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  Mumbai
Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई, IPA:/'mumbəi/), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, the most populous city of India, and by some measures the most populous city in the world with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006).
Mumbai is the seat of the Bombay High Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra and Goa, and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Mumbai is the birthplace of Indian cinema (Dadasaheb Phalke laid the foundations by his silent movies followed by his Marathi talkies), with the oldest film broadcast here in the early 20th century.
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  Encyclopedia: Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai is the seat of the Bombay High Court, which has under its jurisdiction the states of Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territory of Daman and Diu.
Mumbai is located on the west coast of India and is the capital of the state of Maharashtra.
Mumbai spans an area 438 km² the city is on a peninsula on the island of Salcette.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Municipal-Commissioner-of-Mumbai   (390 words)

  
 Thoughts.com News - Manhole memo prompts Mumbai municipal mutterings
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mumbai city officials are upset by an American warning about the risks of falling into manholes in India's commercial capital during the monsoon season.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation rejected the statement, and said it had e-mailed the U.S. consulate on Wednesday stating it had cast the city in a bad light.
Jairaj Phatak, the municipal commissioner, estimates that 10 people or fewer have died in such a manner in recent years.
www.thoughts.com /news/Oddly_Enough/manhole-memo-prompts-mumbai-municipal-mutterings-33130   (173 words)

  
 Read about Mumbai at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Mumbai and learn about Mumbai here!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai is classified as a metropolis of India, under the jurisdiction of a municipality.
Mumbai suburban railway is composed of three rail networks and runs along the length of the city.
Mumbai recorded 27,577 incidents of crime in 2004, which is down 11% from 30,991 in 2001.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Mumbai   (2934 words)

  
 Floods in India leave death toll near 1,000
In Mumbai alone, hundreds have died in the city of over 15 million since Tuesday due to landslides, drowning, electrocution in flooded streets and even by suffocating in their cars as they waited out the rains for many hours.
Johny Joseph, the municipal commissioner of Mumbai, admitted "the administration is stretched and continuing rains are proving to be hurdle," in restoring civic services.
S.G. Danle, deputy municipal commissioner of Mumbai, said 30,000 health workers were working in the city and suburbs informing people how to prevent outbreaks of disease.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-08/01/content_465011.htm   (774 words)

  
 Mumbai: Attempting world-class status?
Both the municipal commissioners blamed the large-scale migration into Mumbai as one of the chief causes of the city's problems.
Mumbai, said Mr Tinaikar, was facing a battle that no other city in India or the world had to face, adding that the city was really a ``cross-section of the country''.
The importance of solving Mumbai's problems was underlined by the data flashed on the screen -- 90 per cent of India's banks and head offices are in Mumbai, 90 per cent of the country's capitalisation takes place in Mumbai, and one-third of India's tax revenues come from this city.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/06/07/stories/040760mn.htm   (908 words)

  
 Survive news   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Police in Mumbai said the bodies of 37 people were recovered from the city overnight, taking the financial hub's death toll from the floods to 407 and that of Maharashtra state to around 920.
Flights from Mumbai's airport, India's busiest, were suspended for several hours today after an Air India Boeing 747 from the southern city of Bangalore skidded off a wet runway, officials said.
Thousands of bloated animal carcasses also littered the streets of Mumbai, fuelling fears of disease with estimates saying the carcasses of 17,000 goats and more than 1,000 buffaloes and cows were scattered throughout the city's western and eastern suburbs.
www.survive.com /news/viewnews.cfm?newsid=1019   (454 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - New rains worsen India flood misery   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai received 944.2 millimeters of rainfall in a one-day period ending mid-morning on Wednesday, the most rainfall recorded in a single day in India.
Johny Joseph, the municipal commissioner of Mumbai, admitted "the administration is stretched and continuing rains are proving to be a hurdle" in restoring civic services.
SG Danle, deputy municipal commissioner of Mumbai, said 30,000 health workers were working in the city and suburbs telling people how to prevent outbreaks of disease.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/7CA546B4-0EB4-4D6E-96D0-AE274B6DBC82.htm   (685 words)

  
 The Mega-Cities Project: Global Network - Mumbai, India
The Mumbai Mega-Cities Project was funded by UNDP to produce a case study on the CORO Pay Toilet Project and to initiate the transfer of the Cairo based Zabbaleen Environmental and Development Program through the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, which is incorporating the innovation into their "rag-pickers initiative."
Mumbai has a birth rate of 20.1 per 1000, and a death rate of 6.0 per 1,000.
Mumbai is home to the largest slum in Asia, the Dharavi slum with over 500,000 occupants.
www.megacitiesproject.org /network_mumbai.asp   (836 words)

