However, the periods so extended may in aggregate not exceed more than 24 months.

Contents for preliminary & final scheme Contents for preliminary & final scheme.-

1. (1) In a Preliminary Scheme, the Town Planning Scheme Officer shall,
   • (a) After giving notice in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed form to the persons affected by the scheme, define and demarcate the areas allotted to or earmarked for any public purpose or for a purpose of the Appropriate Authority, and the Final Plots;
   • (b) After giving notice as aforesaid, determine in cases in which a Final Plot is to be allotted to persons in ownership in common, the shares of such persons;
   • (c) Provide for the total or partial transfer of any rights in an Original Plot to a Final Plot, or provide for the transfer of any rights in an Original Plot in accordance with provisions of section 28.
2. (2) The Town Planning Scheme Officer shall on the sanction of the Preliminary Scheme prepare and submit to the State Government the Final Scheme in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (3).
3. (3) In the Final Scheme, the Town Planning Scheme Officer shall,-
   • (a) fix the difference between the total of the values of the Original Plots and the total of the values of the plots included in the scheme in accordance with clause
     • (vii) of sub-section
4. (1) of section 72;
   • (b) determine whether the areas used, allotted, or earmarked for a public purpose or purposes of the Appropriate Authority are beneficial wholly or partly to the owners or residents within the area of the scheme;
   • (c) estimate the portion of the sums payable as compensation on each plot used, allotted, or earmarked for a public purpose or for the purpose of the Appropriate Authority which is beneficial partly to the owners or residents within the area of the scheme and partly to the general public, which shall be included in the costs of the scheme;
   • (d) calculate the contribution to be levied under section 73, on each plot used, allotted, or earmarked for a public purpose or for the purpose of the Appropriate Authority which is beneficial partly to the owners or residents within the area of the scheme and partly to the general public;
   • (e) determine the amount of exemption, if any, from the payment of contribution that may be granted in respect of plots exclusively occupied for religious or charitable purposes;
   • (f) estimate the increment to accrue in respect of each plot included in the scheme in accordance with the provisions of section;
   • (g) calculate the proportion of the contribution to be levied on each plot in the Final Scheme to the increment estimated to accrue in respect of such plot under section 73;
   • (h) calculate the contribution to be levied on each plot included in the Final Scheme;
     • (i) determine the amount to be deducted from, or added to, as the case maybe, the contribution leviable from a person in accordance with the provisions of section 73;
   • (j) estimate with reference to claims made before Town Planning Scheme Officer, after notice has been given by such Officer in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed form, the compensation to be paid to the owner of any property or right injuriously affected by the making of the Town Planning Scheme in accordance with the provisions of section 75;
   • (k) draw in the prescribed form the preliminary and the Final Scheme in accordance with the Draft Scheme: Provided that the Town Planning Scheme Officer may make modification in the Draft Scheme, but no such modification, if it is of a substantial nature, shall be made except with the previous sanction of the State Government, and except after hearing the Appropriate Authority and any owners who may raise objections. Explanation-
     • (i) For the purpose of this provision “modification of a substantial nature” means a modification which is estimated by the Town Planning Scheme Officer to involve an increase of more than ten percent in the costs of the scheme as is described in section 72 or on account of the provisions of new works or the allotment of additional sites for public purposes included in the Preliminary Scheme drawn up by the Town Planning Scheme Officer;
     • (ii) If there is any difference of opinion between the Town Planning Scheme Officer and the Appropriate Authority as to whether a modification made by the Town Planning Scheme Officer is of substantial nature or not, the matter shall be referred by the appropriate authority to the State Government whose decision shall be final