Alteration of a housing or improvement scheme after sanction —AL any

At any time after a housing or improvement scheme has been sanctioned by the Board or the Government as the case may be, and before it has been carried into execution, the Board may alter or cancel it: Provided that– (a) if any alteration is likely to increase the estimated cost of executing a scheme by more than ten per cent of the total cost, or if any altered scheme is likely to cost more than ten lakhs of rupees, the alteration shall not be made without the previous sanction of the Government; (b) if any alteration involves the acquisition, otherwise than by agreement, of any land not previously proposed to be acquired in the original scheme, the procedure prescribed in the foregoing sections of this Chapter shall, so far as it may be applicable, be followed as if the alteration were a separate scheme; (c) if, owing to any alteration, any land not previously liable under the scheme to the payment of a betterment fee becomes liable to such payment, the procedure prescribed in sections 50, 51 and 52 shall, so far as it may be applicable, be followed in regard to such land: Provided further that no scheme costing over ten lakhs of rupees shall be cancelled under this section without the previous sanction of the Government. Explanation: For the purposes of this section, the term "alteration" shall be deemed to include a combination of two or more schemes framed or to be framed and the expression "altered scheme" shall be deemed to include any scheme so combined.