Approval of the Master Plan

(1) On receipt of the Master Plan with the reports referred to in section 12 from the Planning Authority under sub-section (1) of section 9, or after such plan and reports are prepared and published under sub-section (2) of section 9, the State Government after making such modifications as it deems fit or as may be advised by the Director, shall return through the Director, the plan and the reports to the Planning Authority, which shall thereupon publish, by notification, the plan and the reports inviting public comments within sixty days of such publication 2[Simultaneously, the plan and reports shall be forwarded to the local authorities within the local planning area, which shall, within sixty days from the date of receipt thereof, forward to the Planning Authority, its approval or any observations to be considered by the Authority, failing which the approval of the local authority shall be deemed to have been given.]2

1. (2) If within sixty days of the publication under sub-section (1), any member of the public communicates in writing to the Planning Authority any comments on the plan and the reports, the Planning authority shall consider such comments and resubmit the plan and the reports to the State Government, through the Director with recommendations for such modifications in the plan and reports as it considers necessary in the light of the public comments made on the plan and reports.
2. (3) The State Government, after receiving the plan and the reports and the recommendations for modifications from the Planning Authority, shall, in consultation with the Director, give its final approval to the plan and the reports with such modifications as the Director may advice in the light of the comments and the recommendations of the Planning authority or otherwise.
3. (4) The Planning Authority shall then publish in the prescribed manner the Master Plan and the reports as finally approved by the State Government. The plan and the reports shall be permanently displayed in the offices of the Director and the Planning Authority and a copy shall be kept available for inspection of the public at the office of the Planning Authority.]1 1[13-A. Interim Master Plan.- (1) Pending the preparation of Master Plan, a Planning Authority may, where it considers it expedient, and shall, when so directed by the State Government, prepare and publish the Interim Master Plan for the entire area within the jurisdiction of the Planning Authority, or for any part thereof; and their upon, the provisions of section 13 shall, so far as may be, but subject to the provisions of this section, apply in relation to such Interim Master Plan as they apply in relation to the preparation and publication of the Master Plan.
4. (2) The Planning Authority shall prepare and publish such plan not later than one year from the date of notice in the official Gazette of its declaration of intention to prepare a Master plan or not later than such further period not exceeding one year as may be extended by the State Government.
5. (3) The Interim Master Plan shall provide only for matters mentioned in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of section 12 and if necessary, such other matters specified in that section as the Planning Authority may decide to include or as may be directed by the State Government.
6. (4) The Interim Master Plan shall consist of such maps and such descriptive matters as the Planning Authority may consider necessary to explain and illustrate the proposals made in such plan. 13-B. Preparation of Master Plan for Additional Area. – If at any time after a Planning Authority has declared its intention to prepare a Master Plan or after a Master Plan prepared by a Planning authority has been sanctioned the jurisdiction of the Planning Authority is extended by inclusion of an additional area, the Planning Authority after following the provisions of this Act for the preparation of a Master Plan, prepare and publish a Master Plan for such additional area either separately or jointly with the provisional or final Master Plan prepared or to be prepared for the area originally under its jurisdiction, and submit it to the State Government for sanction after following the same procedure as it followed for submission of a Master Plan to the State Government for approval: Provided that, where a Master Plan for the additional area requires modification of the final Master Plan or where the State Government directs any such modifications, the Planning Authority shall revise the final Master Plan after following the procedure laid down in section 9, so far as may be relevant. 13-C. Existing Outline Development Plan or Comprehensive Development Plan deemed to be Master Plan - (1) The declaration of intention of making an Outline Development Plan published by the State Government under sub-section (1) of section 10 immediately prior to the commencement of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act, 2004 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Amendment Act), shall be deemed to be the declaration of intention of making Master Plan under this Act.
7. (2) The Outline Development Plan or Comprehensive Development Plan prepared by any Planning Authority and provisionally or finally approved by the State Government under section 13, or as the case may be, under section 22 prior the commencement of the Amendment Act shall be deemed to be the Master Plan provisionally, or as the case may be, finally approved under this Act.
8. (3) The Comprehensive Development Plan prepared by any Planning Authority revised under section 25 prior to the commencement of the Amendment Act shall be deemed to be Master Plan revised under this Act. 13-D. Revision of Master Plan. – At least once in every ten years from the date on which the Master Plan has come into force, subject to the provisions of section 13-C, the Planning Authority may and if directed so by the State Government shall, carryout a fresh survey of the area within its jurisdiction, with a view to revising the existing Master Plan and the provisions of section 9 to section 12 (both inclusive) shall mutatis mutandis apply in respect of such revision of the Master Plan.” 13-E. Amendment to Regulations. - The State Government may, after previous publication of the draft for not less than one month by notification make amendments to regulations.]1 1. Sections 13-A to 13-E inserted by Act 1 of 2005 w.e.f. 14.2.2005.

¹ Substituted by Act 1 of 2005 w.e.f. 14.2.2005.

² Inserted by Act 47 of 2020 w.e.f. 20.10.2020.