BDD

Bombay Development Department founded in the year 1920 under a civil servant, Sir Lawless Hepper to implement the objectives as outlined by the the Governor of Bombay Sir George Lloyd of undertaking major housing construction projects. The Department was to be funded from the proceeds of a development loan that was mounted under the catchword of "by Bombay for Bombay" and from a one-rupee town duty levied on each bale of cotton which entered the city.