''''1961: Key Events'''

* India invades and annexes Goa, Daman, Diu and Nagar-Haveli, the remaining Portuguese colonies, which are now declared Union Territories, along with Nagaland. 

* The All-India Census reveals India’s population growth to be 2. 3% annually, considerably higher than the Central Statistical Organisation’s projections. 

* The Third Five-Year Plan introduces family planning programmes, which were later to prove controversial. School television project is launched in Delhi.

* Ganga Jumna promotes the use of regional dialects in the mainstream Hindi film. 

* First Rajasthani film: B. K. Adarsh’s Babasa Ri Laadi. Drastic cuts in the import of raw film stock. 

* Second Film Festival of India in Delhi.