6.2. Comparison between India and Bihar Census

CENSUS 2011

** Must Study Points for Exam

• 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

Comparison between India and Bihar Census 2011

Note:

↑ – Highest 

↓ – Lowest

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