Haryana records the lowest adult sex ratio in the country, and its Jhajjar district has the worst adult and child sex ratios. THE results of the provisional Census revealed that Haryana as a whole registered the lowest adult sex ratio in the country and also had the lowest child sex …
Proportion of child population falls below nine per cent in four dists Bangalore, The percentage of children in the age group 0-6 has declined to 11.21 per cent in 2011 from 13.59 per cent in 2001, according to census figures. The decrease is 2.36 percen
Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner of India Dr C. Chandramauli releasing the provisional results of Census 2011 CENSUS 2011 is the 15th one undertaken in India since 1872 and the seventh after the country attained Independence. While there have been stray historical references to population counts of one …
Expressing concern over the declining child sex ratio as indicated in the provisional figures of the Census 2011, civil society groups have asked the Centre to take cognisance of the increasing challenges in this area of sex selection and undertake urgent measures to overcome these. As per the figures, the …
Demographers, social activists and concerned citizens came together here on Sunday to deliberate on the sharp decline in child sex ratio in Rajasthan, as revealed in the 2011 Census figures, and resolved to take drastic steps to check the disappearance of girl child by establishing her value in the society …
The much-awaited provisional results of Census 2011 bring the news that the child sex ratio (0-6 years) has declined further from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys, due to a widening of the circle of daughter aversion, especially across western and central India. But in all the monitoring …
The pace at which India’s population is growing is slowing, but not as rapidly as expected; India will become the largest country in the world sooner than earlier forecast. Literacy rates have increased sharply between 2001 and 2011; some of the low performing rates have shown strong improvements, the others …
India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of stillbirths in the world. This finding comes after the country recorded the worst female child sex ratio ever (Census 2011). India figures at the top of 10 countries that have the highest number of stillbirths, according to the Stillbirth …
As per provisional census 2011 report, women have outnumbered the men with registering ratio more than one thousand against men in four tribal districts of State. It means the women in maximum number legged behind the men folk in these districts. Not only this, literacy rate has also scaled up …
Gautam Budh Nagar has registered all round progress on different fronts during the past 10 years, stated the latest census report. Literacy has jumped from 56.83 per cent in 2001 to 82.2 per cent in 2011. In woman literacy, district tops the state while population in G B Nagar has …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's literacy rate might have grown exponentially in the last decade to touch 73.45 per cent, almost on par with the National average of 74.04, but the Naxal hotbeds of the State continue to wallow in illiteracy. Literacy rate in the Maoist-infested districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur still …
LUCKNOW: The latest edition of tiger census has started getting fingers raised at it. The UP forest department has conveyed its dis-satisfaction over the count of tigers in the state to the concerned authorities, as the 2011 census has missed out on Bijnore landscape that makes tigers in UP "under-assessed". …
BHUBANESWAR: Ganjam is Orissa's most populous district but Balangir records the highest growth. The Census 2011, provisional results of which were declared today, has revealed that with a population of 35,20,151 Ganjam is State's most inhabited district, followed by Cuttack with 26,18,708. Mayurbhanj and Balasore follow closely with Khurda ranked …
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir is well on path of achieving 100 percent literacy rate as the figures in respect of literacy for Census 2011 have shown an increase of more than 13 percent over the census of 2001. The same has jumped to 68.74 percent from 55 percent from the …
