Jorhat Town has been under constant pressure from the rise in population and this has led to the haphazard expansion of residential, industrial and commercial areas. Once a planned town Jorhat has turned into such a haphazard mix of these activities and merged into one another such a way that it leaves hardly any scope for demarcating specific land use areas. This is largely due to the absence of a planned demarcation of the urban area to regulate the expansion of development activities of the town. The effects are well reflected on the growing urban issues like water logging, unscientific garbage disposal, traffic congestion, shortage of drinking water etc. Based on these underlying facts, an attempt has been made to observe the impact of urbanization on the land and to analyze built-up area as indicator of urban growth considering the magnitude and direction of expansion. An emphasis has been made on the availability of green belt area to focus on a sustained urban development. The study is primarily based on secondary data and application of GIS and Remote Sensing technologies, which have been used in analyzing the facts along with other conventional statistical methods. The study further embodies the results that a 6 sq.km buffer area of the existing municipality boundary, which leaves some scope for preserving the green belt for a sustained urban development and direction of urban growth for future planning.