The Tamil Nadu Metropolitan Planning Committee Act, 2009
The Tamil Nadu Metropolitan Planning Committee Act, 2009
This Act regulates the establishment and operation of Metropolitan Planning Committees in large urban areas across Tamil Nadu. It applies to metropolitan areas with populations over ten lakhs, coordinating elected local municipal and panchayat officials alongside state and national representatives. This law matters because it ensures structured, cooperative regional development. By requiring committees to create unified draft development plans, it coordinates key public interests like water sharing, environmental protection, and infrastructure development across local boundaries. This guarantees that growing cities expand in an organized, democratic manner that successfully integrates both everyday local community needs and broader state government policy priorities.
- 1. Short title and commencement.
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Metropolitan Planning Committee.
- 4. Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, other members, not being elected members, term of office and filling up of vacancy
- 5. Election of members of committee.
- 6. Term of office of, and allowance for, elected members of committee.
- 7. Validation.
- 8. Meeting of committee
- 9. Sub-committees
- 10. Power to remove difficulties
- 11. Power to give directions.
- 12. Authority to assist Metropolitan Planning Committee.
- 13. Power to make rules.
- 14. Amendment of section 3.
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