  
 Mumbai - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai (long known, until the mid 1990s, as Bombay) (renamed 1996) is the largest city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and in India and one of the top six largest agglomerations in the world.
Mumbai has a warm and humid climate throughout the year and the average temperature being Day - 35º C, Night - 25º C. The city is adjacent to water, so temperature changes are not as drastic as those inland.
Railway: Mumbai houses the headquarters of Western Railway (at the Churchgate railway station) and Central Railway (at the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus).
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 Mumbai at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is the largest city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and in India, and one of the top six largest agglomerations in the world.
Mumbai spans over 438 km² in area and is a linear city along the coast of the Arabian Sea.The city has a warm and humid climate throughout the year and an average temperature of 32ºC/day and 25ºC/night.
Mumbai is also the location of the oldest stock exchange in Asia, The Bombay Stock Exchange established in 1875.
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 WikiSlice - Mumbai
Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, the most populous city of India, and by some measures the most populous city in the world with an estimated population of about 13 million.
Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India, and houses important financial institutions, such as the Reserve Bank of India, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India and the corporate headquarters of many Indian companies.
Bandra is a suburb of Mumbai, popularly nick-named "Queen Of The Suburbs".
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Mumbai — A City of Contrasts Greater Mumbai - the business capital of the country - is a metropolitan city with a huge population of 99.26 lakhs as per the 1991 census, currently estimated at 1 crore 20 lakhs, with 60% of its population in the slums.
The BEI was thought of as a model program to be owned and run by the residents of Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, to demonstrate and stress to the rest of the country the need for primary education for all and how to achieve it.
Thus, in the city of Mumbai, it is the responsibility of MCGM to make primary education compulsory and provide it free of cost to all children in the city.
www.ids.ac.uk /ids/civsoc/final/india/ind7.doc   (18342 words)

  
 Street Vendor Project
Municipal Commissioners, The criteria and process of demarcation has not been formulated by the B.M.C. therefore the demarcations are not carried out by Asstt.
The Mumbai Municipal Corporation being Planning Authority before any implementations, no guidelines have been announced so far for implementations, only arbitrary decisions for artificial or so called temporary removal action are taken day by day wasting public funds and to project false pictures of removal action.
There are reasons to believe that Mumbai Municipal Corporation have kept aside the order and directions of the Honble Supreme Court and have started implementing its own improper arbitrary decisions knowing well that this will encroach upon the livelihoods of the Hawkers and frustrate them.
streetvendor.netfirms.com /public_html/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=1&showtopic=33   (1152 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan
It was back to the office for me, and for the next three days the Mumbai bureau of the Kolkatta-based Statesman newspaper became a comfortable port in a storm, even as the rest of the city north of South Mumbai sunk into a watery hell.
Mumbai municipal commissioner Johny Joseph said that a $3-billion upgrade plan was awaiting approval from the central government in New Delhi.
Every time Mumbai faces a crisis, and the city has faced many in the past 15 years, its people turn out to be the biggest single crisis-management unit, by helping themselves and others.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/GH13Df02.html   (1383 words)

  
 Massive cleanup after India floods | The Australian
RS Pardeshi of the Police Control Room in Mumbai said the bodies of 37 people were recovered from the city overnight, taking the financial hub's death toll from the floods to 407 and that of Maharashtra state to around 920.
In the southern Mumbai region of Konkan, Indian soldiers used their bare hands, spades and shovels to recover bodies and clear the debris in one of the worst-hit areas, Jui village.
SG Danle, deputy municipal commissioner of Mumbai, said 30,000 health workers spread out into the city and its suburbs to prevent the outbreak of water-borne diseases.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,25197,16099392-1702,00.html   (1035 words)

  
 Reference for Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai - Search.com
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (Marathi: बृहन्मुंबई महानगर पालिका) (formerly the Bombay Municipal Corporation) or the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai (Bombay).
Established under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, 1888, it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city and some suburbs of Mumbai.
The headquarters of the civic administration are in South Mumbai opposite the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
www.search.com /reference/Municipal_Corporation_of_Greater_Mumbai   (597 words)

  
 Hopes fade for finding flood survivors in India : Mail & Guardian Online
RS Pardeshi of the police control room in Mumbai said the bodies of 37 people were recovered from the city overnight, taking the financial hub's death toll from the floods to 407 and that of Maharashtra state to about 920.
Mumbai received 944,2mm of rainfall in a one-day period ending mid-morning on Wednesday, the most rainfall recorded to date in a single day in India, which caused flash floods and landslides in the city and outlying areas of the state.
SG Danle, deputy municipal commissioner of Mumbai, said 30 000 health workers spread out into the city and its suburbs to prevent the outbreak of water-borne diseases.
www.mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=246796&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news   (839 words)

  
 Get angry, dammit & stay so
The present anger is and can be focussed on ensuring the BMC or the local administration in Mumbai's outlying towns do the basic, minimum work for the taxes they collect from their citizens and for the salaries they get paid.
Instead of wondering in amazement at the shiny fa�ades of the king-size malls in the north Mumbai suburbs of Malad and Mulund, an angry city needs to ask where is the infrastructure to support all this.
In a three-hour drive from mid-town Mumbai to the suburb of Bandra on the night of the heavy rains, there was not one policeman to be seen.
in.rediff.com /news/2005/aug/01guest.htm   (1341 words)

