population for HIV will be cost-effective. The first ever study to gauge the benefit of universal HIV testing in India every five years has found that testing the general population just once would be “very cost-effective” because it would cost $1,100 per year …
Even the impressive agriculture growth by Madhya Pradesh over the last few years can't ignore this reality: more than a million cultivators have withdrawn from farming activity and there's a simultaneous four-fold increase in the number of agriculture labourers between 2001 and 2011. It means farming has become unviable for …
BHOPAL: The population of Madhya Pradesh has increased by over a crore in the last 10 years. Currently at 7.2 crore, the population density of the state is about 230 per sq km which is much less than the national average. The state has a growth rate of about 20% …
Hopes Rise For Better Quality Of Life Mumbai: Maharashtra’s urban population growth is slowing down. The latest Census 2011 figures show that in the 2001-2011 decade, the state urban population grew at 23.67% as against 34.57% in the 1991-2001 decade. Census officials attribute the declining growth rate to lower fertility …
Financially dependent on others for daily needs Around 82.18 lakh persons in J&K;, which works out to 65.5 per cent of the state’s population, are non-workers and are dependent on their family members or others for their daily needs. As per the updated Census-2011 figures, the percentage of workers in …
State officials are apprehensive of targeted coverage and allocations The National Food Security Bill, which is again in news these days, may be generating much excitement in most parts of the country, but not in Tamil Nadu. The reason: a more comprehensive model in the form of universal public distribution …
Disparity between the rural and urban population has widened further in the state. The income distribution has become more skewed. The rising share of the services and industrial sectors in the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has not effected any changes in the state’s occupational structure. The share of industrial …
