Mumbai Suburban
Constituency Development Goals
(District - Mumbai Suburban)
(State - Maharashtra)
(Lok Sabha Constituencies - Mumbai North, Mumbai North East, Mumbai North West, Mumbai South Central)
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Overview: With a population of 8,640,419 Mumbai Suburban accounts for 8.92 percent of the population of Maharashtra. 100.00 percent of the population lives in towns and cities. Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes form 472,023 and 5.47 percent of the population respectively. |
The three largest scheduled caste groups are Mahar , Bhambi and Mang . The three largest scheduled tribe groups are Koli Mahadev , Varli and Thakur .
66.65 percent of the district’s population is in the working age group of 15-59 years. The district ranks 1 among 591 districts of India in terms of proportion of population in working age group (a higher rank reflects a good performance). An inclusive growth process and employment generation have been accorded high priority in the XIth five year plan. Specific action plans need to be tailored for every district depending on the size, level of urbanization and educational attainment of the workforce.
The larger the elderly population the greater would be the need for social support for the elderly. 6.11 percent of the district’s population is over the age of 59 years.
An often used indicator to capture the extent of discrimination against the girl child is the child sex ratio. In this district, the sex ratio, i.e. the number of girls per 1000 boys, among children in the age group 0-6 years is 922. The district ranks 409 among 591 districts of India (a higher rank reflects a good performance). Ideally the sex ratio at birth should be between 943 and 954 and can be used as a thumb rule to measure the extent of gender discrimination in the district. Addressing the issue of sex selective abortion and female infanticide needs to be given high priority in districts with a sex ratio far from the norm of 943 girls per 1000 boys.
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Socio-Economic Status: One aspect of living conditions in the district is the type of dwelling that households reside in. percent of households live in a temporary structure while percent of households live in semi-permanent structure. The district ranks among districts of India in terms of percentage of household living a temporary structure (a higher rank reflects a poor performance). |
An indicator of the level of deprivation in the district is the proportion of households without any of the following: radio, television, telephone, bicycle, scooter, car or a bank account. 18.5 percentage of households do not have any of the above mentioned goods and services. The district ranks 585 among 593 districts of India , in this indicator (a higher rank reflects a good performance).
2,244,086 of household in this district have a bank account, a proxy for the extent of financial intermediation. The district ranks 585 among 593 districts of India in terms of extent of financial intermediation (a higher rank reflects a good performance).
Access to the outside world is important. Improved access and connectivity can contribute to improving livelihoods. As part of a poverty reduction strategy, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims at improving connectivity in rural habitations. The district ranks , , among districts of India in terms of percentage of villages having paved approach road, bus services, and post, telegraph and telephone facility.
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Education and Health Outcomes: District level estimates of incidence of poverty are not available. Instead, we can examine outcomes along the following non income dimensions of well being: education and health. It is not necessary that with a decline in incidence of poverty there would be an automatic improvement along these dimensions. The reason for this is that, |
“Poverty line derived from personal consumption patterns and levels do not take into account items of social consumption such as basic education and health, drinking water supply, sanitation, environmental standards, etc. in terms of normative requirements or effective access” (p.11 Government of India 1993).
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Educational Attainment: The overall literacy rate in the district is 86.89. The male and female literacy rate are respectively 91.56, 81.12. The district ranks 18 and 20 among all districts of India in terms of male and female literacy (a higher rank reflects a good performance). However, the level of literacy does not reflect educational attainment. |
The total number of years of schooling that an Indian boy or girl can expect to receive in the future is only 9.8 years. Even this average is an overestimate because of grade repetition.
India has a relatively young population. It is important to invest in improving level of educational attainment. Over the next five years, a concerted effort needs to be made to improve the number of children finishing middle school. With 11.7 percent of its population completing middle school, Mumbai Suburban ranks 3 among 590 districts of India.
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The Government of India’s avowed objective is to ensure that all children go to primary school. In the event that we do achieve this target, it will be important to ensure that every village also has a middle school and a secondary school. .
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Reproductive Health: Of the estimated total of 536,000 maternal deaths worldwide, in 2005, India accounted for an estimated total of 117,000 maternal deaths. The probability that a 15-year-old Indian woman will die eventually from a maternal cause is 1 in 70 as compared to 1 in 1300 in China. The Maternal Mortality Ratio in India is estimated to be 45 per 100,000 births. |
The multiple factors that contribute to the unacceptably high number of maternal deaths are viz. prevalence of marriage below the legal age, inadequate antenatal and postnatal care, and absence of skilled personnel at the time of child birth.
In Mumbai Suburban, 6.8 percent of girls marry before the legal age of 18 years. In order to tackle the problem of child marriage, in addition to compulsory registration of marriages, information and education campaigns also need to be initiated in the district.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends at least four antenatal care visits throughout the pregnancy. It is widely accepted that the number of antenatal visits by a pregnant woman determines where the woman delivers her child. In Mumbai Suburban, 89.6 percent of women made at least 3 visits for antenatal care.
The more antenatal visits, the higher the chance of the birth occurring in a health facility or in the presence of a skilled personnel. In Mumbai Suburban, 90.3 percent of women delivered in an institutional facility. It is important to increase this average. It is estimated that 52 percent of current maternal deaths worldwide can be averted by providing access to essential obstetric care.
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Awareness of HIV-AIDS: The proportion of men and women aware of HIV-AIDS was 97.5, 93.4 respectively. In terms of awareness of HIV-AIDS among men Mumbai Suburban ranks 39 among the 592 districts of India and ranks 47 in terms of awareness of HIV-AIDS among women. (Higher the Rank, laser the awareness about the HIV-AIDS). |
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Child Health: In Mumbai Suburban 91.3 percentage of children, in the age group 12-13 months received full immunization while 2 did not receive any immunization. The district ranks 31 in terms of percentage of children receiving full immunization (a higher rank reflects a good performance) and ranks 439 in terms of percentage of children receiving no immunization (a higher rank reflects a poor performance). |
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Rural Health Infrastructure: Of the villages, 0.0 percent have a primary health centre while 0.0 percent have a primary health sub centre. Mumbai Suburban ranks 592, 592 in terms of percentage of villages having a primary health centre and primary health sub centre. |
In order to improve reproductive and child health indicators it is necessary not only to ensure that 100 percent of villages have a primary health sub centre but adequate medical supplies are available in each centre.
Data Sources:
- District Information System for Education
- Census of India - 2001
- National Rural Health Mission
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Both my wife and i are staunch supporters of the BJP for the last several years. We shifted residence from Gorai (Borivali) to Goregaon (W) about 2 1/2 years. Although we have completed the formalities of getting our names deleted from Gorai and submitted our application for inclusion in the electorate in the current area in December 2008, we have still not been issued the new cards. even as recently as yesterday the local electoral office opp. Patkar College feigns non receipt of the list and wants me to contact them on 15th of this month. I am worried that we are not going to get our franchise. I suspect fouls play. Can our party help us please?
My cell nr is 9821108053.
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R.R. Kandade
Hello friends
Due to MNS and Hidden tie up of NCP n Shiv sena , so there are chances of vote distribution n cross voting. So it is better to have voting maximum, so our BJP candidates win.MNS is only for vote breaking and black mailing. dont calculate about BSP, in last election it was not happenend.I would request sangh parivar to vote maximum.Dont rely much on other parties Try to Have 225+ MPs for BJp than n than we can achive power.Beware of Shiv Sena,MNS,BSP,Sp,Communist n OFcourse Congress.
Hello Everybody,
Yesterday while watching this interview again on Times Now, I realized that Hon. Advanji was asked a question by Navika that if BJP doesn’t come in power at the center then what are the future plans for Honn. Advaniji. He politely said “Through out my political career of more than 50 years, I had been in the Power for just 8 and half years, 6 Years during Hon. Vajpeyeeji’s government and 2 and half years in Janata Raj.”
I would like to draw attention to the fact that, it would have been the easiest to declare himself and the BJP a so called secular and start competitive appeasement of Minorities just like others to grab the power. But BJP and Hon. Advaniji have not opted for this route to power in last so many years. Instead BJP has opted Justice to all and appeasement of none.
This should be repeatedly projected by all BJP’s spoke persons. To my opinion this will have impact on fence sitter.l
Regards
Nitin
I think that it is not the question of appeasement to a particular section of the society but the BJP needs much more apporach towards minorities, the gap is large and if a proper programme is implemented to lessen this gap the BJP would finds itself in far better position then what it is today.
I stay in Chaudhary Apartments situate on Daulat Nagar Road No.3 Borivali East Mumbai 400066.
On the voting day, I ran from pillar to post trying to locate my polling booth. Having spent more than 1 hour trying to locate the polling booth, I found that the building in which I reside for the last 11 years is not to be found in the list prepared by the Election Commission.
I had my photograph clicked in March 2008 and in the last 13 months, my son visited the Election Commission Office around 8 - 9 times to enquire about the voter id card for me and my wife and everytime, there was a standard reply that the cards had not arrived.
At the polling booth, the representatives of the Election Commission informed my son that they had lost mine and my wife’s records, etc.
Dejected, I left for the Office and later on in the day, I logged in to the website of The Election Commission - Maharashtra and registered my complaint.
After registering the complaint, I surfed the website of the Election Commission and I searched for my details. And surprisingly in a matter of few seconds, I found me and my wife as registered voters. I called up my wife and gave details of her polling booth. She was lucky enough to exercise her vote.
My wife chided me for not coming over to Borivali East from my office in Bandra West (like many film stars did).
I just have to make a point - why did not BJP organise laptops like Mr.Kirit Somaiya did in his constituency? This small step would have created a lot of goodwill amongst the voters.
When we have a full section on Information Technology in the manifesto, why was it not implemented at the ground level? I think, the leaders associated with my constituency need to do some answering.
Well The reason why BJP lost is due to Less PERCENTAGE OF VOTING , Hardly 30% of Voting in Major Cities like Mumbai & Delhi.
Well it gives us a lesson to learn that the Educated public though support BJP but why dont they come out for Voting on the Election Day, i see many of support for our PARTY but then why is it so, cause many havent Voted due to Names mIssing in Voting List,People were out on holidays etc.. but in the ASSEMBLY ELECTIONs if our PARTY has to win MAHARSAHTRA minimum 80% to 90% of People should come out for Voting then iam damn sure BJP will win with Huge margins of Vote,so we need to conduct meetings every 15 days or so & people must convince the People,so that Results favour us, cause if this Trend continues then it will be a difficult situation for our party.
So kindly convince all People in your OFFICES, AREAS, SOCIETY etc.. to ” VOTE FOR BJP ” .
Jai Hind- Jai Maharashtra.
Dipesh Ajmera.
Mumbai.
It is a known fact that whenever there is low polling, BJP is the loser. Low voting signifies lower turnout from the Middle Class which is the vote bank of BJP.
I have a few suggestions for the BJP bosses:
Start for 2014 polls from now itself;
Start rejuvenating the sakha level supporters;
There are millions of supporters who have felt very bad in not seeing Mr. L K Advani in the seat of Mr.Manmohan Singh. Start involving them; get suggestions from them.
Start activities / programmes by which the AAM ADMI is helped.
As an ordinary Mumbaite, I am not that much worried about the Ajmal Kasabs - I am more worried about the ‘terrorists’ I face in the day to day life.
For Example, go to any suburban Station and you will not find a willing Auto / Taxi Driver willing to take you to your place. For me at that moment, he is a greater terroist than Ajmal Kasab. Refusal of Autos / Taxis is a major bane for most of the common people throughout the year - 24 x 7 x 365. I have a solution. The BJP could organise some volunteers, talk to the Unions of Taxis / Autos and ensure that there are volunteers outside all Stations to help people find a Taxi/Auto. Selfless help can also be sought from the Schools and Colleges in that area.
There could be similar experiences for other ordinary people like me.
Immediately what is of top priority is to help voters register themselves with the Election Commission. How is it that missing voters is more predominant in the middle class societies than in slums?
Let us not lose hope. We will have a shot at 2014!!!!
Kamalesh Sanghani
Mumbai
The formation of group who can target a cause and achieve is needed to highlight local issues.