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Land use is a man-made dynamic process in which human uses land resource to fulfill their various economic, social and cultural needs and the same time it also provides a base for development. The proper management, for sustainable development of land, can improve the eco-system and its productivity in a particular region. The study is an effort to indentify the current pattern of land use in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand. The total reported area of the District was 2,32,798 hectares, about more than two-fifth of that was under net sown area and about one-fourth is covered under forest area. The other land excluding agriculture was about 12.68%, and present fallow land was reported by 2.00%. The groves & gardens were extended on 1543 hectares (0.67%), cultivable waste land was 1738 hectare (0.74%) followed by other fallow land (1.43%) non-cultivable land about 1.46%, and pasture land 66 hectare (0.03%) in 2014�15. The main objective of the paper is to outline and assess the land use change in Haridwar District during 2000 to 2015 and current pattern of land use by using the secondary data sources of State Government of Uttar Pradesh, India.