MUMBAI THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF INDIA

Seven islands PAREL, COLABA, MAZAGAON, WORLI, LITTLE COLABA, and BOMBAY islands were inhabited by fishing community, later many rulers ruled this area then came the Portuguese who named it BOMBAII, the British took the possession of the city and simplified the name to Bombay in the year 1995 it was named MUBAI. Now the city is capital of Maharashtra state if India in western region with a population of about 140 million people Many have come to settle or work from allover India.

  Many wars were fought for this area and the British annexed several parts and made Bombay Presidency.  In old times from 1782 onwards, the city was reshaped with large-scale civil engineering projects aimed at merging all the seven islands into a single amalgamated mass. In the year 1960 new state Maharashtra was created and Mumbai became its capital.

 

  Mumbai has become pot pouri (khichdi) of all the cultures making the city multicultural and multiethnic. People of all the cast and creed live in this city.

Ulhas river and several lakes are there and few originate from these lakes, east coastline of the city is mangrove swamps and western is rocky and sandy. Mumbai city has tropical climate with heavy rains and December to march winters and April to June summer but the temperature remains between 33 and 16 degree celcious as average.

Now comes the most important part of the article as well Mumbai became most important seaport after the opening of Swaze canal.

 Economically Mumbai is very sound with almost all the national and international companies and commercial giants have their offices or factories here Mumbai was famous as chief cotton trading market and lots of cotton mils were thee attracting labors from all over India. Mumbai is the major contributor of revenue to the national exchequer. BSE and NSE along with RBI, World trade center are in Mumbai, it has become major health tourist center as there are several famous hospitals with renowned doctors and top class facilities and service, adding more to the economy. There all the world famous banks have their branches here.

  BOLLY WOOD is famous for film and TV production because most famous actors and actresses and producers and directors live here. Because of film industry lot of people come as visitors or workers or to become actors or actresses and for other jobs. Bhabha Atomic research center and Trombay atomic research are also in Mumbai. Mumbai was 8^th in the list of Forbes magazine list of billionaires. The development in Dubai has also affected Mumbai making it more prosperous; plans are underway to make Mumbai as Singapore.

Mumbai was the birth place of INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRES and gave several top leaders, lots of movements in freeing the country started from here. Many famous and distinguished persons live here or lived here. Doctors, leaders, educationalists, professors, advocates theater persons and prominent persons of all walks of life live here. Amit ji, Sunil Gavasker, Sachin tendulker, sharukh khan, Lata Tai and AshaTai live and many more film or sport personalities live here. So there is always some cultural activity or programme in the city,

All the telecommunication giants and DTH providers are here so are all the media print and both. Several papers and magazines are printed here; many publishing houses are in Mumbai.

There are several prestigious schools and colleges and institutions which give super education there are few universities also making Mumbai a major education hub, students from all over the globe come for studies.

 Because city is of mixed culture so is the food all kinds of food is available to suit every taste bud beside some local cuisine is also available.

 There several places to visit national parks museums famous theaters malls and places of historical importance, Mumbai has two UNESCO world heritage sites, there is much to visit you can not see all the places in a day or two.

 Mumbai is connected to other parts of world by international airport and seaport, domestic flights available to all major cities of India, so is rail system well developed local net work with metro under construction.

Many trains originate and terminate three terminals LOKMANYA TILAK TERMINOUS, DADAR and CHATRAPATI SHIVAJI TERMINOUS (OLD VICTORIS TERMINOUS WAS VERY FAMOUS). So are the roads many highways connect it to all neighboring towns and cities, local bus system is top class, BEST IS POPULAR in Mumbai, besides taxi and auto service is there on reasonable rates.

There is lots of hotels some are very famous, 26/11 tragedy happened here in “Taj Hotel” a Tata group hotel.

 Mumbai is on the top list of all major tour operators and travel agents there fore you will not have any problem of tickets or hotels there some thing every pocket. This description looks as little has been said about Mumbai.


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