ANALYSING THE DYNAMICES OF LAND USE/LAND COVER AND URBANISATION OF JALANDHAR DISTRICT PUNJAB, INDIA.

NEHA DEVI, Lovely Professional University

Urbanization is the process of becoming urban, moving to city, changing from agriculture to other pursuits. In India out of the total population of 1210.2 million as on 2011, about 377.1 million are in urban areas according to MOHUA accounting 32% of urbanization. The study area of research is Jalandhar district of Punjab. The share of urban population of Punjab increased from 33.9 per cent to 37.5 per cent from 2001 to 2011 census Based on the trends of growth identified by PUDA, almost half of the Punjab’s urban population is living in four districts namely Ludhiana, Mohali, Amritsar, Jalandhar .The aim of the study was to analyses the dynamics of land use landcover. The study included Landsat images of three years i.e. 2004, 2014 and 2024. Changing aspects of land use/land cover were calculated using a supervised classification in the Geographical Information System. The results of Research show that the urbanization process is rapidly increasing in Jalandhar district along with the changes in LULC. The decrease in agriculture land shows the enlargement of cities. A balance is required to be maintained between urbanization and environmental health of the city.

Keywords: Internal Migration and Urbanization, Population, Environment, and Climate Change

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