Functions of Metropolitan Planning Committee

(1) Every Metropolitan Planning Committee shall prepare a draft development plan for the Metropolitan area as a whole. (2) The Committee shall, in preparing the draft development plan under sub-section (1), - (a) have regard to- (i) the plans prepared by the Municipalities and the Panchayats in the Metropolitan area, (ii) matters of common interest between the Municipalities and the Panchayats, including co-coordinated spatial planning of the area, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation; (iii) the overall objectives and priorities set by Government of India and the State Government;