Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, a housing or improvement scheme may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: - (a) the acquisition by purchase, exchange, or otherwise of any property necessary for or affected by the execution of the scheme; (b) the laying or re-laying out of any land comprised in the scheme; (c) the distribution or redistribution of sites belonging to owners of the property comprised in the scheme; (d) the closure or demolition of dwellings or portions of dwellings unfit for human habitation; (e) the demolition of obstructive buildings or portions of buildings; (f) the construction and reconstruction of buildings; (g) the sale, lease or exchange of any property comprised in the scheme; (h) the construction and alteration of roads, streets, back lanes, bridges, culverts and causeways; (i) the draining, water-supply and lighting of the streets included in the scheme; (j) the provision of roads, parks, playing fields, and open spaces for the benefit of any area comprised in the scheme or any adjoining area, and the enlargement of existing parks, playing fields, open spaces and approaches; (k) the provision of sanitary arrangements required for the area comprised in the scheme including the conservation of and prevention of injury or contamination to rivers or other sources and means of water supply; (l) the provision of accommodation for any class of inhabitants; (m) the advance of money for the purposes of the scheme; (n) the provision of facilities for communication and transports; 102 (o) the collection of such information and statistics as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act; (p) the reclamation or reservation of lands for markets, gardens, playing fields and afforestation; (q) the provision of schools, parks, swimming pools, restaurants, shops, markets, fuel depots, laundries, hair dressing saloons and other amenities in the scheme; and (r) any other matter for which, in the opinion of the Government, it is necessary or expedient to provide for house accommodation or for the improvement of any area comprised in the scheme or such other area as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an area surrounding or adjoining to the area comprised in the scheme. Types of housing or improvement schemes