Planning Area

(1) The State Government may, by notification, constitute planning areas for the purposes of this Act and define the limits thereof. (2) The State Government may, by notification,- (a) alter the limits of a planning area so as to include therein or exclude there from such area as may be specified in the notification; (b) amalgamate two or more planning areas so as to constitute one planning area; (c) divide any planning area into two or more planning areas; (d) declare that the whole or part of the area constituting the planning area shall cease to be planning area or part thereof.