The Lottery Committee was commissioned in the city of:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Calcutta
After Wellesley left, the town planning of Calcutta was carried on by the Lottery Committee (1817), which raised funds for town improvement through public lotteries.
Note: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Colonial Cities’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “4.2 Town planning in Calcutta … From then on the notion of ‘public health’ became an idea that was proclaimed in projects of town clearance and town planning. 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.…” |