Volume : 9, Issue : 1, JAN 2023

POPULATION DENSITY OF GANGANAGAR DISTRICT 2011 : A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

DR. RAJENDER KUMAR, AMIT KUMAR*

Abstract

The density of population depends on many natural and human factors, such as relief and landforms, climate (temperature and rainfall), soil, water availability, economic resources, types of land use, agricultural and industrial development, transport facilities, urbanization and the level of technological development. The population density of the study area Ganganagar district has increased more than twenty two times during the last 110 years, from 8 in 1901 to 179 persons per square kilometre in 2011. At tehsil level, the population density is not evenly distributed in the district. Three tehsils out of nine tehsils of the district have more population density than that of the district density. Similarly, six tehsils have higher rural population density in comparison to the district rural density. Irrigation provided by different projects has brought out transformation in land use and cropping pattern, stability in agricultural production and increase in mechanized farming in the study area. Therefore, this phenomenon leads to changes in spatio-temporal dimensions of population and more concentration of population in the study area both in urban and rural areas. In the study area more than seventy per cent of population still lives in the rural areas. Agriculture is main occupational activity in rural areas. In rural areas agricultural infrastructural facilities should be increased. This kind of development will helpful for some extent in equal distribution of population.

Keywords

POPULATION DENSITY, RELIEF, LANDFORMS, ECONOMIC RESOURCES, LAND USE, URBANIZATION, IRRIGATION, CROPPING PATTERN, MECHANIZED FARMING, SPATIO-TEMPORAL, AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITIES, POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, POPULATION SIZE, POPULATION CONCENTRATION, SIMPLE ARITHMETIC DENSITY, AGRICULTURAL DENSITY, PHYSIOLOGICAL OR REAL POPULATION DENSITY, ECONOMIC DENSITY, DESERT LANDSCAPE, TRACT, STATUTORY TOWNS, CENSUS TOWNS, INHABITED VILLAGES, UNINHABITED VILLAGES, RURAL DENSITY, URBAN DENSITY, ALLUVIAL, TRANSPORT NETWORK CONNECTIVITY, AGRO BASED INDUSTRIES.

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