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Name the region where the Lottery Committee initiated town planning during the 18 century. Mention any one feature of it.

Answer:

Lottery Committee

(i) Lottery committee initiated in 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 Calcutta.

(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 the labouring poor who were pushed to the outskirts of Calcutta.