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SCRA 2002-FIM IX: Ninth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics Combinatorics and Related Areas
December 21-23, 2002
Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics: University of Allahabad
Allahabad, UP, India

Organizers
Satya Mishra, Anoop Chaturvedi, Bhu Dev Sharma

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Distribution of urban population in India
by
S. Muthurathnam
Dept. of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore- 632 002, India.

The study of distribution of urban population is useful for planning development programs. As revealed by the recent census of India, 285 million people live in urban areas.Nearly 108 million of them reside in the first four urban agglomerations. 68% of this population is concentrated in the central (municipal corporation) areas. The extent of such concentration in the largest urban agglomerations is highlighted These staistics are compared with the pattern of distribution of urban population in 1991.

Date received: November 25, 2002

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