The Metropolitan Planning Committee shall have powers to formulate guidelines for preparation of draft plan, which will be followed by the Municipalites and Panchayats while formulating their own plans.

Power to make rules

1. (1) The power to make rules under this Act shall be exercised by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette.
2. (2) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made before each House of the State Legislature, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days, which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule, or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, and notify such decision in the Official Gazette, the rule shall from the date of publication of such notification have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudiec to the validity of anything previously done or omitted to be done under that rule.