Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Slumdog Millionaire Notes - 11/30

5 Facts on Mumbai:

  • Most populous city in India (14 million) 2nd most populous in the world
  • Mumbai's bus services carried over 5.5 million passengers per day in 2008
  • Mumbai is the birthplace of Indian cinema.
  • India's financial and commercial capital of the country
  • Mumbai's literacy rate is 85.6% (female: 82.7%, male: 90%)



5 Facts on Dharavi

  • There is an increasingly large recycling industry, processing recyclable waste from other parts of Mumbai.
  • Dharavi covers an area of 535 acres
  • Cheap alternative where rents were as low as US$4 per month in 2006
  • Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and over 1 million people
  • Dharavi is one of the largest slums in the World


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