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	Mumbai (Bombay) The Gateway Of India
		Mumbai (Bombay) is the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra and is the largest metropolis in India.
		Greater Mumbai (Bombay), of which the southernmost part is the island of Mumbai (Bombay), was formed into a metropolitan municipal organization in 1957.
		Greater Mumbai (Bombay) is separated from the Indian mainland by the waters of Vasai Creek.
	www.msu.edu /~kshirsa1/bombay.html (555 words)

	Old Bombay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old Bombay was used to refer to the area which was formed by the merging of the seven original islands of Mumbai, India.
		The region north of this became Greater Bombay; now known as the 'Suburbs'.
		The region of Old Bombay consists of downtown South Mumbai which is the richest area in India and the nerve centre of Indian commerce.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Bombay (153 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bombay has a warm temperature all year, ranging from 75 f(24 c) to 86 f(30 c).
		greater bombay has a population of more than 8 million people in an area of only 239 square miles(619 square kilometers).
		some attractions of bombay are the hanging gardens, where trees and bushes are trimmed into realistic or fantastic shapes; chowpatty beach, where mahatama gandhi and jawaharlal nehru held political meetings; taraporavala aquarium, india's only such facility; and the nehru planetarium.
	www.squires.fayette.k12.ky.us /library/rc/bombay.htm (214 words)

	States - Delhi
		Bombay harbour is to the east of the city.
		Bombay's vehicular population is growing at a rate of 10 per cent per annum which is reflected in automotive pollutant emissions.
		Bombay began to attract fortune hunters by the hundreds (and probably still does) and the population had swelled from 13,726 in 1780 to 644,405 by 1872, in a little over a hundred years.
	www.ess.co.at /GAIA/CASES/IND/BOM/BOMmain.html (2079 words)

	Medicine & Global Survival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Given the large population of Bombay and the likely damage to all forms of transportation infrastructure (train stations and tracks, roads, petrol stations, dockyards, airports, etc.) evacuation of survivors would be nearly impossible.
		According to the 1991 census, the population of Greater Bombay is 9,910,000; if the neighboring town of Thane is also included, the population is 12,572,000 [5].
		Hospitals and medical care in an overcrowded city such as Bombay are limited to begin with [Figure 3], and facilities within the affected area would be destroyed or damaged during the attack.
	www.ippnw.org /MGS/V5N2Ramana.html (2186 words)

	1: General information about the city of Bombay
		Bombay is India’s financial and commercial centre and the principal port of the Arabian Sea.
		Bombay is called the "Gateway of India" because most of the visitors to India, especially before the age of aeroplanes, entered and made their exit through this city.
		But as the majority of the Catholics in Bombay (Goans) were under the personal jurisdiction of the bishop of Daman, he wielded considerable influence in the city, inspite of not having the title of Bishop of Bombay.
	sdbbom.ourfamily.com /Bombay.htm (8824 words)

	Bombay - World Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bombay, now known officially and alternatively as Mumbai, is the largest city in India and the capital of Maharashtra state.
		Bombay was originally a conglomeration of 7 islands on the Konkan coastline which over time were joined to form the island city of Bombay.
		Bombay's nature as the most eclectic and cosmopolitan Indian city is symbolised in the presence of Bollywood within the city, the centre of the globally-influential Hindi film and TV industries.
	www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Bombay (5980 words)

	New Bombay
		The New Bombay project on the mainland across a major creek, the Thane Creek, from the metropolis of Bombay is a unique project by virtue of its size (it plans to accommodate 2 million people) as well as by virtue of the method of financing its development.
		Dwelling units in New Bombay are organized in the form of residential condominiums which require and ensure participation by the residents in the maintenance of infrastructure at decentralized level.
		The growth of New Bombay was expected to decongest Bombay in respect of both the population and the economic activities by moving industries, markets and offices so that the new city would become physically, economically and environmentally sustainable.
	www.serd.ait.ac.th /umc/bestprac/newbom.htm (1526 words)

