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Delhi is a vast city and a union territory, and is home to a population of more than 16 million people. It is a microcosm of India and its residents belong to varied ethnic, religious and linguistic groups. As the second-largest city, and the capital of the nation, its 11 revenue or administrative districts comprise multiple neighbourhoods. The ...
There are eleven administrative or revenue districts in Delhi, India, all of which fall under the Delhi division. [1] [2] Each of these district is headed by a District Magistrate (DM) also called Deputy Commissioner (DC), [3] [4] [5] who reports to the Divisional Commissioner who is ex-officio Director of Civil Defence, Inspector General of Stamps and Registration and Additional Chief ...
District Type* Population 2011 Male Female Population below 5 yrs Literacy rate Delhi: Delhi Municipal Corporation - M Corp 11,007,835 5,871,362 5,136,473 1,209,275 87.60 New Delhi Municipal Council - M Cl 249,998 136,438 113,560 20,857 90.93 Kirari Suleman Nagar: North West Delhi: CT 282,598 152,135 130,463 40,720 79.22 Sultan Pur Majra: North ...
The first, the house-listing phase, began on 1 April 2010 and involved collection of data about all the buildings and census houses. [16] Information for the National Population Register was also collected in the first phase. The second, the population enumeration phase, was conducted from 9 – 28 February 2011 all over the country.
The district has a population density of 19,625 inhabitants per square kilometre (50,830/sq mi) . [3] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 18.91%. [ 3 ] West Delhi has a sex ratio of 876 females for every 1000 males, [ 3 ] and a literacy rate of 87.12%. 2,536,823 (99.75%) of the population lives in urban areas.
The district has a population density of 27,132 inhabitants per square kilometre (70,270/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 16.68%. East Delhi has a sex ratio of 884 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 88.75%. The Scheduled Castes make up of 16.5% (281,482) of total district population. [5]
North Delhi: 319,559 8 Mundka: North West Delhi: 282,984 9 Kirari: North West Delhi: 273,856 10 Sultan Pur Majra (SC) North West Delhi: 175,622 11 Nangloi Jat: West Delhi: 266,339 12 Mangol Puri (SC) North West Delhi: 190,728 13 Rohini: North Delhi: 183,092 14 Shalimar Bagh: North West Delhi: Chandni Chowk: 189,373 15 Shakur Basti: North Delhi ...
Its district headquarters is New Delhi. It is named after New Delhi, the capital of India, located within its borders, and is in its entirety a part of the Delhi megacity. The district was founded in 1997, [3] [4] but its borders significantly changed during the redrawing of the Delhi districts in 2012. [5]