Ganesh murti nagar. Colaba

1. Ganesh Murti Nagar Slums
The Ganesh Murti Nagar Slums are located near Cuffe Parade in Colaba. There slums in these
areas are quite sunny, colorful and open.

2. Transport: Bus (No. 125,11,3,139)
Bus rute from CST station
(CST--Khadi Bhandar--Hutatma Chowk (Siddharth College) --Ahilyabai Holkar Chowk--Ahilyabai Holkar
Chowk--Wankhede Stadium--C.C.I. -- Y.B. --Chavan Pratishthan / Mantralaya Cooperge Telephone--
Exchange / Y.B. Chavan Prat. --Y.B. Chawan Pratishthan Veej Bhavan-- Cuffe Parade --Macchimar Nagar-
- President Hotel --G.D. Somani School-- World Trade Centre World Trade Centre--Cuffe Parade Police
Station --Dhobi Ghat / Dr. Ambedkar Naga)

3. Population
• About 80,000 people live in a three to four km square.
• Crowded most of the time and there was very little space in the lanes.
• There was a 60% Muslims 40% Hindus ratio.

4. Occupation: Mostly people are working as fishermen and other population goes
to near by places for work. There are also personal shops i.e. medical shops,
scrap shops, poultry, etc.

5. • Housing:
Each person or family has a 14x15 foot home that is usually made with concrete and
corrugated metal for a roof.
There is a place to cook and a sink to do some washing in each of the homes.
The homes are often painted in colours such as bubblegum pink, bright blue or aqua and
potted plants hang in front of the doors.
Some doors have dried citrus skins and red chili peppers to protect from the Evil Eye
while others have religious decorations. Each home requires a deposit of at least 10,000-
20,000 rupees and there is a waiting list as the homes are much in demand.
Rent is about 3,000 rupees a month and between 80,000 people, there are seven public
toilets.

6. • Cultural activities:
There are nine Temple one is big temple of shiva with a huge
shivling right at the centre of the temple surrounding with a
channel which takes the pored milk outside.
And at various places there are small photos of sai baba on a
wall.
There is 3 mosque in this area.

7. •
Toilets: there seven common toilets near the area
Mens- there are 8 indian toilets and 6 unirals 4 baths.
Womens- there are 12 indian toilets 4 baths.
Fresh water is available for an hour each day, but the ration cards
for water are given not by the government, but by the politicians.
And, you only receive a ration card for water as long as you
promise to give that politician your vote and copies of the
documents for your home (which will then go to contracters who
can flatten the slums to make high rises if they have enough of
these documents). Those who do not wish to receive ration cards
from the politicians can get their water elsewhere.

8. • Amenities:
General shop: There were general stores which sold grains, soaps and
other daily use commodities when interviewed one of the
shopkeeper he said that they generally update their stock in 2 to 3
weeks.
• Medical shops, garage(4 garage 2 wheeler )(2 garage 4wheeler),
water pump station(water only available for 2 hours once in the
morning and once in the evening).
Water pump station.

9. Economic activities:
Import and Export of fishes.
Also cloth bags.
There were small work shop where men were making leather
bags and cloth bags, when asked about these so they said that
they were made by custom orders from their bosses.
Also there were small shops where they collected metal from
around the area and sold it.
Ladies sitting on the floor were selling stolen things too