Question

Explain housing and leisure activities in Bombay ?

Answer 1

 With the rapid and unplanned expansion of the city, the crisis of housing and water supply became acute by the mid-1950s.
 More than 70% of the working people lived in the thickly-populated chawls of Bombay. Chawls were multi-storeyed old structures.
 Merchants, bankers and building contractors owned these chawls. Each chawl was divided into one-room tenements with no private toilets.
 Lower castes were kept out of many chawls and often had to live in shelters made of corrugated sheets, leaves or bamboo poles.