• SURAJIT MONDAL
• DR. RAMKRISHNA MAITI

The Chundia river basin of Purba and Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, experiences intensive water logging problem during rainy season that leads to transformation of land use from agriculture to fishery. The objective of the present study is to identifying the various reasons of water logging at lower part of the basin. Natural causes of logging are analysed using different map, standard statistical techniques and geospatial tools. After the study, noticed that at previous scenario water logging is the result of the physical condition of the study area. But at presently, the water logging is increased due to anthropogenic activities in basin area. Prepared land use and land cover map of dry and rainy season of the year 2005 and 2015 based on Google earth quick bird satellite imagery with the help of Arc-GIS (10.1) software shows that agricultural land is reduced by 1049.07 hectare and 1683.14 hectare and fisheries or shallow water bodies are increased by 971.93 hectare and 1606.00 hectare in dry and rainy season respectively during this time period. Introspection on the causes of water logging shows that length of the embankment is increased by 24.92 Km during 2005-15 for the sake of fishery, that again leads to further water logging. Loss of productivity due to continuous water logging, in turns, leads to land use conversion.

Water logging, Land use change, Google Earth, Fishery, Embankment

"IDENTIFYING THE CAUSES OF WATER LOGGING THROUGH GEO-SPATIAL TECHNIQUES IN CHUNDIA RIVER BASIN, WEST BENGAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.536-549, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908381.pdf

"IDENTIFYING THE CAUSES OF WATER LOGGING THROUGH GEO-SPATIAL TECHNIQUES IN CHUNDIA RIVER BASIN, WEST BENGAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp536-549, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908381.pdf