Urban Sprawl and Property Taxation: A comparison for Jurisdiction of South Delhi Municipal Corporation

Author: Anu Singh, Shruti Kanga, Suraj Kumar Singh and Sudhanshu

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Abstract

In Present day, a universal challenge for any developing country is day by day growing population and sprawl of urban areas. To address this challenge, it is important to study growth of urban areas and identify it pattern of rapid and inadvertent urbanisation. Analysis of urban sprawl is important to regulate and plan infrastructure of any urban body in order to route the infrastructure in organised way. Growth of urban area is directly proportionate to increase in property and increase in population. Municipal corporation is responsible to facilitate any urban settlement in term of sanitization, basic education, health facilities, maintenance of public utilities etc. For any infrastructure development related to residential amenity, municipal body need spend a certain finance. Property tax is one of the major source of revenue for urban municipal bodies. This paper analysis of the urban growth of jurisdiction of South Delhi using geospatial techniques and its comparison of municipal

Keywords

Land Use/ Land Cover (LU/LC), spatial metrics, supervised classification, urban growth, urbanization, Property tax.