Preparation of Town Development Schemes

(1) The Town and Country Development Authority may at any time declare its intention to prepare a Town Development Scheme. (2) Within a maximum of thirty days from the date of such declaration of intention to make a scheme, the Town and Country Development Authority shall publish that declaration in the Gazette and in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) Within a maximum of two years from the date of publication of the declaration under sub-section (2), the Town and Country Development Authority shall prepare a Town Development Scheme in draft form and publish it in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, along with a notice inviting objections and suggestions from any person before such date as may be prescribed, which shall not be earlier than thirty days from the date of publication of such notice. (4) The Town and Country Development Authority shall consider all such objections and suggestions as are received within the period specified in the notice under sub-section (3), and after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the persons affected who wish to be heard, or after considering the report of the committee constituted under sub-section (5), the Authority shall publish the draft scheme as it stood or with such modifications as it deems fit: Provided that the final publication of such draft scheme shall be notified within a maximum of one year from the date of publication of the draft scheme, failing which it shall be deemed that the draft scheme has lapsed. (5) Where the Town Development Scheme relates to the reorganization of plots, the Town and Country Development Authority shall, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4), constitute a committee for the purpose of hearing objections and suggestions received under sub-section (3), consisting of the Chief Executive Officer of the said Authority and two other members, one of whom shall be a representative of the Madhya Pradesh Housing Board and the other member shall be an officer of the Public Works Department not below the rank of Executive Engineer, nominated by the Chief Engineer, Public Works Department. (6) The committee constituted under sub-section (5) shall consider the objections and suggestions, hear such persons who wish to be heard, and submit its report to the Town and Country Development Authority within such time as it may fix, along with the following proposals: (one) For demarcating and boundary-marking the areas allotted or reserved for public purposes; (two) For boundary-marking the reorganized plots; (three) For valuation of original and reorganized plots; (four) For determining whether the areas reserved for public purposes are fully or partially beneficial to the residents within the area of the scheme; (five) For estimating or apportioning the compensation to be given to the beneficiaries of the scheme and the contribution to be taken from them, in respect of the reorganization of plots and reservation of sectors for public purposes; (six) For valuation of the increase in the value of each reorganized plot and for determining the development contribution leviable on the holder of the plot: Provided that the contribution shall not exceed half of the increase accrued in the value; (seven) For valuation of the decrease in the value of any reorganized plot and for determining the compensation payable for it. (7) Immediately after the Town Development Scheme is approved with or without modifications under sub-section (4), the Town and Country Development Authority shall publish the final Town Development Scheme in the Gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed, and shall specify the date on which it shall come into force.