AAMCHI MUMBAI

INTRODUCTION
The city Mumbai, know as Bombay until 1995, is a great port city, situated on the
west coast of the Indian peninsula.
It is one of India's dominant urban centers and, indeed, is one of the largest and
most densely populated cities in the world.
Deriving its name from Mumba Devi, a goddess of the local Koli fishing peoples,
Mumbai grew up around a fort established by the British in the mid-seventeenth
century to protect their trading interests along India's western coast.
The city's superb natural harbor provided a focal point for sea routes crossing the
Arabian Sea, and Mumbai soon became the main western gateway to Britain's
expanding Indian empire.
The city emerged as a center of manufacturing and industry during the eighteenth
century.
Today, Mumbai is India's commercial and financial capital, as well as the capital
city of Maharashtra State.

HISTORY
Mumbai is built on what was once an archipelago of seven islands: Bombay
Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Worli, and Old Woman's Island (also
known as Little Colaba).
The city then was known as Heptanesia (Ancient Greek: A Cluster of Seven
Islands) to the Greek geographer Ptolemy.
In 1543 AD, the Portuguese seized the isles from Bahadur Shah of Gujarat and
they remained in their control until 1661.
Following this period, the isles were ceded as dowry to Catherine de Braganza
when she married Charles II of England.

 He, in turn, leased the isles to the East India Company during their
colonization in 1668 and that's when the city was named Bombay.
In 1687, the English East India Company transferred its headquarters
from Surat to Bombay.
King George V and Queen Mary visit Mumbai. Gateway of India is
built to commemorate their arrival in 1911.
Post-independence, the city expanded drastically and a number of
suburban towns were incorporated within the city limits such as
Borivali, Andheri, Malad, Thane and Bandra.
In 1st May 1960, Bombay became the new capital of Maharashtra.

GEOGRAPHY
Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is located
on the western seacoast of India on the Arabian
Sea at 1853 N to 1916 N latitude and 72 E to
7259 E longitude.
The present day city is divided into two revenue
districts, Mumbai City District, i.e, the island city
in the South and Mumbai Suburban District
comprising the Western and Eastern suburbs.
Mumbai occupies an area of 468 square kilometers
(sq. km.) and its width is 17 km. east to west and
42 km. north to south.
There are three lakes in the city. The Vihar Lake
and the Tulsi Lake are present within the National
Park and supply part of the city's drinking water.
The Powai Lake is immediately south of these two.

 Bombay has numerous creeks with close to 71KM2 of creeks and

mangroves along its coastline.
The Vasai Creek to the north and Thane Creek to the east separates
Salsette Island from the mainland.
Within the city the Malad (Marve) Creek and the Gorai (Manori) Creek
inundate the suburban region.
The Mahim Creek forms the border between the two districts. There are
also the Mahul Creek and the Mahim Creek.
There are three hill ranges with the city limits. The Ghatkopar Hills, The
Trombay Hills, The Powai Hills.

 The Climate of Mumbai is a tropical wet and dry climate.

Mumbai's climate can be best described as moderately hot with high
level of humidity.
Its coastal nature and tropical location ensures temperatures won't
fluctuate much throughout the year.

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM

 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) also known as.

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is the civic body that
governs the capital city of Mumbai in Maharashtra and is India's
richest municipal organization.
The BMC's annual budget is more than that of some of the small
states of India. Established under the Bombay Municipal Corporation
Act 1888,it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and
administration of the city and some suburbs of Mumbai.
In 2014, Trishna Vishwasrao became the first female corporator to be
leader of the Corporation's house.
The corporators are responsible for overseeing that their constituencies
have the basic civic infrastructure in place, and that there is no lacuna
on the part of the authorities.

 The BMC was created in 1865 and Arthur Crawford was its first
Municipal Commissioner.
The Municipality was initially housed in a modest building at the
terminus of Girgaum Road.
In 1870, it was shifted to a building on the Esplanade, located
between Watson Hotel and the Sassoon Mechanics Institute where the
present Army & Navy building is situated.
On December 9, 1884, the foundation stone for the new building of
the Bombay Municipal Corporation was laid opposite Victoria
Terminus now known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, by the then
Viceroy, Lord Ripon.

MUMBAI POLICE
Mumbai Police motto is-" which
means "To protect the good and to destroy the evil
The origins of the present day Mumbai police can be traced
back to a militia organised by Gerald Aungier, the then
Governor of Mumbai in 1669.
This Bhandari Militia was composed of around 500 men and
was headquartered at Mahim, Sewree and Sion.
The Mumbai Police is headed by a Police Commissioner,
who is an IPS officer.
There are a total of 91 police stations in the jurisdiction of
Mumbai Police.
Mumbai Polices elite commando force, which is a
specialised counter terrorism unit to guard the Mumbai
metropolitan area, is called Force One

ECONOMY
Mumbai, Maharashtra is the entertainment, fashion and commercial centre of India.
Mumbai holds the pride of being the wealthiest city in the country, with the highest GDP of
all the cities in South, West and the Central Asia.
It is also one of the world's top 10 centres of commerce in terms of global financial flow,
Mumbai accounts for slightly more than 6.16% of India's economy contributing 10% of
factory employment, 30% of income tax collections, 60% of customs duty collections, 20%
of central excise tax collections, 40% of foreign trade and rupees 40,000 crore (US $10
billion) in corporate taxes to the Indian economy.
Mumbai was ranked among the fastest cities in India for business startup in 2009. As of
2009-10, Mumbai enjoys a Per Capita Income of $2,845. This is 16.6% higher than 2008-09
levels of $2,440. In PPP dollars, Mumbai had a Per Capita Income of $7,050 as of 2009-10
fiscal.
In the recent years Mumbai is experiencing rapid growth. By 2020-21 fiscal, Mumbai's
GDP Per capita at PPP is expected to reach US$23,000, making it South Asia's richest city.

