| | 1 | ''''1961: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * India invades and annexes Goa, Daman, Diu and Nagar-Haveli, the remaining Portuguese colonies, which are now declared Union Territories, along with Nagaland. |
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| | 5 | * The All-India Census reveals India’s population growth to be 2. 3% annually, considerably higher than the Central Statistical Organisation’s projections. |
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| | 7 | * The Third Five-Year Plan introduces family planning programmes, which were later to prove controversial. School television project is launched in Delhi. |
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| | 9 | * Ganga Jumna promotes the use of regional dialects in the mainstream Hindi film. |
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| | 11 | * First Rajasthani film: B. K. Adarsh’s Babasa Ri Laadi. Drastic cuts in the import of raw film stock. |
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| | 13 | * Second Film Festival of India in Delhi. |