Population Characteristics in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra State, India

The study of population characteristics is very important in one sense because it is on these characteristics that it is useful for future government to decide its population policy and planning.  Therefore, this study helps in planning the facilities, food supply, educational facilities, dispensaries, transport, drinking water, electricity, various aspects of public health in terms of what changes may be made in future planning or what new policies should be formulated. Various factors such as geographical, socio-economic and political influence affect the factors that make up the characteristics of the population. This research paper is based on the secondary data material. The data is taken from the 2011 Ahmednagar District Census. It studies the population characteristics of Ahmednagar district. It mainly studies population distribution, literacy, working population and marginal population. Socio-economic, geographical, as well as political factors influence the change of population characteristics. At the same time, some factors affect the fact that there were human activities in Ahmednagar district. This study has been conducted in 14 tehsils of Ahmednagar district. In these tehsils, the population characteristics are not uniform and the reasons for this have been sought. A brief study of the population characteristics has been done by tehsil wise.