This is one slump in growth rate that the nation can rejoice over. According to the Census of 2001- 2011, India's population has grown at 17.7 per cent as against 21.5 per cent in the decade.
The child gender ratio has slipped by eight points from 927 in 2001 to 919 in 2011
The country's population at present is 1.21 billion, an increase of 181.96 million since 2001. What is even more comforting for the country's planners is the fact that female growth rate has been better than male growth rate. Read more
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New Delhi: India's total population stands at 1.21 billion, which is 17.7 per cent more than the last decade, and population growth of females was higher than that of males.
According to the final census released by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today, India's total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1,210,726,932 or 1.21 billion - an increase of 181.96 million persons in absolute number of population during 2001-11. Read more
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BANGALORE, India — Two decades ago, this bustling melting pot was an advertisement for a new, confident India. Bangalore’s young, unapologetically cosmopolitan, English-speaking workforce drove India’s economic rise and put the city on the global map, making it synonymous with the country’s information technology revolution.
Sanjit Das/Bloomberg - Pedestrians and traffic move along Brigade Road in Bangalore, India.
But these days, Bangalore’s reputation is taking a beating. Read more
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Multitudes have to be connected to modernity for our great leap forward
A group of BPO recruits at a training session in Uttarakhand
It has become a cliche to speak of India as a land of paradoxes. The old joke about our country is that anything you say about India, the opposite is also true. We like to think of ourselves as an ancient civilisation but we are also a young republic; our IT experts stride confidently into the twenty-first century but much of our population seems to live in each of the other twenty centuries. Quite often, the opposites coexist quite cheerfully. One of my favourite images of India is from the last Kumbh Mela, of a naked sadhu, straight out of central casting, with matted hair, ash-smeared forehead and scraggly beard, a rudraksha mala around his scrawny neck and a distant gaze in his eyes, for all the world a picture of timeless other-worldliness, chatting away on a mobile phone.
Young Indians are growing into such a paradoxical India. What are the prospects for the expansion of the participative political space in tomorrow’s India, say over the next two decades? To me this desirable objective requires both growth and equity. It is happening, but there’s still a lot that needs to be done before we get there. Read more
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Indian cities are urbanizing at an unprecedented scale and pace. Over the next few decades, India’s urban population is expected to increase significantly, from 377 million in 2011 to 590 million by 2030.
Children play in Mumbai, India. Photo credit: EMBARQ
The problem is that the country’s existing urban transport infrastructure is already over-capacity. This fact–coupled with the alarmingly high rate of traffic fatalities, increasing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, and urban sprawl–has created a sense of urgency to improve the quality of life in our cities now for the benefit of future generations. Read more
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Technology boom has brought higher incomes but slums proliferate and services are squeezed in crowded 'garden city'
• Urbanisation can be 'force for good'
People walk through Infosys headquarters in Bengaluru, India. Photograph: Getty
Bengaluru was a lovely city until the IT crowd ruined it, so goes the joke.
"The reason the IT sector came to the city was its reputation as a great city to live in," a resident told me on a recent visit. "Of course, technology created jobs, but the city has grown so fast and become too crowded." Read more
Source : www.guardian.co.uk
COLOMBO (IRIN) - With the world’s mega-cities growing even larger, policymakers - especially those in developing countries - need urban planning that will help these areas withstand the impacts of natural disasters.
Manila, where flood planning is part of city planning
The urban population in developing countries is expected to double to four billion people by 2030, from two billion at the start of the century, according to a recent World Bank report on urban planning. Read more
Source : www.irinnews.org
NEW DELHI : Till now the Centre was urging only cities with two million plus population to attain the system
The new move will help cities with less than two million population attain an efficient mass transit system.
The Union Urban Development Ministry, which has been urging cities with two million plus population to pitch in for a Metro system, is now considering extending the efficient mass transit system to cities with lesser populace. Read more
Source : www.thehindu.com
Recent counts reveal that the number of voters in Bangalore urban district has increased by 10lakh after the first summary revision of electoral rolls, which, by the way, is still on.
Recent counts reveal that the number of voters in Bangalore urban district has increased by 10lakh after the first summary revision of electoral rolls, which, by the way, is still on. Addressing media persons here on Wednesday, BBMP commissioner and District Election Officer, Siddaiah advised citizens above 18 years age to enroll themselves as voters by submitting Form 6 before April 7. “I appeal to all those people eligible to vote to enroll themselves as voters. I want all the eligible voters to exercise their franchise during the polling for the State Assembly elections to be held on May 5,” said Siddaiah. Read more
Source : www.dnaindia.com
Kolkata : Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday attributed the rise in number of rape cases to the rise in population and changing lifestyle, and claimed that among the metros, Kolkata reported fewer such cases.
Speaking in her reply to the debate on the Governor’s address in the Assembly, Mamata said: “You are hitting the roof saying incidents of rape are rising. But the population is also rising. It is not the same as it was during the chief ministership of Bidhan Chandra Roy . The number of vehicles is increasing, infrastructure is improving, number of shopping malls is increasing. Our boys and girls are becoming modern. This is the sign of change, won’t you welcome it?” she said. Read more
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NEW DELHI: Nearly one in every six urban Indian residents lives in a slum, newly released Census data shows. The new numbers are significantly lower than the slum growth that had been projected for India.
Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
NAGAPATTINAM: The forest department of Nagapattinam district carried out annual wildlife census operation at Point Calimere (Kodiakarai) wildlife sanctuary taking the help of students,researchers and volunteers.
The two-day census, undertaken by 21 teams, commenced on Saturday. Read more
Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
New Delhi : Speaking at the India Today Best Cities Awards, Union Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath said that the lack of good infrastructure in Indian cities can only be fixed by a dedicated municipal staff. "Whenever I go to my own district for instance, I see a new municipal officer doesn't understand the problems of the area and cannot even prepare a proper project report. We have to train dedicated staff of municipal officers who will stay in that department and take development forward."
Kamal Nath at the India Today Best Cities Awards.
Source : indiatoday.intoday.in
MUMBAI: Even as the municipal corporation celebrates the gradually improving sex ratio at birth in the city over the last one year, a closer analysis of the demographic transition over a longer period reveals a reason to worry.
Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
PUNE: Poachers have devised an ingenious way of killing tigers by electrocuting the big cats in the remote and wild areas of Maharashtra.
Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Cities across the world, due to their rapid population growth and large-scale developmental and economic investments, are at high risk from the impacts of climate change. According to the United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects 2011 report, the population living in urban areas is projected to increase from 3.6 billion currently to 6.3 billion by 2050. Cities need to start thinking about addressing these impacts which will become more evident in the coming times given their high vulnerability.
Cities across the world are at high risk from the impacts of climate change.
Indian cities are facing multiple challenges: rapid urbanisation, inadequate urban services and infrastructure, migration, ecological degradation etc. which makes them all the more vulnerable in an uncertain and changing climate regime. In India, 53 cities have populations of more than one million people. By the 2060s, it is expected that there will be approximately 500 million additional people in an estimated 7,000- 12,000 urban settlements in India. Read more
Source : ibnlive.in.com
Bangalore: If you needed more confirmation that the city is getting urbanised at the cost of its ecology, you only need to consider this latest discovery of bird lovers : Mynahs that were commonly found in Bengaluru have begun disappearing from the heart of the city over the last few months.
The flight of the mynahs has come as yet another blow to nature lovers lamenting the dwindling population of sparrows in many central parts of Bengaluru. Read more
Source : www.deccanchronicle.com
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