According to the Census of India 2011, ‘Out Growths’ (OG) is a viable unit such as a village or a hamlet or an enumeration block made up of such village or hamlet and identifiable in terms of its boundaries and location.
While determining the outgrowth of a town, it has been ensured that it possesses the urban features in terms of infrastructure and amenities such as pucca roads, electricity, taps, drainage system for disposal of wastewater, etc. educational institutions, post offices, medical facilities, banks, etc. and physically contiguous with the core town of the UA.
Examples: Central Railway Colony (OG), Triveni Nagar (N.E.C.S.W.) (OG), etc.
Each such town together with its outgrowth(s) is treated as an integrated urban area and is designated as an ‘urban agglomeration’.