	Bombay, India, hotels, cars, information, tips
		Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is the world's most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world.
		Old Bombay being a city didn't have a district capital, whereas a capital was created in the largely semi-urban uptown Greater Bombay.
		Greater Mumbai is the urban agglomeration of 18 million people (largest in India and one of the six largest in the world) which comes under the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
	www.flights-and-hotels.com /india/bombay (2602 words)

	Future on display in 'Maximum City' by Suketu Mehta
		Bombay is one of a group of "megacities" - those with 10 million or more people, most of which are in the developing world.
		Greater Bombay's population, currently 19.5 million, is bigger than those of 173 countries.
		The Boss Tweed of Bombay is a man named Bal Thackeray, who was accused in an official report of having directed mobs of Hindu rioters against Muslims, "like a veteran general," in a convulsive series of riots in 1992 and 1993.
	www.suketumehta.com /baltsun.html (907 words)

	Bombay, Travel to Bombay, Bombay Hotel, Bombay Tourism, Bombay Travel Guide, Bombay Travel Agency, What to do in ...
		Bombay's progress began at the hands of British or East India Co. Port was built.
		Distinction of Bombay lies in its dazling and marvellous sky-scrapers which have been built by reclaiming land from the Sea and thus the city expanded.
		Bombay is recognised as finest city in India and as a modern city its place is sixth in the world.
	www.seemyindia.com /maharashtra/maharashtra-mumbai.html (1426 words)

	The New Straits Times Review of Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
		The Greater Bombay region has an annual deficit of 45,000 homes, yet 400,000 of these homes are empty.
		Bombay had become so helpless in its fight against the underworld, even judges resort to creepy characters to settle scores.
		Bombay eventually is to the lesser mortals the vadapav the food eaten by slum dwellers, cart pullers, street urchins, the clerks, gangsters, and cops alike.
	www.suketumehta.com /nst.html (975 words)

	Special Provisions For Land Revenue In The City Of Bombay.
		Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959, and in section 324 of the Code, every appeal before the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal shall bear a court-fee stamp of such value as may be prescribed by rules under this Chapter.
		All unoccupied lands within the City of Bombay, and every unoccupied portion of the foreshore, below high water mark, shall be deemed, and are hereby declared to be, the property of the State Government, subject always to the rights of way and all other rights of the public legally subsisting.
		It shall be the duty of the Collector to prepare and keep in such form as the State Government may from time to time sanction a separate register and rent roll of every description of land according to the nature and terms at the tenure on which such land is held.
	www.nagpuronline.com /nagpurcollectorate/laws/mlrc/BOMBAY.htm (3730 words)

	User Reviews and comparison blog on Bombay - Tourist Attractions by thebiggeststar on MouthShut.com
		Although the archipelago which developed into the modern city of Bombay was inhabited whenever history chanced on it, we are forced to imagine the lives of the early Bombaywallas, because the islands lay outside of the sweep of history and beyond the marches of armies for millennia.
		The second governor of Bombay, Gerald Aungier, saw the opportunity to develop the islands into a centre of commerce to rival other ports still in the hands of local kingdoms.
		Bombay expanded northwards into the first suburbs, before spreading its nightmare tentacles into the northern suburbs.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Bombay-46126.html (1319 words)

	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The most recent Indian census data (from 1991) gives the population of Greater Bombay as 9,910,000; if the neighboring town of Thane is also included, the population is 12,572,000.
		Assuming that all the fallout is deposited in inhabited areas (and assuming they have a population density of 23,000, the average for Bombay) the number of people dying of all causes could be as high as 350,000 to 400,000 for a 15-kiloton weapon.
		Hospitals and medical care in an overcrowded city such as Bombay are limited to begin with, and facilities within the affected area would be destroyed or damaged during the attack.
	www.ippnw.org /SACrisisCasualties.html (938 words)

