• Gagan Singh Sachdeva

Every year millions of people are attracted towards cities which act as the major economy generating forces. Cities are spatially expanding with this increase in migration. This progress towards the urban areas lead to urban sprawl, where new infrastructure is urbanized around these boundaries and changing the farmland. In today’s scenario people want better and safe environment, proper and adequate comfortable spaces which is available in the new suburban area far away from the city. These new suburban areas require new set of major utilities and facilities such as transportation network, medical facilities, educational facilities, commercials and other infrastructure facilities. Hence, there is a dire need to study, understand and quantify the urban sprawl with various parameters. This research is based on the relation between the increasing urban sprawl and provision of public services in Ludhiana city. Initially the urban sprawl of the city is quantified by various methods and using satellite images of different years. After it the urban growth, growth direction and patterns are also identified across the city and boundaries with the help of Google earth historical images and mapping is done. Further in these areas public services are being analysed based on various parameters. Also change in land use and land cover trends are also analysed and its impact on the growth pattern and various other public services are studied and issues are identified. Various surveys has been conducted from Stakeholders such residents, government officials and bureaucrats from various areas to understand the growth reasons and about the existing city region structure. Some other primary, secondary data and maps has been collected to analyses the factors based on it. Different factors are being categorized such as socio-economic, proximity, geographic etc. Based on all these analysis, variables and factors of urban sprawl and public services various conclusions and results are further carried out and research possibilities are discussed explaining the research gaps from the analysis.

Urban Sprawl, Public services, Infrastructure, Transportation, Growth pattern, Ludhiana, Suburban, Land cover and Land use.

"Impact of Urban Sprawl on Provision of Public Services: Ludhiana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.f665-f668, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208569.pdf

"Impact of Urban Sprawl on Provision of Public Services: Ludhiana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppf665-f668, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208569.pdf