{"id":29259,"date":"2018-10-24T17:46:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29259"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:16:20","slug":"census-2021-may-have-2231-new-census-towns-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/census-2021-may-have-2231-new-census-towns-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Census 2021 may have 2,231 new census towns: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/census-2021-likely-to-have-2231-new-census-towns\/article23944620.ece\">Census 2021 may have 2,231 new census towns: study<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Census; urbanization<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to a recent study by Centre for Policy Research (CPR), 2231 villages are likely to be declared census towns for the Census 2021<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Census towns are settlements with the following characteristics:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>A minimum population of 5000, b. Atleast 75% of male main workers engaged in non-agricultural activities, c. A density of population of atleast 400 persons\/\u00a0sq.km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>These settlements are governed like villages by rural panchayats, unlike statutory towns which are governed by urban local bodies.<\/li>\n<li>At present there are 4000 census towns.<\/li>\n<li>There was 1362 census town in 2001. In 2011, there were additional 2,600 census towns.<\/li>\n<li>In 2016, the Union Ministry of Urban Development had recommended convert all identified census towns into statutory ULBs in order to promote planned urban development.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census 2021 may have 2,231 new census towns: study Census; urbanization News: According to a recent study by Centre for Policy Research (CPR), 2231 villages are likely to be declared census towns for the Census 2021 Important Facts: Census towns are settlements with the following characteristics: A minimum population of 5000, b. Atleast 75% of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/census-2021-may-have-2231-new-census-towns-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Census 2021 may have 2,231 new census towns: study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704634533},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}