Area of the Khulna Development Authority

Extent of the area to control by the Khulna Development Authority has not yet been defined. We recommend that the northern boundary will follow an approximately three miles north Phultala, where it will coincide with the Khulna District boundary. This is some eleven miles north of Daulatpur. Also provides ample land for the northward expansion of Khulna along the main railway and road towards Jessore. The area lies along the Bhairab River, which is navigable up to Nawapara, approximately four miles further north.

Suggested boundary

From Phultala the suggested boundary follows a southerly line, approximately one and a half miles east of the Bhairab. Again crosses this river opposite Khulna.  It continues to east of the Rupsha River to the Possur River, and thence west to and along the Kazibacha River. This boundary is drawn to include the developable high land east of the Bhairab and Rupsha rivers. Though, in the locality of Ramnagar, the high land extends along the railway and road to Bagherhat, some 20 miles to the east.

Northwards from the Kazibacha River the proposed boundary follows the Hatia River and the Khudi Khal. It meets Skirting Khulna on the west as far as Arangghata, where it crosses the Daulatpur-Shatkhira road. From this point it follows a line west of and roughly parallel to the railway as far as Bajerdanga.

This line rather extends over two miles west of the Bhairab and Rupsha rivers. It includes all the high land west of Khulna and Daulatpur suitable for development. Together with certain low lying areas require bounding and raising before they can be built on. The suggested boundaries, which indicates on key plan, with require to be worked out in detail to follow natural features wherever is possible.

The area described above is approximately 70 square miles in extent, nineteen miles from north to south, and six miles from east to west at widest. It is a part of the great plain of the Ganges Delta, whose rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal.

The Proposals

The plans comprises, to a scale of 1120,000, shows outline of the proposals for the recommended extend of the Development Authority’s area. Together with the Town Map, to the larger scale of 1.3960, showing more detail the proposals for Khulna and Daulatpur. The planning proposals separately deserves different Chapters. Primary object of the Master Plan is to establish planning principles and rather than to lay down a detailed, inflexible scheme. Only the most important proposals individually indicates on the draft plan.

Once those principles agreed, it is necessary to work out the proposals in detail collaboration with the authorities concerned. The plan will periodically reviewed. A change in any of the basic considerations might well necessitate. A revision of some of the Plan’s proposals will follow.