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Like most of India, agriculture is one of the most significant sectors of the economy of Uttarakhand. Basmati rice, wheat, soybeans, groundnuts, coarse cereals, pulses, and oil seeds are the most widely grown crops. Fruits like apples, oranges, pears, peaches, litchis, and plums are widely grown and important to the large food processing industry.
The population of India as per 2011 census was 1,210,854,977. [ 31 ] India added 181.5 million to its population since 2001, slightly lower than the population of Brazil. India, with 2.4% of the world's surface area, accounts for 17.5% of its population. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with roughly 200 million people.
The following list gives the latest available gross state domestic product (GSDP) figures for all Indian States and Union Territories at current prices in millions or trillions of Indian rupees. No data is available for the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Ladakh and Lakshadweep.
Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 was the fourth exercise conducted by Government of India to identify households living below the poverty line (BPL) in India that would get various entitlements, after three censuses in 1992, 1997 and 2002. [ 33 ] The last BPL census was conducted in India in 2002 and the procedure adopted was to collect ...
According to the 2011 Census of India, Uttarakhand has a population of 10,086,292 comprising 5,137,773 males and 4,948,519 females, with 69.77% of the population living in rural areas. The state is the 20th most populous state of the country having 0.83% of the population on 1.63% of the land.
HDI is a composite index that takes into consideration health, education and income. The national average HDI for India in 2008 was 0.467. [1] By 2010, its average HDI had risen to 0.519. [2][3] UNDP, the sponsor of the Human Development Index methodology since 1990, reported India's HDI to be 0.554 for 2012, [4] an 18% increase over its 2008 HDI.
The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. [3] Set up in 1767 [ 4 ] to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company , it is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the Government of India .
Ease of doing business ranking of states and union territories of India is the annual ease of doing business (EDB) index of states and union territories of India based on the completion percentage scores of action items points of annual Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) under the Make in India initiative. [1][2][3] This ranking of states has ...