Power of State Government to call for the records of Board and to modify housing, development or improvement scheme.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, the State Government may, at any time, in the case of any housing, development or improvement scheme, which is proposed to be framed or which has been framed by the Board, or which is being executed by it, call for and examine the records of the Board relating to such scheme and if, after making the examination and after considering the representations, if any, of the Board and the local authority concerned, it appears to the State Government that such scheme should be modified, annulled or remitted for reconsideration to the Board or that such scheme should be executed with modifications, it may pass orders accordingly.

(2) The State Government may stay the execution of any such scheme pending the exercise of its powers under sub-section (1) in respect thereof.

(3) Any housing, development or improvement scheme which has already come into force but has been modified by the State Government under sub-section (1) shall have effect as if it had been duly sanctioned by the Board or the State Government, as the case may be, under section 44. The scheme as modified shall be published in accordance with the provisions of section 45 and on