GUWAHATI

IMMIGRANTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES

MAJOR FINDINGS
OF GRAPH THEORY
14% 15%

Guwahati and the small towns are

classified into 5 categories based
on availability of the infrastructure
71%
facilities measured in terms of
NEPAL BANGLADESH OTHERS
centrality score. Maximum
LANDUSE PATTERN of towns i.e. more than 90
percent falls into 3rd, 4th, 5th
22% order with CS range of 50-150.  Only
Guwahati city in first order
46%
followed by 3 towns namely,
12%
Barpeta, Nalbari and
10%
LAND USE / LAND COVER PLAN POPULATION DENSITY PLAN Mangaldoi in the 2nd
10%
order with centrality score (CS) range
BUILT UP
FORESTS
AGRICULTURE LAND
WASTELAND
of 150-200. This shows a wide gap
WATER BODIES between the CS of Guwahati city with
IMMIGRANTS FROM OTHER STATES
1012.99 and the next higher Class
14% size towns with CS of around 200.
10%
42%
Land use change of Guwaha-
10% ti city for the year 1990 and 2004
11%
reveals that highest area is un-
13% der built up. In 1990 built up area
OTHERS U.P. MEGHALAYA was 34.64 %, which increases to
RAJASTHAN W. BENGAL BIHAR
45.46 % in 2004 at the cost of decrease
FOREST COVER of agricultural land, forest and
6% wasteland. Agricultural land
covered 12.50 percent in 1990 and
PHYSIOGRAPHY PLAN DISTRIBUTION OF WORKERS 9.82 percent in 2004, followed by
40%
54%
forests 13.60 percent in 1990 and
decreases to 9.04 percent in 2004.
Wasteland  was 15.52 percent in
VERY DENSE 1990 and 12.53 percent in 2004.
MODERATELY DENSE
OPEN FOREST/DEGRADED
Guwahati city has undergone a
TOTAL POPULATION OF GUWAHATI
tremendous pressure on land use,
due to high growth rate of 40.12,
as compared to India’s average of
41%
21.15 in 2001 Census, and high
density of population of 3774 results
59% in growth of slums and squatters.  

MIGRANTS NON-MIGRANTS
The haphazard growth of
TRANSPORT NETWORK urbanization trend in Guwahati
city may generate numerous social
problems like any other populated
city. Ecological imbalances, traffic
congestion and emergence of slums
and squatters have already become
major issues of the Guwahati city.
The existing urban infrastructure
of Guwahati city is not adequate to
improve the quality of human life.
Urban Design -1

 
Flow of migrants to Guwahati city
from all the small towns of the study
area, irrespective of Class size and
their distance is revealed. It may
be summarized that demand for
labor, availability of land, good
economic opportunities act as
a pull factor encouraging the
flow of migrants. Lack of job
opportunities in the towns act as
a push factor for the growth of 7
squatter settlements
examined in the study.
UD-1

Kriti Verma . Ridham Seth . Ritu Thakur. S.Sukhbir Singh Dayal