REAL ESTATES OF MUMBAI

Property Rates Of `Ready-to-move-in Units In Prime
Residential Markets Of Western Suburbs
Location

Capital Values
(INR/ sq.ft.)

Rental Values for 2

BHK (INR /month)

Bandra
Santacruz
Andheri

40,000-60,000
20,000-50,000
15,000-30,000

60,000-1,00,000
30,000-70,000
30,000-50,000

Goregaon
Kandivali
Borivali

14,000-22,000
10,500-16,000
11,000-15,000

25,000-50,000
20,000-30,0000
20,000-30,000

Dahisar
Bhayandar
Mira road

8,750-11,000
6,500-10,000
6,000-9,000

18,000-20,000
12,000-15,000
10,000-14,000

INFRASTRUCTURE PLANS FOR MUMBAI

SR.
NO.

PLAN

DETAILS

Mumbai Metro

11.4 km. , From Versova to Ghatkopar

with 12 main stations in between .
Speed-80 km/h(TOP) & 33km/h (AVG)

Sahar Elevated Road The Sahar Elevated Road, Signal-Free,

connecting Western Express Highway
with Chhatrapati Shivaji International
Airports (CSIA) New Terminal 2.

Western Express
Highway

25 km. Begins from near the Mahim

creek and extends to the Mira-Dahisar
toll booth, connecting Bandra, Andheri,
Borivali up to Dahisar.

Rajiv Gandhi Sea

Link

5.6 km.(4 Lane each direction) . Begins

with Bandra and ending to Worli

OCCUPATION
Mumbai has traditionally owed its prosperity largely to its textile mills and its
seaport till the 1980s.
These are now increasingly being replaced by industries employing more skilled
labour such as engineering, diamond polishing, healthcare and information
technology.
Mumbai is also the primary financial centre for India, both the major Indian stock
exchanges (BSE and The National Stock Exchange), brokerages, asset
management companies (including majority of the mutual fund companies),
headquarters of most Indian state-owned and commercial banks, as well as the
financial & monetary regulatory authorities of India (SEBI and RBI among other
institutions).

 As Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra, government employees make up a large

percentage of the city's workforce.
Mumbai also has a large unskilled and semi-skilled labour population, who
primarily earn their livelihood as hawkers, taxi drivers, mechanics and other such
proletarian professions.
The port and shipping industry too employs many residents directly and indirectly.
Like most metropolitan cities, Mumbai also has a large influx of people from rural
areas looking for employment.

Mumbai is home to some of India's largest and wealthiest industrial

conglomerates, such as the Aditya Birla Group, Godrej, and Tata & Sons.

More specialized economic activities are diamond cutting, computers, and movie
making (in sheer numbers,"Bollywood," produces more movies than any other
city in the world, including Hollywood).

BOLLYWOOD
Even if youve never actually seen a film from India, the word Bollywood
immediately conjures up images of sumptuous, brightly colored productions shot
in exotic locales featuring beautiful stars partaking in impressively choreographed
song and dance numbers. Now it has grown to become one of the countrys most
powerful and financially lucrative industries, and the world leader in both the
number of films produced each year as well as audience attendance.
The word Bollywood is (obviously) a play on Hollywood, with the B coming
from Bombay (now known as Mumbai), the center of the film world.
The word was coined in the 1970s by the writer of a magazine gossip column,
though there is disagreement as to which journalist was the first to use it.
However, Indian cinema dates all the way back to 1913 and the silent film Raja
Harishchandra, the first-ever Indian feature film.

 Its producer, Dadasaheb Phalke, was Indian cinemas first mogul, and he oversaw the
production of twenty-three films between 1913-1918. Yet unlike Hollywood, initial
growth in the industry was slow.
1931 saw the release of Alam Ara, the first talkie, and the film that paved the way for
the future of Indian cinema.
The number of productions companies began to skyrocket, as did the number of films
being produced each yearfrom 108 in 1927, to 328 in 1931.
With the recent success of films like Slumdog Millionaire and the injection of foreign
capital into the Indian film industry.
Bollywood is perhaps entering a new chapter in its history, one in which the eyes of the
world are now paying closer attention

DABBAWALA
In 1890 Bombay, Mahadeo Bhavaji Bachche started
a lunch delivery service with about a hundred men.
In 1930, he informally attempted to unionize the
dabbawallas. Later, a charitable trust was registered
in 1956 under the name of Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box
Suppliers Trust.
The commercial arm of this trust was registered in
1968 as Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association.
And as the city grew, the demand for dabba delivery
grew too.
. In 1998, Forbes Global magazine, conducted a
quality assurance study on the Dabbawalas
operations and gave it a Six Sigma efficiency rating
of 99.999999; the Dabbawalas made one error in six
million transactions.
That put them on the list of Six Sigma rated
companies, along with multinationals like Motorola
and GE.

