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What are the bases on which towns have grown up in Assam?Explain with examples.​

Answer 1

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Urbanization carries several important dimensions that collectively and individually produce macro and micro impacts on the society and everyday life. Among these dimensions, Urban Geography and Regional planning are the most expanding sub-disiciplines of Geography to identify and account for the distribution and growth of towns and cities and spatial similarities and contrasts that exists within and between them, and their role in regional and urban development over the last decades both in terms of theoretical concepts and practical applications. The paper attempts to assess the growth of the small towns in the surroundings of Guwahati city in terms of its origin, size and spatial distribution.

In order to achieve the study’s objectives, secondary sources have been taken, like Census of India Reports, Statistical Handbook of Assam, Master plan and City Development Plan. The study depicts that the growth of small towns in the surroundings of Guwahati city is stagnant, slow and high based on decadal growth of towns for a period of 1901-2001. The Spatial distribution of small towns in the study region reveals unevenness, linear and scattered in pattern and high concentration around the Guwahati city. the trend of urbanisation in the study region is found to be remarkably high as compared to the situation of Assam, due to the dominance of the lone Class-I city i.e Guwahati.

Key Words: Urbanisation, dimensions, spatial, growth, surroundings, stagnant, dominance

Answer 2

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Assam has the largest urban population of 4.3 million (Census 2011) amongst the North-eastern States. Guwahati has about 0.9 million urban population, while the other large cities of the state are Nagaon (population 116,355), Dibrugarh (population 138,661) and Silchar (population 172,709). This indicates that other than the concentration of more than 25% urban population of Assam in Guwahati and surrounding urban agglomeration, Assam has a well distributed urban population across the state. The state’s level of urbanization is 14 per cent in the Census 2011, which is a 1.2 percentage point increase over the Census 2001 urbanization level of 12.9 per cent. However, it is lower than the all-India annual rate of urbanization which is 2.82 per cent per annum in 2001-2011.

There are a total of 97 Notified towns in Assam. This excludes the Census towns, which do not fall under the jurisdiction of T&CP.The summary of their size-class is given in the following table:

(here k means 1000)

Class I towns 100k and above with 3 towns

Class-II towns 50k to 99999 with 9 towns.

Class lll towns 20 k to 49999 with23 towns.

Class IV towns 10k to 19999 with 33 towns

Class V towns 5k to 9999 with 17 towns.

Class VI towns Below 5k with 10 towns.

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