Mumbai needs infrastructure Times of India By Ajit Krishnan Partner and Sector Leader‚ Real Estate and Infrastructure‚ Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd. and Tarika Kumar Senior Associate‚ Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd. What you see is what you believe and we believe that Mumbai needs urban infrastructure. It needs an upgraded urban infrastructure which can cater to demands of unimaginable proportions which no other city in the world has seen‚ because its challenges are unique and have not been witnessed
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Computer is an electronic device which is capable of storing data. Like all electronic machines‚ computers too have limitations. They cannot perform all tasks carried out by humans and teaching is surely one of them. If computers started replacing teachers‚ the environment of the whole school would go topsy turvy. There won’t be any teacher who could enforce his/her authority. Students would be left on their own. If they wish‚ they could bunk classes‚ skip homework and go on misbehaving in the
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INTRODUCTION In Marathi or Hindi‚ ‘Dabba’ means tiffin box and ‘wala’ refers to a person. A Dabbawala‚ is a person in the city of Mumbai whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home to office of the customer. Basically a Dabbawala is any person who carries the lunch box from the customer’s residence and delivers it to the customer’s work place. But Mumbai Dabbawalas are recognized by the quality of spirit that they carry with them‚ which make them a class apart. The standards that
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THE DABBAWALAS OF MUMBAI: The Dabbawalas who provide a lunch delivery service in Mumbai have been in the business for over 100 years. In 1998‚ Forbes Global magazine conducted an analysis and gave them a Six Sigma rating of efficiency. * The description of Dabbawalas 1. Descendants of soldiers of the legendary Maharashtrian warrior-king Shivaji‚ dabbawalas belong to the Malva caste‚ and arrive in Mumbai from places like Rajgurunagar‚ Akola‚ Ambegaon‚ Junnar and Maashi. 2. They believe
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poor areas such as Mumbai. Since Mumbai is a pretty expensive place to live in‚ it is home to some of the world’s richest and poorest people. “Today‚ over half of Mumbai’s population of over 15 million lives in settlements‚ occupying only 8% of the city’s area” (Anand and Rademacher). It is the largest slum in the world. The government thinks it is best to get rid of the slum because the land is very valuable‚ but demolishing this slum would cause disastrous effects to the city as a whole. As the
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------------------------------------------------- Dabbawala From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mumbai Dabbahwalas A dabbawala (Marathi: डबेवाला); also spelled as dabbawalla or dabbawallah; literally meaning ("box person")‚ is a person in India‚ most commonly found in the city of Mumbai‚ who is employed in a unique service industry whose primary business is collecting freshly cooked food in lunch boxes from the residences of the office workers (mostly in the suburbs)‚ delivering it to their
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Bombay – now known as Mumbai – is the home of Bollywood movies and India’s city of gold‚ its financial capital. Like a magnet‚ it draws in people from all over the country. But behind the glitz‚ glamour and the hype lurks a different reality – a city landscape dominated by massive‚ sprawling slums – some of the biggest in the world. According to the city housing authority‚ eight million out of the twelve million people in Mumbai live in the slums. And Mumbai is not alone. Slums are a global problem
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Life in Mumbai may just be like the life in some other city‚ or your city from outside. It’s just the same different people living well almost together‚ struggling to find their way‚ striving to make life better. They do have the differences‚ negatives and ways. But living in this city makes you realise how not so similar it is to every place in this world. How so many people from different cultures‚ states and countries can call this one city their home? On the world map Mumbai is nothing more
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the area of present day Mumbai was under Portuguese control. The Portuguese established a basic law enforcement structure in this area‚ with the establishment of a Police out-post in 1661. In 1669 East India Company was given Bombay Island from king Charles II. who had acquired it when marrying a Portuguese princess a few years before. The origins of the present day Mumbai police can be traced back to a militia organised by Gerald Aungier‚ the then Governor of Mumbai in 1669. This Bhandari Militia
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26/11 Mumbai Attacks Terrorism can be found all over the world. Terrorists are from various nationalities. Terrorist have committed several attacks and have caused several people to lose their loved ones. Anyone can be a victim of terrorism. In 2008 Mumbai attacks‚ there were eight more attacks in financial capital of India‚ Mumbai‚ including 26th November 2008. It was one of major attack from the eight attacks in Mumbai. The attacks‚ which widespread global condemnation‚ began on Wednesday
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