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Questions Related to population and human resource development

Indian postal system dates back to _______.

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  1. 1857

  2. 1837

  3. 1892

  4. 1906

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 It was Lord William Bentinck's 1837 act which had introduced Post offices in India. It created the position Director General of post for the whole country.

Indian postal system is the _______ in the world.

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  1. largest

  2. smallest

  3. 4th

  4. 7th

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

With 1,55,015 post offices, India Post has the most widely distributed and the largest postal network in the world. The country has been divided into 23 postal circles, each circle headed by a Chief Postmaster General.

According to demographic transition theory there are _______stages of population growth.

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  1. three

  2. two

  3. four

  4. five

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The theory of demographic transition or of population stages or of population cycle has many versions. It has been propounded by W.S. Thomson and F.W. Notestein. They explain the theory in three stages of population growth.

1921 is also called great divide in Indian history, the decade 1911-21 recorded decade population growth of ______.

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  1. 1.03%

  2. 2.01%

  3. -0.31%

  4. 0.38%

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The year 1921 is called "The Great Divide" in India because the time India has "Low rate of mortality and High rate birth". Because of famine, there was a serious condition. 1911 to 1921 period decreasing the population due to incurable diseases. The census year 1911- 1921 registered a negative growth rate of-0.31 per cent which happened only once throughout the demographic history of India.

Presently Indian is passing through which stage of Malthus demographics transition?

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  1. $1st$

  2. $2nd$

  3. last

  4. $3rd$

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Correct Option: B

Overall literacy ratio as per $2001$ Census is _________.

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  1. $65.38\%$

  2. $68\%$

  3. $62\%$

  4. $60\%$

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Correct Option: C

_____  state has sex ratio favourable to women.

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  1. Kerala

  2. West Bengal

  3. Punjab

  4. UP

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The sex ratio in the country has always remained unfavourable to females. Among Indian states, Kerala has the highest sex ratio of 1084 females to 1000 males.

Population density as per 2001 census is ________.

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  1. 124

  2. 154

  3. 224

  4. 324

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

It is defined as the number of persons per square kilometer. The population density of India in 2001 was 324 persons per square kilometre, which means that now 57 more people live in a square kilometer area in the country than the number that lived a decade ago.

Death rate was 27.4 in 1951, it declined to ________ in 2010.

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  1. 6.2

  2. 7.8

  3. 7.5

  4. 7.1

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Death rate was 27.4 in 1951, it declined to 7.5  in 2010.

Birth rate was 39.9 in 1951, it fell to _________ in 2010.

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  1. 20.2

  2. 22.1

  3. 15.4

  4. 12.5

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Birth rate was 39.9 in 1951, it fell to 22.1 in 2010.