Rural-Urban Transition Management: A Case of Patan Municipality, Baitadi
Masters of Science in Urban Planning Thesis Research Work on “Rural-Urban Transition Management: A Case of Patan Municipality, Baitadi” by Pusp Raj Bhatt is here in the full version:
ABSTRACT
Nepal is undergoing the transformation. In due course, the rural areas in Nepal are under the process of transformation into urban areas. As a matter of fact, in new Constitution of Nepal 2072, the local government are classified as the Municipal and Rural Municipal areas. Whereas, the municipal areas are defined as the de facto urban areas in National Urban Development Strategy. But by the living experiences and observations, most of the areas covered in the Municipality area has the rural character. As a result of which, two different perception of the Municipal area is generated among the people who live in the municipality and the government side who has declared the Municipality.
The observations and living experiences in the municipality area clearly shows the predominant rural character. Whereas, the government strategy defines the area as de facto urban area, simply because of declaration as municipality. Hence, the certain strain, friction and conflict in rural to urban transformation is expected to occur. Since, the duality of the Municipal area as Rural area and Urban area at once is observed from the Urban Planning perspective. Which certainly restricts the pace of urbanization on implementation of rules and regulations as per the urban area in the rural area and vice versa.
As to provide the smooth and rapid urbanization as aspired by the government, certain rural-urban transition management tool and technique is necessary. This research tries to find out urban planning tools by which the transition of rural urban transformation can be managed.
The research tries to find out the existing reality of the Patan Municipality as predominant rural and partly urban area. The municipality as a whole is in the transition of rural urban transformation. The present reality of the municipality is predominant rural which is trying to transform as urban area. But, the entire municipal area as a whole is not possible to develop as urban area because of its geography.
The development perspective needed in the core urban area and peripheral rural area is different. The management of development in the present transitional stage of the municipal area as the urban area from rural area need to follow the urban planning guidance as management tool. The core urban area need to develop as the sub city of which the peripheral area shall be developed as the urban expansion area, the rest of the area outside of the urban expansion need to be developed as conservation area. The peripheral market areas in each previous wards need to develop as the market center as population defined by urban planning norms and standards of Government of Nepal.
With the urban planning approach, the central urban area becomes developed as a sub city. The peripheral of which then develop as the urban expansion area and the outer as the conservation area including agriculture, rivers, forests and its hills on the periphery. The market centres follows the similar pattern of development as that of central sub city from market centre at core, market centre expansion area on periphery and the conservation area at outermost. Hence, the entire municipality gets connected in the urban system as a whole where each market centre gets connected to the urban centre which is the sub city by strong road network.
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