GENERAL
Area 240928 sq. kms
Population
166052559 (Males:8.7 crores Females:7.8
crores)
Male-Female Ratio: 898
Rural Population: 13.15 crore
Urban Population : 03.45 crores
Density: 689 persons per sq. kms
Literacy 57.36 % Males:70.23% Females:42.98 %
Adminsitartive Divisions 17
Districts 70
Towns 631
Panchayats 8814
Municipal Corporations 11
Nagar Palikas 226
Tehsils 298
Gram Sabhas 51826
Villages
97134
Development Blocks 809
Lok Sabha members 80
Rajya Sabha members 31
Vidhan Sabha members 404
Vidhan Parishad members 100
Post offices 17588
Airports 04
Telephone Exchanges 2885
Habitated Households 21407433
Total workers 29.7%
Farmers 72.20%
Total Income 164630 crore Indian Rupees
Per capita income Rupees 9765
Forest Cover 1725 thousand hectares
Cultivated land 17585 thousand hectares
Irrigated area 11634 thousand hectares
Wildlife Sanctuaries 11
Bird Sabctuaries 12
National Parks 01
Metalled Roads 104 thousand kms
Registered Vehicles 4664 thousand
Govt buses 6293 thousand
TV Centres 03
Radio Stations 13
Primary Schools 866361
Higher secondary schools 8459
Degree Colleges 758
Universities 23
Polytechnic Institutes 79
Industrial Training Institutes 179
Engineering Colleges 8
Private Engineering Colleges 22
Medical Colleges 9
Agriculture Universities 3
Registered Factories 427409
Total Production Rs 33926 crore
Total investment Rs 60763.83 crore
Power generation installed capacity 4425 Megawatts
Power genration 24834 million units
Per capita power consumption 197 units
Electrified Villages 53845
Birth Rate (per 1,000 population) 33.1%
Death Rate (per 1,000 population) 10.5%
Allopathic hospitals/dispensaries 4236
Ayurvedic/Unani hospitals 2210
Homeopathic hospitals/dispensaries 1342
Food production 40440 thousand metric ton
Wheat Production 26348 thousand metric ton
Rice production 13247 thousand metric ton
Sugarcane production 15419 thousand metric ton
Cement Production 656600 metric ton
Cotton cloth production 368 thousand meter
PLAN
· Utilisation:
· 2002-03 Rs 6597 crore against Rs 7250 crore
· 2003-04 Rs 6331 crore against Rs 7728 crore
· 2004-05 Rs 8000 crore against Rs 9661 crore (estimated)
COLLECTIONS
Trade Tax Rs 9000 crore
Excise Rs 2473 crore
Stamps/
Registry Rs 0600 crore
WATER
· National per capita water consumption 40 litre per day ( p 125, chapter 25 Rural Dev annual report 2002-2003)
· Uttar Pradesh had 17 developmental blocks in the over-milked category of water resources in 1991. The number has risen to 22 in 2001. Over-milking of ground water resources has led to fall in water table from five to 10 meters in the last 10-15 years. The fall has been recorded at 20-25 meters in some places (Sandesh Uttar Pradesh Aug 2003)
· The main source of water in India are the Himalayan rivers and rainwater. The country has a water availability of 4000 billion sq. meters. According to an estimate around 700 billion sq meter rainwater water is evaporated and only 150 billion sq meter water reaches the underground water resource and remaining 1150 billion sq meter rainwater reaches the sea through the rivers. (Sandesh Uttar Pradesh Aug 2003 p 25)
· Average water flow of Indian rivers is 1869 billion sq. meters. There is per capita water availability of 1820 sq. meter per year. (Water resource ministry report 2002-03 Chapter 3 page 11)
· The cut off point for financial activities and health being adversely affected is at per capita water availability of 1000 sq meter per year. Country’s 25 % land and 21% falls under this category. Of this 5.5% land and 7.6% population is facing complete deficiency ie less than 500 sq. meter per capita availability of water per year.
· Due to population explosion per capita availability of water will come down to only 1341 sq. meter.
