Search Results for: ""
Censuses Down the Ages
The practise of counting has been prevalent for eons based on the need - administrative, military or otherwise. In the present context synchronised census systems are in place world over, that enable...
The Saga of India’s Censuses
With the completion of India’s 15th national Census in 2011, the essay traces significant milestones of census history.
Population control expanding India
The alarming increase in population is leading India towards a resource scourge and efforts by the government, at this stage, is paramount in dealing with stabilisation concerns.
Gender Sensitisation in the Census
The process of collecting census data in India has been riddled with gaps in gender data specifically pertaining to women’s contribution to India’s economic activity and female work participation rate...
Collecting Data
Census is an important exercise in India. Not only population but forests and wildlife also have a census to its credit. The following news extracts and updates encapsulate some emergent issues relate...
Declining Child Sex Ratio in India: Evidence from Census 2011
The declining child sex ratio throws up complex challenges for a nation that is struggling to fill its resource gap. The provisional findings of the Census 2011 reiterates the hopelessness that the na...
Urban poor: India Amenities
The Indian Government has enhanced its slum development schemes in an effort to bring down urban poverty further.
India’s Urbanisation-Highlights 2011 Census
In general parlance, the process of becoming urban refers to the concentration of a territory’s population in towns and cities and involves the growth of urban population in respect to total populatio...