NAKSHA
REDISCOVERING AND MAPPING MUMBAI
write to us at naksha@projectmumbai.org
Become a Naksha Volunteer
Naksha is a citizen-led initiative to assess how pedestrian-friendly Mumbai’s streets truly are. With nearly 47% of daily commutes involving walking—especially for last-mile connectivity—safe and accessible footpaths are critical.
Starting with the cultural mapping of South Mumbai’s heritage roads, the project uncovered glaring walkability issues even around iconic sites like the Gateway of India and Kalbadevi Road. Encroachments, broken footpaths, and lack of crossings are just some of the challenges faced daily by pedestrians.
Guided by Indian Road Congress (IRC) standards, Naksha is now mapping roads in Mumbai to build a data-driven foundation for city-wide improvements.
We invite corporate teams to participate in this impactful initiative as a meaningful volunteering activity. Help us create safer, more inclusive streets for all.
To join or learn more, email us at volunteer@projectmumbai.org.
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Ever wondered what’s the significance behind the name which adorns the signboard at the beginning of your lane?
Project Mumbai has launched one of the biggest and largest mapping initiatives of Mumbai’s roads. And what is on these roads. Including Hospitals, Educational institutions, pharmacies, and even Police stations. A collaborative action plan aims at ensuring every main road, every ‘gully’ gets mapped and its history recorded. A QR Code will help you navigate this further.
The MCGM, the Mumbai Police and the Mumbai University have joined hands with Project Mumbai to make this happen.
YOU CAN BE PART OF THIS INITIATIVE.
Project Mumbai’s initiative is to first identify every road, source the history of the person of prominence who is featured on the sign board, and feature their contribution on a digital platform.
Additionally, the effort will be to provide details of other civic requirements of importance, which are the police station locations, addresses, numbers, and subsequently hospitals, educational institutions etc, on the map.
The next is to QR code the sign boards which will be the enabler for citizens to be able to digitally track the locations with ease.
And lastly, but most critically, ensure that the locations are all geo-tagged so that every citizen can not only benefit from the location, but also the points of interest at the click of a button.
Another interesting aspect that the Project Mumbai team plans to add is that every time a person clicks on the road sign and name, he/she will get to see which police station or jurisdiction this road comes under, which will be a huge enabler for citizens when they have to report a crime or any untoward incident.
The Mumbai Police has agreed to map and share locations of every police chowki and police station across the 94 police stations under Municipal limit, with their contact number etc, with Project Mumbai.
The Mumbai University has officially joined hands with Project Mumbai by offering us an army of 15,000 student volunteers for the data collection exercise.
One of the most prominent and credible history institutions of India has offered its historians to support the process of verification of data. The association will get formalised soon.
Several other student groups have joined hands to help research and authenticate the data that is being sourced.
The entire collaborative initiative is being led by Project Mumbai.
