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: