MAHIM-SITE ANALYSIS
NAME:AVANTIKA BHOSALE
YEAR: FOURTH YEAR A
ROLL NO.-3
B.V.C.O.A.
LOCATION
THE ROAD NETWORK:
Major Junction:
South End – Bandra
North End – Dahisar
Connected to Mumbai by 3 major roads:
• The Western Express Highway
• S.V Marg
• Tulsi Pipe Road
SV road runs from Dadar via lady
Jamshedju road to Bandra reclamation.
The internal roads are not well defined and the width is
quite narrow. Introducing grid patterns for the internal
road network will make the path wider and easily
accessible
BANDRA WORLI SEALINK SHIVAJI MAHARAJ PARK MAHIM NATURE PARK
EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
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I. Ground floor houses
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Improper toilet facilities
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Shaded areas for recreational
Activities and for festivals
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EXISTING USER TYPOLOGY
HEIGHT MAP LANDUSE MAP
EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES
• Slum pockets along the mithi river are in a
poor condition and the living standards are in
turn affecting the ecological part as there are
no proper sanitary facilities.
• Most of the houses face water leakage and
flooding issues in the monsoon season due
to poorly constructed homes
• Management for waste treatment and removal
system for the proper and safe disposal of
household waste and sewage within the
settlement is not provided.
ECOLOGICAL THREATS
• The new central business district of Bandra-Kurla was reclaimed
from mangroves in 1970, choking the mouth of the Mithi river
which empties out into Mahim bay.
• The fisherfolk also pointed to the contamination of marine life in
Mumbai’s coasts and creeks. Bhai Bandarkar, president of the
MMKS, and an executive member of the National Fish workers
Forum, said, “The Mumbai Municipal Corporation is the largest
creator of pollution in Mumbai. The sewage in Mumbai goes
untreated into the sea and the creeks around the city, thus
poisoning them and the fish.”
• Urban fishing villages have been under a sustained threat of
redevelopment and renewal, as they are located in one of the most
desired parts of the city – its coast. Fishing villages are not simply
housing, rather they are strikingly self-contained as urban units,
with livelihood opportunities, homes, markets, cultural and social
institutions, all integrated within a compact and walkable district.
FUTURE PROPOSALS
What is Mumbai’s Coastal Road project?
The Bandra-Worli Sea Link in the financial capital was originally planned as one arm of a longer
sealink that would connect Bandra, queen of the suburbs, with Nariman Point, the commercial
hub of south Mumbai. The government appointed a technical committee and it reported that while
the sea link could cost approximately Rs 600 crore per kilometre, reclamation of land along the coast
for a seaside highway would cost Rs 100 crore per km.
MAIN DISPUTE
• Environmentalists, activists and fishermen
opposed the project.
• Their main contention was that the BMC is
implementing the project with faulty and
‘illegal’ green clearances accorded in May 2017
by the MoEFF & CC.
• Fishermen also claimed that the
reclamation will destroy shallow water
fishing and increase the turbidity of
water, and that the narrow gaps
between pillars will hinder movement of
fishing boats
• The site has a historical importance with the presence
S of a fort and a church also proves to be an important landmark.
• Presence of Bandra worli sea link.
W • Improper sanitary conditions.
• Irregular water supply
• Cramped and congested fishing settlements.
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• Scope for expansion and good living standards for
the Fisherman community.
• Easy accessibility through the existing roads.
T • Kaccha houses at a constant threat in case of a natural
calamity such as a cyclone or during flooding.
• Increasing development proposals a threat for the
fisherman community
