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General Land use Pattern Of City

The relative importance of each of these land use naturally varies within the area and in order to understand this aspect; the proportion of area devoted to each land use is shown in the map. The Industrial areas are dominant in the northwestern part of the study such as Rawabhata, Bhanpuri and Sarora. Similarly the commercial area is found in the center core of city and residential area is located in the western and southern part of the city where the area devoted to residential land use is relative higher than other part of the city, Between the residential and commercial area, a belt of mixed residential cum commercial land use emerge in Pantritarai, Fafadih etc.

The study area can be divided into functional areas on the basis of land use characteristics Raipur serves as an administrative center for Chhattisgarh region. The city is required to hold administrative entities of all the hierarchies viz, state division or Zonal, district and local level.

The administrative zone in the southwestern part of thecenterof city and northeastern part of the city that is Jora stands out clearly. No other land use is dominant in this area except in a couple of pockets. The location of Raipur, along the main transport routes of the country like NH6 and N.H.43 and state highway 5 has made Raipur as a nerve center of regional trade and commerce cum industrial center.

Raipur has already attained the status of principal education center of higher learning. Engineering, Technical Training Course, Indra Gandhi Agricultural University and Ravishankar University are some of the higher order education centers that have already come up in the city. These institutions together with organizations like research and development let Raipur a status of education cum research center of the region.

Conclusion
It can be concluded that the urban growth during the period 1997- 2001 has affected the land use change in different categories. Large amount of change has occurred in residential, industrial and commercial establishment. “Raipur has just expanded not developed, and expanded haphazardly .The planners have been unable to cope with the speed of expansion”, says journalist Srivastava Describing the city as symptomatic of an ill society and embodiment of a decaying system, he feels there is no apparent remedy to this situation and that the city is heading for a doom with the coming up of the new capital.

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