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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{moresources|date=September 2018}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;The Bombay City Improvement Trust&#039;&#039;&#039; (BIT) was created on 9 December 1898, in response to the [[Bombay plague epidemic]] of 1896. It was created through an Act of the Parliament. The [[Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai|Municipal Corporation]] and the government handed over all vacant lands to this body. The CIT undertook a host of measures to improve sanitary and living conditions in the city. The planned opening up of suburbs was due to the Trust. <br /> <br /> The CIT widened roads in the central, crowded, parts of the town. A new east-west road, the [[Princess Street (Mumbai)|Princess Street]], was constructed to channel the [[sea air]] into the centre of the crowded residential areas. The north-south Sydenham Road (now Mohammedali Road) was also constructed with this end in view. <br /> <br /> The [[Dadar]]-[[Matunga]]-[[Wadala]]-[[Sion, India|Sion]] suburban development was started in 1899 with the express purpose of relieving congestion to the south. Well-laid out plots, with mixed land-use patterns marked these sections. Completed in 1900, access to these parts were through the newly completed Mohammedali Road.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Bombay plague epidemic]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *[http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/amenities/orgs/cit.html The Bombay City Improvement Trust] {GFDL site}<br /> <br /> [[Category:History of Mumbai]]</div>

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