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City Development Plan for Allahabad Final Report
3.5 Population
Projections
On all these occasions the city government makes special provisions because
millions of devotees throng the city. The last Purna Kumbh mela organised in
2001 attracted 10.5 million devotees to the city (Table 9).
Table 9: Floating Population during Kumbh Mela
Year No of Devotees visiting (in lakhs)
1954 60
1966 70
1977 100
1989 150
2001 1050
The next Ardh Kumbh mela is to be held in January 2007 for which the city’s
administration needs be prepared. For the management of mela, a committee as
follows, has been constituted:
The Chairman, Allahabad Development Authority (ADA) or a
nominated officer
District Magistrate (DM), Allahabad or a nominated officer;
Secretary, ADA;
Joint Director, Town and Country Planning Department (TCPD),
Allahabad;
Mela Adhikari, Kumbh mela, Alllahabad.
The Mela Adkhari heads a Kumbh mela Cell which coordinates all activities by
various departments for the mela.
Population projection is important and a basic requirement for foreseeing and
provisioning the requirement of basic services to the people. It is also required
to plan the service delivery and revenue realization from the users in a city
which is a direct function of population and its growth. The city of Allahabad
has a uniquely different growth character, complemented by the movement of
people from surrounding areas for education and occupational reasons, tourist
traffic as a result of its heritage and religious value, and special events of
spiritual importance of River Ganga and the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna
and the invisible Saraswati. The OG and urban villages make the situation
complex by falling back on city infrastructure to cater to their demand as well.
The base data for population projection is the CoI data which provides the
numeric basis for benchmarking the actual population and its decadal growth
for the past decades. Considering the growth rates as have been estimated by
the Master Plan 2021, the projected population of the city shall be 1637296
for the year 2011 and 2043735 for 2021. Based on these two projected figures,
the average annual compound growth rate has been calculated by taking the
n th root of the total percentage growth rate where n is the number of years in
the period being considered. This can be written as –
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