Town Development Schemes

Provision may be made in a Town Development Scheme for any of the following matters, namely:— (i) Acquisition of land for the purpose of town expansion, its development, and sale or lease thereof; (ii) Acquisition, re-alignment, reconstruction, or relocation of areas that have been poorly designed or have developed or decayed in such a way that slums have been formed. A Town Development Scheme may provide for any of the following matters: (1) The acquisition, development and sale or leasing of land for the purpose of town expansion; (2) The acquisition, re-layout, reconstruction or re-allocation of areas which are ill-laid out or have been so developed or deteriorated as to form a slum; (3) The acquisition and development of land for public purposes such as development of housing, market centres, cultural centres, administrative centres; (4) The acquisition and development of areas for commercial and industrial purposes; (5) To undertake such construction or development work as may be necessary to provide for housing, market, commercial or other amenities; (6) The acquisition and development of land for the purpose of layout or re-layout (remodeling) of road and street patterns; (7) The acquisition and development of land for playgrounds, parks, recreation centres and sports grounds; (8) The reorganization of plants for the purpose of buildings, passages, drains, sewage lines and other similar amenities; (9) Any other such work which may involve environmental improvements, which may be initiated by the Authority with the prior approval of the State Government.