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Changing Land Use Pattern in Chatra Wetland of English Bazar Town: Rationale and Flaws
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Chatra wetland is located at the north western outskirt Malda town. This paper has highlighted the changing land use pattern of the wetland since 1971 to present. Urban encroachment toward the wetland area is the major vector of land use change at present. Government and local people are interested to turn the wetland into habitable land. This paper has also attempted to judge the rationale of wetland conversion.
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Land Use Pattern, Settlement Encroachment, Change Detection of Land Utilization
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