How many village are there in india

Therefore, anything other than a statutory town, Census town or urban agglomeration is a village. In that sense, the village is residual, regardless of its population size. The population can be 10, people or it can also be people. I find it odd that the Census showed villages in the National Capital Territory , though I understand the definitional issue. There is a notification, land is acquired by the DDA and during the transition from a panchayat to municipality, there is understandable speculation on the land.

Mahipalpur gets its name from Raja Mahipal Tomar, who established it, while Masoodpur is so named because some six centuries ago, the land was originally bought from Masood Khan. Subsequently, DDA acquired some of this land. Near Masoodpur, you will find malls, institutions and hotels, but you will also find a panchayat bhawan. We want a minimum threshold to be available everywhere: in the village with a population of 10,, the village with a population of , Masoodpur-type villages, statutory towns and Census towns.

At one level, there is a governance issue. Who ensures those public goods and services — panchayats, municipalities? Or is the village stuck in the interregnum from panchayat to municipality? Inside forest areas, there may be non-surveyed villages. Just as we have habitations as sub-categories of villages, we have gram panchayats as categories higher than villages.

Therefore, we have something like 2,50, gram panchayats. The Census contains a table a comparable table is not yet available for the Census , which provides size distribution of villages according to population. As per the data, 91, villages had population size less than , with almost 13, of them in Odisha and around 9, in HP and UP. There were 1,27, villages with population sizes between and , with their concentration in UP, Odisha, MP and even Maharashtra.

Delivering public goods and services in a village with a population size of 10,, where there is a gram panchayat, is relatively easy. Today Census , there are 6,38, villages in India, of which, 5,93, are inhabited. Since Gandhiji wrote those words, the number of villages has dropped by 1,00, In censuses, village is the unit of classification in rural India and the definition is almost a residual one.

Whatever doesn't satisfy some characteristics is a village. It can't have a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or town area committee. The population must be less than 5, The population density must be lower than per square km. A certain percentage of the male working population must be engaged in agriculture. Most people don't know there are revenue villages in Delhi and one is not talking about the Commonwealth Games village. The simple point is this. Villages in India are extremely heterogeneous.

As per Census , there are 3, villages that have population sizes more than 10, Had it not been for the other Census criteria, these would have been towns. But there are also 2,36, villages that have a population less than There are villages that have a population less than Minocheher Minoo Rustom Masani wrote several books. One of these was published in and was titled Our India. It was widely read once and described India and the Indian economy, especially village India.

In many of India's villages, nothing has substantially changed since Minoo Masani wrote that book. Indeed, nothing has substantially changed for several hundreds of years. But there are also villages where life has changed. The classic village is one where government and governance is non-existent.

There is no formal law and order machinery. There is no social infrastructure schools, primary health centres. There is no physical infrastructure roads, electricity, drinking water, sanitation. Housing is unsatisfactory. There is no occupation outside agriculture, and there is no irrigation.

The caste system is overwhelming. If one looks at the alphabet soup of programmes run by government and rural development ministry, other than NREGA, it is these things that we are talking about. That is, villages lack these amenities.

If these amenities, connectivities and opportunities exist, the dichotomy between rural and urban India will break down. Bharat and India will become integrated, regardless of what the Census classification says. Villages will disappear and that is a good thing. Everywhere in the world, urbanistion is correlated with economic development. The logic of economic development should be no different for India. The number of villages has declined from 7,00, when Gandhiji wrote to 6,00, There are several reasons why villages disappear.

There is migration. Villages get integrated into urban areas. There is reclassification.