southern tip of the island city was fortified to create an insulated industry for the colonial rulers. At Initially being a port city, Bombay was transformed from a trading town to a manufacturing center around the 1850s. It had become a major colonial mercantile and industrial
After this survey was conducted it was found that this particular structure in Indu Mills was structurally sound and could be redeveloped and used for purposes beneficial to the city.
city and cotton
commonly used to refer to an area now part of central Mumbai, which at one time had almost
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130 textile mills, with the majority being cotton mills. The mills of Girangaon contributed significantly to the prosperity and growth of Mumbai. Girangaon covered an area of 600
acres (2.4 km2), not including the workers' housing. Both men and women worked in the mills. This textile industry flourished until the
INTERIOR OF INDU MILL The battle for the mill lands is now finally over. The victors are the mill owners, builders, and land sharks who have swooped on this valuable real estate like vultures on a corpse, to build malls and high rise buildings with swimming pools and tennis courts for the rich. The poor and the homeless can only stand behind the glass walls and gaze at the spectacle.
early 1980s, after which most of the mills were shut down, as the owners deemed them unprofitable and declared they were incapable of paying their workers' wages. The cause of this was the rise
in cost of fuel and raw materials. The indefinite strike in 1982-83
Because of it’s peculiar geography and burgeoning population of 15 million, greater Mumbai can claim to
was another factor that contributed to the weakening of the industry. 2.5 lakh textile workers and more than 50 textile mills were part of the strike which continued for 18 months. By 2007, only 25,000
people worked in the few remaining mills. The 1985 Development
have the lowest
per capita open space in
the world, probably a miserable 0.015 acres (0.006 ANALYSIS OF OPEN SPACE
hectares) per 100 population, while even Delhi and Chennai have 4 acres ( 1.6 hectares).
Control Rule resulted in a sharp rise in the prices of land and inversely a dip in mill profits. In 1991, five to six mills were developed on the basis of DCR 58, but not a single mill undertook any form of modernization. The skyline of Girangaon began to change steadily with the arrival of high
rise
luxury towers. With real estate prices sky high many mill owners wanted to sell of their land and several more workers were left unemployed. The current piecemeal and individual
development of mill lands is one of the major problems when it comes to retaining the character of girangaon. This approach initiated by the mill owners denies the integrated development the city needs.
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Timeline of the mills 1700 - Cotton trading from Mumbai to China 1853 - Rail link to Thana 1854 - Mumbai gets its original mill known as 'Bombay Spinning Mill' famous for producing Cotton textiles to be exported to Britain. 1870 - There were about 13 mills 1875 - Total count of mills in Mumbai was about 70 1915 - Total count of mills in Mumbai goes up to 138 1982 - About 2.5 laks mill workforce go on industrial action against 'Bombay Mill Owner Association' demanding wage increase. 1991 - State government announced Development Control Rule 58 which confirmed, Mill lands could be sold to others with some terms and conditions applied. 2005 - National Textiles Corporation (NTC) who owned 25 mills in the city started selling few mills to private businesses. 2006 - Supreme court said that the sale of mills was legal and changes to the rules for developing mills was valid. 2010 - NTC made decision to start 3 of the old Mills
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Colonial Mumbai was developed as a planned segregation promoted by English ideology. The
textile mills as foundation of it’s economy. Girangaon was a name
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A study group chaired by architect and urban planner Mr. Charles Correa created a design solution for a comprehensive redevelopment of textile mills in Girangaon. It appointed teams of architects, engineers and conservationists to document the 58 mills and suggest a strategy for land use.