| Urbanization brings along several impacts by touching the realms of every aspect of human settlement. It affects both the rural and urban livelihood by creating an interrelationship. The development of a particular town or a city cannot be accomplished without economy, education, science and technology, communication, transportation etc. These are the basic necessities for the growth of any particular urban area. Hence, while carrying out and implementing all these developmental activities and advancements, and giving it as prime importance, hindrances begin to arise all due to the careless negligence of the consequences ahead which is being brought about during the process of development. This hindrance all together accumulates and creates into a heap of problems leading to the emergence of negative impacts. An attempt has been made in order to carry out a comparative study and understand the people’s perception and satisfaction of the prevailing urban problems of three towns in the state of Nagaland namely; Kohima town, Dimapur town and Mokokchung town. This study was carried out by applying both primary and secondary data collection. The primary data was collected by setting up questionnaire using google forms. Likert scale was applied for the scores and for analysis Cronbach’s alpha was applied for the reliability test using SPSS. The Cronbach’s alpha of reliability analysis of internal consistency for the Perception on Air Pollution (PAP)of all the three towns revealed that the questionnaire for Mokokchung town reached the highest acceptable reliability of, = 0.823 as compared to Kohima and Dimapur town. In the case of Perception on Water Pollution (PWP), Dimapur town reached the highest acceptable reliability with = 0.753, while the Satisfaction on Traffic, Drainage and Waste Management (STDWM) revealed that Mokokchung town again reached the highest acceptable reliability with = 0.740.
Keywords: Air and water pollution; Dimapur; Kohima; Mokokchung; Perception; Satisfaction; Urban problems.
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