Influence of planned urban development in Kolkata’s peri-urban areas: A case of Mahishbathan Gram Panchayat
witnessed predominantly in the last two phases shown above. However, on the larger aspect, only New Town has shown massive transformations spatially.
Figure 4.5 : The study region (highlighted in yellow) with surroundings in 2017 Source: Google Earth
4.2.2 Spatial growth at the mouza level At the study region, at the mouza level, the assessment for spatial growth has been done specifically for the most populated mouzas – Nayapatti, Mahishbathan and Polenite, all of which co-incidentally fall in ward 28. There are specifically two reasons for spatially demonstrating these mouzas. These reasons can be explained as follows: -
Firstly, all these three mouzas have experienced the highest population growth from 2001 to 2011 (280% decadal growth and 14.3% annual growth, as statistically shown in demographic analysis earlier).
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Additionally, all of these mouzas have undergone enormous physical transformation during the given time frame, specifically highlighting the years 2005, 2011 and 2017 respectively. 50
