Advantages And Disadvantages Of Waste Management In Mumbai

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Demographics of Mumbai city :
Mumbai is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, most populous metropolitan area in India, and the eighth most populous agglomeration in the world, with an estimated city population of 18.4 million and metropolitan area population of 20.7 million as of 2011. According to the 2011 census, the population of Mumbai was 12,479,608. The population density is estimated to be about 20,482 persons per square kilometre. The living space is 4.5sq metre per person.
Population growth of Mumbai:
Census Population %+/-
1971 5,970,575 -
1981 8,243,405 38.1
1991 9,925,891 20.4
2001 11,914,398 20.7
2011 12,478,447 4.7
(Source- MRDA, Wikipedia)
Actual situation of Waste management in Mumbai :
Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra State and the financial capital of the country. The city, once a leading industrial centre has now become a tertiary economy, with just one-third of the male workers and one-fifth of the female workers employed in the secondary sector (manufacturing and construction) in 1999-00 as per the data from National Sample Survey (NSS) (from Mahadevia 2005). The rest of the workers are in the tertiary sector. But, less than 20 per cent of the male workers in this year are employed in higher end tertiary sector (based on Mahadevia 2005), indicating a predominance of low-end jobs in the tertiary sector in the city, indicating poor income levels. BMC area is divided into two major geographic

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