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At any time after a housing or improvement scheme has been sanctioned by the Board or the Government, as the case may be, but before it has been carried into execution, the Board may alter or cancel it: Provided that – (a) if any alteration is likely to increase the estimated net cost of executing the scheme by more than ten per cent of the total cost, or if any altered scheme is likely to cost more than ten lakhs of rupees, the alteration shall not be made without the previous sanction of the Government; (b) if any alteration involves the acquisition otherwise than by agreement of any land not previously proposed to be acquired in the original scheme, the procedure prescribed in the foregoing sections of this Chapter shall, so far as it may be applicable, be followed so if the alteration were a separate scheme; (c) if, owing to any alteration, any land not previously liable under the scheme to the payment of betterment fee, becomes liable to such payment, the procedure laid down in sections 40, 41 and 42 shall, so far as it may be applicable, be followed in regard to such land: Provided further that no scheme, costing over ten lakhs of rupees; shall be cancelled under this section without the previous sanction of the Government. Explanation.-- For the purposes of this section, the expression "alteration" includes a combination of two or more schemes framed or proposed to be framed and the expression "altered scheme" includes any scheme so combined. Transfer to Board for purposes of improvement scheme building or land vested in local authority or planning authority