The Mumbai is India’s  industrial and commercial center. the strategic location of Mumbai with respect to global markets and its capacity to encourage the growth and development of financial and business services gives it the potential to emerge as a major international city of the 21st century.  The population of the Mumbai urban agglomeration in 1991 was 12.5 million. Mumbai the sixth most populous city in the world. It is true that over one-half of Mumbai’s population lives in conditions of abject poverty, squalor and deprivation. The poor live in overcrowded slums and hutments, on pavements, along railway tracks, beside pipelines, under bridges, on ill drained marshland and in other vacant spaces available to them . Although not strictly categorized as slums, many others live in relatively old and dilapidated single room tenement. The slums and hutments are located in highly polluted and unhealthy environments as a result of proximity to industrial emissions and effluents, and/or from poor sewage, drainage and irregular garbage clearance.

Mumbai is India’s premier industrial and commercial centre. The city accounts for about one-tenth of factory employment and manufacturing value-added in India, three-fifth of jobs in the oil industry, two-fifths of domestic air traffic and one-third of all tax revenues collected nationally (Swaminathan, 1995). The port of Mumbai handles more than one-third of the total value of foreign trade. About one-third of foreign tourists travelling to India visit Mumbai and 90% of them arrive by air (Deshpande, 1996). As India’s economy becomes more open, with market-led economic liberalization policies in place, the strategic location of Mumbai with respect to global markets.