Multiple choice

Land reclamation in Bombay refers to

  1. reclaiming municipal land from squatters of deprived classes

  2. reclaiming land from chawls and building Improvement Trust-schemed housing

  3. reclaiming land of marshy or submerged areas or other wasteland for settlements, etc.

  4. reclaiming of cantonment area land from the natives for use of the Presidency offices

  5. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer. Bombay was a group of seven islands and marshy or submerged lands between these islands were reclaimed by levelling the hills around Bombay.

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