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RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SECRETARY.— (1) The Secretary shall attend the meetings of the Council and the meetings of the Standing Committee or any other Committee of a Municipality and may take part in the discussions thereat; as an advisor, but shall not have the right to move any resolution or to vote. (2) Subject to any direction given or any restriction imposed by the Government or the Municipality, the Secretary may, by order in writing, delegate any of his functions to any officer or employee of the Municipality who shall be bound to carry out such functions. The discharge of the functions so delegated shall be subject to such restrictions, limitations and conditions as may be laid down by the Secretary and shall also be subject to his control and revision. (3) The officer or employee to whom the power is delegated under sub-section (2) shall have all the rights, privileges and authority of the Secretary with respect to such functions and shall like-wise be subject to all liabilities arising out of the exercise of such powers, privileges or authority. 65A[(4)The Secretary shall for the discharge of his functions vested in him by or 66funder this Act or in any other law], have the power after informing the Chairperson to incur expenditure not exceeding Rs. 25,000 out of the Municipal fund.] 67[(5) The Secretary shall give the required information regarding the functions of the Municipality to the Government or to the officers or to the agency authorised by it. (6) The Secretary shall be responsible for furnishing necessary information to the Legislative Committee or answer the Legislative Assembly interpellations and in order to avoid delay, such information may be sent directly to the Government or to the officer authorised by it in this behalf and thereafter submit to the Chairperson for information. (7) The Secretary shall take follow up action on performance audit reports and other audit reports.] CHAPTER IV PREPARATION AND EXECUTION OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS 51. Preparation of Development plans by Municipalities.— 68[(l) Ward Committee or Ward Sabha as the case may be] shall prepare every year in such form, as may be prescribed, a development plan for the ward alongwith an estimate of the expenditure therefor, for the next year and after finalising it in a meeting held three months before a financial year, submit the same to the Municipality concerned. 69[(2) Every Municipality shall prepare every year a development plan for the succeeding year considering the development plans submitted by the Ward Committees or Ward Sabhas of the Municipality in the prescribed manner for that Municipal area and submit the same to the District Planning Committee before such date as prescribed]. Explanation.— For the purpose of this section "development plan" means a development plan for economic development, social justice 70[Improvement of living conditions, creation of employment opportunities and increase of production capacity] in relation to matters enumerated in the Twelfth Schedule to the Constitution including the matters to which the administrative power vests in the Municipality under the provisions of this Act or any other law. 71 [(3) Every Municipality shall prepare a master plan for its development in the prescribed manner with focus on scientific spatial planning taking into account its resources and as per the fiscal investment and submit the same to the District Planning Committee. (4) Municipality shall have the power to prepare and implement detailed town planning schemes as per the laws relating to Town Planning for the time being in force subject to the master plan approved by the Government.]