Bakerganj Pourashava Master Plan, Chapter 6 Critical Planning Issues

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Accommodation of future thrust of growth depends supply of safe drinking water, safe and easy accessibility. Use of agriculture production in income generating activities and provision for further investment also supports future growth.

Primary motive of critical issues cover to exercise control over unorganized development and promotion of planned infrastructure development. Provisioning of future urban growth also support such motive. The Pourashava will develop as a self-contained town in rural environs.

Implementation of master plan will change many factors of the Pourashava. Those factors includes rapid change of landuse from agriculture to non-agricultural activities. Rural homesteads will change their character by the urban dwellers. Land value will increase and the farmers will bound to sell their farming land and shift elsewhere where low land value exists. Spotted industrial development emerges and a mixed urbanization character will form. Low lands adjacent to the communication network will fill and create drainage congestion.

To increase the ago-product and use them in income generating activities, a vast agriculture land needs. But, existing agriculture land need to be preserved. Control on further residential expansion needs with the imposition of development control. In this context, concept of cluster development and compact township approach provisions in the plan. Vertical development encourages rather than horizontal to save the agriculture land.

Bakerganj Pourashava Master Plan, Chapter 6

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