Here We Stand after Independence Meenu Dhillon
The British ruled India for 190 years (1757-1947). India finally got independence on 15 August 1947and became republic on 26 th January,1950. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. India is a republic consisting of 28 states and seven union territories with a parliamentary system of democracy. India is home to about 17% of the total world population while is has only 2.4% of the world area. Seven low-income states – Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh – are home to more than half of India’s population. In 1947 we were36 crores now are 1,166,079,217 (1.17 billion) We had controlled our Birth Rate it was in 1947 40 per thousand now is 22.22 births per 1000 population Death Rate also decreased it was 27 and now6.4 deaths per 1000 populationAverage Life Expectancy then was 37.2 years , now 69.89 years. In 19506 children born per woman but now 2.72 children born per woman. There are 8,56,111 Doctors and 8,65,135 Nurses as compared to 61800 Doctors and 18504 Nurses in 1951.India has made huge progress in terms of increasing education in 1947 only 12% now are 61% but Mal 73.4% ,Female 47.8% .With the growth of industrialized urban centres, there has been a major shift of surplus population from rural to urban areas. Due to social and economic pressures, people from backward villages started to move towards urbanized centres in search of job, where newly established industries continuously offer job opportunities to those migrating to cities. This leads to further increase in competition for jobs and employment and also higher density of population. Population living in Urban Areas in 1947was17.29% and now 29% . now 106 million, nearly 10% of
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