PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Department of Architecture and Regional Planning , IIT, Kharagpur

Perspective Plan for Barddhaman Planning Area – Vision 2025

PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE



Salient features- Water Supply

Mainly the rivers Damodar, and Ajoy are forming important

surface water sources of the district.

Majority of the households are depending on ground water for

drinking

through own tube wells rather than depending upon those

available for

community as a whole.

Even in rural areas, the demand for piped water facility has

been

increasing.

Majority of people in urban areas are satisfied with the

availability of

potable water, whereas it is comparatively low in rural areas.

People prefer exclusive use of drinking water sources rather

than

depending upon common facilities



General Distribution of Persons in BPA by sources of Potable Water




Comparative assessment on average dependency of Urban(Municipal) and Rural population on source of potable

water

25.5

18.2

8

2.7

30.6

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43

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59.5

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Comparative representation of the ‘access to sources of drinking water by Urban(Municipal) and Rural populations

6.1 3.8 2.2 2.76.2

11.16.4 8.5

84.6

66.7

0

30

60

90

Nil less than10 m

between10-25 m

between26-50 m

greaterthan 51 m

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Salient features-Sanitation

Most crucial problem existing in BPA is the poor sanitation and drainage

facilities available.

In many semi-urban areas, considerable percentage of the households

use open space as latrine.




In general, only 6.9% of populations in BPA are provided with a sewer system.

The systematic sewer system is totally absent in rural and the percentage of

people practicing open defecation is increasing to the tune of 37%




The percentage of people having the ‘exclusive use’ of toilet facility

decreases from urban to rural areas.



Salient features-Drainage

On an average, the underground drainage system covers only 1.75% of

households in BPA; while 53.14% and 12.3% of households have ‘open pucca’

and ‘open kutcha’ drain respectively. It is observed that nearly one-third of

the total number of households live in premises without any drainage facility

Pucca drains are limited only to average 9.13% households in rural areas, whereas 62.56% have no facilities at all.

1.96

68.77

8.46

21.08

62.56

2.82

17.98

6.069.13

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Most of the drainage channels are stagnant due to solid waste dumping.

It is learned that more than 50% of the households, even in many

urban locations are facing water logging.




MouzaArea

(Hects.)

Amar 486.82

Palitpur 492.99

Diuri 76.58

Malkita 255.93

Saraitikar 414.86

Jotgoda 52.54

Krishnapur 56.71

Rayan 1086.36

Nari 482.56

Ichhlabad 315.47

Nandara 230.7

Baikunthapur 291.28

Jotram 149.06

Chaitpur 199.35

Bongpur 272.62

Birutikri 147.76

TOTAL 5083.15% of Population

RURAL 70%

URBAN 50%



Salient features-Solid Waste Management

Only 18.21% of households are using the vats for disposal of solid wastes and

majority of households are throwing the wastes either to road sides (42.69%)

or open drains (2.32%), with 17.33% of them have no specific area for

dumping.




The solid waste produced in urban centers of BPA are of domestic origin and

in rural areas people are generating wastes from using cow dung, including

domestic and other agricultural wastes.




There is no systematic arrangement for the collection and treatment of solid

waste except for the central town area.

Road side dumping and burning of wastes are common. No specific sites are

exclusively reserved for solid waste disposal and people are at liberty to dump

wherever free and open spaces are available

Dumping of solid waste on the road side; a common scene.




Exiting system of solid waste management, suffers much, due to the unplanned

and ill managed traditional practice of collection and transportation of solid

waste. Surely, solid waste management is one of the important areas

demanding urgent attention.

Stagnation of drainage channels due to dumping of solid waste.

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