Socio-Economic changes of existing villages of new town, Kolkata

Urban growth of a metropolitan city is a common phenomenon especially in a developing country like India. Urban growth creates pressure on the existing infrastructure of the main city and urban growth is also lead to haphazard expansion. In present-day development of satellite town is considered as the best solution to avoid such problems. Establishment of a satellite town along with all kind of amenities in an area leads to a transformation of the configuration of the whole area. Changes in the basic structure of an area will have some obvious impacts. This paper seeks to find out whether the development of satellite town determines any change of socioeconomic status of in and around villages of a satellite town. The study has been conducted in New Town, Kolkata which is developing since the 1990s and is a satellite town of Kolkata city. Thus, the transformation of socioeconomic status has been considered from the 1990s to present with secondary data.