Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

D. N. Basu

Abstract

The need for socio-economic data for any level of urban planning hardly needs any restatement. Any comprehensive document on urban planning prepared in this country or outside will emphasise the importance of studies on economic and demographic base for the area under review.

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D. N. Basu

Abstract

The present paper seeks to analyse the role of new towns in the over-all process of urbanisation in West Bengal. New towns, in the present analysis, mean the towns which are for the first time declared as 'Towns' in different censuses of India. In other words new towns are those places which are elevated to urban category by census from their previous rural status.

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