  
 Memorandum of Understanding  Between  Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) &  NGO Council
Mumbai has a long and proud tradition of civic activism dedicated to the cause of a better life for all its citizens belonging to diverse communities.
The challenges before city governance in Mumbai have grown enormously, both in quantum and complexity, in the past few decades due to rapid increase in the city’s population and a host of other factors.
floor, H. Somani Marg, Fort, Mumbai 400 001, hereinafter referred to as “the NGO Council” of the Third Part and reference to the parties hereto shall, unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, mean and include their respective successors and assigns.
www.karmayog.com /ngocouncil/moumcgm.htm   (1623 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Disease toll rises to 179 in flood-hit Indian state
MUMBAI, Aug 14 (AFP) - The death toll from water-borne diseases in India's commercial capital Mumbai and surrounding regions after floods brought by record monsoon rains has risen to 179, officials said Sunday.
Now the intensity and incidence of water-borne cases is slowly diminishing," Mumbai municipal commissioner Johnny Joseph told AFP.
Environmentalists and urban planners blamed the widespread flooding in Mumbai on poor drainage caused by rampant unscrupulous development that blocked water exits.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6FA4T6?OpenDocument   (337 words)

  
 Maharashtra Fever toll 93
The death toll due to suspected leptospirosis and other water-borne ailments in flood and rain-ravaged Mumbai and adjoining Thane district mounted to 93 on Friday even as 906 more people were admitted to hospitals with similar complaints.
Of the 93 people--58 in Mumbai and 35 in Thane--who lost lives, health authorities confirmed three deaths in Thane of rat fever and nine rat fever patients admitted for treatment.
Mumbai's Joint Municipal Commissioner Manukumar Srivastav told PTI that there were 81 suspected leptospirosis cases admitted to hospitals while there was one death each due to Malaria and gastro.
www.rediff.com /rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/aug/12fever.htm   (280 words)

  
 M'rashtra leptospirosis toll rises to 93 : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mumbai's Joint Municipal Commissioner Manukumar Srivastav said that there were 81 suspected leptospirosis cases admitted to hospitals while there was one death each due to Malaria and gastro.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh visited several hospitals in northern Mumbai and later told reporters that the situation was under control and there was no epidemical situation in the metropolis.
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has drawn 71 more doctors of private medical colleges from Mumbai and outside to augment its health force to fight the fever and water-borne diseases, sources said.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1460488,001301120007.htm   (256 words)

  
 Times of Oman   (Site not responding. Last check: )
MUMBAI — Torrential rain lashed Mumbai again yesterday, disrupting flights, hampering rescue efforts and bringing more misery as the death rate from the heaviest downpours in the Indian city’s history neared 1,000.
S.G. Danle, deputy municipal commissioner, said 30,000 health employees were working in the city and suburbs telling people how to prevent outbreaks of disease.
Dead bodies and carcasses of animals were still strewn across parts of Mumbai and its suburbs from last week’s flooding, raising fears of disease, TV and officials said.
www.timesofoman.com /newsdetails.asp?newsid=18282   (939 words)

  
 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation: Mumbai/Bombay pages
The Municipal Corporation is responsible for the creation and maintenance of roads and flyovers, including the cleaning and lighting of roadways.
The Mumbai Port Trust and defence areas, as well as the Borivili National Park are exempt from its jurisdiction.
The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) was created in 1865 and Arthur Crawford was appointed the first municipal commissioner of Bombay for five years.
theory.tifr.res.in /bombay/amenities/orgs/bmc.html   (510 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : After rains, Mumbai faces epidemic situation
MUMBAI: Mumbai that got devastated by downpour and deluge a fortnight ago is now facing a serious outbreak of leptospirosis and dengue.
He said that under the law, district collectors and municipal commissioners were empowered to declare an epidemic.
Mundada said 112 cases of lepton, 39 cases of dengue, 48 of typhoid, 1127 of gastroenteritis and 662 of fever were noticed in Mumbai.
www.hindu.com /2005/08/12/stories/2005081205321300.htm   (553 words)

  
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Municipal Commissioner, MCGM, Mumbai, to discuss the issues pertaining to management of BMW in Mumbai region.
Municipal Commissioner and the Association of the Hospitals in Mumbai to discuss the proposals prepared by MPCB for the management of BMW, site selection to establish the new facilities, issuing the tenders and triggering the process to achieve the targets of the future plans for BMW in Greater Mumbai.
A letter sent by MPCB to Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) with the scheme suggested by Board is annexed at Annexure XX MCGM had seized a truck which was found dumping the BMW at a non-conforming location and had filed a FIR with the police.
mpcb.mah.nic.in /images/4thatr.doc   (6132 words)

  
 BMC's flavoured milk distribution will begin soon
Mumbai: Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak on Friday said that the Corporation will start distributing scented milk to BMC school students in this academic year.
Speaking to reporters in his weekly press briefing, Phatak said that the Corporation is expecting the test reports of the milk by February 15 and the distribution will start soon after.
It may be noted that the Corporation had started giving scented milk to 4.5 lakh odd students from September last year and the same was stopped after students from municipal run schools took ill after consuming the milk in three separate incidents.
news.indiainfo.com /2008/02/02/0802020932_milk_flavoured.html   (109 words)

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