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		Monitoring conducted in the Air Pollution Survey of Greater Bombay 1970-73 indicates that SO levels first started to decrease in the 1970s, probably due to planning measures such as the relocation of industry and increased stack heights.
		Analysis of SPM in the Air Pollution Survey of Greater Bombay 1971-73 indicated a high proportion of organic matter; 10 sites throughout Bombay gave a mean of 46 per cent.
		Increasing population will result in greater energy demand and hence increased emissions of CO. Recent research on CO emissions suggests that domestic sources and in particular biofuels, such as wood, charcoal and dung, make a larger contribution to anthropogenic and urban emissions than originally believed.
	www.ess.co.at /GAIA/CASES/IND/BOM/BOMpollution.html (2951 words)

	1963 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership - Dara N. Khurody, Tribhuvandas K. Patel and Verghese Kurien
		In Greater Bombay, as the population expanded beyond the island city to over three million, the cattle became a major problem.
		Located 20 miles north of Bombay City, this largest dairy establishment in Asia is a combination of model dairy farms and milk pasteurization plant.
		Bombay's growing demand for milk also has provided the basis for a new rural way of life around Anand, some 200 miles inland.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Citation/CitationKhurodyDar.htm (702 words)

	Mumbai (Bombay) \| Historical Background\| City Guide \| WCities Destination Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		At around this time the population of Bombay was estimated to have risen from 10,000 in 1661 to 60,000 in 1675.
		The sixty years between the completion of the vellard at Breach Candy (1784) and the construction of the Mahim Causeway (1845) are considered an important period during which the seven islands were merged into one landmass.
		Furthermore the population boom of the '50s and '60s was fuelled by the absence of opportunities in the rest of the country— the language riots, the reorganisation of Indian states and the see-saw politics of the country did not seem to affect the city.
	www.wcities.com /en/guide/history/683/guide.html (1240 words)

	Mumbai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the British gained possession in the 17th century, it was anglicised to Bombay, although it was known as Mumbai or Mambai to Marathi and Gujarati-speakers, and as Bambai in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian.
		This is followed by either a general degree course in a chosen field of study, or a professional degree course, such as law, engineering, medicine etc. Most professional colleges in Mumbai are affiliated to the University of Mumbai, one of the largest universities in the world in terms of graduation rate.
		The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, one of India's premier engineering schools, [Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies] and the SNDT Women's University are the other universities in Mumbai.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Bombay (5151 words)

	Mumbai Summary
		After 1955, when the State of Bombay was being reorganised along linguistic lines into the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, there was a demand that the city be constituted as an autonomous city-state, independent of both.
		This is followed by either a general degree course in a chosen field of study, or a professional degree course, such as law, engineering, medicine etc. All professional colleges in Mumbai are affiliated to the University of Mumbai, one of the largest universities in the world in terms of graduation rate.
		The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, one of India's premier engineering schools, and the SNDT Women's University are the other universities in Mumbai.
	www.bookrags.com /Mumbai (4824 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Dilip D'Souza on the controversy over migration into Bombay
		That is, an average of 78 people migrated into Bombay each day of that decade: taking the generally accepted norm of 5 people per family, that's less than 16 families.
		The highest that immigration into Bombay has ever been was in the 1970s, when it averaged less than 60 families a day.
		If there were indeed 350 families trooping into Bombay daily, the city's 1991 population would have been not the 10 million that the census found, but 16 million.
	www.rediff.com /news/apr/01dilip.htm (1208 words)

	Kalyan Diocese
		In Bombay, Pune and Nasik regions, they are found in large numbers.
		After nine years of dedicated and pioneering work in the newly born diocese, Bishop Paul Chittilappilly was transferred to the diocese of Thamarassery in Kerala on December18, 1996 and took charge on February 13, 1997.
		Revenue districts: Greater Bombay, Thane, Raigad, Pune, Kolhapur, Satara, Solapppur, Sangli, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Nasik, Dhule, Jalgon, Nandurbar and Ahmednagar.
	www.cbcisite.com /Kalyan.htm (404 words)

