Chapter III FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE AUTHORITY AND OF THE COMMITTEE

6.

1. (a) The Planning Authority shall formulate the Manipur State Planning Policy and Master Plan which will be a single document to indicate the interest of the State Government in land use, planning and development in a comprehensive manner.
2. (b) The Planning Authority shall make an assessment of the State resources and formulate plan for the most effective and balanced utilization of these resources.
3. (c) The Planning Authority shall determine plan priorities of the State Government in consonance with the policies and programme of the Central Government.
4. (d) The Planning Authority shall finalize the Master Plan for the development of the State which once approved will be binding across the State.
5. (e) The Planning Authority shall guide district authorities in formulating their development plans within the spheres in which such planning is considered useful and feasible and to coordinate these plans with the State Plan.
6. (f) The Planning Authority shall identify factors which tend to retard economic and social development of the State and determine conditions to be established for successful execution of the plans.
7. (g) The Planning Authority shall periodically review the working of the planning and development organization in the State viz. Loktak Development Authority, Planning & Development Authority, Manipur Industrial Development Corporation, Manipur Police Housing Corporation, Municipal Administration Housing & Urban Development, Manipur State Power Distribution Corporation Ltd., Manipur

7. The powers of the Planning Authority shall include the following:-

1. (a) to receive, revise and amend the plans of other public agencies, authorities and organizations so that an integrated effective and efficient utilization of resources may be achieved;
2. (b) to call for reports and information from the concerned Departments and Agencies of the State Government with regard to preparation, enforcement of policy and implementation of plan ;
3. (c) to constitute as many Sub-Committees, consisting wholly or partly of members of the Committee and partly of other persons and for such purposes as the Planning Authority may deem necessary;
4. (d) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Manipur State Planning Authority may give such directions with regard to the implementation of any other development project, as it may think fit, to an agency, department or authority, as the case may be, which has been entrusted with one or more of development schemes in the State;
5. (e) to take such action as may be necessary and proper in order to achieve its objectives and exercise such other powers as the Government may prescribe; and
6. (f) to select and approve comprehensive projects, call for priority development and provide such guidance for the implementation of those projects as the Planning Authority may deem fit.

8.

1. (1) The function of the Committee shall be to assist the Planning Authority in the preparation and co-ordination and implementation of the Master Plan and to ensure that the same is in conformity with the Manipur State Planning Policy.
2. (2) The Committee may make such recommendation to the Planning Authority as it may deem necessary to amend or modify Master Plan or any sectoral plan or component thereof.
3. (3) The Committee shall perform such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the Planning Authority.

9. The Planning Authority may cause such survey and studies as it may consider necessary, to be made by such person or group of persons as it may appoint in this behalf and may also associate such experts or consultants for carrying out studies in relation to such specified matters as may be determined by the Planning Authority.