Procedure to be followed in preparing and approving Regional plans.

The Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966

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Regional Plans

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(1) Before preparing any Regional plan and submitting it to the State Government for approval, every Regional Board shall, after carrying out the necessary surveys and preparing an existing-land-use map of the Region, or such other maps as are considered necessary, prepare a draft Regional plan 1[and publish a notice in the Official Gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed, stating that the draft Regional plan has been prepared. The notice shall state the name of the place where a copy of such plan shall be available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours mentioned therein and that copies thereof or any extract therefrom certified to be correct shall be available for sale to the public at a reasonable price and invite] objections and suggestions from any person with respect to the draft plan before such date as may be specified in the notice, such date not being earlier than four months from the publication of the notice. 2[The notice shall also state that copies of the following particulars in relation to the draft Regional plan are also available for inspection by the public and copies thereof or extracts therefrom certified to be correct are also available for sale to the public at a reasonable price at the place so named, namely :-]
- (a) a report on the existing-land-use map and the regional survey carried out as aforesaid ;
- (b) maps, charts and a report illustrating and explaining the provisions of the draft Regional plan and indicating the priorities of works to be executed thereunder ;
- (c) a report of the stages of the development programme by which it is proposed to execute the Regional plan ; and
- (d) recommendations to the State Government regarding the directions to be issued to the local authorities in the Region and the different departments of the State Government, if any, in respect of enforcement and implementation of the proposals contained in the draft Regional plan.
(2) The Regional Board shall refer the objections, suggestions and representations received by it to the Regional Planning Committee appointed under section 10 for consideration and report.
(3) The Regional Planning Committee shall, after giving a reasonable opportunity to all persons affected by the Regional plan of being heard, submit its report to the Regional Board together with all connected documents, maps, charts and plans within such time as may from time to time be fixed in that behalf by the Regional Board.
(4) After considering the report of the Regional Planning Committee, and the suggestions, objections and representations, the Regional Board shall prepare the Regional plan containing such modifications, if any, as it considers necessary, and submit it to the State Government for approval, together with the report of the Regional Planning Committee and all connected documents, plans, maps and charts.

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