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Highlight of 15th Census of India 2011 – Important Questions For IBPS, SBI, IDBI, ICICI Banking Exams

Hey fellas…!!! Probationary Officers examinations have been a inconvenient and as source of difficulty these days with the huge syllabus and vast area of coverage of topics and concepts.Well being an experinced aspirant and sucessful ranker in IBPOs we are determined to brief and guide serious followers and readers of this blog like you. Here we start while i would like to insist and commend you all that go through the whole post for conceptual knowledge of the census 2011 and its highlights.

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Census2011 has been an mostly found concept and questions based on census 2011 in banking exams about the Census 2011. In this article in which we are covering the main highlights of the Census. We hope that it will help gain some marks in the examination. Do you know what the best way of studying is? It’s 2011g! Yes, they say that if you write something, then it will reach your brain and store permanently. We stress and suggest aspiranst to go through the study material in conceptual way rather than memeorisisng the whoel concept some thing like by heart. We hope that this trick will help you in memorizing the important terms. Not only in the general awareness, but also in the remaining things also you can make use of this technique to improve your memory and gain a few extra marks than before. As we do always say, practice is the only ladder you have to climb up to reach your target. Practice hard in a smarter way. Here we are presenting you Highlights of Census 2011, as in SBI PO Exam some questions are asked recently from Census 2011 in 14 & 15 June in both shifts. So this will be helpful for those candidates who are going to appear in coming week for SBI PO Exam. The provisional figures of India’s largest Census 2011 were released in New Delhi on 31st March 2011 by Union Home Secretary GK Pillai and RGI C Chandramouli. The 15th Census of India and the seventh Census of Independent India-2011 was started on 1st April 2010 with President Pratibha Patil being the first citizen to be enumerated, followed by Vice President Hamid Ansari.


The estimated cost of the Census was 22 Billion Rupees. The motto of census 2011 was ‘Our Census, Our future’.

Census 2011 is the 15 Census of India since 1872. Census 2011 was held in two phases:

  1. Houselisting & Housing Census : (April to September 2010)
  2. ii. Population Enumeration (9 th to 28 February 2011)

The population of the country as per the provisional figures of Census 2011 is 1210.19 million of which 623.7 million (51.54%) are males and 586.46 million (48.46%) are females.

The major highlights of the Census 2011 (Provisional figures) are as under:

  1. The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011.
  2. Uttar Pradesh (199.5 million) is the most populous State in the country followed by Maharashtra with 112 million.

The percentage decadal growth rates of the six most populous States have declined during 2001-2011 compared to 1991-2001:

 

Note:

  • This is the highest sex ratio recorded since Census 1971 and a shade lower than 1961. Increase in sex ratio is observed in 29 States/UTs.
  • Literacy rate has gone up from 64.83 per cent in 2001 to 74.04 per cent in 2011 showing an increase of 9.21 percentage points.
  • Uttar Pradesh (199.5 million) is the most populous State in the country – population is more than the population of Brazil.

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