The Madhya Pradesh Gandi Basti Kshetra (Sudhar Tatha Nirmulan) Adhiniyam, 1976
The Madhya Pradesh Gandi Basti Kshetra (Sudhar Tatha Nirmulan) Adhiniyam, 1976
This law regulates the identification, repair, clearance, and redevelopment of unfit urban housing and slum areas across Madhya Pradesh. It empowers government-appointed competent authorities to declare unsafe or unsanitary regions as slum areas, mandate structural repairs, order the demolition of hazardous buildings, acquire land for public redevelopment, and clear entire slum blocks when necessary. The legislation applies to property owners, tenants, occupiers, local municipal bodies, and state government authorities within specified towns and cities. It matters because it seeks to improve public sanitation, safety, and basic living conditions for urban residents while safeguarding tenants against arbitrary eviction and providing compensation for acquired land.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Declaration of slum area.
- 4. Power of competent authority to require improvement of buildings unfit for human habitation.
- 5. Enforcement of notice requiring execution of works of improvement.
- 5A. Special slum improvement in certain slum areas.
- 6. Expenses of maintenance of works of improvement etc. to be recoverable from the occupier of buildings.
- 7. Restriction on building etc. in a slum area.
- 8. Power of competent authority to order demolition of buildings unfit for human habitation.
- 9. Procedure to be followed where demolition order has been made.
- 10. Power to declare any slum area to be clearance area.
- 11. Slum clearance order.
- 12. Power of competent authority to re-develop clearance area.
- 13. Power of State Government to acquire land.
- 14. Land acquired by State Government to be made available to competent authority.
- 15. Right to receive amount in lieu of deprivation of right in land.
- 16. Basis for determination of amount payable in lieu of deprivation of right in land.
- 17. Apportionment of amount payable in lieu of deprivation of right in land.
- 18. Payment of amount in lieu of deprivation of right in land or deposit of same in Court.
- 19. Powers of competent authority in relation to determination of amount payable in lieu of deprivation of right in land.
- 20. Proceeding for eviction of tenants not to be taken without permission of competent authority.
- 21. Appeals.
- 22. Restoration of possession of premises vacated by tenant.
- 23. Rent of buildings in slum areas
- 24. Chapter not to apply to eviction of tenants from certain buildings
- 36. Power of entry
- 37. Powers of inspection
- 38. Power to enter land adjoining land where work is in progress
- 39. Breaking into buildings
- 40. Entry to be made in day time
- 41. Owner's consent ordinarily to be obtained
- 42. Power of eviction to be exercised only by competent authority
- 43. Power to remove offensive or dangerous trades from slum areas.
- 44. Appeals.
- 45. Service notices etc.
- 46. Penalties.
- 47. Order of demolition of buildings in certain cases.
- 48. Jurisdiction of Courts.
- 49. Previous sanction of competent authority or officers authorised by it for prosecution.
- 50. Power to delegate.
- 50A. Absorption of the officers and servants.
- 51. Protection of action taken in good faith.
- 52. Bar of jurisdiction.
- 53. Competent authority etc. to be public servant.
- 54. Act to override other laws.
- 55. Power to make rules.
- 56. Repeal
- 25 to 35. Slum Clearance Board
- Schedule. Principles for determination of the net average annual income
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