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Name the tegion where the Lottery Committee initiated town planning during the 18th century Mention any one feature of it |
Answer» Solution :Lottery COMMITTEE: (i) Lottery committee initiated in Kolkata (Calcutta). (ii) Features (a) It collected funds for town improvement which were raised through public lotteries. (b) The Lottery Committee commissioned a new map of the city so as to get a comprehensive PICTURE of Kolkata (Calcutra). (C) The Committee's major activities were road building in the Indian part of the city and clearing the river bank of "ENCROACHMENTS" (d) Removing huts for cleaner city and displacing thelabouring poor who were pushed to the OUTSKIRTS of Kolkata (Calcutta). |
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