The Bombay Town Planning Act of 1915 was among the first statutory town-planning measures in India, modelled on contemporary British legislation. It empowered authorities to prepare town-planning schemes and pioneered land pooling and readjustment, reallocating plots and recovering part of the uplift to fund roads and services. The mechanism later underpinned planned extensions in Bombay and, especially, Gujarat.
It introduced statutory planning and the land-pooling technique that still shapes urban extension in western India.
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