| What characteristic qualifies a building or part of a building as a census house? | having a separate main entrance from the road or common courtyard or staircase, etc. | Census House: A ‘census house’ is a building or part of a building used or recognized as a separate unit because of having a separate main entrance from the road or common courtyard or staircase, etc. It may be occupied or vacant. It may be used for residential or non- residential purpose or both. If a building has a number of Flats or Blocks/Wings, which are independent of one another having separate entrances of their own from the road or a common staircase or a common courtyard leading to a main gate, these are considered as a separate Census house. Village: The basic unit for rural areas is the revenue village, which has definite surveyed boundaries. The revenue village may comprise of one or more hamlets but the entire village is treated as one unit for presentation of data. | 116 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Census House: A ‘census house’ is a building or part of a building used or recognized as a separate unit because of having a separate main entrance from the road or common courtyard or staircase, etc. It may be occupied or vacant. | 6 | page=6,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| What criteria are used to classify someone as a cultivator in the Census? | engaged in cultivation of land owned or from government or from private persons or institutions for payment in money, kind or share | Main worker: A person who has worked for major part of the reference period (i.e. six months or more during the last one year preceding the date of enumeration) in any economically productive activity is termed as ‘Mainworker’. Marginal worker: A person who worked for 3 months or less but less than six months of the reference period (i.e. in the last one year preceding the date of enumeration) in any economic activity is termed as ‘Marginal worker’. Non-worker: A person who has not worked at all in any economically productive activity during the reference period (i.e. last one year preceding the date of enumeration) is termed as ‘Non worker’. Cultivator: For purposes of the Census, a person is classified as cultivator if he or she is engaged in cultivation of land owned or from government or from private persons or institutions for payment in money, kind or share. | 744 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Cultivator: For purposes of the Census, a person is classified as cultivator if he or she is engaged in cultivation of land owned or from government or from private persons or institutions for payment in money, kind or share. |
| What criteria define a statutory town in the census? | All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc | In unsurveyed areas, like villages within forest areas, each habitation area with locally recognized boundaries is treated as one village. Rural-Urban area: The data in the census are presented separately for rural and urban areas. The unit of classification in this regard is ‘town’ for urban areas and ‘village’ for rural areas. The urban area comprises two types of towns viz; Statutory towns and Census towns. In the Census of India 2011, the definition of urban area adopted is as follows: (a) Statutory Towns: All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc are known as statutory towns. | 516 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | In the Census of India 2011, the definition of urban area adopted is as follows: (a) Statutory Towns: All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc are known as statutory towns. | 6 | page=6,block=0 | 0.700 |
| What does the Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1956 define as areas unfit for human habitation? | Areas where buildings are in any respect unfit for human habitation | Slum area: The Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance)Act, 1956, which was enacted by the Central Government defined slums as (a) Areas where buildings are in any respect unfit for human habitation; or (b) are by reasons of dilapidation, overcrowding, faulty arrangement and design of such buildings, narrowness or faulty arrangement of streets, lack of ventilation, light or sanitation facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to safety, health or morals. | 129 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Slum area: The Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance)Act, 1956, which was enacted by the Central Government defined slums as (a) Areas where buildings are in any respect unfit for human habitation; or (b) are by reasons of dilapidation, overcrowding, faulty arrangement and design of such buildings, narrowness or faulty arrangement of streets, lack of ventilation, light or sanitation facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to safety, health or morals. |
| What is an outgrowth in the context of urban areas? | a viable unit such as a village or a hamlet or an enumeration block and clearly identifiable in terms of its boundaries and location | agglomeration’. For the purpose of delineation of Urban Agglomerations during Census of India 2011, following criteria has been adopted: (a) The core town or at least one of the constituent towns of an urban agglomeration should necessarily be a statutory town; and (b) The total population of an Urban Agglomeration (i.e. all the constituents put together) should not be less than 20,000 as per the 2001 Census.In varying local conditions, there were similar other combinations which have been treated as urban agglomerations satisfying the basic condition of contiguity. Out Growth (OG): The outgrowth is a viable unit such as a village or a hamlet or an enumeration block and clearly identifiable in terms of its boundaries and location. | 607 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Out Growth (OG): The outgrowth is a viable unit such as a village or a hamlet or an enumeration block and clearly identifiable in terms of its boundaries and location. | 7 |
