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Submitted By:
IBS, Pune
Prateek Shah
Vignesh Senapathy
R.K.Vishnu Vardhan
Abstract
Pollution Transport
Water Global
Migration Control Management Warming
Poverty Population
Contribution of Mumbai
Pollution Transport
Water Global
Migration Control Management Warming
Poverty Population
Migration Control:
Causes:
The economic factors have been the major reasons for migration to
Mumbai among males. According to NSS Survey data, about 69 per cent of
males stated that employment was the main motive behind their
migration. The data show that the rate of migrants in search for better
employment has been higher in the late 1990s. Social reasons such as
marriage and accompanying the family constituted about 90 per cent of
female migration.
Issues:
• Congestion
• Traffic increase
• Water scarcity
• Place constraint
• Power scarcity
• Parking problem
POLLUTION:
Tests carried out to sample water quality all over the state showed
that at 70 per cent locations, quality has worsened as compared to 2006-
07 and none of (latest data required) the water bodies met their target
classes showing nil compliance of standards. The quality of water of rivers
Bhima, Purna, Tapi, Wainganga has deteriorated.
Floods in Mumbai:
After torrential monsoon rains in Mumbai, the city had been much
affected by the flooding and aftermath of flooding. The rainy seasons in
Mumbai have always brought heavy rainfall but not like the ones that
Mumbai has experienced in 2005, 2006 and2007.
SOLUTION:
Water spreading
Roof top area 100 sq.m. for individual house and 500 sq.m. for
multi-storied building.
Individua Multistoried
l building
Houses
Poverty:
According to the World Resources Institute in Washington, the last
20 years have done little for poverty abatement in India, but contributed
significantly to environmental degradation. In the three highly
industrialized states of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is the capital),
Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, per capita incomes are above the national
average, yet deaths in urban areas from respiratory and waterborne
diseases are disproportionately high. These three states with 20.6 per cent
of India’s population had 40 per cent of fatalities from water-borne
diseases and 48 per cent of respiratory diseases, defying the logic that
higher per capita income leads to better health standards. Industrial
houses dumped hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous wastes on
fallow or public lands without any proper safeguards, thus making their
way into the air or water bodies.
Population :
Almost one crore and fifty lakh is the Mumbai’s population and
growing at a very rapid pace day by day. The rapid development,
employment and good infrastructure are inviting people to migrate into this
great city. Problem is suffocating atmosphere of Mumbai.
Authorities are there to give good civic infrastructure. Their resources are
limited. Government is helpless. Citizens are deprived of their Right to
Liberty. The constitutional Crises are acute. Nobody or authority can stop a
citizen of India to stay and franchise his rights in Mumbai. Mumbai is part of
Indian Republic. But at what cost? Citizens of this great city are dying hard.
The living conditions are worst because of rising migrants. When
infrastructure has totally collapsed and conditions are becoming impossible
for human living, we are still looping in dark to solve the problem. Nobody
is having any answer neither we have any constitutional solutions.
People must be restricted at once or infrastructure must be improved, this
is the only solution one can think of.
Forty per cent of the formal sector jobs in Mumbai are concentrated
within a two-mile radius of Flora Fountain around the Fort. There are 144
jobs for every 100 residents in the Fort area, creating enormous
congestion.