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District development plan.– (1) The District Planning Committee shall, subject to the availability of funds, prepare the draft development plan with regard to,- (i) the matters of common interest between the panchayats and urban local authorities in the district, including spatial planning, sharing of water and other physical and natural resource, the integrated development of infrastructures and environmental conservation; and (ii) the extent and type of available resources whether financial or otherwise. (2) The District Planning Committee shall link the plans of panchayats and urban local bodies and other planning units to provide for mutual consultation and negotiations between them and also provide the framework for integrating the sectoral and spatial aspects of urban and rural plans. (3) The process of consolidation and integration by the district planning committee shall not alter the plans prepared by the taluk planning and development committee but the 198 plans which are already included earlier or included in other plans shall not again be included. (4) The district planning committee may, while preparing the consolidated plan, consult such institutions and organisations as the Government may, by order, specify. (5) After the process of consolidation and integration is completed, the district planning committee shall forward the consolidated plan of the district to the Government through the decentralized planning and development committee for integration into the state plan.