Mumbai Case Study

Question 1

Where is Mumbai?

Answer 1

India

Question 2

Advantages of TNCs in Mumbai

Answer 2

Local people get employed (multiplier effect)
Formal employment
International links
Taxes used to improve infrastructure (schools)

Question 3

Disadvantages of TNCs in MUmbai

Answer 3

No local businesses can set up
Cheap labour (taken advantage of)
labour laws are easier to evade
Reduced environmental laws
Use of valuable resources
Economic leakage (profit sent abroad)

Question 4

How is Mumbai regionally important

Answer 4

Market for a range of goods (e.g. grapes, mangos, sugarcane, onions and oranges)
Exported through Mumbai

Question 5

How is Mumbai nationally important

Answer 5

Most populous city in India (18.4 million)
Most billionaires and richest city in India
Young people migrate to escape rural poverty
2.5 million University graduates
Bollywood

Question 6

How is Mumbai Internationally important

Answer 6

Bollywood produces double the film’s to Hollywood (biggest film industry in the world for people employed and films produced)
TNCs invest

Question 7

Social challenged of Dharavi?

Answer 7

Streets are multiverse (mosque ect)
High levels of diphtheria, TB and typohid
Wash clothes in sewage-contaminated water
Lack of proper sanitation
500 people share one toilet
Nearly 1 million people in 1 miles^2
Only 2 hours of water (not enough)
Raw sewage leaks from pipes into the places people live
Dislike tourists and stangers
Lots of fire hazards
Lots of social interactions

Question 8

Economic challenges of Dharavi

Answer 8

10,000 potters creating and selling pottery

Question 9

Environmental challenges in Dharavi

Answer 9

Raw sewage leaks in social places (e.g. housing areas)
Low air quality (dangerous levels of Nitrous Oxides and small dust particles )
77% of households suffer from poor water quality in the city.
7,500 metric tonnes of waste every day
Traffic congestion (22 million vehicles)

Question 10

Literacy rate in Mumbai

Answer 10

71%

Question 11

Infant mortality rate in Mumbai

Answer 11

55 per 1000

Question 11

Birth rate in Mumbai

Answer 11

22 per 1000

Question 11

Death rate in Mubai

Answer 11

8 per 1000

Question 12

Mumbai slum resettlement scheme

Answer 12

people who live in slum housing in dangerous areas, e.g. next to railway lines, are re-housed in safer accommodation with access to running water. This significantly improves
the quality of life of people in Dharavi.

Question 13

Incremental housing strategies

Answer 13

informal slums are developed into permanent residential areas. Families are given the right to own the land which their slum house is built on. They make gradual improvements to it and this brings the community together.

Question 14

Mumbai sanitation project

Answer 14

-300 community toilet blocks have been built housing more than 5100 individual toilets.

Question 15

Mumbai electrification project

Answer 15

rather than relying on dangerous bottled gas, GPOBA have recently completed a project which is providing
10,000 slum dwellers with electricity.

Question 16

Name the four Mumbai improvement schemes

Answer 16

Mumbai electrification project
Mumbai sanitation project
Incremental housing strategies
Mumbai slum resettlement scheme

Question 17

Challenges in Mumbai

Answer 17

1.2 million people live in the slum
Only 24% of the residents get safe drinking water
Many people in Mumbai live without basic infrastructure in illegal
squatter settlements which are overcrowded and unplanned
There is 1 hospital: demand is high due to the incidence of disease
and the youthful population increases the need for maternity
services.
Only 1% of houses have a toilet in their home
Public toilets are used an average 1440 times a day
The informal sector employs 68% of Mumbai’s workforce.