Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) As soon as may be after the co m m en c^ meltVarcM m ent °f this Act, the Authority may for the purpose and prepa-of implementing the proposals contained in the D’evdopment^aster plan, by notification in the Official Gazette, schemes, declare any area in the Guwahati Metropolitan Area to be a development area for the purposes of this Act and shall thereafter prepare one or more development schemes tor the development area. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub section (1), the State Government may after making such enquiry as they may deem neceisary, by noti fication in the Official Gazette, declare any area in the Guwahati Metropolitan Area to be a develop ment area and shall thereafter, direct the Autho rity, or any Officer of the State Government or any local authority to prepare and submit for . their sanction before an appointed date, a scheme under this section for an area specified in such notification: Provided that, while preparing the scheme as directed by the State Government, the Officer of the State Government cr the local authority, as the case may be, shall prepare such schemejn consul tation with the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority. 91 8 TH E ASSAM G A Z E T T E , E X T R A -O R D IN A R Y , N O V .1 4 ,1 9 87 Provided further that the State Government or the Authority may, prepare a scheme in consultation with such other experts of consultancy if the State Government or the Authority, as the case may be, deem it necessary- (3) While preparing the scheme, the Authority, any officer of the State Government or the local authority, as the case may be, shall issue a notice inviting the names of all the. claimants of any in terest on any land or building within the area under the scheme, to be submitted within a period of not more than two months. (4) Save as provided in this Act, the Authority, the officer of the State Government or the local authority shall, not undertake or carry out any develop- > ment of land in any area which is not a develop ment area. DeveVme6 36 (1) A scheme may be made in accordance Scheni'^nientwith the provisions of this Act in respect of any land which is— (a) in the course of development ; (b) likely to be used for building and other purposes, or (c) already built upon. Explanation :—The expression ‘land likely to be used for building and other purposes’ shall include any land likely to be used as, or for the purpose of providing open spaces, roads, streets, parks, pleasure or recreational grounds, parking spaces, or for the purpose of executing any work upon or under the land incidential to a scheme whether in the nature of a building work or not. (2) Such schemes may make provisions for all or any of the following matters: — (a) The laying out or relaying out of land, either vacant or already built upon ; THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRA-ORDINARY, NOV. 1 4 , 1 98 7 919 (b) the filling up or reclamation of low lying swamp or land or unhealthy areas or levelling up of land ; (c) the laying out of new streets or roads, construction, diversion, extension, alteration, impro vement and stopping up of streets, roads and com munications ; (d) the reconstitution of plots; (e) the construction, alteration or removal of buildings, bridges or other structures ; (f) the allotment or reservation of land for roads, open spaces, garden, recreation grounds, schools, markets, industrial and commercial activities, green belts and dairies, transport facilities and public purposes of all kinds ; (g) the undertaking of housing schemes for different income, groups, commercial areas, indus trial estates, provision of community facilities like schools, hospitals and similar types of developments; (h) drainage inclusive of sewerage, surface or subsoil drainage and sewage disposal ; (i) lighting ; (j) water supply ; (k) the preservation and protection of objects of historical importance of natural beauty and of building actually used for religious purpose; (l) the imposition of condition and restrictions in regard to the open space to be maintained about buildings, the percentage of building area for a plot, the number, height and character of buildings allowed in specified areas, the purposes for which buildings or specified areas may or may not be appropriate, the sub division of plots, the discontinuance of ob jectionable uses of land in any area in reasonable periods, parking space and loading and unloading space for any building and the size of projections and advertisement signs; 920 TH E ASSAM G A Z E T T E , E X T R A -O R D IN A R Y , N O V .14,1987 (m) the suspension, to the extent necessary for the proper carrying c ut of the scheme, of any rule, bye-law, regulations, notification or order made or issued under any Act of the State Legislature or any of the Acts which the State Legislature is compe tent to amend ; (n) acquisition by purchase, exchange or other wise of any property necessary for or effected by the execution of the scheme ; and Contents of the Scheme (o) such ether matters not inconsistant with the objects of this Act, as may be directed by the State Government. \