47% respectively

INDUSTRY (Two Industrial Estates: Auto Nagar Industrial Estate & Kondapalli Industrial Estate)

TRADE & COMMERCE

(The city has trading and exporting markets for agriculture and industrial goods) • Vijayawada serves majorly in a marketing center for Agricultural produce like rice, pulses and oil seeds. • Due to better connections industries began growing in Vijayawada. • Vijayawada is a major commercial hub for products like automobile spare parts, textiles and furniture.

CITY OUTGROWTH : INFERENCE:

Agriculture (60.81% of the total area), Residential (13.18 % of the total area) and Forest areas (9.34% of the total area). By 2018 these classes remained as the most dominant with some slight changes. For instance, the Residential and the Forest area classes increased to 14.32% and 9.47% respectively.

Vijayawada metropolitan area covering an area of 104.8 sq.km. New outgrowth villages are: 1. Nidamanuru, 2. Kanuru, 3. Enikapadu, 4. Poranki, 5. Prasadampadu, 6. Penamaluru, 7.Ramavarapadu. Agriculture (60.81% of the total area), Residential (13.18 % of the total area) and Forest areas (9.34% of the total area). By 2018 these classes remained as the most dominant with some slight changes. For instance, the Residential and the Forest area classes increased to 14.32% and 9.47% respectively. Further information on the class disaggregation and area coverage is presented in graphically epochs 2003 and 2018 respectively. By 2018 several trends were observed in the class distribution and the area coverage. For instance, the Agriculture class decreased by 1.77% for the period 2003 - 2018, by losing 16.82 km2 from its initial area of 580.69 km2 in 2003.

DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING TRANSPORTATION PLANNING STUDIO M.PLAN(TIP) - II SEM SCHOOL OF PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE VIJAYAWADA CITY PROFILE