Abstract
Abstract
Surjapuri is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Eastern India including North Bengal, West Bengal, and Eastern Bihar, as well as in Nepal. Surjapuri is mainly spoken in the parts of Purnia division (Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, and Araria districts) of Bihar. It is also spoken in West Bengal (Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur districts, and in North Malda of Malda district, specially in Harishchandrapur and Chanchal area and Siliguri city of Darjeeling district – part of the North Bengal region within the Jalpaiguri division), Bangladesh (Thakurgaon District) as well as in parts of eastern Kishanganj district, which was a part of Purnia district till 1981 Census, acquired the status of an independent district on 10th January, 1990. Kishanganj is the largest district in term of Surjapuri population. Total area of the district is 1884 Square kilometers, which is spread over seven C.D. Blocks. Total number of Gram Panchayats are 126 which consist of 771 villages of which 732 villages are inhabited and 39 villages are uninhabited. According to the 2011 census Kishanganj district has a population of 1,690,948.A vast majority of the people live in the villages. About 70% population consists of in the district. Major rivers flowing through this regions are Mahananda, Kankai, Mechi, Donk, Ratua and Ramzan Sudhani. This region (Kishanganj) is bounded on the north by Nepal and Bengal, on the South by the state of West Bengal and Purnia district of the state of Bihar, on the east by the state of West Bengal and on the West by the district of Araria of the state of Bihar.
The using area for study includes the change of regular habitat constructed climate and natural surroundings. Land using by the people has a long history. After that It has been depicted as "the total of plan, and wellsprings of information that people grasp in a particular land type.. In this cycle, they have altered and are adjusting land differently and forces. Regular lumber and fields are changed over into horticultural and eating territories for harvest and domesticated animals creation, to metropolitan and modern land, and to foundation . There are extensive local varieties in the overall land utilization of region in light of the fact that landforms varieties and precipitation in the investigation area, where agribusiness is the main methods for business for dominant part of the individuals. In this exploration paper has been made to consider the land use design in so called Surjapuri region which spread in some part of eastern Bihar and West Bengal as well.