basic data on Mumbai

• Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
  10 November 2004

  The MCGM was formed in the year 1865 as Mumbai’s civic body. The MCGM is veritably the ’cradle of local self-governance in India’. It embodies the principle of democracy of ’governance of the people, by the people and for the people’.
  website of MCGM

• Statistics on Coporations & Councils
  7 November 2004

  by MMRDA
  see table

• Regional Plan for Mumbai Metropolitan Area, 1996-2011
  7 November 2004

  The MMRDA masterplan for 1996-2011 has been prepared by the Secretary of the Urban Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, D. T. Joseph, ex-Municipal Commissioner, S. S. Tinaikar, architect Charles Correa, Kisan Mehta of the Save Bombay Committee and others. Replying to the charge by the head of the unit for Urban Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, R. N. Sharma, that the plan does not think of the common man at all, and is only interested in making Mumbai a commercial (...)

• Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)
  7 November 2004

  Established in 1977, MHADA has since then been engaged primarily in constructing and selling housing to low and middle income groups in urban and semi-urban areas. In Bombay it has constructed about 30,000 housing units and met 10-20% of the city’s annual housing needs. Its mass housing projects have been undertaken in Majaswadi, Chandivali, Oshiwara and Powai. However, future schemes may take longer to implement.
  MHADA is running out of land. It now owns 100 hectares, mainly in Turbhe and (...)

• Employment Patterns
  7 November 2004

  As Bombay moves from a primarily manufacturing to a services based economy, jobs are slowly moving out of the congested Island city.
  The inner circle for the Island City, the remainder for the rest of Greater Mumbai

• Mortality Rates
  7 November 2004

  Mortality rates in Bombay have fallen dramatically since independence, although, even before, they were lower than the corresponding rates in villages.
  Source: Report of Executive Health Officer, BMC
  Crude Mortality Rates (per 1000) Year 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 Rate 96.6 35.7 46.8 21.2 25.0 14.7 13.5 9.8

• City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO)
  7 November 2004

  CIDCO was founded in 1970 by the Maharashtra State Government for the express purpose of planning and implementing the New Bombay project. It is wholly owned by the state government. Originally a subsidiary of the state-owned State Industrial Investment Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (SICOM), it was later made independent and given administrative powers over the New Bombay region. Since its work has to be coordinated with the independent BMC, a regulatory body, the MMRDA was set up as (...)

• Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)
  7 November 2004

  The MMRDA is responsible for planning and developing civic infrastructure in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), which covers 4355 square kilometers. Of this, 468 square kilometers belongs to the city of Greater Mumbai. The rest of the MMR contains five municipal corporations, fifteen municipal councils and several villages. The MMRDA is an apex body regulating and coordinating the activities of all these organisations, and is responsible for planning and administering the island city and (...)

• Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
  7 November 2004

  The duties of the Corporation are set out in the Bombay Municipal Act, first passed in 1872, and amended on various later occasions. It is responsible for Greater Bombay. The BMRDA coordinates between the BMC and CIDCO.
  The Municipal Corporation is responsible for sanitation and health. In this connection it manages garbage collection, sewerage, public hospitals and the water supply. It is also responsible for setting up and enforcing building norms and for maintaining and repairing roads. (...)

• Mumbai Suburban Railway
  1 November 2004

  The Mumbai Suburban Railway system, part of the public transport in Mumbai, carries more than 6.1 million commuters everyday. It has the highest passenger density in the World. More than half of the total daily passenger trips on Indian Railways are performed on Mumbai Suburban Railway system.
  Mumbai Suburban Railway system, in spite of heavy demands on it, has provided an "efficient" and "reliable" service. Overcrowding has grown to such an extent that 4,700 passengers are traveling per (...)

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