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Fenced in: population growth rate [1]

Calcutta, April 5: The rate of population growth in nine Bengal districts that share their borders with Bangladesh has come down in the past decade, a trend mainly attributed to an expansion in barbed-wire fencing and tighter vigil on illegal immigrants.

The provisional data released by the Directorate of Census Operations in Calcutta show a decline in the population growth rate in these distri

Publication Date: 
06/04/2011
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
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Population [3], West Bengal [4], Displacement [5], People [6], Census 2011 [7], Bangladesh [8], Dakshin Dinajpur [9]
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