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    Demographic Characteristics and Infrastructural Facilities in Alipurduar Municipality, West Bengal
    (Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, 2022) Basak, Arindam
    Demographic characteristics refers to the various demographic parameters like population growth, age, sex. male-female distribution, household size, workers category, scheduled caste and scheduled tribe population. literacy rate etc. Infrastructure is the backbone of any developmental work. Infrastructure is a combination of two words ' infra' and 'structure'. which means something that needs to be created before the building up of the structure. Alipurduar Municipality is a Class II town according to Census 2011. However, this does not impede its importance being the only municipal town in the district of Alipurduar. Given a resurgence of urban activities in Alipurduar Municipality in recent times associated with its emergence as district headquarter the demographic and physical infrastructure is witnessing a rapid change...
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    Temporal Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Case Study of Alipurduar Town, West Bengal
    (The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, 2022-02) Dey Roy, Tuhin
    Population growth and associated infrastructure development have altered the landscape; affecting land use and land cover patterns even in remote regions of developing countries. Alipurduar, being located at unique geographical location in the heartland of diversified floral and faunal assemblage also witnessed urban expansion. Land use change is unavoidable especially in this age of development and urbanization. Therefore, monitoring and measurement of land use and land cover is significant to find out the exact scenario of urbanization. This paper primarily aims to analyze the changing land use and land cover pattern of Alipurduar Town. West Bengal for last two decades. For this study different satellite images have been analyzed with GIS and Remote Sensing techniques to visualize the change in land use and land cover.