The scope of tourism industry in the Islands of the Sundarbans; The active deltaic area with special references to Sagar Island

Indian Sundarbans, a bunch of islands, is situated at the southern part of 24 Parganas (including South and North 24 Parganas). These areas, built up on the active deltaic regions, are made up of the transported or sedimentary soil of the different distributaries of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and other rivers. Settlement history is not more than 100 year old here; most of these settlers have flocked from either East Pakistan (Bangladesh) at the eastern part of Sundarban or Midnapur and adjacent areas of Orissa in the western part of the Sundarbans. Economically this area is less developed than the main land. These active deltaic islands may be identified as a region tourism development. But there are several problems for developing tourism in this area. The Sagar Island, a largest island in the sundarban deltaic area, situated along the western part of Sundarbans active deltaic islands and also south western part of the South 24 Parganas, attract the Hindu pilgrims and the tourists for the temple of kapil muni and the unique beauty of the Coast of the Bay of Bengal. This paper deals attempts identify the different types of problems and suggests the prospect of tourism in this area.