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India's Population Census 2001 is the first in this millennium, and sixth after independence and fourteenth in the series of decennial census starting from 1872. The provisional census results of 2001 give information on the growth rate of population, changes in the sex ratio particularly the child sex ratio, literacy, urbanization, occupational structure of workers and slum demography. India's population is tripled during the past 50 years (1951-2001) from 361 ...
One of the disturbing features of 2001 population census results is the declining in Juvenile Sex ratio, from 945 girls per 1000 boys in 1991 to 927 in 2001 (18 point decline) in India and from 975 to 964 (11 point decline) in A.P. This decline has been very rapid in the four economically developed states (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat). Prof. Asish Bose called these States as DEMARU States (D for daughters, E for elimination or extinction, Maru ...