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    Changing Pattern of Land Use and Land Cover in Balason River Basin: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis
    (Bluerose Publishers, 2022) Mandal, Deepak Kumar; Mitra, Rajib; Roy, Dipesh; Saha, Snehasish; Chakrabarty, Kunal; Das, Mantu
    Land use and land cover (LULC) are significant aspect in determining how human impacts interact with the environment; hence it's cn1cial to predict changes. The empirical analysis revealed a considerable shift in LULC categorization in the Balason River Basin in the Darjeeling region of India. This study attempts to look into how LULC has changed over the past 30 years (1990-2020) in the Balason River Basin. The study area has seen a remarkable growth in population over the years, which has altered the environment of the area. The LULC classification was performed based satellite imageries, and therefore, Landsat imageries were acquired from the USGS satellite image database from 1990-2020. The Maximum Likelihood Algorithm was chosen for supervised image class(fication in order to categorize the LULC. The current study has revealed that the amount of forest area, which was around 72.19 percent in 1990, decreased to 59.22 percent in 2005 and 54.53 percent in 2020. Water bodies and tea plantation is also have experienced a rapid change in their area through time. Agricultural land and built-up areas have remarkably increased from 13.06 to 22. 05 percent and 5. 15 to 13. 72 percent, respectively. The findings highlighted the growing anthropogenic activities. influe11ced the recharge rates, surface runoff, and soil erosion incidences in the Balason basin. it was suggested that the basin's ecosystem be preserved by replanting the lost native trees. In addition, effective land use planning is necessary for the basin's sustainable management.
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    The Origin and Growth of Kalimpong as an Urban Hill Station in Colonial India: A Historical Study
    (University of North Bengal, 2018-03) Roy, Dipesh
    Urbanization has not been uniform all over the world. Different ages have witnessed localized growth. The degree of urbanization of a nation is generally defined as a proportion of the population resident in urban places. Kalimpong as a hill urban centre was developed later than the most hill stations in India. Kalimpong was nowhere on the map of India before 1865. Actually, the region of Kalimpong was originally a part of Sikkim from which it was taken over by Bhutan. Finally following a defeat in the Anglo- Bhutanese war in 1865 Bhutan handed over the tract to the British government of India in 1865. The trend of urbanization in Kalimpong was not same as the satellite town of Darjeeling rather Kalimpong civil station had a character of its own, totally different from the seasonal retreats by virtue of their social life, their good spirits and style. Above all it was meant for the Indians and Anglo- Indians.