Chapter IV Regional Development Authority

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Regional Development Authority for a Special Investment Region, which shall be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold and dispose of movable and immovable property and to contract, and by its name, to sue and be sued: Provided that the State Government may constitute a single Regional Development Authority for more than one Special Investment Regions: Provided further that a Regional Development Authority may be known by the name of its location and/or its predominant economic activity.
2. (2) The Regional Development Authority shall consist of the following: -
   • (i) Minister in-charge of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Department of the State Government - Chairperson;
   • (ii) all members of the Lok Sabha and Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha representing the areas included in a Special Investment Region - Members;
   • (iii) such number of other official or non-official persons not exceeding thirteen to be nominated by the State Government - Members;
   • (iv) Chief Executive Officer to be appointed by the State Government - Member- Secretary
3. (3) The headquarters of a Regional Development Authority shall be at such place as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.
4. (4) The remuneration, allowances and other conditions of service of the non-official members specified in clause (iii) of sub-section (2) shall be such as may be prescribed by rules by the State Government.
5. (5) The Regional Development Authority shall meet at such time and place and shall observe such rules of procedure in regard to transaction of its business at its meeting (including the quorum at such meeting) as may be provided by regulations made by the Regional Development Authority.
6. (6) No act or proceeding of the Regional Development Authority shall be invalid merely by reason of any vacancy therein or any defect in the constitution thereof, or any irregularity in its procedure not affecting the merits of the case.
7. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) to (5), the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Regional Development Authority for a Special Investment Region by designating an existing Regional Development Authority or any other government agency or Government Company as the Regional Development Authority for that Special Investment Region.

The Regional Development Authority shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and under the control, supervision and guidance of the State Government and the Board, discharge the following functions and exercise following powers, namely: -

1. (a) to acquire, procure and hold land within the Special Investment Region by purchase, lease, exchange, agreement or otherwise;
2. (b) to give directions to any government agency or persons functioning in the Special Investment Region or the periphery thereof in matters pertaining to plans and schemes prepared under Chapter V;
3. (c) to promote private sector participation in development and implementation of Development Schemes;
4. (d) to raise finance from market including financial and multilateral institutions;
5. (e) to allot land under Section 36;
6. (f) to modify or cancel permission to develop subject to the provisions of Sections 40 and 41;
7. (g) to regulate the development activities in the Special Investment Region in accordance with the plans and schemes prepared under Chapter V and the building regulations made by the Regional Development Authority in this behalf;
8. (h) to enter upon any land or building to carry out surveys, make enquiry, inspection, examination or measurement subject to the provisions of Section 49;
   • (i) to make arrangements for observance and promotion of safety, order, health and environmental safeguards, disaster management for the Special Investment Region;
9. (j) to engage consultants or persons having special knowledge or skill to assist it in performance of its functions;
10. (k) to negotiate and enter into any contract including by way of public private partnership;
11. (l) to administer its funds;
12. (m) to constitute committees for proper regulation of traffic, environment, building, land uses and any other purposes to achieve the objects of this Act;
13. (n) to subscribe for shares in a company with the prior approval of the State Government and enter into joint venture agreement with any person or body upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by the State Government;
14. (o) to enter into concession agreements with the approval of the State Government;
15. (p) to accept grants and donations;
16. (q) to carry out surveys and prepare and execute plans and schemes prepared in accordance with Chapter V for development of the Special Investment Region;
17. (r) to classify, earmark, demarcate and develop the Special Investment Region and the periphery for purposes and usages, inter alia, for any economic activity, infrastructure facility including housing and industrial areas and public and civic facility and to encourage and promote aesthetics, efficiency and generate revenues in the process of development;
18. (s) to ensure provision of sufficient infrastructure facility and public and civic facility and to make sustainable arrangements for adequate maintenance thereof;
19. (t) to conduct, prepare and assess the techno-commercial, economic and environmental feasibility studies relating to infrastructure projects;
20. (u) to regulate, grant, suspend, withdraw or cancel approvals and permissions for economic activity in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
    • (v) to remove encroachments and constructions not duly authorized or which are made in violation of this Act or rules or regulations made thereunder;
21. (w) to update the Board on planning, development, operation, maintenance, management and regulation of the Special Investment Region and its projects and implement the directions, policies, guidelines and parameters issued by the State Government and the Board on matters relating thereto;
    • (x) to make the regulations on matters specified in Section 71;
22. (y) to globally market the Special Investment Region and its projects;
23. (z) to provide public and civic facilities within the Special Investment Region;
24. (za) to provide municipal services within the Special Investment Region;
25. (zb) to plan, develop, operate, maintain, manage and regulate the periphery in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
26. (zc) to procure land for the Special Investment Region in accordance with Chapter VI;
27. (zd) to provide urban transport facility for the Special Investment Region;
28. (ze) to appoint such officers and servants subordinate to the Regional Development Authority as it may consider necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions, on such conditions of appointment and service and with such powers, functions and duties as it may determine by regulations; and
29. (zf) to exercise such other powers and discharge such other functions as may be necessary or expedient to carry out provisions of this Act and such other functions as may be assigned to it by the State Government or the Board.