Mumbai flashcards

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Employment
challenges:
- poor employment laws
- hot working conditions + long hours
- dangerous conditions + don't wear protective clothing
-lots of competition for badly paid jobs
opportunity:
-Mumbai is India's largest city and the financial capital of the ci
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formal sector
challenges:
-require skill
-require an education normally
-competitive
opportunity:
-high paid jobs
-lots of industries including optical engineering and medical research
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informal sector
challenges:
-aren't well paid
-long work hours in hot weather
-can be dangerous
opportunity:
-don't pay taxes
- self-employed
- can buy anything you need
- can do which jobs you want because you don't need to have skills for them
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housing shortages
challenges:
-poverty
-homelessness
- overcrowding
- poor sanitation
- danger of homes collapsing, flooding or setting fire
- the homes are illegal
opportunity:
-building a community
- the slums cater people's religious needs
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squatter or slum settlements
challenges:
- open sewage
- built on wasteland
- no clean water or electricity
- no organised rubbish collection or sewage disposal
opportunity:
-building a community
- building relationships with people in the same position as every one else
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water supply
challenges :
-diseases and infection spread by drinking dirty water
- next to open sewers are water pipes which can crack and take in sewage waste

opportunity:
- water isn't taken for granted or wasted
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waste disposal
challenges:
- effects the environment
- impacts public health
- rats and vermin

opportunity:
-creates jobs for children and adults
- the waste gets recycled
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traffic congestion
challenge :
- air pollution
- global warming
- road congestion
- pressure on railway systems
- if a train is delayed or late it can cause issues
opportunity:
- railway systems can earn a lot of money (good for the economy)
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Card 2

Front

challenges:
-require skill
-require an education normally
-competitive
opportunity:
-high paid jobs
-lots of industries including optical engineering and medical research

Back

formal sector

Card 3

Front

challenges:
-aren't well paid
-long work hours in hot weather
-can be dangerous
opportunity:
-don't pay taxes
- self-employed
- can buy anything you need
- can do which jobs you want because you don't need to have skills for them

Back

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Card 4

Front

challenges:
-poverty
-homelessness
- overcrowding
- poor sanitation
- danger of homes collapsing, flooding or setting fire
- the homes are illegal
opportunity:
-building a community
- the slums cater people's religious needs

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

challenges:
- open sewage
- built on wasteland
- no clean water or electricity
- no organised rubbish collection or sewage disposal
opportunity:
-building a community
- building relationships with people in the same position as every one else
-

Back

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