Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, —

1. (a) "amenity" means roads, streets, open spaces, parks, landscaping, playgrounds, recreational grounds, tourist spots, water and electric supply, street lighting, sewerage, drainage, public works, communication network and such other utility services and conveniences as the Government may specify by notification to be as amenities for the purpose of this Act;
2. (b) "Authority" means the Guwahati Satellite City Development Authority established under section 5 of this Act;
3. (c) "Committee" means Executive Committee constituted under section 13 of this Act;
4. (d) "building" means any structure or erection or part of a structure or erection which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or any other purposes, whether in actual use or not;
5. (e) "developer entity" means an individual, company or association or body of individuals whether incorporated or not, a cooperative society, a corporate body, or an agency national or international to whom a licence is given to undertake development works within the framework of a plan or development scheme duly approved under this Act;
6. (f) "development" means to carry out building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over, or under, land or the making of any material change, in any building or land or both, or in the use of any building or land or any material or structural change and includes demolition of any existing building, structure or erection and re-development, re-clamation of land, conservation of environment, forming of layouts and sub-division of any land into plots, and development of amenities; and 'to develop' shall be construed accordingly;
7. (g) "development plan" means a comprehensive plan for the development or re-development or improvement of a local area within the jurisdiction of the Authority covering the whole or part thereof, conceived within the framework of the perspective plan providing medium-term (five years) policies, programmes and detailed proposals for socio-economic and spatial development of such area indicating the manner in which the use of land and development therein shall be carried out and includes a Satellite City Development Area plan, development plan, area development plan, town development plan, zonal development plan, village development plan, or any other plan or scheme prepared under the Act;
8. (h) "development project or projects" means plans conceived within the framework of approved development plan, containing detailed working layouts with all supporting infrastructure and documents including cost of development, source of finance and recovery instruments for their execution;
   • (i) "development scheme" means the method of securing land required for a development plan by means of land acquisition or land pooling or any other means, and the details of implementation of the plan in the secured land incorporating in a document conferring rights on land by specifying the use of land and development, and outlining the processes of development to be followed;
9. (j) "Government" means the Government of Assam;
10. (k) "infrastructure plan" means a plan showing existing and proposed major infrastructure facilities like circulation network including ring/radial/grid roads connecting all the settlements, transport, power, water supply, natural drainage, sewerage system, solid waste disposal and management system, communications network and related facilities like power plants, roads, highways, railways, metro ways, airports, and the like;
11. (l) "land" means land and includes benefits arising out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
12. (m) "land pooling scheme" means a cluster of small plots of land of different owners voluntarily authorised to be combined into a large land parcel, to provide it with infrastructure development in a planned manner and return the reconstructed land to the land owners, after deducting the land required for public open spaces such as parks and play grounds, social housing for economically weaker sections, social amenities such as school, dispensary and other civic amenities, road network, and other infrastructure as specified under the Act as well as such extent of land in lieu of the cost of development towards the provision of infrastructure and amenities and other costs and expenses to be incurred for the scheme and external trunk infrastructure;
13. (n) "land use" means the principal use of land for which a plot of land or building thereon is used or intended to be used for the purpose of classification of a plot according to the land uses, which is deemed to include subsidiary land uses that are contingent upon it;
14. (o) "master plan" means a land use, infrastructure and transportation plan, indicating the location of residential, commercial, transportation, green/open, mixed use, utilities, social infrastructure, industrial, agricultural areas and ecologically fragile areas, prepared for the whole of the notified Satellite City Development Areas or part thereof and which may at the concept level be for a twenty year period, reviewed every five years having a low level of detail or at a detailed level for up to ten years period;
15. (p) "operational construction" means any construction whether temporary or permanent, which is necessary for the operation, maintenance, development, or execution of any of the services such as railways; national highways, state highways, other important roads; waterways; ports; airways and aerodromes; postal, telecom services of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited; electricity; defence; Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited/Oil India Limited/Assam Gas Company Limited; works undertaken by the Authority or any local body; or any other service which the Government may, if it is of the opinion that the operation, maintenance, development or execution of such service is essential to the life of the community, by notification, declare to be a service for the purposes of this clause. Explanation.— Construction of new residential buildings (other than gate lodges, quarters for limited essential operational staff and the like), roads and drains in railway colonies, hotels, clubs, institutes and schools, in the case of railways; and construction of a new building, new structure or new installation or any extension thereof, in the case of any other service, shall not be deemed to be construction within the meaning of this clause.
16. (q) "plan" means the statement of proposals, policies and development briefs for securing, promoting and regulating development in a planning area, and includes a map or maps or sets of documents or all of them; and includes a perspective plan, a development plan of the whole or a part of the any notified Satellite City Development Area, prepared under this Act;
17. (r) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules "regulations" means regulations made by the Authority under this Act;
18. (t) "rule" means rule made under this Act;
19. (u) "Satellite City Development Area" means such areas within a district or traversing one or more districts, as notified by the State Government from time to time under section 3 of this Act, for the purposes of securing the planned and sustainable development of such Satellite City Development Areas and for providing integrated urban infrastructure, public amenities, utility services, housing, economic development and other facilities incidental thereto;
    • (v) 'Special Purpose Vehicle' means a public limited company under the Companies Act, 2013 or any type of body corporate incorporated under applicable laws, which may be formed by the Authority on its own or in collaboration or joint venture with any third party for a well-defined and specific purpose to achieve one or more objects of the Authority and/or execute any works and/or project in furtherance of such objects of the Authority;
20. (w) "State" means the State of Assam;
    • (x) "town planner" means a person having post-graduation in any discipline of Planning as prescribed by Institute of Town Planners India with graduation either in Architecture or Civil Engineering;
21. (y) 'township' means a well-planned and developed area, under which there is an integrated provision of living, working and entertainment facilities including all physical and social infrastructure and shall include a development scheme, a town planning scheme, a land pooling scheme or development in an area where land belongs to a promoter or association of individuals or an area as notified by the Authority;
22. (z) "transferable development right" means a development right as defined under the provisions of the Assam Town and Country Planning Act, 1959 read together with the Assam State Policy for Grant of Transferable Development Rights published vide Notification No. UDD(T)/270/2022/26 dated 28.09.2022. Assam Act No. II of 1960