Saturday, July 10, 2010

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Urban Growth

In India out of the total population of 1027 million as on 1st March, 2001, about 742 million live in rural areas and 285 million in urban areas. The net addition of population in rural areas during 1991-2001 has been to the tune of 113 million while in urban areas it is 6 million. The percentage decadal growth of population in rural and urban areas during the decade is 17.9 and 31.2 percent respectively.

The percentage of urban population to the total population of the country stands at 27.8. The percentage of urban population to total population in the 1991 Census (including interpolated population of Jammu & Kashmir where Census could not be conducted in 1991) was 25.7 percent. Thus, there has been an increase on 2.1 percentage points in the proportion of urban population in the country during 1991 – 2001.

Sl. No.

India/State/Union territory*

T/R/U

Population

Percent urban population




Persons

Males

Females


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

INDIA

T

1,027.015,247

531,277,078

495,738,169

27.8


R

741,660,293

381,141,184

360,519,109



U

285,354,954

150,135,894

135,219,060


Source: The Provisional Population Totals for India and sates for the census of India – 2001.


Level of Urbanisation
Among all the States and Union territories, the National Capital Territory of Delhi is most urbanized with 93 percent urban population followed by Union territory of Chandigarh (89.8 percent) and Pondicherry (66.6 percent).

Among the major States, Tamil Nadu is the most urbanized state with 43.9 percent of the population living in urban areas followed by Maharashtra (42.4 percent) and Gujarat (37.4 percent). The proportion of urban population is the lowest in Himachal Pradesh with 9.8% followed by Bihar with 10.5 percent, Assam (12.7 percent) and Orissa (14.9 percent).

In terms of absolute number of persons living in urban areas, Maharashtra leads with 41 million persons which is 14 percent of the total population of the country. Uttar Pradesh accounts for about 35 million followed by Tamil Nadu 27 million.

Urban Morphology
The number of towns and cities have increased to 4378, as detailed below:

Urban Agglomerations/Towns by Class/Category : Census of India 2001

Class

Population Size

No.of UAs/Towns

Class I

1,00,000 and above

393

Class II

50,000 - 99,999

401

Class III

20,000 - 49,999

1,151

Class IV

10,000 - 19,999

1,344

Class V

5,000 - 9,999

888

Class VI

Less than 5,000

191

Unclassified

10*

All classes

4378

Note : Data is provisional

* Population Census 2001 could not be held in these towns/cities of Gujarat State on account of national calamity. Source: Office of the Registrar General of India. (Population totals for India & States for the census of India – 2001).

The number of metropolitan cities having million plus population has increased to 35 as per 2001 census. The names of such cities are as follows:

Cities having million (+) Population in 2001

Rank

Urban Agglomeration/City

Population (Lakhs)

1

Greater Mumbai

163.7

2

Kolkata

132.2

3

Delhi

127.9

4

Chennai

64.2

5

Bangalore

56.9

6

Hyderabad

55.3

7

Ahmedabad

45.2

8

Pune

37.5

9

Surat

28.1

10

Kanpur

26.9

11

Jaipur

23.2

12

Lucknow

22.7

13

Nagpur

21.2

14

Patna

17.1

15

Indore

16.4

16

Vadodara

14.9

17

Bhopal

14.5

18

Coimbatore

14.5

19

Ludhiana

14.0

20

Kochi

13.5

21

Visakhapatnam

13.3

22

Agra

13.2

23

Varanasi

12.1

24

Madurai

11.9

25

Meerut

11.7

26

Nashik

11.5

27

Jabalpur

11.2

28

Jamshedpur

11.0

29

Asansol

10.9

30

Dhanbad

10.6

31

Faridabad

10.5

32

Allahabad

10.5

33

Amritsar

10.1

34

Vijaywada

10.1

35

Rajkot

10.0


Total

1078.8

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