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Population Growth Jaipur

Jaipur, the largest city in Rajasthan, had a population of 3 million in 2011, with significant growth rates observed over the decades, particularly a peak of 68.22% in 1951 due to migration. The city's municipal boundaries have expanded over time, with notable increases in residential and industrial areas between 2002 and 2018. The annual growth rate stands at 3.4%, ranking Jaipur 7th in India for population growth.

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Population Growth Jaipur

Jaipur, the largest city in Rajasthan, had a population of 3 million in 2011, with significant growth rates observed over the decades, particularly a peak of 68.22% in 1951 due to migration. The city's municipal boundaries have expanded over time, with notable increases in residential and industrial areas between 2002 and 2018. The annual growth rate stands at 3.4%, ranking Jaipur 7th in India for population growth.

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158 Avinash Kumar Singh

Population Growth
Jaipur is the largest city of Rajasthan with a relatively higher level of per capita income.
The city comprises of an area of 467.57 km2 with a total population of 3 million in 2011.
This accounts 1.6 million males and 1.4 million females. The census report (1881) gives as
about 1, 50,000 population of Jaipur city and the next reports of 1891, 1901 and 1911 show
that the decadal growth rate was 10 per cent. The boundary of Jaipur Municipal Corporation
has been extended with different phases of time as it was 6 km2 in 1931, 65km2 in 1941,
104 km2 in 1961, and 258.57km2 in 1971.
After that area of Jaipur city had decreased from 258.57 km2 to 210.09km2 in 1981
and again increased from 210.09km2 to 218.26 km2 in 1991. Thereafter, as area increased
by the demarcation of city boundary. Her maximum decadal growth was noticed in 1951
with 68.22 per cent because of migration from Pakistan to India after partition. In 1961,
city growth reduced almost half of the last decade while again started growing at the rate
of 55.17 per cent from 1971 to 1991. The annual growth rate ofthe pink city is 3.4 per cent
and it ranks 7th in India.

Population Growth of Jaipur City


9 70
65.5 1951 -2011
8
60
Population (in million)

7
50

Growth Rate
6
5 40
38.6
4 30
31.2
3
20
2
10
1
0 0
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Years
Source: Census of India, 2011 Fig. 1.8

Conclusion
The Jaipur City is gradually expanding its municipal boundary to meet the requirement of
a newly added resident of increasing population. Residential area outskirt to walled city
has increased 11.17 per cent in 2018. In 2018, many colonies have emerged as Geetanjali,
Sunder Nagar, and Narayan Vihar, Kalyanpura, Sidhartha Nagar in the south-west part of
the city. The industrial area has 12.66 km2 increased between 2002 and 2018, which is
2.18 per cent of the total land. New industrial has emerged in the city like Harmada

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