Municipal arenas are the residential units for the urbanites and in order to facilitate a standard livelihood for all its urban communities, different physical as well as non-physical services are extended here by the Local Self Government. Infrastructure is a bit different from that of amenities in the urban domain because, the infrastructures are the basic requirements mandatorily to be provided to the urban inhabitants of a definite spectrum and without adequate availability of its manifold components, the livelihood of the urban people face severe challenge. On the other hand, amenities are the optional advantages or extra aids that are needed by the urbanites even after fulfilment of the infrastructural demands by them. In absence of requisite occurrence of physico-cultural and social infrastructure, the daily life of the urban communities in a definite urban panorama gets compromised significantly and ultimately it goes deteriorating until and unless it comes under the proper monitoring of the respective Nodal Agency. Even unauthorized shanties and notified slums may be cropped up in a particular urban space due to lacking or lacuna in base level infrastructure or urban facility utility services. As these advantages are bestowed from the esteemed end of the municipal authority or Local Self Government, therefore, these are very often called as Urban Governances. The infrastructure as well as urban governances can be broadly categorized under some broad subdivisions. One of which is physical infrastructure and the rest one is its non-physical counterpart. Here the researcher has tried to throw spotlight upon the non-physical infrastructures that are available to the urban people of Berhampore ULB. After analyses of different secondary as well as primary datasets, geographically viable inferences are drawn over here

Urban Governances, Non-physical Infrastructure, Urban Amenities, Slums and Shanties, Primary and Secondary survey