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AdvertisingSpeaking at a health and sanitation conference organised at IIT-Gandhinagar on Friday, Dr Dileep Mavalankar, director of the IIPH, said, “We are developing the world’s largest demographic surveillance sites. “We are just about to finish the first round of surveys, which started at these surveillance sites sometime back,” he added. We are doing it in three places, Ahmedabad city, Ahmedabad rural and Aravalli districts. India too has three such demographic surveillance sites at Vada (with population of 90,639) near Pune, Ballabgarh (90,240 population) near Delhi and Birbhum (59,295 people) in West Bengal. Mavalankar went on to explain, “This is basically health surveillance..