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Indicators of Human
Resources
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Population
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persons
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52,52,388
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Density of population
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persons per sq. kms.
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471
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Literacy
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per cent
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70.63
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Total working population
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per cent
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29.17
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Percentage distribution of work force
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Cultivators
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per cent
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40.05
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Agricultural labourers
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per cent
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5.66
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Household industry manufacturing,
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processing servicing and
repairs
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percent
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14.71
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Production: 2004-05
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(Tonnes)
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Wheat
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4,64,550
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Bajra
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3,76,780
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Barley
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1,29,720
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Rapeseed and mustard
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1,59,630
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Gram
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56,920
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Groundnut
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1,05,770
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Sugarcane
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1,780
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Maize
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3,830
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Jowar
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9,500
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Production: 1999-00
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(Tonnes)
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Lime stone
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55,000
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Soap stone
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38,356
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Kaoline
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12,707
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Felspar
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8,245
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Stealite
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8,291
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Iron ore
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8,000
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Quartz
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1,054
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Calcite
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5
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Jaipur district is receiving the hydro-electric power, supplied by the Chambal Hydel System. Out of total 2,131 villages in the district, 2,131 were electrified as on March 2000.
The major rivers passing through the Jaipur district are Banas and Banganga. The ground water resources to the extent of about 28.65 million cubic meter are available in the district.
Jaipur city is the capital of the state and is centrally located. The National Highway No.8 links Delhi to Ahmedabad and No.11, linking Bikaner to Agra passes through Jaipur district to a total length of 366 kms. The total length of different types of roads in the district was about 4,102 kms as of March 2000.
Jaipur district is connected with meter gauge rail route with Sri Ganganagar, Ajmer, Udaipur and Sirohi. Jaipur is also connected with major centres of neighbouring states such as Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and Delhi. Recently, Jaipur has got connected in broad gauge, enabling direct connections to cities like Sawai Madhopur, Kota, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Bombay, Howrah, Lucknow, Kanpur & Delhi.
Jaipur is connected by air with Jodhpur, Udaipur, Aurangabad, Delhi, Bombay and outside the country with Paris, London & Dublin.
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(Nos)
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Post offices
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599
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Telegraph offices
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143
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Telecom centres
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9
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PCOs
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859
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Telephone exchanges
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150
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(Nos)
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Universities
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1
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Colleges
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45
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Agricultural colleges
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2
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Engineering colleges
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1
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Polytechnical colleges
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2
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Medical colleges
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1
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Secondary & higher secondary schools
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554
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Higher primary schools
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1,460
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Primary schools
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2,905
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ITIs
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6
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Agricultural research centre
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2
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Bagru, Bassi, Bais Godam, Bindyaka, Dudu, Hirawala, Jetpura, Jhotwara, Kaladera, Kanakpura, Kartarpura, Malviya Nagar, Phulera, Renwal, Sanganeer, Shahpura, Sitapura, Sudarshanpur and Vishwakarma.
Acetylene gas, ACSR conductors, ball bearings, bottling of LPG, ceramics, pottery, cold roll strips, common salt, corrugated boxes, deoiled cakes, durries, dyeing and printing, edible oil, electronic items, engraving on brass items, ferrous and non-ferrous castings, gems and jewellary, general engineering and manufacturing, granite slabs and tiles, hand made paper, handicraft items, halogen auto bulbs, hawai chappals, household electrical appliances, HT steel strips, lodized salt, lamps, laminated springs for railways, marble statues, marble tiles & slabs, moulded plastic components for electronics, perfumes, pigment colours, plastic containers, P.P. multifilament yarn, PVC cables, PVC doors, PVC footwear, canvas shoes, nitro chloro benzene, oxygen gas, port land cement, readymade garments, re-roller products, steel furniture, steel ingots, stone grits, synthetic leather, synthetic suiting & shirtings, tablets and capsules, two way radio and line, washing so ap, wheat maida, suji, atta, woollen carpet, re fined vegetable oil and vanaspati ghee.
Brass and lacquer work, enamel work, gems and jewellery, granite tiles, handloom, marble statues, printed cloth and textiles, readymade garments and woollen carpets.