A K M Anwaruzzaman

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• Ph D
• Professor at Aliah University

Migration pathways are the routes or the courses the migrants usually take to migrate from one place to another. Over time, the pathways of migration have evolved and become faster and more diverse. With the rapid advancement of ICTs, unregulated migration pathways are being exposed easily, and an increasing number of people are grasping it as an e...

Shifting of river courses of the Ganga and the Padma in the stretch flowing bordering Malda District, over several years, has given birth to a large number of river islands of varying sizes. The river islands belonging to Malda District may be grouped into three, namely Bhutni-Duani Char, Piarpur-Palashgachhi Char and Deonapur-Sujapur Char. The pre...

The chapter makes an endeavor to study the fertility differentials by religious groups (Hindu and Muslim) and the regional dimension of such differentials. The internal migration as well as immigration in the country is a very contentious issue, particularly in the backdrop of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizen Amendment Act (CAA)....

In India, 135 million people suffer from overweight/obesity. The prevalence of obesity varies by age, gender, location, and socioeconomic factors in India. The existing healthcare services are causing a growing public health concern. This study used the National Family Health Survey data from 2005-06 to 2015-16 to measure the prevalence and obesity...

The differential fertility rates among various religious groups, particularly the high fertility rate of Muslims is a contentious issue both in West Bengal and India. The atmosphere of doubt and suspicion cause hindrance in the path of overall development. The main purpose of this chapter is to find out the role of gender disparity in the high fert...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: One of the most challenging aspects of city living is traffic congestion. The multitude of vehicular modes and their sheer volume coupled with inadequate road infrastructure unable to keep up with the escalated travel demand of Kolkata is a major cause of concern. Recognizing the significant toll on commuters' time and he...

Today, entire humanity is vulnerable to climate change at varying scales depending on the geo-environment in which they live and the biosphere from which they draw livelihood. The ‘Ecosystem People’ feel the onslaught of climate change much before others. Farmers of West Bengal being no exception are vulnerable to climate change. The farming system...

Today, entire humanity is vulnerable to climate change at varying scales depending on the geo-environment in which they live and the biosphere from which they draw livelihood. The ‘Ecosystem People’ feel the onslaught of climate change much before others. Farmers of West Bengal being no exception are vulnerable to climate change. The farming system...

Access to food is determined by socioeconomic conditions, food prices, and the purchasing power of households to buy enough food or actual food intake. The phenomenon of hunger is very much region- or context-specific. India remains in the ‘severe’ category in the Global Hunger Index Severity Scale, 2017. Noticing the importance of food for survivi...

Natural disasters affect the vulnerable socio-economic strata more forcefully than do the economic disasters. The construction of Farakka Barrage in 1975 over the river Ganga has adversely affected the natural flow and the course of the river as well. The shifting of river bank has become a routine phenomenon and consequently several parts of Malda...

The study examines inter-district differentials in child health status in rural West Bengal with the help of data acquired from the National Family Health Survey-IV, conducted during 2015 -16. The Choropleth mapping technique has been used to analyze the pattern of child health status at the district level. There were 19 districts in the state in 2...

Despite being fully aware of the fact that the children of today are the future of tomorrow, we destroy our future through the evil process of child marriage. Although there are various government legislations and number of efforts made by various government and non-government organizations in the country to aware the people about the dark side of...

Early marriage of girls has been an age old practice and a severe menace in the Indian society. Marriage of girls below the legal age of marriage is common in many parts of India as well as much prevalent among many communities too. Even marriage of girls before attaining the age of puberty is also not very rare phenomenon. Though the practice of e...

Among the various socio-economic factors determining human fertility, education is considered as one of the most important factors. In this study, an attempt has been made to examine the impact of level of educational attainment on the fertility behaviour of Muslim women in rural areas of West Bengal. The present Community Development (CD) block le...

Zorastrian, popularly known as Parsi in India, population are primarily 7th century immigrants from Iran. Ordinarily it is believed that advent of Islam in Iran led to flee of Parsis and taking shelter in the Indian subcontinent. Comparing India's large population (1.35 billion), Parsis are always numerically very weak (0.007 per cent) and have a n...

Shifting of river courses of the Ganga and the Padma in the stretch flowing bordering Malda District, over several years, has given birth to a large number of river islands of varying sizes. The river islands belonging to Malda District may be grouped into three, namely Bhutni-Duani Char, Piarpur-Palashgachhi Char and Deonapur-Sujapur Char. The pre...

The latest Census of India (2011) has recorded a high growth of urban population at the tune of 3.35 per cent during 2001-2011. The share of the urban population in India stood at 31.1 per cent in 2011. Some of the settlements, though classified to be urban, are hardly bearing urban characteristics. Many of them are severely lacking amenities and s...

The paper is an attempt to study the nature of the association between the distribution of population and its various demographic characteristic vis-à-vis physical resource base such as relief, land use/cover, crop productivity of a region by picking up the Ganges basin. The study conducted at the district level, collected data/information from var...

