CENSUS-2011

SSC CGL, CHSL, RAILWAY, BANK, STATE PSC MCQs+

👉 Highest literacy rate→ Kerala Theory
👉 First complete census → 1881
👉 Year of demographic divide → 1921
👉 Highest population density→Bihar
👉 Viceroy during 1st census→ Lord Ripon
A census involves the complete enumeration of the population in a country,
territory or area, and should be conducted at least once every 10 years.
The Government of India decided in May 1949 to take steps to develop a
systematic collection of data on population size, its growth, etc.
While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under British
Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1881. Post 1949,
it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner
of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

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 •State with the highest population density Bihar

•State with the lowest population density Arunachal Pradesh

•Union territory with least population Lakshadweep

•State with the highest population Uttar Pradesh

•State with the lowest population Sikkim

•State with the highest sex ratio Kerala

•State with the lowest sex ratio Haryana

•State with the highest literacy rate Kerala INDOLOGU

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 Literacy Rate
Literacy Rate in India (Category) Data from Census of India 2011
Males 82.14%
Females 65.46%
Overall Literacy 74%

• State with the lowest literacy rate – Bihar

Henry Walter is known as the father of the Indian Census.
• The Census was first started under British Viceroy Lord Mayo in 1872.
• • The first synchronous census was taken under British rule on February
17, 1881, by W.C. Plowden, Census Commissioner of India.
• During that time Lord Ripon was Viceroy of India.

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 भारत म पहली जनगणना कब ई थी?
When was the first census held in India ?

[A. 1858 🔰 In 1872 AD, the first Census was

done in India under the rule of Lord
B. 1876
C. 1866 Ans :D Mayo. The First Official Census in India
was done in 1881 AD under Lord
D. 1872* Rippon. It was called the First
synchronised census.

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 कस वष को जनसां यक य वभाजन का वष कहा जाता है?
Which year is known as the year of demographic divide ?

[A. 1929 🔰 The year 1921 is regarded as the

defining year for Indian demography. It
B. 1956
C. 1921 Ans :C is also known as the year of the Great
Divide, as population growth was
D. 1974 scarce before that time. After 1921,
India's population growth has remained
consistent.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार भारत म सवा धक ामीण जनसं या वाला रा य ?
As per 2011 census, the State in India with the largest rural population ?

A. Madhya Pradesh 🔰 According to 2011 census 68.84 %

population in India lives in rural areas.
B. Maharashtra
C. Punjab Ans :D Uttar Pradesh has the largest
proportion of rural population in India.It
D. Uttar Pradesh has 155 million rural population.

Governor- Anandiben Patel

Chief Minister- Yogi Adityanath

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार न न म से कस रा य क जनसं या वृ ऋणा मक है?
. Which of the following is the state has negative population growth is
according to Census 2011?

A. Kerala
B. Nagaland* Ans :B
🔰 According to census 2011,
Nagaland's population growth rate is -
C. Goa 0.58%.
D. Tamil Nadu

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार,भारत म सवा धक नगरीय जनसं या वाला रा य है?
As per 2011 Census, the State in
India with the highest urban population ?

A. Madhya Pradesh Ans :B

🔰According to census 2011 data,
Maharashtra has the highest
B. Maharashtra population of urban population of India
C. Punjab which corresponds to 50.8 million
D. Uttar Pradesh accounts for 13.8% share to total urban
population in the country.

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 जनगणना 2011 के अनुसार कस रा य क जनसं या वृ दर सवा धक है?
According to Census 2011, which state has the highest population growth
rate?

A. Meghalaya* 🔰Acc. To census 2011 for the growth

B. Madhya Pradesh Ans :A percentage in the Indian states,
C. Bihar Meghalaya comes up as the Indian
state with optimum growth rate of
D. Chhattisgarh 27.82%. On the other hand, Nagaland
shows the least percentage of growth.

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 जनगणना 2011 के अनुसार कस रा य क जनसं या वृ दर सवा धक है?
According to Census 2011, which state has the highest population growth
rate?

A. Meghalaya*
B. Madhya Pradesh Ans :A
🔰Acc. To census 2011 for the growth
percentage in the Indian states,
C. Bihar Meghalaya comes up as the Indian
D. Chhattisgarh state with optimum growth rate of
27.82%. On the other hand, Nagaland
shows the least percentage of growth.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार कस क शा सत दे श का जनसं या घन व सवा धक है?
According to Census 2011, which union territory has the highest population
density?

