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30th August 1922 Dear Sir,
His Excellency desires me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th August and to say that he has made a careful investigation of the case which you mention. Many represen tation have been received by Government and many articles have recently appeared in the public press containing severe criticisme of and protests against the action of the Improvement Trust and of Government in the matter of the acquisition by the Trust of a plot of land near the Jain Temple at Love Lane, Byculla. As many of the comments which have been made indicate that the facts are not clearly understood the following statement shows the position of the case :
The plot in question is a piece of vacant land of about 4 acres in extent situated at the back and to the East of the Jain Temple, separated from it by a high wall which conceals the lower portion of the Temple from view from the open field.
In 1919 the Improvement Trustees found it necessary to acquire land on which to build chawls to rebouse the people who will be displaced from the Guzri Bazar district in connection with the Board's scheme No. 47. Guzri Bazar area, which must be cleared in order to widen Parel Road, contains about 1000 rooms, out of which 820 are one-roomed tenements, and the Trustees proposed to acquire this piece of vacant land, as it was impossible to find any other suitable place within a convenient distance, on which to erect 14 chawls of 84 rooms each or 1176 rooms in all. After the scheme was notified in 1919 a
letter of dissent dated the 11th November 1919 was received by Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
