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 There’s nothing august about Mumbai [1]

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Greater Mumbai (gm) is an amalgam of 11 islands reclaimed and connected over 100 years or so; seven islands comprise the City and four the suburbs. Spread over 468 sq km, with a population of over 13 million and a population density as high as 27,120 per sq km, India’s most populous city has slums that accommodate, the 2001 census says, over 49 per cent of the population

Publication Date: 
29/09/2005
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Pollution [3], Pollution Control [4], Textile Industry [5], Floods [6], Urbanisation [7], Slums [8], Solid Waste [9], Waste Disposal [10], Legislation [11], Governance [12], India [13], Maharashtra [14], Mumbai [15], Rainfall [16]

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