Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonial cities

Question:

What among the following was not a major activity of the 'Lottery Committee' in Calcutta?

Options:

Building roads in the Indian part of the city.

Donation of money to the poor and destitute in the region.

Clearing the river bank of "encroachments".

None of the above.

Correct Answer:

Donation of money to the poor and destitute in the region.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - Donation of money to the poor and destitute in the region.

Option 1- Building roads in the Indian part of the city.

Option 2- Donation of money to the poor and destitute in the region. (Not a major activity of the 'Lottery Committee' in Calcutta)

Option 3- Clearing the river bank of "encroachments".
Option 4- None of the above.

 

After Wellesley's departure, the work of town planning was carried on by the Lottery Committee (1817) with the help of the government. The Lottery Committee was so named because funds for town improvement were raised through public lotteries. In other words, in the early decades of the nineteenth-century raising funds for the city was still thought to be the responsibility of public-minded citizens and not exclusively that of the government. The Lottery Committee commissioned a new map of the city so as to get a comprehensive picture of Calcutta. Among the Committee's major activities was road building in the Indian part of the city and clearing the river bank of "encroachments". In its drive to make the Indian areas of Calcutta cleaner, the committee removed many huts and displaced the labouring poor, who were now pushed to the outskirts of Calcutta.