GIS and Remote Sensing in Industrial Development and Planning of Maunath Bhanjan City

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Bharati

Abstract: Industries are not only heterogenous activities, each branch is susceptible to diverse means of organization. The interpretation of the reality of location arise from analyses that account changes in time and in technique, and that compare industrial development in the light of variations in the size of regions and nations and in their resource endowment, population and markets. The beauty of simple economic interpretation is the attraction of a models vital statistics, the reality of her heart reminds one of the dangerous of ignoring aspects which cannot be expressed in figures [1]. The city, Maunath Bhanjan, a major handicraft and other industrial units, is an important place among urban centres of the Eastern Uttar Pradesh. The city has been an important centre of cotton textile both as manufacturing and handloom as well as power-loom in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. The surrounding region of the city has well developed as agro-based industries. This paper refers to analyse evolution, characteristics and planning of the industries of the Maunath Bhanjan city (Uttar Pradesh). This will be based on the secondary data were collected from District Industry Centre, District Statistical Handbook, Land Use Master Plan and Census data (PCA, 2011) as well as personal survey on the basis of digital map prepared by Google earth satellite imagery and application of modern tools and techniques of GIS and Remote Sensing in better planning for the industrial development of Maunath Bhanjan city.

Keywords: Characteristics and planning, Industrial development, Remote Sensing and GIS Geographical Information System

Edition: Volume 5 Issue 5, May 2016,

Pages: 2139 - 2149