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Under the recommendation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission, the CCA classification was abolished in 2008. The earlier HRA classification of cities was changed from A-1 to X; A, B-1, and B-2 to Y; and C and unclassified cities to Z. [2] [3] [4] X, Y, and Z are more commonly known as Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities, respectively.
This is a list of metropolitan areas by population in India.As per the Constitution of India, a metropolitan area is defined as an area having a population of 10 lakh or more, comprised in one or more districts, and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Governor by a public notification to be a Metropolitan area.
In the decade of 1991–2001, migration to major cities caused rapid increase in urban population. [7] [8] The number of Indians living in urban areas has grown by 31.2% between 1991 and 2001. [9] Yet, in 2001, over 70% lived in rural areas.
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For example, city status in the United Kingdom historically arose from its place in the ecclesiastic hierarchy. (In modern times, city status is awarded for secular reasons but without reference to size.) Thus, some cathedral cities in England (e.g., Ely, Cambridgeshire) have a much smaller populations than some towns (e.g., Luton). In some ...
To implement these recommendations, the RBI in Oct 1998, initiated the second phase of financial sector reforms by raising the banks' capital adequacy ratio by 1% and tightening the prudential norms for provisioning and asset classification in a phased manner on the lines of the Narasimham Committee-II report. [27] The RBI targeted to bring the ...
An area with a population density of up to 400 per square kilometer, Villages with clear surveyed boundaries but no municipal board, A minimum of 75% of male working population involved in agriculture and allied activities. [11] RBI defines rural areas as those areas with a population of less than 49,000 (tier -3 to tier-6 cities). [11]
Sir C. D. Deshmukh was the first Indian to serve as the governor. Sir Benegal Rama Rau was the longest serving governor. I. G. Patel, the fourteenth governor Manmohan Singh, the fifteenth governor, later served as the thirteenth prime minister of India Raghuram Rajan, the twenty-third governor Shaktikanta Das, the twenty-fifth governor Sanjay Malhotra, the twenty-sixth and the incumbent governor