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No toilets for 19% population of Punjab: Survey

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 by Punjabi Articles


Nearly 19.5 per cent of the total population has no access to close-toilets in Punjab. This was revealed in a survey conducted by the Census Department. For answering nature's call, this underprivileged section of the society has to go in the open.

Data available with the Census Department states that Ludhiana district is on top where maximum percentage of population has an access to close-toilets. An official in the Census department disclosed that 94 per cent of the population in Ludhiana district use close-toilets to answer nature's call while just 6 per cent were forced to go in the open. The worst condition is in Gurdaspur district where 39 per cent of the population continue to go in the open.

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Change in social mindset can raise sex ratio

Posted on Tuesday, 6 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles

The PNDT Act alone not enough to curb the menace of female foeticide

A child is a gift from god. However, in India the concept seems to be little different wherein a couple is really considered to be blessed with a child if it is male, however, in case of a female child the precious gift sometime becomes a “curse”.

“Everybody blesses a newly married couple saying ‘god bless you with a son soon but no one ever says as to god bless you with a daughter like Kalpana Chawla, Indira Gandhi, Jhansi ki Rani or Kiran Bedi. I do not know, how long would it take for the people to change their mindset,” said a local resident Rajesh.

The reasons include dowry, poor economic background, deep-rooted social mindset and others. Unfortunately, of late the technology worked against the girl even before the birth in the form of female foeticide.

The Supreme Court, taking a serious view of the sex-selective discriminatory practices, directed the Centre to implement the PC and PNDT Act in all its aspects.

Now, the question arises as to what can help improve sex ratio – the PNDT Act alone or changing of mindset towards a girl child, facilities, social awareness, education, an individual’s initiative the way film actress Sushmita Sen has taken or others.

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Seven districts with dismal female literacy rate under Sakshar Mission

Posted on Friday, 23 September 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Seven districts in the state with female literacy rate less than 50 per cent, have been selected under the Government of India’s Sakshar Bharat Mission:2012.


The districts are Faridkot, Mansa, Sangrur, Barnala, Bathinda, Ferozepur and Muktsar. As per the 2001 census, the female literacy rate in Mansa is 36.49 per cent (lowest), Faridkot 48.48 per cent, Muktsar 43.63 per cent, Ferozepur 44.98 per cent, Sangrur 45.64 per cent and Bathinda 46.79 per cent.
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Punjab population touches 2.77 crores

Posted on Monday, 29 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


The population of Punjab has been recorded as 27,704,236 (2.77 crores) out of which 17,316,800 (17.31 crores) are rural and 10,387,436 (10.38 crores) are urban according to Provisional Population Totals of Census 2011. As such, 62.51% of the population in the State is residing in rural areas and 37.49% in urban areas.

Releasing district level provisional totals on rural-urban distribution of population of Punjab for Census 2011, Mrs. Seema Jain, , Director Census Operations, Punjab said that the share of urban population has increased to 37.49 per cent in 2011 as compared to 33.92 per cent in 2001. 

During 2001-2011, urban population in the State has recorded a growth rate of 25.72 per cent which is more than three times that of the rural growth rate of 7.58%. Of all the districts in the State, Ludhiana (59.14%), SAS Nagar(55.17%), Amritsar (53.64%) and Jalandhar (53.18%) are predominantly urban having more than one-half of their population living in urban areas. Every fifth (19.86%) urban dweller in Punjab is residing in Ludhiana district. SAS Nagar (55.17) is the second most urbanized district in the State.

Read More:http://punjabnewsline.com/content/punjab-population-touches-277-crores/33062

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OVER 60% PUNJAB POPULATION RESIDES IN RURAL AREAS

Posted on Saturday, 27 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Over 60 per cent of the population in Punjab resides in rural areas although the share of urban population has gone up in the last one decade, according to official data.

"Of the 27,704,236 people living in Punjab, 17,316,800 (62.7 per cent) live in rural area whereas 10,387,436 (37.49) are in urban places," Census Operations Director Seema Jain said. She said the share of urban population has increased to 37.49 per cent in 2011 as compared to 33.92 per cent in 2001. The literacy rate in the state also increased from 69.65 per cent in 2001 to 76.68 per cent in 2011, Jain said.
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Numbers in villages shrink- Cities growing 4 times faster than rural areas: Census report

by Punjabi Articles


The population in Punjab cities is growing almost four times faster than that in the villages.The population has touched 27,704,236 (2.77 crore) of which 17,316,800 (62.51 per cent) live in the rural areas and 10,387,436 (37.49 per cent) in urban areas, according to the census data released officially here today.

Alarmingly, the population in urban areas has grown by 25.72 per cent as compared to an increase of only 7.58 per cent in rural areas over the last decade.This indicates rapid migration from villages to urban areas. This is likely to have an impact on the voting pattern in urban areas.
Director, Census Operations, Seema Jain, said the share of urban population had increased to 37.49 per cent in 2011 as compared to 33.92 per cent in 2001. Ludhiana district recorded the highest growth at 59.14 percent, followed by SAS Nagar (Mohali) at 55.17 per cent, Amritsar 53.64 per cent and Jalandhar 53.18 per cent.

Every fifth urban dweller in Punjab is living in Ludhiana district.

Mohali’s growth is linked to its proximity to the state capital of Chandigarh and availability of better civic amenities. Jalandhar and Amritsar have apparently grown on account of migration from small towns and villages. Tarn Taran, that has 12.63 per cent of the state’s population, is the least urbanised district.

Punjab literacy rate has touched 76.68 pe rcent as compared to 69.65 per cent in 2001. Rural literacy for males has gone up from 71.05 per cent in 2001 to 77.92 per cent in 2011, an increase of 6.87 per cent, and the literacy rate for females has increased from 57.72 per cent in 2001 to 66.47 in 2011.
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