| What is the definition of a household in terms of living arrangements? | a group of persons who normally live together and take their meals from a common kitchen | While determining the outgrowth of a town, it has been ensured that it possesses the urban features in terms of infrastructure and amenities such as pucca roads, electricity, taps, drainage system for disposal of waste water etc., educational institutions, post offices, medical facilities, banks etc and physically contiguous with the core town of the UA. City: Towns with population of 100,000 and above are called cities. Household: A ‘household’ is usually a group of persons who normally live together and take their meals from a common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevent any of them from doing so. Persons in a household may be related or unrelated or a mix of both. if a group of unrelated persons live in a census house but do not take their meals from the common kitchen, then they are not constituent of a common household. | 461 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Household: A ‘household’ is usually a group of persons who normally live together and take their meals from a common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevent any of them from doing so. |
| What is the definition of a literate person? | A person aged 7 years and above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is taken as literate. | tongues returned by the respondents in census are classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. Literate: A person aged 7 years and above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is taken as literate. A person who can only read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that to be considered as literate, a person should have received any formal education or passed any minimum educational standard. Literacy could have been achieved through adult literacy classes or through any non-formal educational system. People who are blind and can read in Braille are treated as literates. Literacy rate: Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age-group seven years and above. For different age-groups the percentage of literates in that age-group gives the literacy rate. | 158 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Literate: A person aged 7 years and above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is taken as literate. A person who can only read but cannot write is not literate. |
| What is the definition of an agricultural labourer? | A person who works on another person’s land for wages in cash or kind or share is regarded as an agricultural labourer. | nuts(areca). The workers engaged in Plantation crops are recorded under “other workers”. Agricultural labourer: A person who works on another person’s land for wages in cash or kind or share is regarded as an agricultural labourer. She/he has no risk in the cultivation, but merely works on another person’s land for wages. An agricultural labourer has no right of lease or contract on land on which she/he works. Household industry worker: Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the household at home or within the village in rural areas and only within the precincts of the house where the household lives in urban areas. The larger proportion of workers in household industry should consist of members of the household. | 112 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Agricultural labourer: A person who works on another person’s land for wages in cash or kind or share is regarded as an agricultural labourer. She/he has no risk in the cultivation, but merely works on another person’s land for wages. |
| What is the literacy rate of a population defined as? | the percentage of literates in the age-group seven years and above. | tongues returned by the respondents in census are classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. Literate: A person aged 7 years and above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is taken as literate. A person who can only read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that to be considered as literate, a person should have received any formal education or passed any minimum educational standard. Literacy could have been achieved through adult literacy classes or through any non-formal educational system. People who are blind and can read in Braille are treated as literates. Literacy rate: Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age-group seven years and above. For different age-groups the percentage of literates in that age-group gives the literacy rate. | 729 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | Literacy rate: Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age-group seven years and above. For different age-groups the percentage of literates in that age-group gives the literacy rate. |
| What is the meaning of the name Ilavasa in Sanskrit? | “Ila” being the name of the mother of Pururavas Aila and “avas” meaning an abode in Sanskrit | Brief history of the District The district of Allahabad is named after its headquarters City. According to historian Badauni when Akbar visited Prayag in 1575, he founded a new city and named it Ilahabas. It is said by some that this word is a corrupt form of Ilavasa (“Ila” being the name of the mother of Pururavas Aila and “avas” meaning an abode in Sanskrit) which in passage of time became Ilahabad and then Allahabad, Pururavas Aila was the progenitor of the Chandravansh and his capital was Pratishthana (identified with modern Jhusi opposite Allahabad) in early Vedic times. Another tradition has it that the city derives its name from Alha the Banaphar hero. The earlier settlements of the Aryans were established in this city, then known as Prayag” Prayagasya Praveshshu Papam Nashwati Tatkshanam. | 269 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1165/download/3674/DH_2011_0944_PART_B_DCHB_ALLAHABAD.pdf | It is said by some that this word is a corrupt form of Ilavasa (“Ila” being the name of the mother of Pururavas Aila and “avas” meaning an abode in Sanskrit) which in passage of time became Ilahabad and then Allahabad, Pururavas Aila was the progenitor of the Chandravansh and his capital was Pratishthana (identified with modern Jhusi opposite Allahabad) in early Vedic times. |