Mumbai is the most popular
city in India and in its state Maharashtra.Mumbai is financial ,commercial and
entertainment capital of India. Its is home for financial institutions and
India’s scientific and nuclear institutes. Mumbai is home to budding actors and
stars of Indian bollywood industry. It has major potential for business
opportunity and attracts migrants from other parts of India. Food, architecture, quality of life ,
business , industrial development, lifestyle and many more parameters are remarkable
in this city.
Post Independence:
The Mumbai Pune Expressway, (officially known
as the Yashwantrao Chavan Mumbai Pune
Expressway) is India's first six-lane concrete, high-speed, access
controlled tolled expressway. spans a distance of almost 100 kms
connecting Mumbai, the administrative capital of Maharashtra and
the financial capital of India, with Pune, an industrial and educational
hub.this has reduced the travel time between Mumbai and pune to two hrs. pune
and Mumbai as neighbouring cities have developed each other to grow .
Economy:
Mumbai is India’s largest
city and commercial and financial capital of India. It generates around 6.16%
of total GDP of India. Along with the rest of India, Mumbai has witnessed an
economic boom since the liberalisation of 1991, the finance boom in the
mid-nineties and the IT, export, services and outsourcing boom in 2000s.
Being the financial capital, it is facilitated by the presence of Reserve Bank
Of India (RBI) and National Stock Exchange(NSE). The key sectors contributing
to the city's economy are: finance, gems & jewellery, leather processing,
IT and ITES, textiles, and entertainment.Despite all these, Mumbai exports oil
from the harbour of the Aabian sea. It also have mass number of unskilled
labour which lives as hawkers, taxi drivers, mechanics and
fishermen. As of
2008, the Globalization and World Cities Study Group (GaWC) has ranked Mumbai
as an "Alpha world city", third in its categories of Global
cities. Mumbai is the third most expensive office market in the world,
and was ranked among the fastest cities in the country for business startup in
2009.
TRANSPORT:
RAIL:
The Mumbai Suburban Railway, popularly referred to as Locals forms the backbone of the city's transport system. It is operated by the Central Railway and Western Railway zones of the Indian Railways Mumbai is the headquarters of two zones of the Indian Railways: the Central Railway (CR) headquartered at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus), and the Western Railway (WR) headquartered at Churchgate. Mumbai is also well connected to most parts of India by the Indian Railways. Long-distance trains originate from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Dadar, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Mumbai Central, Bandra Terminus, Andheri and Borivali.
The Mumbai Suburban Railway, popularly referred to as Locals forms the backbone of the city's transport system. It is operated by the Central Railway and Western Railway zones of the Indian Railways Mumbai is the headquarters of two zones of the Indian Railways: the Central Railway (CR) headquartered at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus), and the Western Railway (WR) headquartered at Churchgate. Mumbai is also well connected to most parts of India by the Indian Railways. Long-distance trains originate from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Dadar, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Mumbai Central, Bandra Terminus, Andheri and Borivali.
BUS:
Buses are generally
favoured for commuting short to medium distances, while train fares are more
economical for longer distance commutes. The Navi Mumbai
Municipal Transport (NMMT)
and Thane Municipal
Transport (TMT)
also operate their buses in Mumbai, connecting various nodes of Navi Mumbai and
Thane to parts of Mumbai.
ROAD:
Mumbai is served by National Highway 3, National Highway 4, National Highway 8, National Highway 17 and National Highway 222 of India's National Highways
system. The Mumbai-Pune
Expressway was the
first expressway built in India. The Eastern Freeway was opened in 2013. The Mumbai Nashik
Expressway, Mumbai-Vadodara
Expressway, are under
construction. The Bandra-Worli Sea
Link bridge,
along with Mahim Causeway, links the island city to the western suburbs. The three major road arteries of the
city are the Eastern Express
Highway from Sion to Thane, the Sion Panvel
Expressway from Sion to Panvel and the Western Express
Highway from Bandra to Dahisar
BY SEA AND AIR:
The Chhatrapati Shivaji
International Airport (formerly
Sahar International Airport) is the main aviation hub in the city and the
second busiest airport in India in terms of passenger traffic.
Mumbai is served by two
major ports, Mumbai Port Trust and Jawaharlal Nehru
Port Trust, which lies just
across the creek in Navi Mumbai. Mumbai
Port has one of the best natural harbours in the world, and has extensive wet
and dry dock accommodation facilities.
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