Impact of Urban Agglomeration in Landuse pattern for Gorakhpur & Bareilly city
India sets a classic example leading to land scarcity or problem of land management, which has now become part of the global problem of saving the earth. It is known that land, after air and water, is the most critical resource on which life depends. However the major global concerns is the problem of the declining land resources that are being threatened by the rapid human population growth which convert the fertile agriculture land to create urban structure. Taking lead from this, Land use department of State Planning Commission, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh had conduct this study to know the impact of urban agglomerations on land use pattern of Gorakhpur and Bareilly districts of Uttar Pradesh in order to know the speed with which fertile agriculture land is being converted and to find net loss of agriculture production. The current study more emphasized the strict implementation of agricultural land conversion laws and greater encouragement for farmers to remain in farming activities. It also lead stress on zoning or area development plan should be consider in context to the density of urban population, in order to explore vacant or barren land for urban expansion. Overall, the study emphasized more on to have multipurpose use of land into consideration and Vertical Urban Planning. The policy makers and programme managers will benefited from the study and will led urban planning policy and programme guidelines for future urban development. drharshitsinha@consultant.com