Changing Pattern of Urbanization in West Bengal: An Analysis of 2011 Census of India Data

Chakraborty, Saurav; Chatterjee, Soumendu; Das, Kakoli; Roy, Utpal

doi:10.5958/2249-7315.2015.00117.3

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“…Several factors like agricultural revolution, Industrial revolution, Transport revolution, revolution in education and technology, employment opportunity and push & pull factors have been mainly responsible for urbanization (Khanna, 2019). Urbanization in India has occurred more slowly compare to other developing nations (Chakraborty et al, 2015). Similar transformations were observed in Bangalore Urban District of Karnataka state, India during the last two three decades when compared to other parts of the region.…”

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Levels Of Urbanization In Bangalore Urban District Of Karnataka, India

Puttalingaiah¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Levels Of Urbanization In Bangalore Urban District Of Karnataka, India

Puttalingaiah¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Several scholars of different disciplines like Patel (1990), Baker et al (1997), Springer (2000), Tribhuvan and Andreassen (2003), Tipple and Speak (2004), Vázquez et al (2005), Koehlmoos et al (2009), Patra and Anand (2008), Morrow (2010), Nooe and Patterson (2010), Ali (2012 and 2014), Somerville (2013), Mostowska (2013), Ryabchuk (2014), Busch-Geertsema et al (2016) have addressed the issue from different philosophical perspectives, socioeconomic and political contexts. Despite the paucity of proper documented accounts, the homeless population of Kolkata metropolis has been broadly studied by different scholars (Das, 2013;Mustaquim and Ismail, 2013;Chaudhuri, 2013;Adhikari, 2014;Ghosh, 2014;Mukherjee, 2014;Shivramkrishnan and Mondal, 2014;Dey and Majumdar, 2015;Bagchi, 2016;Basu, 2016;Kar, 2016). Bela Bhattacharya (1996) in her book titled "Slums and Pavement Dwellers of Kolkata Metropolis" presents a detailed ethnographic enquiry concerning the sociodemographic structure, living conditions, economic and occupational characteristics, social associations and relations of the homeless people.…”

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Homeless People in West Bengal: A District-Level Study

Roy

Siddique²

2018

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The phenomenon of homelessness has often been explained as an obvious result of rapid urbanisation along with the limited housing facility in the urban areas (the destination region), but undoubtedly, it is interlinked with multifaceted issues which have been deeply rooted in the socioeconomic and political set up of the rural areas and small towns (the source region). Ruralurban development disparity, rural-urban migration, poverty, intraregional unequal human development and housing shortage are some of the factors that have intensified the problem of pavement dwelling in urban areas. According to the Census of India (2011), the state of West Bengal holds the 7th position among the states of India with 134040 homeless people. The development disparity between Kolkata and other parts of the state has resulted a definite district-wise spatial distributional pattern of homeless people with the greatest concentration in Kolkata city. The study attempts to probe into the spatio-temporal distribution of homeless population and strives to ascertain the instrumental factors of the phenomenon in a contextual framework with the help of available and acquired data and information. Simple statistical methods-location quotient, Z-score, bi-variate correlation, Sphereman's Rank Correlation Coefficient and Student t test have been used for the analysis. The findings suggest that the less developed districts, as well as the states, surrounded the Kolkata act as the source region that has pushed the destitute community towards the city and compelled them to reside on the footpaths of the city without a roof.

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“…A study has also shown that in India, while there are a large number of census towns situated in close proximity to Class I towns in 2011, many of them are not around the megacities and widely spread across the countryside, suggesting several urbanization process in operation (Pradhan, 2013). Evidently, in 2011 dispersion of urbanization could easily be observed in West Bengal both in size class distribution and spatial context (Chakraborty et al, 2015). But whether this decentralization tributes locational dispersion of these newly created towns away from existing cities in each district of West Bengal or not is yet to be examined.…”

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“…However, in 2011, degree of urbanization of India and West Bengal crossed the 30% mark and the gap between them started to wide-up again. This growing trend of urbanization in West Bengal is mostly attributable to the growth of urban population in low urbanized districts 1 , located away from the metropolitan city, Kolkata, along with significant increase of population in small towns (Chakraborty et al, 2015). Historically, the population of small towns in West Bengal has experienced a declining trend since 1931 (Mandal and Ray, 2013).…”

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Concentrated or Dispersed Urbanization: A critical analysis of newly emerged Census Towns of West Bengal, India in 2011

Chakraborty¹,

Das²,

Roy³

2015

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

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The emergence of 528 new Census Towns (CTs) in 2011 and their contribution to the growth of urban population brought significant changes in the nature of urbanization in West Bengal, a state in India. This present treatise made an effort to see the locational distribution of these new CTs with respect to Class I towns/cities in each district of West Bengal in quest of the contesting views of concentrated and dispersed urbanization using multiple ring buffers with varying radial distances and a robustness check. Number of new CTs and their population fall within and outside the buffers has counted to assess the intra-state nature of concentrated and dispersed urbanization. The study further examines Centrality Value, using eight nodal services to make a four-tier hierarchical order of new CTs so as to find out the places of eminence in terms of available institutional services. Results show that in highly urbanized districts, non-urban places close to Class I towns have transformed rapidly into urban and symbolized concentrated urbanization. Whereas in low urbanized districts, this kind of transformation can be observed for places located away from Class I towns which can be explained by their functional importance as rural service centres in general. This brought dispersed urbanization in the state, particularly in low urbanized districts. Although, higher order new CTs could be a viable option to develop subsidiary urban centres for the future, particularly in low urbanized districts of the state.

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Changing Pattern of Urbanization in West Bengal: An Analysis of 2011 Census of India Data

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Levels Of Urbanization In Bangalore Urban District Of Karnataka, India

Homeless People in West Bengal: A District-Level Study

Concentrated or Dispersed Urbanization: A critical analysis of newly emerged Census Towns of West Bengal, India in 2011

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