1Junior Research Fellow, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata. E-mail: sk.akher@gmail.com
2Associate Professor, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata. E-mail: Chattopadhyaysubhra@yahoo.in
Online published on 21 March, 2018.
Urban planning often ignores micro-morphological set up of the concerned area. Later on, several environmental problems may originate due to absence of alertness about morphological condition. Nothing is exception for Kolkata New Town planning. Kolkata New Town is a planned township in the east of Kolkata. The town has emerged over 20.3 sq. km of wetland and 40.8 sq. km of agricultural land. This study aims to understand how far the micro morphological set up of the area has been concerned in Kolkata New Town Planning. Flowmap has been prepared by ArcSWAT with the help of DEM. It shows that the channel network of the area once converged in present day new town area and then flowed east and then south-east. Later on Kolkata New Town has been developed by filling up the wetland as well as by obscure the natural flow. Waterlogging in the town and its peripheral areas is inevitable in coming future.