· On a ten year average scale the 70 most important water reservoirs could store only 76% of their capacity in 2001-02 and only 68% in 2002-03
· Uttar Pradesh has the biggest underground water resource utilization for irrigation of 16799 thousand hectares against India’s 64050 thousand hectares.
· Earth’s three fourth component is water but rivers, underground water, snow-cover all put together provide on 2.5% water. (page 48)
· Uttar Pradesh has a total of 40 sensitive regions in its 58 districts out of which 19 are categorized as excessively-milked regions and 21 dark regions in comprasion to 463 such regions in the country. (page 90)
· Uttar Pradesh has the biggest annual availability of underground water of 82505.33 million cubic meters of which 44646.84 mcm is drawn for different uses. It still has 37858.50 mcm of water resources left for future irrigational use.
· The development of underground water resources is 104.26mcm in Rajasthan followed by 54.11 mcm in U.P., 44.28 mcm in Andhara and 41.85 mcm in Kerala.
LIQUOR
2004- Country made liquor 17 crore litres
IMFL 5 crore bottles
Beer 2 crore bottles
FISH
· National sea fish production in 2001 in India 23.3 lakh tons
URBAN POPULATION
· Between 1991-2001 the urban population grew by 68 million. ( Introduction Urban Dev annual report 2001-2002)
· Urban population contributes 60% of the GDP and 90% in the government revenue
· One third urban population lives below the poverty line
· By 2025 more than 50 percent population of the country will reside in urban areas.
· In terms of absolute number of persons living in urban areas, Maharashtra leads with 41 million persons which is 14 percent of the total population of the country. Uttar Pradesh accounts for about 35 million followed by Tamil Nadu 27 million.
|
Class |
Population Size |
No.of UAs/Towns |
|
Class I |
1,00,000 and above |
393 |
|
Class II |
50,000 - 99,999 |
401 |
|
Class III |
20,000 - 49,999 |
1,151 |
|
Class IV |
10,000 - 19,999 |
1,344 |
|
Class V |
5,000 - 9,999 |
888 |
|
Class VI |
Less than 5,000 |
191 |
|
Unclassified |
|
10* |
|
All classes |
|
4378 |
STEEL
· India 8th largest producer of steel in the world, produced 31.63 million tons in 2001-2002 ( p 3, Minsitry of steel report 2002-2003)
· India largest producer of sponge iron in the world producing 5.66 million tons in 2001-02
· India exports 3.3 million tons of iron and steel steel in 2001-02
EDUCATION
· Higher secondary level pass percentage increased from 83 to 86.4% in 2002 (Highlights, Human Ministry annual report 2002-03)
· Secondary level pass percentage increased from 79 to 85% in the same period.
· Literacy rate increased from 52.21% in 1991 to 65.38% in 2001 (p 13, Human ministry annual report 2002-03
· School Chalo abhiyan provides for admissions of 40 lakh kids in schools by December 2003 (Sandesh Uttar Pradesh August 2003)
· An estimate says that the state has 40 lakh kids in the age-group of 6-14 who do not attend school.
· Lucknow University has 40% vacant posts of teachers. 23 degree colleges are teaching 66,000 students just with 700 odd teachers.
ROADS
· Roads: the state has 4,800 kms of National highways. It has 3,500 kms of damaged roads. The state will be spending Rs 2,900 crores provided by the world bank to further improve road conditions in U.P. (Sandesh Uttar Pradesh Aug 2003 p 21)
· Target is to provide all-weather roads to all villages having a population of 1,000 by 2003
COMMUNICATION
· There were 6.43 million cellular phone users in the country on March 31, 2002. The number increased to 10.48 million by December 31, 2002. (Communication ministry annual report 2002-03 pg 11)
· BSNL is the biggest telecommunication network in the country. It has 3,56,92,147 (Direct Exchange Line) users which is 88.05% of the market share.
· BSNL has covered 5.04 lakh villages out of the total 6.07 lakh villages through rural public telephone.
· Average telephone faults were found to be 10.3 per 100 telephones in December 2002.
· In 1991-92 the number of telegrams across the country was 651 lakhs. In 2001-02 the number came down to 283 lakhs.
· There were 2,41,670 Internet users in 2001-02 and 3,402 internet shacks.