An Appraisal of Urban Infrastructure and Amenities: A Case Study of Gayeshpur Municipality of Nadia District

It is right time to look into the urban infrastructure facilities as the rapid pace of urbanization is set to be continued across the world by various factor such as migration and natural growth. Urban centers across country are full of constraint in the sectors of water supply, waste water management, storm water and drainages and solid waste management as well as social infrastructure facilities such as health facilities, education facility, banks, and so on. This paper is identified the towns in Gayeshpur and examined infrastructure facilities status. The first objective of this paper is to identify towns in Gayeshpur based on the 2001 census. The second objective is to examine the status of physical and social infrastructure facilities and compare it to the benchmarks of urban services which were documented by government of India and finally draw useful inference for sustaining growth of towns in Gayeshpur. The research methodology was adopted through statistical reports of Gayeshpur and data available to public domain from various line agencies. The research tools and techniques used for the analysis of data are GIS arch, MS Excel and so on.