Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
i. The object of the Authority shall be to promote and secure better planning and development of any area of the State as well as set up amenities and for that purpose the Authority shall have the powers to acquire by way of allotment, purchase, transfer, exchange or gift or to hold, manage, plan, develop and mortgage or otherwise dispose of land or other property or to carry out itself or in collaboration with any other agency or through any other agency on its behalf, building, engineering, mining and other operations to execute works in 18 connection with supply of water, disposal of sewerage, control of pollution, construction of road & buildings, development of water bodies or open spaces and other services and amenities and generally to do anything for carrying out the purposes of this Act. ii. In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the authority itself or in collaboration with any other agency or through any other agency on its behalf- a. Take up the works in connection with the preparation and implementation of Regional Plans, Master Plans and New Township Plans, Town improvement schemes; b. Undertake the work relating to the amenities and services to be provided in the Urban & Planning Area, Urban estates, for Urban Development as well as construction of houses & other infrastructure; c. Promote research, development of new techniques of planning, land development and house construction and manufacture of building material; d. Promote companies, association and other bodies for carrying out the purposes of the Act; and e. Perform any other function which are supplemental, incidental or consequential to any of the functions referred to in this sub-section or which may be prescribed; f. Accord approval of layout plan or any other development plan, any other statutory clearances as may be prescribed by the state government, in the local planning areas taken up for development by the Authority. g. The implementation of master plan and development in the local planning area will be responsibility of the Authority and rest of municipal areas with ULB concerned.