CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY viii 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. OVERVIEW: 1 1.2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: 2 1.3. AIM: 2 1.4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 2 1.5. OBJECTIVES: 2 1.6. APPROACH FOR THE STUDY: 3 1.7. SCOPE AND LIMITATION: 4 1.8. FRAMEWORK FOR STUDY: 5 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1. Urbanization: 6 2.2. Role of land: 7 2.3. Demand for land: 7 2.4. Urban land management: 7 2.5. Need for land management: 8 2.6. Urban land policies: 9 2.7. Government intervention: 10 2.8. Existing land policy instruments: 10 2.9. Some land development techniques: 11 2.9.1. Land Acquisition: 11 2.9.2. Plot Reconstitution technique or Town Planning scheme (TPS): 12 2.9.3. Land Pooling / Readjustment technique: 13 2.9.4. Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) incentives: 14 2.10. Case Studies 14 2.10.1. Land development in Ahmedabad 14 2.10.2. Land development in Delhi 15 2.10.3. Land development in Mumbai 17 2.10.4. Land assembly for development in England 18 2.10.5. Land banking and land consolidation in Netherlands 19 2.10.6. Land pooling in Nepal 20 2.11. Present Legislative Framework for Land Management 21 2.11. Summary 23 2.13. Literature Review - Inferences: 24 3. METHODOLOGY - SITE VISIT: 26 3.1. MACRO LEVEL DATA COLLECTION 26 3.2. MICRO LEVEL DATA COLLECTION 29 4. KOLKATA METROPOLITAN AREA (KMA) 27 4.1. Evolution of Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA): 27 4.2. Growth of Kolkata Metropolitan Area: 28 4.3. Area and Population: 28 4.4. Gross Population Density: 29 4.5. Economic profile of KMA: 29 4.6. Demographic Profile of the Municipalities in KMA: 30 4.7. Pattern of Urbanization: 34 4.8. Spatial Distribution: 35 4.9. Landuse Distribution: 35 4.10. Landuse Policy: 38 4.11. Existing Land Management Practices in Kolkata 39 4.12. List of Acts and Regulations in Kolkata 41 5. LAND MANAGEMENT: STUDY AREAS 43 5.1. BARRACKPORE 44 5.1.1. Introduction: 44 5.1.2. Demography: 45 5.1.3. Existing settlement Pattern: 46 5.1.4. Development Pattern over the years 47 5.1.5. Categorisation of Land Use within Barrackpore Municipality 47 5.2. CHANDAN NAGAR 49 5.2.1. Introduction 49 5.2.2. Demography 50 5.2.3. Existing Settlement Pattern 51 5.2.4. Development Pattern over the Years 51 5.2.5. Categorisation of Landuse within Chandan Nagar Municipal Corp 52 5.3. KOLKATA 54 5.3.1. Introduction 54 5.3.2. Demography 55 5.3.3. Existing Settlement Pattern 57 5.3.4. Development Pattern over the years 57 5.3.5. Categorisation of Land use 58 5.4. MAHESHTALA 60 5.4.1. Introduction 60 5.4.2 Demography: 60 5.4.3. Existing Settlement Pattern 61 5.4.4. Development Pattern over the years 61 5.4.5. Categorisation of Land use 62 5.5. BARUIPUR 64 5.5.1. Introduction: 64 5.5.2. Demography: 65 5.5.3. Existing Settlement Pattern 65 5.5.4. Development Pattern over the years 65 5.5.5. Categorisation of Land use 66 6. ISSUES AND PROBLEMS 68 6.1. Existing Landuse Policy and Land Management 68 6.1.1. West Bengal 68 6.1.2. Kolkata Metropolitan Area 71 6.1.3. Current land management practices in Kolkata: 73 6.2. Case Study Areas 74 6.2.1. Barrackpore 74 6.2.2. Chandan Nagar 79 6.2.3. Kolkata Municipal Corporation 84 6.2.4. Maheshtala 89 6.2.5. Baruipur 92 6.3. Comparison of West Bengal Town & Country Planning Act And Gujarat Town Planning And Urban Development Act 94 7. FINDINGS 96 8. RECOMMENDATIONS 98 9. CONCLUSION 105 REFERENCES ANNEXURES