According to provisional and Census Commissioner C Chandramauli on Thursday, India's population today stands at 1,210.2 million (Male--623.7 million and Female--586.5 million). The 15th National Census report claims that in the past one decade India’s population grew by only 18 crore.
Highest population density has been recorded in Delhi's north-east district (37,346 per sq km) while the lowest is in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (just one per sq km
The report will provide the latest picture on socio-economic front for the country. Nearly 2.1 million officials were employed in this exercise to visit every structure serving as a home across 630,000 villages and 5,000 cities.
They also took note of the availability of toilets, drinking water, electricity, as well as the type of building materials for a comprehensive picture of Indian housing. Besides, the enumerators also collected information on Internet, mobile phone and bank account usage
Highest population density has been recorded in Delhi's north-east district (37,346 per sq km) while the lowest is in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (just one per sq km
The report will provide the latest picture on socio-economic front for the country. Nearly 2.1 million officials were employed in this exercise to visit every structure serving as a home across 630,000 villages and 5,000 cities.
They also took note of the availability of toilets, drinking water, electricity, as well as the type of building materials for a comprehensive picture of Indian housing. Besides, the enumerators also collected information on Internet, mobile phone and bank account usage
