TY - BOOK AU - Bhattacharya, Aditya (PP0000216) AU - Mukherjee Basu, Anurima (Guide) TI - Influence of planned urban development in Kolkata's peri-urban areas : a case of Mahishbathan gram panchayat (Softcopy is also available) U1 - P TH-2214 PY - 2018/// N1 - Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 8 1.1 Background 8 1.2 Aim of the thesis 10 1.3 Key objectives of the thesis 10 1.4 Need for the thesis 12 1.5 Methodology 13 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 19 2.1 Background 19 2.2 Peri-Urban Interface in the Indian context 20 2.3 History of the study region – a socialist and political view 25 3 OBJECTIVE 1 – MACRO LEVEL OBJECTIVE 28 3.1 Background 28 3.2 Historical documentation 30 3.3 Brief overview – BMC and New Town – 33 3.4 Summary of objective 1 37 4 OBJECTIVE 2 – GROWTH AT THE STUDY REGION 42 4.1 Demographic changes 42 4.1.1 Demographic analysis in terms of population 44 4.1.2 Demographic analysis in terms of population density 46 4.2 Spatial changes 47 Assessing the growth of the study region through spatial growth 47 4.2.1 Spatial growth at the macro-level 48 4.2.2 Spatial growth at the mouza level 50 4.3 Summary of objective 2 - Correlating between spatial and demographic growth patterns 62 4.3.1 Pre-2011 phase 62 4.3.2 Post-2011 phase 65 5 OBJECTIVE 3 – COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITHIN THE STUDY REGION 67 5.1 Understanding the time frames of the settlements 70 5.2 Understanding the occupational shifts 71 5.2.1 Polenite (Ward 28) 71 5.2.2 Thakdari (Ward 27) 72 5.2.3 Mahishbathan and Nayapatti (Both in Ward 28) 73 5.2.4 Tarulia (Ward 27) 74 5.2.5 Mahishgot (Ward 27) 75 5.3 Understanding the diversity in terms of housing typology 76 5.3.1 Mahishbathan (Ward 28) 76 5.3.2 Nayapatti (Ward 28) 78 5.3.3 Polenite (Ward 28) 79 5.3.4 Tarulia (Ward 27) 80 5.3.5 Mahishgot (Ward 27) 81 5.3.6 Thakdari (Ward 28) 82 5.4 Access to infrastructure 85 5.4.1 Water Supply 85 5.4.2 Garbage collection 86 5.4.3 Toilets 87 5.4.4 Drainage / Waterlogging / Flooding 88 5.5 Transport links 89 5.5.1 Ward 28 89 5.5.2 Ward 27 89 6 CONCLUSION 92 6.1 Findings 92 6.1.1 General findings 92 6.1.2 Reasons for growing urbanisation patterns in the study region 93 6.1.3 Reflecting between the survey data and the spatial analysis (2001 – present) 93 6.2 Aspects showing scope for further improvements 100 6.2.1 Option 1 - Providing tenure to the people living here on that land 100 6.2.2 Option 2 – Phase wise relocation of the people encroaching the canal front to reserved sites for EWS and LIG housing 101 6.2.3 Option 3 (Pre-requisite for any development) - Monitoring or enforcing regulations at a previous stage, for peri-urban areas, to prevent unplanned developments 102 6.3 Observed limitations 103 7 REFERENCES 104 8 ANNEXURE 106 8.1 Questionnaire for the reconnaissance household survey (done at an earlier stage) 106 8.2 Checklist questionnaire for the key person interviews 107 8.3 Checklist questions for Focussed group discussions 108 ER -