CIDCO In the decade of 1951-1961 associated with Mumbai's population increased by 40 percent, and in the related 10 years, this increased by 43.80%. The rapid rate of population growth made possible by the growing commercial and industrial importance of the city, easily led to a degeneration in quality of life for most people living in the city. Improvement Councils could not maintain speed through rapid growth populationThe Barve Group submitted its report in February 1959. One of its main recommendations was that a road bridge railcum be built across the Thane Creek to connect the peninsula from Bombay with the mainland.
The Panel found that the bridge would accelerate development through the gorge, relieve pressure on the city's railways and roads, and draw the industrial and residential concentrations eastward away to the mainland. The Group expects the development to the east would lead to orderly and planned way. In fact, the emerging problem, in 1958 the then Government of Bombay appointed a study group chaired by the EC Barve, Secretary of the Department of Public Works to discuss the problems of traffic congestion, open space deficiency and playgrounds, housing shortages and excessive concentration of industry in metropolitan and suburban areas of the city, and to recommend concrete measures to address them.
In the decade of 1951-1961 the population of Mumbai rose 40 percent and the corresponding decade soared 43.80 percent. The rapid rate of population growth made possible by the growing industrial and commercial importance of the city, led to a rapid deterioration in the quality of life for most people living in the city. inputs for the development could not keep pace with the growing population, industry, commerce and trade. causing a rapid deterioration in the quality of life for most people living in the city to reduce pressure on the city's railways and roads, and industrial and residential concentrations eastward to distance to the mainland. The Group expects the development to the east would be ordered and executed in a planned way. Secretary of the Department of Public Works to discuss the problems.
