Chapter IV CONSTITUTION OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

(1) The State Government may, by notification, constitute a Regional development authority for the Special Investment Region area declared under section 3. (2) Every Regional development authority constituted under sub- section (1), shall be a body corporate and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold and dispose off movable and immovable property and to contract, and by the said name, to sue and be sued. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 10 and 11, the State Government may, instead of constituting a Regional development authority for a Special Investment Region or an industrial area, designate a Government agency or a Government company as the Regional development authority and empower it to exercise all the powers and perform all the functions as specified under section 15.

The headquarters of the Regional development authority shall be at such place as the State Government may, by notification, specify.

The Regional development authority shall consist of the following members, namely:- (i) the Chairman - to be appointed by the State Government; (ii) the Chief Executive Officer - to be appointed by the State Government; (iii) the General Manager - to be appointed by the State Government; (iv) two officials of the State Government - to be nominated by the State Government as ex-officio member and one of them shall be a Group A Officer of the Town Planning, nominated by the Director, Town and Country Planning Department; (v) an officer to be nominated by the Apex Authority; (vi) a person having experience in administration to be nominated by the State Government; (vii) a person having experience in land acquisition and dealing with post land acquisition issues nominated by the State Government; (viii) two non-officials who possess experience in area development and regional planning to be nominated by the State Government; (ix) two ex-officials of the Central Government or Pollution Control Board, who have experience in dealing with Environmental aspects, nominated by the State Government; (x) two representatives from the industry or service or business sector to be nominated by the State Government; and (xi) a Member-Secretary, who shall be an officer of the Government to be appointed by the State Government, shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Regional development authority.

(1) The term of office and conditions of service, qualification and disqualification of the Chairperson, the Chief Executive Officer and non official members of Regional development authority shall be such, as may be prescribed. (2) The appointment, remuneration, allowances and conditions of services of the officers and employees of the Regional development authority shall be such, as may be specified by regulations.

The Regional development authority shall meet at such time and at such place as the Chairperson may determine: Provided that, the procedure with regard to transaction of business of its meetings, and quorum of such meeting shall be, as may be specified by regulations by the Apex Authority in consultation with the State Government.

The Regional development authority may constitute an Executive Committee and such other committees consisting of such number of its members for performance of its functions as may be specified by regulations: Provided that, the core functions of the Regional development authority such as preparation of the development plan, town planning scheme and the general development regulations shall not be delegated to any committee of the Regional development authority.

No act or proceedings of the Regional development authority and any of its committees shall be invalid or vitiated merely by reason of,- (a) a vacancy therein or any defect in the constitution thereof; or (b) an irregularity in its procedure not affecting the merit of the case. (6) Any other entity proposing to undertake the development of infrastructure projects in the Special Investment Region or connected thereto, shall make the proposal in that regard to the Apex Authority.