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Population Growth

Bathinda is 5th largest city and is the major urban settlement of its LPA but its share in the total urban population of Punjab has decreased during the year 1981-2001. T he share of population of Bathinda to the total urban population of the state was 2.63 in the year 2001. The growth rate of Bathinda was 95.12% during 1971-81 mainly because of the expansion of limits of Municipal Committee as to include the two major industries i.e. Thermal Power Plant and National Fertilizer Limited which were established during that decade. During the decade of 1971-1981 the population grew from 0.65 lacs to 1.27 la cs, which was highest in the state. However during the period of 1981-91 the growth rate dropped to 24.79% due to terrorism. Normalized social and economic conditions during 1991-2001 led to a growth rate of 36.60%. The details of population growth of Bathinda city from 1901 to 2001 is given in table below:

Years Population Decadal Growth Rate (%)
1901 13185 --
1911 15035 14.05
1921 20154 34.03
1931 22771 12.99
1941 24833 9.06
1951 36991 40.91
1961 52253 49.33
1971 65318 25.00
1981 127363 95.12
1991 159042 24.79
2001 217256 36.60
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