Land Use Change in Banepa Municipality

Land use analysis gives the structure and pattern of spatial change. The change in land use gives the various land cover detection, especially we analysis of urban growth pattern and structure of growth. It gives the road-map of urban planning and management. Urban planning is basically resource generation, resource development and resource management exercise. The efficiency of urban settlements largely depends upon how well they are planned, how economically they are developed and how efficiently they are managed. Planning inputs largely govern the efficiency level of human settlements. Urban planning and development refers to a process that harnesses spatial-economic potential of an area for the benefit of the people. Its scope ranges from a cluster & houses to the entire settlement and beyond to a certain region its area expands up to the nation as a whole. In this dissertation work, the present scenario of GIS in land use change , land use pattern, urban growth pattern and its impacts and gives the suggestion for urban planning and management for systematic settlement planning.