Mumbai

Mumbai

1. Experiencing hyper-urbaisation

2. Economy has grown based on manufacturing

   • Growth is now slowing down in Mumbai

3. Increase in IT and financial services and has become a major center for out-sourced work

4. Central position in Asia

5. Become a hub for TNCs

6. Bollywood makes more films than hollywood

   • Becoming more popular on a global scale

7. Average population density of 80,000 per km sq.

8. Generates 33% pf India's entire tax revenue

9. Largest city in India

10. Located on thin island on the west coast of India

11. Population

    • 3 million in 1950
    • 18 million today
    • 26 million in 2020

12. 40% of all international flights land there

13. Not all people have benefited from the growth

14. Life expectancy

    • 68 in the city
    • 65 as a whole nation

15. 60% of the population live in poverty

    • 1/3 live in absolute poverty

16. Employment in the informal sector is rising

    • Poorly paid and unreliable

17. High levels of congestion and pollution

18. High level of Rural-Urban migration

    • Housing shortages

19. Quality of life is one of the lowest of all world cities

    • It came 150th out of 216

20. Dharavi

    • Over 1 million inhabitants
    • Streets are narrow
    • Houses are poorly constructed
    • Overcrowded
    • Poor sanitation
      • High levels of disease
    • Often water shortages
    • There have been incidents of fires due to lack of regulation
    • One of the largest and well organised slums in Asia
    • Can be described as sustainable as it recycles 80% of it's waste
      • Worth $1.5 million a year
    • The land that it is built upon has a value of over $10 billion
    • Goods worth over £500 million are produced every year
      • Sold throughout Europe and North America

21. Vision Mumbai

    • Plan to tackle problems created by the rapid population growth
    • Turn the city into a world-class location by 2013
    • Work began in 2004
    • In order to be successful they plan to remove Dharavi slum
    • By 2007
      • 200,000 people had been moved
      • 45,000 homes demolished
      • 300 hectares of land cleared for development
    • Four aspects to improve
      • Transport
      • Housing
      • Environment
      • Employment