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Wetlands are essential elements of the environment. Between deep water and upland ecosystems, they serve as an ecotone and an interface. Therefore, scientists refer to these places as "cradles of biodiversity", "biological supermarkets", "kidneys of landscape", "repository of resources", etc. to recognise their multi-tasking role. It is needless to say that a developing country like India and a state like West Bengal, where land is ploughed up over centuries for crop cultivation, studies are necessary to create more avenues, inter alia, to generate superior resources even from hitherto under-utilized sources. Although it has been discovered that these wetlands are a rich source of aquatic flora and wildlife, neither their economic utilisation nor growth orientation is adequate. Therefore, the primary goals of the current study are to identify the resource potential of the study area's wetlands and to propose strategies for more advantageous uses of wetlands from an environmental and economic perspective. Both primary and secondary data have been created and utilised with the aim of evaluating their resource potentialities and their capacity to provide diverse economic applications.