Too Many Small Villages In Odisha Roadblock To Development
Bhubaneswar, Oct. 25 -- More than sixty eight per cent of India's population lived in 5,97,618 inhabited villages. Out of them, 37,439 villages didn't have 3G/4G mobile internet services. At 8947, Odisha has the maximum number of such villages. Uttar Pradesh, with the highest rural population of 155 million accounting for 18.6% of country's rural population, had 97,813 inhabited villages while Odisha had a rural population of 35 million accounting for only 4.4% of country's rural population but had 47,677 inhabited villages. Madhya Pradesh with 58 million (6.3% of country's rural population) had 51,929 villages. Odisha has the third largest number of villages in India, next only to Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. While the average numbe...
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