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Census of India 1951 — Travancore-Cochin: Report

1953

The success of the census enumeration goes entirely to the energy and enthusiasm of the District Collectors the Tahsildars Municipal Commissioners and the Divisional Forest Officers. [...] 8. The award of the 1951 Census Medals in the name of the President of the Indian Republic to those census workers who showed outstaning zeal and quality in their work was another new feature; this was in addition to the recogntion of meritorious census work by the State Government by way of appropriate entries in the Service Books of the officers concerned. [...] Two essential features of the distribution of the rainfall are its prgressive increase from the south to the north and a similar increase from stations on the coast to stations at the foot of the Ghats. [...] **As the steady growth of population at a high rate is the most urgent aspect of the population problem in the state and as fertility enquiries were attempted at the 1931 and 1941 censuses permission of the state government was obtained to use this question for a study of the maternity pattern in the state. [...] The table shows that birth rates have generally been on the increase; the death rates 'The mean population of a decade is the average of the populations at the beginning and end of the decade.
government politics public policy
Pages
87
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Prefatory Note
i-vi U Sivaraman Nair view
Introduction
1-7 unknown view
Chapter I.General Population
8-28 unknown view
Chapter II.Rural Population
29-33 unknown view
Chapter III.Urban Population
34-42 unknown view
Chapter IV.Agricultural Classes
43-51 unknown view
Chapter V.Non-Agricultural Classes
52-63 unknown view
Chapter VI.Families Sexes And Principal Age-Groups
64-81 unknown view