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The inter-regional development in India has been characterized by imbalances in the rural-urban linkages. This researh focuses on the development of agropolitan that is agricultural-based small urban areas in rural regions with the aim of sustainable regional development. Agropolitan area is an area with agriculture activities which has urban facilities in it. The agropolitan development focuses on organized agricultural commodity in rural areas by developing derivative products of the primary agricultural commodity to be marketed outside the area and increasing human resource capabilities. The present research work is emphasizing the power of GIS and remote sensing which will cause to development of agropolitan modelling.

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I was born in 1981 in Kermanshah, Iran. My passion and interest in my research are regional planning and sustainable development. During my Ph.D research, I was involved in a research project which chose to focus on regional planning and rural-urban development in southeast of India.

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