Chronological development and land use pattern.

1. SILIGURI URBAN AREA

2. INTRODUCTION
LOCATION OF THE STUDY AREA
ORIGIN AND GROWTH
DEMOGRAPHY
MORPHOLOGY
SPREADING FUNCTION OF URBAN AREA
MIGRATION PULL FACTOR OF SILIGURI

3.  The city of siliguri , Situated At 396 above sea
level and on the banks of of Mahananda
River(Length of 91 kms And earlier name was
Mahanadi A benagali corruption of Mahanadi
the Lepcha name of the river) is a witness as
the importance Geographical Location . In the
growth and development of a place.Siliguri is
situated at the base of the himalaya Mountains
in the Plains. Its the largest city in the
Northbengal and Third largest city in
westbengal after kollkata and assansol .

5.  There are many opinion to growth of siliguri
urban region. But there are two main opinion
about the origin of The name siliguri.
 1st opinion: That is derived from the
word ‘shill’ meaning small stone. Its said
name originated from the broken
boulders Which lie scattered in the
mahananda river.
 2nd opinion: That means ‘A place with sal
tress’.

7. Based on Census data of 2011, the city has a
population of 705,579, while the population of
Siliguri UA/Metropolitan is 1,057,438.[2][3] Males
constitute 51% of the population and females 49%.
In Siliguri, 10% of the population is under six years
of age.
Due to the city's booming economy, it has drawn
people from Bihar, Jharkhand, North Bengal, North-
East, Sikkim and other parts of India in search of
livelihood. Siliguri also has a large population of
Tibetans and a notable number of Bhutanese
permanently settled in the city.[5]

8. DEMOGRAPHY STATASTICS (2011)

9. Factors of growth Urbanization has been now
felt pervasively over the entire world (Davies,
1981). It has now become a prime
phenomenon of Siliguri Municipal
Corporation now because sizable proportion
of the population now lives in the
corporation. Several major factors exhibiting
in the area are the main impetus to the
growth of the Corporation. The faceors are as
follows.

10. Subsequently in 1981 Siliguri Women’s
college, in 1987, Kalipada Ghosh Terai
Mahavidyalaya in Bagdogra and in 1998,
and 1962, Surya Sen College and North
Bengal University, that is, the only
university in the entire region, was
established at a place called Shivmandir
near Siliguri. The place was officially
renamed as Raja Rammohanpur, but the
old name still persists. The Medical
College and Hospital was established in
1967.

11. The Siliguri Municipal Corporation was
incorporated in 1994 with a total area of
26.37 km2 under its jurisdiction. The area
not only covered the 15.54 km2 of the
erstwhile Siliguri Municipality but also
included a part of the area from Jalpaiguri
and Darjeeling districts. Today it is arguably
the second most important corporation area
in the.

12. Population growth in Siliguri. Every ten years
The concerned population
1931 6067
1941 10487
1951 32480
1961 65471
1971 97484
1981 153825

13. Urban morphology is the study of the form of
human settlement and the process of
their formation and transformation. The study
sheeks to understand the spatial
structure and character of metropoliton area ,
city, town or village by examining the
pattern of its component part and the ownership
or control and occupation.
Typically , analysis of physical form focuses on
streat pattern .

15.  Siliguri have now become as much a centre of
sociocultural activities as the town is a
cosmopolitan in nature. It is comprised of
Bhutia, Marwari, Bengali, Bihari and Nepali
people with substantial portion of Rajbanshi,
the original inhabitant of the area. The town
with a significant amount of social leisure
facilities as cinemas, theatres, art galleries,
entertainment parks etc. act as magnets to the
surrounding population.

16. Population :- Siliguri city is governed
municipal corporation which comes under
siliguri metropolition region . Asper
population of siliguri in 2011 is 512, 264,
of which males and femels are 263702
and respectively by.

17. Siliguri city Total Male Female
City population 513264 263702 249562
Literate 395802 211682 184120
Children 52540 27215 35325
Average literacy 85.91% 89.51%
Sex ratio 946
Child sex ratio 931

18. Description Total Percentage
Hindu 472108 91.98%
Muslims 27559 5.37%
Christian 4832 0.94
Buddhist 3337 0.65%
Not stated 3049 059%
Jain 1197 0.23%
Sikh 1089 0.21%
Other 93 0.02%

19.  Since the emergence as an urban centre,
sharp increase of population
concentration in Corporation has been
noticed. As Siliguri, being a centre of
trade and commerce in the region, has
great prospects for consumer goods
industries like bakery and confectionary,
biscuits, sports goods, incense sticks,
mineral water, soaps, chalk and pencils,
digital clocks etc., can have a huge
market and even small entrepreneurs can

21.  It has already been mentioned that there are
only 4- urban centres in the district, viz.,
Darjeeling, Kurseoung, Kalimpong and
Siliguri. Of these 4- centres Darjeeling was
systematically built up by the British as the
Summer Capital of Bengal due to its bracing
climate.

22. Kurseoung located in between Darjeeling and
the foothills was developed to perform
certain administrative functions. During
1901-31, the urban population of the district
was doubled. With the inclusion of more
areas within the district in 1931, two new
towns have come into existence the district,
Kalimpong and Siliguri.

27. Ranabasti and Sraban Nagar:-
asticollege has identified Ranabasti and Sraban Nagar
slums of wards 18 and 20 of Siliguri Municipal
Corporation, which are located within 4 km of the
Salesian College Siliguri Campus. The people of the
area come from Bangladesh, Nepal and Bihar and
very few are from neighbouring districts like Cooch
Behar, Jalpaiguri and from the surroundings of
Siliguri. There are over 600 families in this area. The
people are typically wage labourers, van pullers,
rickshaw pullers and private car drivers. Some of the
women are servants in the neighbouring households,
and a few are vegetable sellers in local markets

28. SL no Attributes Value
1 Total slum 185
2 Notified soums 154
3 Non-notified slums 31
4 Slum population 161876
5 Share slum
population again
total population
32 %
6 Slum household 35134
7 BPL household 22898

30.  Urban geography by R.B.Mandal
 CDP final project of siliguri
 Census,Haandbook of siliguri
 http://www.cencus
2011.co.in/cencus/city/192-siliguri.html
 www.siligurimc.in
 Internet