1Meerut College Meerut CCS University Meerut U.P. India
Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
2021,
Vol. 9 No. 3, 336-339
DOI: 10.12691/aees-9-3-3
Copyright © 2021 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Priyanka Malik, Naresh Kumar. Impact of Urban Sprawl on the Environment of Rohtak City.
Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2021; 9(3):336-339. doi: 10.12691/aees-9-3-3.
Correspondence to: Priyanka Malik, Meerut College Meerut CCS University Meerut U.P. India. Email:
priyarohan.malik@gmail.comAbstract
Urban areas are expanding at a faster pace throughout the world. Due to rapid urbanization in India urban population has increased from 79 million in 1961 which constitutes nearly 18 percent of the total population of the country to 471 million in 2019 which is about 34.47 percent of the total population of the country. The main factors behind this continuous increase of urban population in India are migration of people on large scale from rural area to urban areas in search of employment as well as migration from smaller cities to bigger cities for better employment opportunities and lifestyle. Due to this rapid urbanization in India we are losing productive agricultural land, air quality is deteriorating as well as open green spaces are decreasing and surface water bodies are depleting. In this study, an attempt has been made to study and quantify the urban sprawl of Rohtak city over the time period.
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