Our Correspondent Kohima, Feb 15 (EMN): On the concluding day of the fifth session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly, opposition legislator Dr. Chumben Murry posed an unstarred question concerning the breakup of Naga and Non-Naga population as per the censuses 1961 to 2011.
In reply, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, also the minister in-charge of Economics and Statistics, furnished the details. The breakup of the populations of Schedule Tribe and Schedule Caste / others:
Year
ST
SC/Others
Total
Population
1961
343697
126
343823
1971
426262
90187
516449
1981
650885
124045
774930
1991
1029589
179957
1209546
2001
1774026
216010
1990036
2011
1710973
267529
1978502
Murry, Naga Peoples’ Front legislator, also sought figures concerning the breakup of language of the non-Naga population for the same census period. The government does not have ‘sufficient data’ for the census years 1961, 1971, 2001, and 2011 except for the year 1981 and 1991. The details are furnished in the table.
