Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
1[(1) Subject to the provision of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, the appropriate authority may make one or more town planning schemes for the development area regard being had to the proposals in the final development plan and the diections issued by a general or special order by the State Government from time to time if any. Provided further that where any town planning scheme is not made for any specific area, adjacent to any town planning scheme the owners or the lands of such area, may make a request to the concerned authority to make a town planning scheme.] Provided that the State Government may in this behalf direct by specific or general order to make town planning scheme to the concerned authority : (2) A town planning scheme may be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act in respect of any land which is— (i) in the course of development; 2[(ii) likely to be used for residential or commercial or industrial or for building purposes; or] (iii) already built upon. Explanation. - For the purpose of this sub-section the expression "land likely to be used for building purposes" shall include any land likely to be used as, or for the purpose of providing, open spaces, roads, streets, parks, pleasure or recreation grounds, parking spaces or for the purpose of executing any work upon or under the land incidental to a town planning scheme, whether in the nature of a building work or not. (3) A town planning scheme may make provision for any of the following matters, namely :— (a) the laying out or relaying out of land, either vacant or already built upon; (b) the filling up or reclamation of low-lying, swampy or unhealthy areas, or leveling up of land; (c) lay-out of new streets or roads, construction, diversion, extension, alteration, improvement and closing up of streets and roads and discontinuance of communications; (d) the construction, alteration and removal of buildings, bridges and other structures; (e) the allotment or 3[earmarked] of land for roads, open spaces, gardens, recreation grounds, schools, markets, green-belts, dairies, transport facilities, public purposes of all kinds; (f) drainage, inclusive of sewerage, surface or sub-soil drainage and sewage disposal; (g) lighting; (h) water supply; (i) the preservation of objects of historical or national interest or natural beauty, and of buildings actually used for religious purposes; (j) the reservation of land to the extent of ten per cent. or such percentage as near thereto as possible of the total area covered under the scheme, for the purpose of providing housing accommodation to the members of socially and economically backward classes of people 4[and of such other class of people as may be determined by the State Government];