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By: ARUN C. MEHTA Fellow NIEPA, New Delhi – 11 00 16
(INDIA) The Present Paper and Data Sources The demographic and educational
development in north-eastern states has been briefly analyzed below. While analyzing educational development in
North-eastern states, data has been obtained from the Selected Educational
Statistics: 1997-98 of the MHRD, Sixth All-India Educational Survey:
1993-94 of the NCERT and household sample survey conducted by the NSSO on
students attending schools, 52nd: Round, 1995-96. It may be noted that school is the basic unit of collection in
the MHRD data while it is the habitation from which information is collected in
the NCERT data. However in the NSSO
the information is collected on household sample basis, the respondent being
the head of the household. Demographic Scenario The total population of seven
north-eastern states, namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura in 1991 was 31.55 million which constituted about
3.73 per cent of total population of the country (846.30 million). Of the total population of the seven
north-eastern states, Assam constituted the highest chunk of population (71.05
per cent) followed by Tripura (8.74 per cent), Manipur (5.82 per cent),
Meghalaya (5.63 per cent), Nagaland (3.83 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (2.74
per cent) and Mizoram (2.19 per cent).
All these states had higher percentage increase during 1981-91 than the
all-India average of 23.85 per cent. In case of Nagaland, the percentage
increase was of the tune of 56.08 per cent.
Demographic Indicators:
North-Eastern States
*: Projected. It is estimated
that the population of north-eastern States will rise to about 37.72 million in
2001 and will further rise to 42.73 million in year 2011. The population of age-group
6-11 and 11-14 indicates that it was 4.63 and 2.04 million respectively in the
North-eastern states which is 3.97 and 3.85 per cent of the total 116.71 and
53.00 million of the respective age-group population of the country. It is estimated that both the 6-11 and
11-14 years population in north-eastern states will increase during 1991-2001
but is expected to decline during 2000-11.
Assam had the highest population and Mizoram, the least which is true
for both 6-11, and 11-14 years and is likely to remain same in the years that
follow.
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