New Bombay: Metropolitian Cities

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METROPOLITIAN CITIESNEW BOMBAY

ASHRAF SAYED 963

History Navi Mumbai, located in the eastern trans harbour of Mumbai, Maharashtra, is one of the world's largest planned townships. Since independence, the decision to build a new city on the mainland across the harbour was for a specific purpose: to decongest Mumbai, an island city whose physical expansion had a limit. It was also earmarked as an alternative heaven for the multitudes that thronged to Mumbai from all over India. This decision required the state government to exercise the matching, politically speaking, hard option to relocate its seat of governance along with all its important offices to this new city, and completely stop the backbay reclamation project in the island city. It did nothing of the sort. It continued with the reclamation and put brakes on the efforts of CIDCO (such as the shifting of wholesale markets).

Demography Given below is the Population of NMMC area from the year of establishment. Population in NMMC : Year Total Population Source 1971 116789 Census 1981 198290 Census 1991 387206 Census 2001 703947 Census Population Projection Based on past trends and internal and external factors, assumptions were framed and thus population projections have been worked out. Economy The main economic activities are concentrated in Thane Belapur Industrial Area. Large scale employment opportunities in different sectors of economy especially industry, agriculture produce market and construction providing direct and indirect jobs both in organized and unorganized sectors, has been explained. Land use Total area under jurisdiction of NMMC is 162.5sqkm. Land use plan of NMMC area is depicted well. The nodes in NMMC have been discussed in detail.

The development plan for Navi Mumbai envisages planning and development of various nodes or townships. Each nodal settlement is spread over 500 to 800 hectares of land and is further sub-divided into sectors. Each node has a population of about 100,000 to 300,000. The entire Navi Mumbai township is expected to have about 20 nodes with a total population of about 2 million and 10,00,000 jobs.

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