DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i11.005

Pages: 593-599

Chandigarh being one of the well-planned cities in the country have attracted the folks of the nearby states to come to the city for better standards of living and improved sources of livelihood. The city in recent past have been developing as an educational and commercial hub. Although the city centre or one can say the planned portion of the city is unchanged and untouched from the rapid transformation with the time but the periphery is not so lucky in this manner. People coming from near and far places get settle in the periphery and they commute on daily basis from the surrounding regions to the city and its periphery. This have resulted in the large-scale development of educational and commercial hubs growing day by day along the major roads connecting the city with its neighbouring towns and villages. Majority of the transformation of agricultural land have occurred along the major roads. Here in the study an attempt has been maid to assess the intensity and direction of the rural land transformation happening in the periphery. For the purposes of the study satellite data is used acquired from Landsat, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite and Google Earth Pro along with other secondary data sources. One-kilometre buffer zone along the Chandigarh – Kharar road falling in Chandigarh periphery is selected. Data for the year 2003 and 2017 is analysed and compared. The results are presented in the forms of maps and figures.