Kharagpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kharagpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kharagpur plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Kharagpur rose steadily, compared to West Bengal which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Kharagpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.96 to 5.77 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kharagpur ranked 54th out of 140 cities in West Bengal as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.77
- Rank in West Bengal
- 54th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.26
- Rank in West Bengal
- 54th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
Kharagpur, Amravati, and Nanded all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network.