In India, the second-largest religious group of population is Muslim. According to the Census of India 2011data, the share of the population of the two largest religious groups of people i.e. Hindu and Muslim are 79.80 per cent and 14.23 per cent respectively. The fertility difference between these two religious groups appears as a burning and deba...

In the study of Urban Geography, the rank size distribution of urban centres attains prime importance while considering the overall observation of the distribution of urban centers in an urban system. It is assessed by ranking these centres in decreasing order of size for a specific region which may be a district or state or even a country. The con...

The work is about the regional spread of Covid-19 in India and its correlates.

This presentation attempts to discuss briefly the consensus of the growth of Census Towns in selected states of India along with the availability of some selected basic urban amenities. This will ultimately present a contrasting picture of the level of theoretical urbanization and the level of availability of urban facilities in the concerned areas...

Human history is observing a very strange time fighting with an invisible enemy; the novel COVID- 19 coronavirus. Initially the virus appears in late December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, has spread quickly nationwide. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will develop mild to moderate respiratory illness. Highly ris...

Gender disparity in literacy is one of the basic problems of the Indian society. Though the overall literacy rate is gradually increasing, the female literacy rate still lags behind the male literacy rate throughout the country. This disparity in literacy hampers the all round development of the society. Malda as a district with low literacy record...

Ethic is a set of moral principles that supposed to be governing one's behaviour or the conduct of an activity. While it is generally believed that ethics are getting eroded from individual’s life and also from the public life as well, the academics could not make enough safeguard to keep unaffected by dwindling ethical strength in it. Sanctity of...

Being one of the largest higher education systems the world, according to UGC data on Indian higher education system for the year 2015 – 16 there is about799 universities, both state universities and central universities, 39071 colleges and 11923 stand alone institutions enlisted by the All India Survey of Higher Education conducted by MHRD, Govt o...

Census towns are those which are urban in respect to the total population, population density and occupational engagement as laid down by Census of India in one hand but rural by nature in respect to administrative identity on the other. An important aspect to be mentioned is that the number of census towns (CTs) in India has grown from 1,362 in 20...

Census towns are those which are urban in respect to the total population, population density and occupational engagement as laid down by Census of India in one hand but rural by nature in respect to administrative identity on the other. An important aspect to be mentioned is that the number of census towns (CTs) in India has grown from 1,362 in 20...

Transportation is one of the foremost catalysts of the urban economy as it gives the necessary pace to it by means of connection between and among the places. The basic transport modes that serve commuters and other people to move in and around the urban area are Bus, Cabs, Trains, Metrorail, Ferry, and Trams. Among them, the tram is the only non-p...

Census towns are those which are urban in respect to the total population, population density and occupational engagement as laid down by Census of India in one hand but rural by nature in respect to administrative identity on the other. An important aspect to be mentioned is that the number of census towns (CTs) in India has grown from 1,362 in 20...

Transportation is one of the foremost catalysts of the urban economy as it gives the necessary pace to it by means of connection between and among the places. The basic transport modes that serve commuters and other people to move in and around the urban area are Bus, Cabs, Trains, Metrorail, Ferry, and Trams. Among them, the tram is the only non-p...

River banks are characterised by dynamic environments that change in response to a variety of inputs. Bank erosion ordinarily means losses of bank materials and individual particles or aggregates by fluvial, sub-aerial and geo-tectonic processes. It is a common phenomenon of geomorphic hazard associated with flood plains and meandering or braided r...

Being one of the largest higher education systems the world, according to UGC data on Indian higher education system for the year 2015 – 16 there is about799 universities, both state universities and central universities, 39071 colleges and 11923 stand alone institutions enlisted by the All India Survey of Higher Education conducted by MHRD, Govt o...

Ethic is a set of moral principles that supposed to be governing one's behaviour or the conduct of an activity. While it is generally believed that ethics are getting eroded from individual’s life and also from the public life as well, the academics could not make enough safeguard to keep unaffected by dwindling ethical strength in it. Sanctity of...

Urban growth and urbanization are often confused, while urban growth is considered to be addition to the existing population, urbanization is a process in which a rural habitation transformed into an urban through adoption of urbanism by its inhabitants from the perspectives of society, culture, economy, built environment, infrastructure, amenities...

The country-town symbiotic relationship is almost a universal phenomenon yet the nature and extent of the relationship is neither uniform nor homogeneous in case of all the city-country interacting regions. Though the concept of city region, like many other concepts are mental construct of researchers, yet it is possible to identify a region around...

The island of PPP (PPP stands for Piarpur, Paranpur and Palashgachhi) which is an extensive river island formed on the right side of the present thalweg in this stretch of Ganga river, is inhabited by people since last 80 to 90 years. The region is highly susceptible to repetitive aggradation and erosion by hydro-geomorphic process of the river. Du...

Sustained economic development of any region requires an efficient road transport network. It is generally considered to be a key ingredient of the growth and development. Roads play a significant role in promoting desirable change and transformation particularly in rural areas. Government of India has also initiated Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojan...

