2.6 ** Must Study Points for Exam from Census
- Census 2011 was released in New Delhi on 31st March 2011 by Union Home Secretary GK Pillai and RGI C Chandramouli.
- Census 2011 was the 15th census of India & 7th census after Independence
- The motto of census 2011 was “Our Census, Our future”.
- Total estimated cost of the Census was INR2200 crore (US$350 million).
- ** First census in India – 1872 AD during the time of Lord Mayo
- ** First decadal census in India – at the time of Ripon (in 1881)
- Present Registrar General & Census Commissioner – C. Chandra Mouli
- Total Population – 1,210,569,573 (1.21 Billion)
- World Population is 7 Billion
- Decadal population growth from 2001 to 2011 – 17.64
- Increase in population during 2001 – 2011 is 181 Million
- First census in the world – in Sweden (1749)
- ** The decadal census started from – America (1790)
- World Population Day – 11 July
- Census is conducted under the provision of the Census Act, 1948.
- The bill for this Act was piloted by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the then Home Minister of India
- ** New Population Policy Announced – 15 February 2000
- First country in the world to implement National Programme for Family Planning – India
- When was the National Programme for Family Planning started – in 1952 (in India)
- Census commissioner of the first census – W.C. Plowden
- National Population Fund – 13 February 2003
- The term “missing women” was first noted by the Indian Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen
- Number of Districts in 2011 – 640 (In India)
- ** Year of the Great Divide – (1911-21) (1921 exact)
- ** The population census is a Union Subject under Article 246 of the constitution.
- The population census is a Union Subject under Article 246. It is listed at serial number 69 of the Seventh schedule of the constitution.
** Population control and family planning is in the Concurrent List in the Constitution of India