Mumbai (Dharavi)

Question 1

Location of Mumbai and population

Answer 1

Located in the Maharashta state of western India with a total population of 23 million with half of them living in slums

Question 2

Dharavi key facts (1’s)

Answer 2

• 1 million people
• 1 square miles
• $1 billion output

Question 3

Dharavi key facts (5’s)

Answer 3

• 50 sewing machines per factory
• 500 clothes workshops
• 5000 leather shops
• 5000 industrial units
• 15,000 single room factories

Question 4

Dharavi’s economic factors

Answer 4

• pottery
• lather farming
• 85% employment rate

Question 5

Dharavi’s social factors

Answer 5

• disease
• contaminated water
• poor sanitation (no sewage)
• safe neighbourhood
• strong sense of community
• 1 toilet per 1500 people
• no protection for workers
• some go to school 7 days a week

Question 6

Dharavi’s environmental factors

Answer 6

• 85% recycling rate
• ‘rag pickers’ (35,000) go through bins to pick plastic
• 1 million rubbish bags collected a day

Question 7

Vision Mumbai (2010)

Answer 7

• $2 billion dollar redevelopment (its central location makes it valuable)
• rehousing settlers into smaller accommodations in apartment blocks
• the land is built right next to the financial district so is a prime space for redevelopment

Question 8

… however

Answer 8

• only people people will online relocated if they have lived in the slum since 2000
• will separate communities and ruin community spirit that was built up in the slum
• dense population due to being built up will not be good for community cohesion