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B. R. Ambedkar and Constitution of India on a 2015 postage stamp of India It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 26 November 1949 and became effective on 26 January 1950. [ 6 ] The constitution replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the country's fundamental governing document, and the Dominion of India became the Republic ...
The purpose of the bill is to control the population growth of India. According to the World Population Prospects 2019 report by the United Nations, the population of India is set to overtake that of China within a decade. The proposed bill was signed by 125 Members of Parliament (MP) and is yet to become an act of law. [1] [2]
In 2015, India's population was predicted to reach 1.7 billion by 2050. [16] [17] In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%. [18]
Article 4 is invoked when a law is enacted under Article 2 or 3 for the marginal, incidental and the consequential provisions needed for changing boundary of a state or union territory. As per Article 4 (2), no such law framed under Article 4 (1), shall be deemed to be an amendment of the constitution for the purposes of article 368.
During the decade of 2001–2011, India's annual population growth rate has slowed down from 2.15 percent to 1.76 percent. [7] Based on decennial census data, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu has the fastest growth rate of 55.1 percent, followed by Meghalaya (27.8 percent) and Arunachal Pradesh (25.9 percent).
Works about articles of the Constitution of India (14 P) Pages in category "Articles of the Constitution of India" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Democracy in India is the largest by population in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Elections in India started with the 1951–52 Indian general election . India was one of the first few countries in the world which adopted universal adult franchise right from independence, giving women and men equal voting rights.
The slowing down of the overall population growth rate was due to the sharp decline in the growth rate in rural areas since 1991. [366] According to the 2011 census, there are 53 million-plus urban agglomerations in India; among them Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, in decreasing order by population. [367]