Mumbai case study

• What does urbanisation mean?

  Increasing percentage of country’s population lives in towns/cities
• what is natural increase?

  The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths in a population.

  eg lack of contraception
• what is rural to urban migration?

  Movement of people from countryside to cities.

  -push and pull factors

  eg flooding/ job opportunities
• State some killer facts about Mumbai?

  -entertainment , fashion and commercial centre

  -40% foreign Trade

  -33% income tax

  -60% country’s customs

  -city contributes to 25% of India’s industrial output

  -72 billianores in city
• how many babies were born between 1991-2011 in Mumbai?

  2.5 million babies
• what was the birth and death rate in 1991-2011 per 1000?

  birth= 20 per 1000

  death= 6 per 1000
• how many migrants come from Maharashta?

  3/4 of migrants
• what is Mumbai’s average GDP compared to rural Maharashta?

  Mumbai’s= $2845

  Maharashta= $1660
• how many of Mumbai‘s migrants live in shanties

  2/3
• what are the social opportunities in the Dharavi Slum?

  -flexible space

  -65% literacy rate

  -everything needed from within 100 yards of houses

  -very little crime
• what are some challenges in the Dharavi Slum?

  -1 million people on 1 square mile

  -diseases - eg typhoid, tb, diperthera

  -500 people per toilet

  -4000 doctors treat waterborne diseases

  -
• what are some economic opportunities in the Dharavi slum?

  -85% of people employed

  -15000 businesses- $1 billions per year

  -10000 people work in pottery
• what are some economic challenges in Dharavi slum?

  -dangerous working conditions

  -untaxed - political challenge

  -not reglegated businesses
• what are some environmental opportunities in Dharavi slum?

  -80% recycled plastic

  -1 million plastic bags collected everyday
• what are some env challenges in Dharavi slum?

  • water pipes run through toxic waste
  • water runs through toxic waste
• What is the resettlement scheme?

  • every slum dweller existing before 1995 is eligible to rehibitation
  • 225 square foot tenant free house
  • No financial involvement from government
  • Negative= lack of communal space- lack fo community
  • Positive= less diseases
• what is the slum sanitation project?

  • to have 300 community toilet blocks
  • positive= improves sanitation
  • negative=need more then 300 toilet
• what is incrament housing?

  • develop slum into permanent housing
  • families own and design houses
  • negative= dependent of grants
• what is slum electrification project?

  • dwellers have to rely on bottled gas/ illegal supplies -which is dangerously and illegal
  • global partnership on output based aid provided 1000 slum dwellers with new/upgraded electricity connections