A. Delhi* 🔰 Explanation: According to the

census 2011, the density of National
B. Chandigarh Ans :A Capital Territory of Delhi is 11,320
C. Lakshadweep
persons per sq km.
D. Andaman and Nicobar
Islands

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार कस क शा सत दे श का जनसं या घन व सवा धक है?
According to the census 2011, which state has the highest density?

A. West Bengal 🔰theDelhihighest

is the Union territory having
density of population
B. Delhi
C. Bihar* Ans :C followed by Chandigarh, Pondicherry,
and Daman & Diu.
D. Kerala

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 पहली जनगणना के समय गवनर जनरल कौन था ?
Who was the Governor-General when first census was held ?

A. Lord Mayo* 🔰 First Census of India was taken in

the Year 1872. It was held under The
B. Lord Dalhousie
C. Lord Ripon Ans :A Governor-General of India/Viceroy of
India Lord Mayo (1869-1872). It was
D. Lord Minto the first all India Census held in the
country with help of W.W.Hunter.

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 न न ल खत म से कसे "जनसां यक य अ ययन का जनक" कहा जाता है?
Who among the following is called as the "Father of Demographic studies" ?

A. Neil Adger 🔰KarlDemographic

Marx is called the father of
Studies.
B. Tim Cresswell
C. Aryabhatt Ans :D The motto of the 2011 Census was "
Our Census, Our future". In India, the
D. Karl Marx* first Census was held in 1872 during
the reign of Lord Mayo.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार कस रा य का बाल लगानुपात सवा धक है?
Which state has highest child sex ratio as per 2011 census ?

A. Manipur
B. West Bengal
C. Mizoram* Ans :C
D. Kerela

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 न न ल खत म से कस ारं भक सं ध म भारत म पहली बार 'जनगणना' श द का योग कया गया
था?
Which of the following earliest treaty used the term 'census' for the first time
in India?

A. Akbaranama 🔰was
Chanakya, also known as Kautilya,
the author of Arthashastra.
B. Rajtarangini
Ans :D
C. Ain-e-Akbari The Arthashastra contains the records
D. Arthashastra* of the Mauryan administration under
Chandragupta Maurya.

Karl Marx is called the father of

Demographic Studies.
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 सवा धक सा रता तशत वाले रा य का नाम बताएं?
Name the state having the highest percentage of literacy level ?

A. West Bengal 🔰 Kerala is the most literate state in

India, with the highest literacy rate of
B. Maharashtra
C. Kerela* Ans :C 94 percent.
D. None of the above

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 रा ीय जनसं या नी त कब लागू ई?
When did the National Population Policy come into effect ?

A. 2000* 🔰 The year 2000, the National

Population Policy (NPP) provided the
B. 1977
C. 2004 Ans :A framework for a holistic planned effort.
It provides a policy framework for
D. 1955 imparting free and compulsory school
education up to 14 years of age. It also
focuses on reducing infant mortality
rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार जो सरे नंबर पर है
भारत म सबसे यादा बोली जाने वाली भाषा ?
According to the census of 2011, which is the second
most spoken language in India ?

a) Hindi 🔰Hindi, with over 528 million native

speakers was the most spoken
b) Telugu
c) Bengali
Ans :C language across Indian homes,
followed by Bengali with 97 million
d) Marathi speakers, as of 2011 census data.

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 2011 जनगणना के अनुसार भारत का सबसे बड़ा जनजातीय समूह कौन सा है?
Which is the largest tribal group of India as per census
2011 ?

Ans :A 🔰India
Bhil is the largest tribal group in
a) Bhil * as per 2011 Census. They
b) Gond constitute approximately 38% of the
total scheduled tribal population of
c) Jarawa
India. Bhil tribes are found in the states
d) Santhal of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat,
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, as well as
in Tripura.

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 न न ल खत म से भारत के कस क शा सत दे श क सा रता दर सवा धक है?
Which one of the following Union Territories of India has the highest literacy
rate?

a) Lakshadweep* 🔰 Among the Union Territories,

b) Chandigarh Ans :A Lakshadweep has the highest literacy
rate of 92.3%. The male literacy rate is
c) Daman & Diu 96.1% whereas female literacy rate is
d) None of the above 88.2%.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार न न म से भारत का सवा धक सा र जला कौन सा है?
Which of the following is the most literate district in
India as per Census 2011?

a) Kottayam
Ans :B
🔰 Serchhip was the most literate
district in India as per Census 2011.
b) Serchhip*
Serchhip is a city in the Indian state of
c) Champhai
Mizoram. As per census data in 2011,
d) Ernakulam the average literacy rate in Serchhip
district was 98.23 %.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार भारत क सा रता दर थी?
As per 2011 Census, the literacy rate of India was?

a) 72.02% 🔰thatThethere
results of 2011 census reveal
has been an increase in
b) 72.80%
c) 74.04%* Ans :C literacy in the country. The literacy rate
in the country is 74.04 per cent, 82.14
d) 75.60% for males and 65.46 for females.

