Murder of Mumbai's Mills and Marathon of Malls

*THE MURDER OF MUMBAIS MILLS AND MARATHON* OF MALLS Once the largest mention of employment in the city, Mumbais textile donkeyworks are reminders of their magnificent past. In the past two decades donkeywork after lallygag has died a slow death and scores of workers reduced to penury. each(prenominal) these textile mill around which are now closed lodge in 600 acres of land in the heart of Mumbai, the future of Mumbai depends on the development of this land. The historic mills of the city are industrial dinosaurs dotted around the city landscape, whose textile production has been eclipsed in efficiency and profitability by the sweatshop labour employed in powerloom towns like Bhiwandi and Malegaon. The uncompromising militancy of the great textile revive in the early eighties convinced the city mill owners that dealing with unions was unnecessary when production could be maintained in powerloom units in the urban hinterland small-scale workshops that prevent the disposal of workers, which evade protective labour legislation, and which run on erosive money, stolen electricity and powerful political patronage.

With a further change of the DC Rules on the cards, the new Congress-NCP Government has shown a stopping point to solve this festering issue and expedite the sale of mill and other reserved industrial lands, 23% of the land of the island city. The mills and working-class chawls of central Mumbai, crushed between the congested line of business district and the expanding suburbs, have in the past decade have a go at it under the combined pressure of the spiraling real realm market, the powerful lobby of builders and politicians, and the burgeoning middle-classes, starved of space. In the past decade, a battery of chattering economists, architects, society journalists and corporate promoters have mod plans for the redevelopment of the mills into movie and design studios, five-star hotels, office spaces for international and corporate firms, and posh restaurants. The casualty of these blinkered... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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