Following are the physical development constraints for preparing the master plan:
– The Pourashava lies on a disaster prone area, its geographical location itself a constraint to develop the infrastructure.
– Low land elevation and the distribution of water bodies make it difficult to provide the utility services, road network and well-investment to encourage industrial development.
– Internal roads develop in an unplanned way and most of the access roads are katcha and narrow. Moreover, absence of traffic management system causes lack of planning in transport network development. This situation hinders economic development also the potentiality of physical development of the Pourashava.
– Lack of maintenance and lack of urban facilities creates negative impact on physical development.
– Gas supply and sewerage disposal facilities are absent in the Pourashava including inadequate electricity supply. These are the major hindrances in economic and physical development.
– Lack of drainage network makes it difficult to drain out the flood and rain water. As a result, water-logging problem vies common in the planning area.
Sanitation Facility
Toilet system in the planning area mostly categorizes as pucca and katcha. In spite of this, Pourashava follows a modest development of pucca toilets in government zones. Sewerage system yet not introduces on a trial basis as to their popularity and acceptance. Ownership of toilet varies widely in most of the areas. Most of the households use their own toilets. Sanitary toilets or pucca toilets are comparatively good (90.20%) in all the Wards. Only 9.8% katcha toilet is found in the Pourashava and owner of those toilets are poor people.
Patharghata Master Plan, Chapter-4 Development Problems of the Pourashava