section 28
Objections to draft Development plan.
The Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966Infrastructure1966196 sections11 chapters
Procedure to be followed in preparing and sanctioning Development plans
Statutory text
- (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, if within the time allowed under subsection (1) of section 26 any person communicates in writing to the Planning Authority or the said Officer any suggestion or objection relating to the draft Development plan, the Planning Authority or the said officer may, after considering the report of the Planning Committee under sub-section (2) and the suggestions or objections received by it or him, modify or change the plan in such manner as it or he thinks fit.
- (2) The Planning Authority or the said Officer shall forward all objections and suggestions received by it to a Planning Committee 1[consisting of three members of the Standing Committee of the Planning Authority and such additional number of persons, not exceeding four, 2[appointed by the Direector of Town Planning having special knowledge or practical experience of matters relating to town and country planning or environment or relating to both] for consideration and report : Provided that, where a Planning Authority is not a local authority, the Planning Committee shall consist of such members as the Planning Authority 3 * * * may determine: 4[Provided futher that, where the Divisional Joint Director or Deputy Director of the Town Planning and Valuation Department or an Officer nominated by him under subsection (4) of section 21, as the case may be, exercises the powers and perfoms the duties of the Planning Authority, then the Planning Committee may consist of such Divisional Joint Director or Deputy Director or, as the case may be, of such officer.] 5[6[Provided also that], where the State Government or any person or persons appointed under section 162, exercise the powers and perform the duties of a Planning Authority or Development Authority, then the Planning Committee may consist of the State Government or the person or persons so appointed:] 7[Provided also that, the Planning Committee contemplated in the preceding provisos shall also consist of such additional number of persons, not exceeding four, appointed by 8[the Director of Town Planning] having special knowledge or practical experience of matters relating to town and country planning or environment or relating to both].
- (3) The Planning Committee, 9* * * * shall, on receipt of objections and suggestions, make such enquiry as it 10* * * may consider necessary, and give a reasonable opportunity of being heard to any person including representatives of Government departments who may have filed any objection or made any suggestions in respect of the draft Development plan and after considering the same, the Planning Committee shall submit its report to the Planning Authority or as the case may be, the said Officer 11[within a period of two months from the date of its appointment or within such extended period as the Planning authority may specify] 12* * *. 13[(4) Not later than two months, after the receipt of the report of the Planning Committee, the Planning Authority or the said officer shall consider the report including the objections and suggestions received by it or him and make a list of such modifications or changes and carry out the same in the draft Development plan, as it or he may consider proper. The Planning Authority or the said officer shall publish, in the Official Gazette and in not less than two local newspapers, the list of modifications or changes made in the draft Development plan for information of the public.]
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