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[(1) 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. [(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 [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. [(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.] Substituted for the words "Every Ward Committee" by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. Sub-section (2) except the explanation substituted by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. "(2) Every Municipality shall prepare every year in such form as may be prescribed, a development plan for the Municipal area for the next year having regard to the development plans submitted to it by the Ward Committee, if any, in the Municipality, and submit the same before such date, as may be prescribed, to the District Planning Committee." Substituted for the words "and improvement of living conditions" by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. Sub-section (3) & (4) substituted by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. Prior to the substitution sub-section (3) & (4) read as under: "(3) Each Municipality shall, anticipating a stipulated period, prepare a masterplan for its development and furnish the same to the district planning committee. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Town Planning Act, for the time being in force, the respective Municipalities shall have power to prepare and implement their detailed Town Planning Schemes under the said Acts subject to the masterplan prepared by the development authorities."