Current Layout of Urban Infrastructure and Amenities in Gayeshpur Municipality of District Nadia - A Baseline Assessment

摘要

For the holistic development of urban panorama within the jurisdiction limit of any local self Government, different planning strategies are required to be adopted on an urgent basis. Urban planning here plays a pivotal role in implementing manifold technical as well as political processes coherent to the utilization of land and design of the urban environs including its infrastructure and amenities passing in and out of the urban arena such as transportation and distribution network and so on and so forth. The current paper will through focus on urban infrastructure and amenities in Gayeshpur Municipality that is included within the District of Nadia. In the entire discussion, water supply, drainage and road network, health and educational facilities etc of Gayeshpur will be highlighted under a totalistic coverage and some selected case-studies will also be present there. Gayeshpur was declared to be a Notified Area in 1979 and thereafter it was elevated to the Municipality Status in the year of 1995. As per the 2011 census, this study unit encompasses total eighteen wards the total area of which is near about 30 Square Kilometers. From the Draft Development Plan published recently from the end of Gayeshpur (M), all the secondary datasets have been procured by the researcher whereas the vivid questionnaire survey has enlightened him a lot with all the required primary databases. In Gayeshpur, there is only one stand pump prevailing still now for the facilitation of water supply in all of its internal wards and the break-down of this pump leads to a complete disruption in water supply in the entire Municipality. Therefore the installation of an alternative pump is urgently required over there. In Gayeshpur, most of the wards are endowed with well-developed network of drains to maintain proper waste water and sullage disposal but in some specific areas, the drainage outlets have been almost choked due to excessive accumulation of garbage, plastic bags etc disposed by the inhabitants of Gayeshpur. In some particular wards of Gayeshpur, the metalled roads are broken due to frequent movement of heavy luggage-vans and lorries and that’s why prompt attention should be paid in these premises. For obtaining higher education, still today, most of the students travel from Gayeshpur to nearby municipal belts and it’s also a burning problem in the whole Municipality. Though different Health Improvement Programmes have been launched recently by the Government but not all the target group have received their blessings yet. Four market places, five banks, one stadium and one children’s park are forming the integral whole of urban amenities in entire Gayeshpur and thus much more improvement in this domain is another prime requisite here. In order to promote the social upward mobility of the urban paupers of Gayeshpur, though some NGOs have initiated contributing financial aids very recently but for ushering a totalistic development in this urban sector and to uplift its socio-economic conditions to their fullest fruition, the municipality itself will have to struggle a lot in coming days.