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार न न म से कौन सा रा य
सवा धक ामीण जनसं या है ?
According to 2011 census, which of the following states
has the largest rural population?

a) Madhya Pradesh
Ans :D
🔰 According to 2011 census 68.84 %
b) Maharashtra population in India lives in rural areas.
c) Punjab Uttar Pradesh has the largest
proportion of rural population in India.It
d) Uttar Pradesh*
has 155 million rural population.

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 भारत क 15व जनगणना कब ई थी?
When did the 15th census of India take place ?

a) 1991 🔰 The 2011 Census of India or the

15th Indian Census was conducted in
b) 2001
c) 2011* Ans :C two phases, house listing and
population enumeration. The House
d) 2021 listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and
involved the collection of information
about all buildings.

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 भारत के कस रा य का लगानुपात सबसे कम है
जनगणना 2011?
Which Indian state has the lowest sex ratio according to
Census 2011?

a) Bihar 🔰 In terms of state its Haryana that

has lowest sex ratio in India with figure
b) Haryana* Ans :B
c) Uttar Pradesh of 879 females per 1000 males.
d) Maharashtra

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 2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार भारत का सवा धक जनसं या वाला जला कौन सा है ?
According to Census of 2011 Which is the most populated district of India?

a) Thane*
🔰Thane district of Maharashtra is the
most populated district of India.
b) Dewas Ans :A Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh is
c) Patna the least populated. Kurung Kumey of
d) Jaipur Arunachal Pradesh registered highest
population growthrate of 111.01
percent.

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 जनगणना 2011 के अनुसार भारतीय कायबल का सबसे बड़ा ह सा कहां है ?
Where does the largest part of the Indian workforce
work according to Census 2011?

a) Agriculture sector* Ans :A 🔰employed

While 23.18 crore persons were
in agriculture and allied
b) Industrial sector
sectors in 2011-12, 11.50 crore were
c) Service sector employed in industries sector and
d) All of the above 12.73 in the services sector.

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 जनगणना 2011 के अनुसार कस रा य म उ तम घन व है ?

According to the census 2011, which state has the

highest density?

a) West Bengal 🔰2011

The records of population density
of India state that the density
b) Delhi Ans :C 2011 has increased from a figure of
c) Bihar* 324 to that of 382 per square kilometer.
d) Kerala Bihar is the most thickly populated
state (1106 persons/sq km.) followed
by west bengal-1028 and Kerala 860.

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 भारतीय जनगणना का जनक कसे कहा जाता है?
Who is known as the father of Indian census?

A. Lord Mayo 🔰wasThedone

first known census for citizens
in 1830 by Henry Walter in
B. Adam Smith
C. Lord Curzon Ans :D Daac (also known as Dhaka). Therefore,
Henry Walter is known as the ather of
D. Henry Walter* Indian Census.

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 2011 के भारत के जनगणना आयु कौन थे?
Who was the 2011 census commissioner of India?

A. C M Chandramauli* 🔰Registrar
C. M. Chandramauli was the
General and Census
B. David Das
C. Rana Rajput Ans :A Commissioner of India for the 2011
Indian Census.
D. Manmohan Singh

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2011 क जनगणना के अनुसार भारत के कस रा य म बाघ क सं या सबसे अ धक है? (526)
According to the census 2011, Which state has the highest population of
tigers in India? (526)
A. Uttar Pradesh
B. Madhya Pradesh *
🔰Madhya Pradesh became the Tiger
state of India with 526 Tigers.
C. Uttarakhand Ans :B Karnataka is the second position with
D. West Bengal 524 Royal Bengal Tiger population.
Uttrakhand is third with 442 Tigers
Population.

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 भारत का सरा सबसे अ धक आबाद वाला रा य कौन सा था?
Which was the second most populated state of India according to the
census of 2011?

A. Maharashtra 🔰state
Uttar Pradesh is the most populated
B. Madhya Pradesh Ans :A in India. The other two most
populated states in India are
C. Uttarakhand Maharashtra and Bihar.
D. West Bengal

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