Answer: Option A
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A
Explanation:
After the establishment of British rule in Bengal after the Battle of Plassey (1757), various urban planning measures were gradually taken in major cities such as Calcutta.
Wellesley, for example, wrote a Minute (Administrative Order) in 1803 on the need for town planning and set up various committees for that purpose. Many bazaars, ghats, burial grounds and tanneries have been cleared or removed. From then on, the notion of "public health" became an idea that was proclaimed in town planning and town planning projects.
In the same way, the Lottery Committee (1817) assisted the government in the task of town planning in Calcutta. The committee was named because funds for town improvement were raised through public lotteries. The Lottery Committee commissioned a new city map to provide a comprehensive picture of Calcutta. Among the main activities of the Committee was road building in the Indian part of the city and clearing the river bank from encroachments. In its drive to clean up the Indian areas of Calcutta, the committee removed many huts and displaced the laboring poor, who had now been pushed to the outskirts of Calcutta.