Describe the objectives of National Youth Policy launched by Government of India.
Describe some of the challenges for the society as far adolescents are concerned.
Define growth of population. Name its two component.
Growth of population is the change in the number of people living in a particular area between two points of time. Its rate is expressed in percentage.
Population growth has two components namely;
(i)natural
(ii)induced
Describe physical factors as factor for distribution of population.
Physical factors:
(i)As far as the physical factors are concerned, it is clear that climate along with terrain and availability of water largely determines the pattern of the population distribution.
(ii)Consequently, we observe that the North Indian Plains, deltas and Coastal Plains have higher proportion of population than the interior districts of southern and central Indian States, Himalayas, some of the north eastern and the western states.
(iii)However, development of irrigation (Rajasthan), availability of mineral and energy resources (Jharkhand) and development of transport network (Peninsular States) have resulted in moderate to high proportion of population in areas which were previously very thinly populated.
Name any four most populous states of the country.
Most populous states are:
(i)Uttar Pradesh
(ii)Maharashtra,
(iii)Bihar
(iv)West Bengal.