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Mention various methods of functional classification of towns in India and explain the method applied by Asok Mitra.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Settlements

Functional classification groups towns by the dominant occupational structure of the workforce; Indian schemes rest almost wholly on the nine industrial categories of workers published by the Census, so census definitions bind every method below.

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