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Bombay City Improvement Trust was formed in the year 1898 with the over all responsibility of developing the city, after the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay in the year 1896. It was a body parallel to the Municipal Corporation and was charged with the responsibility of laying of new roads, improvement of crowded localities, construction of sanitary dwellings for the poor, reclaiming of further lands and providing accommodation for the police.
BIT was dominated by industrialists and commercial magnates.