Constitution of New Town Planning and Development Authority

i. Where the State Government is of opinion that the object of proper planning and development of a site of a new town will be best served by entrusting the work of development thereof to a Special Authority, instead to the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority, it may, by notification, constitute a Special Authority for that site to be called the New Town Planning and Development Authority for that area and thereupon, all the powers and functions of the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority relating to development of that site of the new town under this Act, shall be exercised and performed by such New Town Planning and Development Authority.

ii. A New Town Planning and Development Authority constituted under sub-section (i), shall be a body corporate as well as local authority by the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both moveable and immovable and to contract, and by the said name sue and be sued.

iii. A New Town Planning and Development Authority shall consist of a Chairman, such number of official & non official members notified by the State Government to that effect and a Commissioner who shall be appointed from amongst the officers of the Government of Tripura having such qualifications and experience as may be prescribed.

iv. The provisions of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to a New Town Planning and Development Authority as they apply in relation to the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority, with the modification that references to the Tripura Urban Planning and Development Authority shall be constructed as references to a New Town Planning and Development Authority. him of such order prefer an appeal to the Commissioner in such form and manner as may be prescribed: Provided that the Commissioner may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of thirty days, if he satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filling the appeal in time. vi. The Commissioner may, after hearing the appeal, confirm, vary or reverse the ordered appeal from and may pass such order as he thinks fit. vii. The Commissioner may either on his own motion or on an application received in this behalf at any time within a period of six months from the date of the order, call for the record of any proceeding in which the Estate Officer has passed an order for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the legality or propriety of such order and may pass such order in relation there as he thinks fit:Provided that the Commissioner shall not pass an order under this section prejudicial to any person without giving him a reasonable opportunity of being heard. viii. Where a person is aggrieved by any order of the Commissioner, deciding the case under sub-section (vi) or sub-section (vii), he may, within thirty days of the date of communication to him of such order, make an application in writing to the State Government for revision against the said order and the State Government may confirm, alter or rescind the order of the Commissioner.