Functional Influence of Urban Centres, their Growth and Potentialities: An Approach of Rural Development in Purba Barddhaman District

Urban centre act as a developmental hearth of propulsive goods and services, its playing a vital role for the development of the whole region. Each urban centre, being a centre of attraction and repulsion, has its proper fields which emanate economic development; its spread with variable intensities to the whole of the region. But size of an urban fields depends on the degree of development of the town as a central place. Thus a urban centres grows in hierarchical manner with their specific influence zone, which having large number of facilities have relatively large urban field and vice-versa. But in developing countries like India where urbanization process little advanced and towns are widely spaced, subsequently uneven distribution of the facilities varies one town to another as a result sphere of influences of the particular town also varied and this is the result of emergence of vaccum zone. To narrowed down such kinds of problem multipurpose comprehensive planning required which promote or increase functional potentialities of the urban centres and diffusing urban developmental impulsion surrounding rural areas. That ensure a balanced development of all region of the country without leaving any unserved areas (vacuum zone).