	The Examined Life » Blog Archive » Bombay Bloggers Meet - November 13, 2005
		There is Bombay, one of the seven islands that were joined to form Bombay.
		There is Bombay, that was formed by the inclusion of Bombay with Salsette island to form Greater Bombay.
		Considering that many outside the Bombay city limits work in Bombay, study there…live over half the time they are awake in the city, the inclusion of all these areas is nice to see.
	www.ravikiran.com /2005/11/08/bombay-bloggers-meet-november-13-2005 (1031 words)

	History
		On 1st October, 1932, the Port Haj Committees Act of 1932 was passed, to establish Committees in the.Pprincipal Ports of Pilgrim Traffic, to assist the Muslim Pilgrims to Hedjaz.
		It envisaged the constitution of Port Haj Committee, Calcutta and Port Haj Committee, Bombay.
		On 17th December, 1959, the Haj Committee Act of 1959 (No.51 of 1959), was passed, to establish a Committee in the Port of Bombay for assisting Muslim Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Jordan and for matters connected therewith.
	www.hajcommittee.com /history.html (1242 words)

	rediff.com: Business News: Bombay faces power shutdown threat
		Bombay, the nation's business capital, could face a major power shut-down from December 6, with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board threatening to cut off power supply if the Tata Electric Companies does not pay up the dues it owes to the MSEB.
		The meeting between the officials of the Maharashtra State Electric Board and the TEC ended in a deadlock as the MSEB gave an ultimatum to the TEC to pay up the dues of Rs 2.74 billion or face the consequences.
		MSEB is the power generator, while TEC and BSES are the two companies which distribute power supply in Greater Bombay City and the suburbs of Bombay.
	www.rediff.com /money/2000/dec/01mseb.htm (355 words)

	Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
		State of Maharashtra11 In this case, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay initiated acquisition proceedings for City Survey No. 503 situate at Dharavi, Bombay, by making an application to the State Government under Section 126(1) of the MRTP Act.
		The substantial question of law for decision was whether the public purpose for which the land is acquired must continue to subsist until the land vests in the State under Section 16 or 17 of the LA Act.
		Ramaswamy, J., also held that Section 91 of the BMC Act statutorily applies to the acquisition of the land, and that under sub-section (2) of Section 91 of the BMC Act on payment of compensation by the Corporation to the Land Acquisition Officer, the acquired property statutorily vested in the Corporation free from all encumbrances.
	www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/536_1.htm (6352 words)

	Volunteer Opportunities in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		We at In Defence of Animals are a group of volunteers all trying to make a difference to the lives of the homeless animals in the city of Bombay.
		We have official recognition from the Animal Welfare Board of India, The RSPCA London, The Charity Commissioner of greater Bombay, and The Ministry for Social Justices and Empowerment.
		We are located on a One acre property on the suburbs of Bombay (Muncipal Property).
	www.youthforanimals.org /india.htm (225 words)

	THE HAJ COMMITTEE ACT, 1959
		Short Title: THE HAJ COMMITTEE ACT, 1959 Act No. of Year: ACT NO. 51 OF 1959 Enactment Date: [17th December, 1959.] Act Objective: An Act to establish a Committee in the Port of Bombay for assisting Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Jordan and for matters connected therewith.
		Subs., ibid., for "State Government of Bombay" (w.e.f.
		(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, the Port Haj Committee of Bombay constituted under the said Act shall, until the establishment of the Committee under this Act, continue to function as if this Act had not been passed and on such establishment of the Committee, the Port Haj Committee of Bombay shall stand dissolved.
	cgijeddah.tripod.com /haj/hajact.html (1029 words)

	Greater Bombay Science Teachers' Association
		Greater Bombay Science Teachers’Association conducts DR. HOMI BHABHA BALVAIDNYANIK COMPETITION since 1981 to search talented students in Science and to encourage them to take interest in Science.
		For information of the test a brocher is supplied to every student which shows how to attempt the questions.
		The first phase is of written test which will be conducted in Greater Mumbai, Navi Mumbai Thane and Remaining Maharashtra on different centres at the same time.
	www.balvaidnyanik.com /Index.htm (803 words)

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