CODING OF DABBA

DHARAVI
Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, India.
It houses one of the largest slums in the world.
Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era.
The slum grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and
residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government,
and from rural poor migrating into urban Mumbai

Estimates of Dharavi's total population vary between 700,000 to

about 1 million.

It currently covers an area of 217 hectares (535 acres).

 In addition to the traditional pottery and textile industries in Dharavi, there is an

increasingly large recycling industry, processing recyclable waste from other parts
of Mumbai.
The district has an estimated 5000 businesses and 15,000 single-room factories.
There have been many plans since 1997 to redevelop Dharavi.
Companies from around the world have bid to redevelop Dharavi,including
Lehman Brothers, Dubai's Limitless and Singapore's Capitaland Ltd.
The latest urban redevelopment plan proposed for the Dharavi area is managed by
American-trained architect Murkesh Mhata.

TRANSPORT
1. MUMBAI SUB-URBAN RAILWAY

Mumbais intercity railways network, commonly known as

Mumbai Local by the people.

Mumbai Local has 140 stations in total.

Mumbai Local is so much indispensible that it is considered as

LIFE LINE OF MUMBAI .

Daily Ridership is 7.585 Million and almost equal to the

Population of Switzerland !

It is the Most Profit-Making Branch of Indian Railway.

2.

B.E.S.T.
It is abbreviated for BrihanMumbai Electric Supply
&Transport.

It has 44,000 employees and headed by Jagdish Patil as its

General Manager.

It earns Rs. 20 million daily.

It runs a total 4680

buses and ferrying over 1 million

passengers over 365 routes.

It has received INTERNATIONAL ROAD SAFETY AWARD

for the year 2003.

3.

ROAD NETWORK
Today, Mumbais road infrastructure stands strong with 1900
km. of laid roads with 55 major flyovers.

Mumbai road network consists of major roadways like NH

3,4, 8, 17, 222.

Western express highway is one of the most important

highways that rapidly connects major western cities.

Major future road projects are- Santacruz Chembur Link Road

- Sahar Elevated Road

TOURISM
Mumbai is eastern equivalent of New York City and Los Angeles, the financial
capital and entertainment capital of the country.
Places of interest include: Haji Ali Dargah situated about 500 yards from the
shoreline in the middle of the Arabian Sea.
Gateway of India, The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu
Sangrahalaya, Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a humongous architectural stone
structure built by the British more than 200 years ago, Downtown Mumbai reminiscent of the 19th century British architecture. Girgaon chowpati, Madh
island beach and other beaches towards the south of Mumbai.
Elephanta Caves, carved out of a giant stone on an island are a short ferry away
into the Arabian sea. Due to its cosmopolitan nature, Mumbai has proven a
popular tourism destination.

POPULAR TOURIST SPOTS

Hanging Gardens of Mumbai

Gateway Of India
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Girgaum Chowpatty
Elephanta Caves
Nehru Science Centre
Mount Mary Church, Bandra
Siddhivinayak Temple
Mahalakshmi Temple
Haji Ali Dargah
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

CALAMITIES FACED BY MUMBAI

26TH JULY 2005 FLOODS
For the first time ever, Mumbai's domestic and international airports Chatrapati
were shut for more than 30 hours due to heavy flooding of the runways,
submerged Instrument Landing System equipment and extremely poor visibility.
Rail links were disrupted, and reports on late evening of 30 July indicated
cancellation of several long distance trains till 6 August 2005.
The Mumbai-Pune Expressway, which witnessed a number of landslides, was
closed the first time ever in its history, for 24 hours.
According to the Hindustan Times, an unprecedented 5 million mobile and 2.3
million MTNL landline users were hit for over four hours.

26/11 ATTACKS
In November 2008, allegedly 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an
Islamic militant organisation, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and
bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday,
26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people
and wounding at least 308.
Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai: at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus,
the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower,Leopold Cafe, Cama
Hospital,the Nariman House Jewish community centre,the Metro Cinema, and in a
lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier's College.

MUMBAI

NOW AND
THEN

APOLLO BUNDER

CHURCHGATE STATION

VICTORIA TERMINUS

CUFFE PARADE

BOMBAY UNIVERSITY

CRAWFORD MARKET

BHAYANDER BRIDGE

COLABA CAUSEWAY

COLABA SEA FACE

DADAR STATION

NIGHT LIFE OF MUMBAI

Mumbai is famous for its glamorous night life which is full of lights
and colours.
Mumbai being the commercial hotspot here works never stops
supporting the refreshment industry at night as well.
There are some food outlets in Mumbai who operate at mid-night
hours only.
Some famous nightout points are marine lines,bandra worli sea
link,juhu chaupati,various restaurants and pubs.

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