Ulhasnagar taluka is a taluka in Thane district of Maharashtra in Konkan division.[1][2]
Thane district
editUntil 31 July 2014, Thane was the country's most populous district with a population of over 1.2 crore.[3] On 1 August 2014, the talukas of Mokhada, Jawahar, Talasari, Vikramgadh, Wada, Dahanu, Palghar and Vasai were separated from the erstwhile Thane district to form a new district Palghar. The talukas Thane, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar, Ambernath, Murbad and Shahapur were retained in Thane district.[3][4]
Demographics
editUlhasnagar taluka has a population of 506,098 according to the 2011 census. Ulhasnagar had a literacy rate of 87.49% and a sex ratio of 881 females per 1000 males. 51,267 (10.13%) are under 7 years of age. The entire population lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 17.13% and 1.30% of the population respectively.[6]
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 32.28% of the population in the taluk spoke Marathi, 31.92% Sindhi, 20.57% Hindi, 2.96% Bhojpuri, 1.71% Urdu, 1.54% Gujarati, 1.54% Punjabi and 1.23% Bengali as their first language.[7]
References
edit- ^ "महाराष्ट्रातील सर्व तालुके - महाराष्ट्रातील सर्व जिल्ह्यांतील तालुके महसुली विभागांनिहाय जाणून घ्या". Prahar. 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Circle Saja Revenue Village List - Tahsil Office". Thane District Collectorate. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Maharashtra gets its 36th district - Palghar; carved out of India's most populous Thane district". Daily News and Analysis. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ Tembhekar, Chittaranjan; Sanjeev Shivadekar (14 June 2014). "Thane district will finally be split into 2 parts from August 15". Times of India. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ "Table C-01 Population by Religion: Maharashtra". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ "District Census Hand Book – Thane" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Maharashtra". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.