Mumbai - Case Study

Question 1

What is Mumbai?

Answer 1

A port city in north east coast of India, state capital of Maharashtra

Question 2

What is hyper urbanisation?

Answer 2

Urbanisation that happens rapidly

Question 3

How has the population of Mumbai changed in 1991 vs 2016

Answer 3

10 million people to 20 million people

Question 4

What is predicted for Mumbai?

Answer 4

Predicted it will become the world’s largest city in 2050

Question 5

Why do people move to mumbai?

Answer 5

More jobs, better healthcare, better education (12 universities)

Question 6

What % of homes are single rooms in Mumbai?

Answer 6

80% of homes

Question 7

What are chawls

Answer 7

The low quality multi storey buildings in Mumbai

Question 8

What is Mumbai’s growth causing it to form?

Answer 8

A concurbanisation

Question 9

What are squatter settlements?

Answer 9

Where housing is built by people from any material possible on land that doesn’t belong to them usually in the outskirts of cities

Question 10

Why do squatter settlements form?

Answer 10

As people want to gain the cities opportunities but can’t actually afford to live their

Question 11

Where are the Dharavi slums?

Answer 11

North east Mumbai

Question 12

How many share a tap in the Dharavi slums?

Answer 12

1 tap shared with 12 neighbouring homes

Question 13

How is air quality lowered in the Dharavi slums?

Answer 13

As they have a pottery industry and they burn rubbish

Question 14

How many cases of disease do doctors deal with per day and why in the Dharavi slums?

Answer 14

4000 cases of sickness per day because of poor sanitation

Question 15

Where is India’s largest slum?

Answer 15

Dharavi

Question 16

Which kinds of disease are common in the Dharavi slums?

Answer 16

Typhoid and diphtheria

Question 17

How many live in a sq mile in the Dharavi slums?

Answer 17

Almost 1 million

Question 18

How big is the average home in the Dharavi slums?

Answer 18

12 feet by 12 feet housing 5 people

Question 19

Give an example of a dangerous home in the Dharavi slums

Answer 19

1 home houses 21 people and each room beds 5 people, the house is full of asbestos, doesn’t have much ventilations and can easily catch fire

Question 20

What are the jobs in slums like?

Answer 20

Informal sector, lowly paid

Question 21

What is the salary in slums like?

Answer 21

Lowly paid, can depend on number of items sold, insecure

Question 22

What is living space like for the low middle class?

Answer 22

Average size families living in a 1 bed flat with a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living room

Question 23

What are jobs like for the low middle class?

Answer 23

More formal jobs, like teachers

Question 24

What is the salary like for a teacher in the low middle class?

Answer 24

Earning of £230 per month

Question 25

What are the future prospects for low middle class people?

Answer 25

They could get higher paying jobs like IT and engineering

Question 26

What is living space like for the upper middle class?

Answer 26

Companies pay for their accommodation with luxury 1 bed apartments

Question 27

What are jobs like for the upper middle class?

Answer 27

People mainly work in large companies and other formal jobs

Question 28

What is salary like for upper middle class?

Answer 28

Company worker earns £16000 a year on average but finds it hard to afford their own place

Question 29

What are the future prospects for the upper middle class?

Answer 29

People will be able to afford their own housing without relying in their company

Question 30

What kind of large scale development is being planned for Dharavi ?

Answer 30

The $2 billion development project plans to build over Dharavi and relocate the slum dwellers to housing elsewhere

Question 31

What % of rubbish gets recycled in Mumbai?

Answer 31

80%

Question 32

Why is the large amount of rubbish being recycled negative?

Answer 32

People have to work with toxic substances without protective clothing

Question 33

How often is hyper - urbanisation happening?

Answer 33

Every year and so is doubling every 23 years

Question 34

How big is the city of Mumbai?

Answer 34

68km sq

Question 35

How big is the suburban district of Mumbai?

Answer 35

370km sq

Question 36

How big is the metropolitan district of Mumbai?

Answer 36

602 km sq

Question 37

What is navi mumbai and how many live there?

Answer 37

A new suburban Mumbai built on mainland, 1 million lived their in 2015 mainly middle class

Question 38

What % of Mumbai’s population live in slums?

Answer 38

60%

Question 39

What capital of India is Mumbai?

Answer 39

The commercial capital

Question 40

Which of the jobs in Mumbai has investment been greatest?

Answer 40

Manufacturing, construction and entertainment and leisure

Question 41

Why is living in or around the city center of Mumbai become expensive?

Answer 41

Because of the growth of investment and jobs

Question 42

How has the population of greater Mumbai changed since 1991 and 2011?

Answer 42

It has increased

Question 43

What are the problems with the population growth in Mumbai?

Answer 43

CBD is expensive, housing shortages, slum development, easier for diseases to spread

Question 44

What are the tax problems in Mumbai

Answer 44

There are few tax collectors so informal workers don’t need to pay tax and the city set up economic liberisation but the government isn’t gaining money

Question 45

Why is tax important for Mumbai

Answer 45

As mumbai can’t provide services for the population without income tax

Question 46

Why is there housing shortages and slum development?

Answer 46

Private companies are put of building as the government reduced rental income and people rarely have enough money to leave the slums as Mumbai is so expensive

Question 47

Why is there problems with water supply and waste disposal?

Answer 47

80% of Mumbai’s waste is recycled making it dangerous for workers and 800 million litres of untreated sewage go into rivers every day

Question 48

What is the problem with air pollution and traffic in Mumbai?

Answer 48

3500 die on Mumbai’s railways each year, not enough train or bus networks to meet the demand

Question 49

How is mumbai trying to improve air quality?

Answer 49

By introducing the air quality index in 2015, charging higher road tax on older vehicles, improving public transport and lowering the use of benzene petrol