धारा 421 · District Planning Committee

(1) The Corporation shall prepare every year a development plan for its area and submit it to ¹[the District Planning Committee].

(2) ¹[The District Planning Committee] shall consolidate the Development plans prepared and submitted to it by the Corporation under sub-section (1) and prepare a draft development plan for the district as a whole.

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³[(3)] Every ¹[District Planning Committee] shall in preparing the draft development plan––

(a) have regard to :––

(i) matters of common interest between the municipalities and Panchayats including spatial planning, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation ;

(ii) the extent and type of available source whether financial or otherwise ;

(b) consult such institutions and organisations as the ⁴[State Government] may specify.

³[(4)] The Chairperson of every ¹[District Planning Committee] shall forward the development plan, as recommended by such Committee, to the Government.