Churachandpur belongs to us, isn't it? Anyway that's where we live, and that's the one place that concerns us mostly. Here is a quick overview of census 2011 for Churachandpur district and a bit of an analysis.
Population Density and Decadal Growth
Here is no big change, smaller district are gaining population which is a rather good sign in the sense that urban migration is not as rampant as supposed to be.
Literacy Rates and Literacy Gap between Male and Female
Here is a reason to celebrate (even though it’s not good enough). The literacy gap between Male and Female continued to be the lowest in our district. Even though we lag behind Imphal West in term of overall literacy rate, it seems our women have better access to education. (But this is also dependant on many factors, like the numbers of illiterate ageing population, statistical outliers, etc). By the way, the national/country gap is 16.68% which means two districts in our state is worst than the country percentage.
Sex Ratio
The country sex ratio is 940, Churachandpur’s is 944. We are a little better off than the country in our discrimination towards the girl child. Overall, in the state we ranked no. 5 which is an improvement from the last census where we ranked no. 7. (I always though we as a Christian will be more welcoming to a girl child than the Hindus in the plain area). But no doubt, our preference and the importance we attached to a male child is undeniable.
But there seems to be a little improvement among the present 0 – 6 years even thought they will not make much of a statistical difference in the next census.
The above table is based only among children belonging to age 6 and below (who are not included in literacy counts). If this is the trend for the future, than the sex ratio of Manipur is done for, however, the comfort is that, the above children will only contribute to the existing rate, and they will not be counted as separate, apart from that, we have a good nine years to correct the wrongs.
Huihui let’s make room for the girls. We are Christian, we are Zomi, we are proud of our women and their achievement, and we love bragging about how independent our women are. But we are not as good as we thought we are and apparently, we don’t love our women enough!
