Vol. 1, Issue 7, Part C (2015)

Abstract
In view of the contemporary importance, the geographical characteristics of urban places related to land use activities such as population, housing and industry are the important social and economic process which recognize the urban area as a focus of the study. The urban centre like Haldia of West Bengal is a port cum urban-industrial agglomeration where growth of industries and port activity have change the original settled area through internal shifting of population and households from 1981 to 2011. Local migration and internal shifting of settlements creates urban social problem and decline in the growth rate of population. Both the household and population change may influence the future pattern of urban development.