Portal:Mumbai

Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology IIT Mumbai Main Building Indian Institute of Technology Bombay was the second IIT to be established in 1958 with assistance from UNESCO and with funds contributed by the Soviet Union. UNESCO agreed to provide equipment and technical experts mainly from the Soviet Union, while the Government of India accepted the responsibility for all other expenses including the cost of the building project and recurring expenses. The site chosen for the institute was Powai, eighteen miles (29 km) from the city of Mumbai, with an area of 550 acres (2.2 km2) which was given by the then Bombay State Government. While construction was being completed, the first academic session of the Institute opened on July 25, 1958, in its temporary home at the Synthetic and Art Silk Mills Research Association (SASMIRA) building in Worli (Mumbai) with 100 students. These students were selected from over 3,400 applicants for admission to the first year undergraduate programmes in Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering. One of the main objectives of establishing the Institute was to develop facilities for studies in a variety of specialised engineering and technological sciences. The need for establishing adequate facilities for postgraduate studies and research was kept uppermost in mind in the founding years. Credit: Humayunn Peerzaada The building of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. It is the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai. It is India's richest municipal organisation. Its annual budget is even more than that of some of the small states of India. Established under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act (1888), it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city and some suburbs of Mumbai. ... that Mumbai Suburban Railway's (pictured) Western Line in India carries about 2.6 million passengers per day, almost 43 percent of the total Mumbai suburban rail traffic, resulting in what is known as super-dense crush load of 14 to 16 standing passengers per square metre of floor space? ... that during World War II, the government occupied Parsi Gymkhana and Islam Gymkhana in Bombay, leading Hindu Gymkhana to offer membership to Muslims and Parsis as an "emergency measure"? 'Thakur Village is a planned but congested residential township, nestled snugly between the green foothills of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park towards the east with the forest land controversy and the Western Express Highway (Mumbai-Ahmedabad NH8) towards the west. It offers the perfect combination of living in nature's proximity whilst being connected to all major areas of the city. An upcoming flyover at the busy Mahindra junction promises to ease the traffic woes, which Thakur Village has been notorious for in addition to the everyday waterlogging during rainy seasons, since the past few years. Thakur Village stands apart from other planned localities in Mumbai, due to its spectacular skyline, mostly upper-middle-class citizens, and self-sufficient nature. The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: What are portals? List of portals Featured portals