Accessible road transport network of rural area is one of the most important key factors for the development and transformation of the rural area and also the nation a whole. The rural road connectivity helps the rural people to access the various economic and social services easily and propels the agricultural and industrial production. It generat...

Malda is one of the districts that lags behind in terms of educational development. The literacy rate is one of the lowest in the state and also much lower as compared to national average. The general enrolment ratio (GER) is one of the lowest in the state and terms of enrolment ratio (ER) in higher education the district in also one of the most ba...

Education may be considered backbone of any nation. Through education one develops skill, reasoning and become rational being. The elementary education that may be termed as literacy that reflects several dimensions of the society, including socioeconomic conditions, gender equality etc. Unfortunately, in spite of having rich heritage of Malda dist...

Population Change in Statutory Towns in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area during 2001-2011: Nature, Causes, Consequences and Future Trend A K M Awaruzzaman, Aratrika Mukherjee & Rentu Biswas ABSTRACT Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) came into being in the year 1970 with Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) Act of 1970 which is a refined an...

Indian higher education system is one of the largest in the world. According to UGC data on Indian higher education system for the year 2014 – 2015 there is about 329 state universities, 46 central universities, 128 deemed to be universities, 74 institutions of national importance, and 205 state private universities functioning in the country. Besi...

Problem under the present study : Underage marriage of Girls in India and it’s regional dimensions. Nature, extent and regional pattern.

Fertility is an important attribute of demography of a region which may vary considerably within the same region. Fertility may be controlled by several socio-economic, demographic and biological factors such as literacy, work participation ratio, female work participation ratio, female literacy, tertiary sex ratio and age at marriage etc. Since th...

The country-town symbiotic relationship is almost a universal phenomenon yet the nature and extent of the relationship is neither uniform nor homogeneous in case of all the city-country interacting regions. Though the concept of city region, like many other concepts are mental construct of researchers, yet it is possible to identify a region around...

Literacy in general and female literacy in particular is an important indicator of socio-economic development. The state of West Bengal with over all literacy of 68.63 per centheld 19th rank among 34 states and union territories in 2001 which used to be the fore runner in terms of literacy as well as modern education. The state’s slip from one of t...

Many countries of the world have their territories detached to their mainland. Sometimes territory of one country is completely surrounded by another and termed as enclave. Within an enclave there may be another enclave of the host country termed as counter-enclave and further within there might be another enclave known as counter-counter-enclave....

Many countries of the world have their territories detached to them. Sometimes they are surrounded completely and many times partially by one or more than one countries and even territorial waters. The largest enclave complex is certainly located along the Indo-Bangladesh border. The archipelago of enclaves consists of 106 Indian exclaves in Bangla...

The economic and aesthetic importance of wetland is well known all over the world. Among the versatile roles, the environmental roles are so appreciated that they are often termed as ‘lungs and kidneys’ of nature. Apart from many natural threats, a number of anthropogenic threats are obvious in this region. The recent introduction of an aquatic pla...

Wetlands are gifts of nature. These perform multifaceted functions that have importance at local, national and international perspectives. The economic and aesthetic importance of wetland is well known all over the world. Among the versatile roles, the environmental roles are so appreciated that it is often termed as 'lungs and kidneys' of nature....

College libraries in the district of Murshidabad started its journey way back in 1853. So far during the long period of over 150 years, libraries have witnessed ups and downs in terms of available finance leading to shortage of manpower and also infrastructure etc. Often libraries are found not equipped with modern gadgets and trained manpower. Eve...

Economic growth and development is often propelled by natural resource endowment but geo-political reason may play havoc in terms creating hurdles in the path development. Sedimentation and resultant emergence of river shoals, sand bars and river islands in the river bed of the mighty Ganges are natural processes. Erosion of left bank of the Ganges...

Fertility may be determined by several socio-economic (education and income), cultural, demographic and biological factors such as literacy, work participation ratio, female work participation ratio, female literacy, tertiary sex ratio and age at marriage etc. Since these are not uniform across the religious groups, there are differentials between...

Though study of fertility has traditionally been an exclusive filed of demographers and medical/bio-scientists, but in the recent years “Saffron Demographers” have utilized ‘demographic data to achieve non-demographic objectives’. Population geographers have shown keen interest to study the problem under the prevailing environment. Fertility may be...

There are fragments of territories of one country inside the political boundary other country. Sometimes territory of one country is completely surrounded by another and termed as enclave. Within an enclave there may be another enclave of the host country termed as counter-enclave and further within there might be another enclave known as counter-c...

There are Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and Bangladeshi enclaves in India and then enclaves within enclaves (counter-enclave) and again an enclave within an enclave that is in turn within another enclave (counter-counter-enclave). There are Indian enclaves within Bangladeshi enclave attached to Indian territories and vice-versa. Enclaves that have...

Study of fertility has traditionally been an exclusive filed of demographers and medical/bio-scientists. But in the recent years " Saffron Demographers " have utilized 'demographic data to achieve non-demographic objectives'. 'Politicization of fertility' is aimed at pressurizing policy makers to intervene in the private life of a particular commun...