Transferring streets laid out or altered and open space provided by the Board under a housing or an improvement scheme.

(1) The Board may hand over any road or street to the local authority concerned after giving a month’s notice, when- (a) any such road or street laid out altered by the Board has been duly levelled, metalled, flagged channelled, sewered, and drained in the manner provided in the scheme sanctioned by the Board or the Government; (b) Water and other sanitary conveniences have duly been provided in such streets. (2) The local authority concerned may after receiving the notice from the Board under sub-section (1) declare the street to be a public street, and the street shall thereupon vest in the local authority, and shall henceforth be maintained, kept in repair, lighted and cleansed by the local authority. (3) When any open space for the purposes of ventilation or recreation has been provided by the Board in executing a housing or improvement scheme, it shall, on completion, be transferred to the local authority concerned by a resolution of the Board and it shall thereupon vest in the local authority concerned and thereafter be maintained by that local authority at its expense; Provided that the local authority may require the Board before and such open space is so transferred to enclose, level, turf, drain and lay out such space and provide footpath therein and, if necessary to provide lamps and other apparatus for lighting it. (4) If any difference of opinion arises between the Board and the local authority in respect of any matter referred to in the foregoing provisions of this section, the matter shall be referred to the Government whose decision shall be final. The payment for dwelling sites shall be made in the following order: (i) The applicant under the High income Group and the Middle income Group shall pay/deposit 30 per cent of the disposal price immediately after it has been decided to allot a dwelling site to him, but the applicant under low income Group and the Economically Weaker Section, shall pay/ deposit 20 per cent of the disposal price immediately after it has been decided to allot a dwelling site to him. (ii)The balance amount of the disposal price shall be paid within such period as may be determined by the Board and specified in the allotment order.