Chapter II DECLARATION OF NIRMAN KSHETRA

3. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any area of land, including an industrial area to be a NIRMAN Kshetra: Provided that the area declared should not be less in size than such minimum area as is notified by the Government from time to time.

1. (2) Every notification issued under sub-section (1) shall be laid before the State Legislature as soon as may be after it is issued.
2. (3) Upon any area being declared as NIRMAN Kshetra under the provision of this Act, such area including its periphery, if included in the master plan or the zonal development plan under the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976 or Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973, or any development plan under any other Uttar Pradesh Act, shall with effect from the date of such declaration be deemed to be excluded from any such plan.

4. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare such of the outer area on any side adjoining a NIRMAN Kshetra, to be the periphery of the NIRMAN Kshetra as it deems fit.

1. (2) On declaration of an area under sub-section (1) as periphery of a NIRMAN Kshetra, -
   • (a) the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority of the NIRMAN Kshetra shall be the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority for the periphery of the NIRMAN Kshetra;
   • (b) the powers and functions of the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority, Committees and the Board shall extend to the periphery of the NIRMAN Kshetra.
2. (3) In order to regulate the developments in the periphery area, the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority may prepare separate Master Development Plan and Development Scheme for the periphery area in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

5. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in any Uttar Pradesh Act, where a NIRMAN Kshetra including its periphery or any part thereof is specified to be an industrial township under the proviso to clause (1) of Article 243-Q of the Constitution, such NIRMAN Kshetra or part thereof, if included in a Panchayat area, shall with effect from the date of notification made under the said proviso, stand excluded from such Panchayat area and no Panchayat shall be constituted for such NIRMAN Kshetra or part thereof under the United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 or the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961, as the case may be, and any Panchayat constituted for such industrial development area or part thereof before the date of such notification shall cease to exist. EXPLANATION: The expression “Panchayat and Panchayat area” shall have the meanings assigned to them in Part IX of the Constitution.

1. (2) On and from the date of notification under sub-section (1), subject to prior permission and any general or special orders which the State Government may make in this regard, the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority shall Act as the authority for local administration, taking decisions and steps for assessment, imposition, and recovery of taxes under this section, for the said region and no other local authority shall have jurisdiction for this purpose.
2. (3) The assessment, imposition, and recovery of property tax under this Act by the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority shall be in such manner, as may be prescribed.
3. (4) Defined percentage of the property tax collected by the NIRMAN Kshetra authority shall be remitted to the Local Authority from which the area of NIRMAN Kshetra is carved out. This percentage shall be defined by the NIRMAN Board from time to time.

6. (1) A NIRMAN Kshetra declared under this Act and the periphery thereof except the abadi area, including land set apart for development of abadi, of a village and the municipal area, shall cease to be under the jurisdiction of a local authority to the extent it relates to the provisions made in this Act.

1. (2) While preparing the Master Development Plan for the NIRMAN Kshetra, the Regional Development Authority shall take into account the development plan, if any, prepared by the respective local authorities