GEOGRAPHY

A centre for arts & cul­ture for long, Delhi is loc­ated at 28°61N, 77°23E .It adjoins the states of Uttar Pra­desh in the east, and Hary­ana from three sides of West, South & North. The NCT of Delhi is spread over an area of 1,483 km². Approx. 783 km² of it was des­ig­nated as the rural and 700 km² as urban. Most of the above stat­ist­ics is bound to change with the advent of the new mas­ter plan MPD 2021. It is spread over about 52* km in length & 49* km in width.

(*Approx­im­a­tion roun­ded off. as per the vari­ous pub­lished data available).

The local body admin­is­trat­ive respons­ib­il­it­ies are shared between:- 

• Muni­cipal Cor­por­a­tion of Delhi
• New Delhi Muni­cipal Committee
• Delhi Can­ton­ment Board

 CLIMATE

 The cli­mate of Delhi is SEMI-ARID. The cli­matic con­di­tions through the year have high vari­ations, espe­cially between sum­mer and winter. Sum­mers are between April to Octo­ber, with the mon­soon sea­son start­ing the last week of June. The cli­mate starts to turn cold from the middle of Octo­ber and the winter lasts till Feb­ru­ary. It peaks from the lat­ter half of Decem­ber and remain till Janu­ary end.

 DEMOGRAPHICS

 The pop­u­la­tion of Delhi, as per the census 2001 was 13,782,976.

• The pop­u­la­tion dens­ity as per the last census was enu­mer­ated as 9,294 per­sons per km²
• The Sex ratio of Delhi is estim­ated to be 821 women per 1000 men.
• The lit­er­acy rate as per 2001 sur­vey is estim­ated to be 81.8%.
• The pop­u­la­tion is estim­ated to have increased to 15.3 mil­lion by 2004.
• Some estim­ates pro­ject the cur­rent pop­u­la­tion of the city to be around 17 mil­lion, mak­ing it one of the most pop­u­lous cit­ies in the world.
• Together with the sur­round­ing cit­ies (which are include in the National cap­ital ter­rit­ory of Delhi), Delhi is one of the fast­est grow­ing cit­ies in the world.
• By 2015, Delhi & Mum­bai are expec­ted to be amongst the top most largest and densely pop­u­lated cit­ies in the world. 

EDUCATION & RESOURCES

 
Spe­cial emphasis is afforded in Delhi for the growth of edu­ca­tion and the devel­op­ment of human resource capital.

 As per the records of 2004 – 2005, fol­low­ing were some of the resources, in Delhi.

HIGHER EDUCATION

• 02 Insti­tu­tions of National importance
• 63 col­leges for gen­eral education
• 81 insti­tu­tions for pro­fes­sional education
• 05 med­ical colleges
• 08 engin­eer­ing colleges
• 06 universities-DU, JNU, JMI, GGSIPU, IGNOU and Jamia Hamdard
• 09 deemed universities.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION INSTITUTES

Estim­ates of stu­dent resource development — 2004-05

ENROLLED IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS -         1.529 million

ENROLLED IM MIDDLE SCHOOLS -             0.822 million

ENROLLED IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS -    0.669 million

STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION -       0.29 million

STUDENTS ENROLLED WITH IGNOU-       0.28 million

TEACHERS / LECTURERS & PROFESSORS ENGAGED IN TEACHING (2004−05 survey)

SENIOR SECONDARY TEACHER-    39082

MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS-         6737

PRIMARY -                                      15415

PRE-PRIMARY -                              1615

LECTURERS & PROFESSORS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

ECONOMY

• Delhi is the second largest com­mer­cial busi­ness centre in south Asia after Mum­bai, with an estim­ated net State Domestic Product (SDP) of INR 830.85 bil­lion. (FY 2005 estimates)
• As per FY’05 stat­ist­ics, Delhi’s per cap­ita income of approx. INR 54000 is approx. 2.5 times of the national average.
• All three sec­tors of primary, sec­ond­ary & ter­tiary con­trib­ute to the eco­nomy of Delhi, which has a very con­du­cive busi­ness cli­mate. To the total SDP, ter­tiary sec­tor con­trib­utes 70.95% , fol­lowed by sec­ond­ary and primary sec­tors with 25.2% and 3.85% con­tri­bu­tion respectively.
• Delhi’s work­force con­sti­tutes 32.82% of the pop­u­la­tion show­ing an increase of 52.52% between 1991 and 2001.
• Delhi’s unem­ploy­ment rate decreased from 12.57% in 1999 – 2000 to 4.63% in 2003.
• Delhi is poised to take a giant leap towards the cre­ation of bet­ter infra­struc­ture favour­ing the ser­vice sec­tor and the MPD 2021 is a pos­it­ive step in that direction.