The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008.

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    "title": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008.",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008.",
    "act_number": "18",
    "act_year": 2008,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": "2008-09-30",
    "description": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008.",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat District Planning\r\nCommittees Act, 2008.\r\n(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat except the areas\r\nto which the provisions of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations\r\nAct, 1949 apply.\r\n(3) olt shall come into force on such date as the State Governmenta\r\nmay, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (a)",
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            "content": "(a) \"Committee\" means a District Planning Committee constituted\r\nunder sub-section (1) of section 3;\r\nConstitution of\r\nDistrict Planning\r\nCommittee.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (b)",
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            "content": "b )\"District Collector\" includes an Additional District Collector,\r\nor any other officer appointed by the State Government to\r\ndischarge all or any of the functions of the District Collector\r\nunder this Act;",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (c)",
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            "content": "(c) \"District Panchayat\" means a District Panchayat as defined in\r\nclause (7) of section 2 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (d)",
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            "content": "(d)\"Municipality\" means a municipality as defined in clause (14)\r\nof section 2 of the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963;",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (e)",
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            "content": "(e) \"population\" means the population as ascertained at the last\r\npreceding census of which the relevant figures have been\r\npublished;",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (f)",
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            "content": "(f) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (g)",
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            "content": "(g) \"rural area\" means an area within a Taluka.\r\nExplanation. \"Taluka\" means a taluka as defined in\r\nclause (25) of section 2 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act,\r\n1993;",
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        },
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2 Definations (h)",
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            "content": "(h) \"urban area\" means an area within a Municipality;",
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        },
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Constitution of District Planning Committee.",
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            "content": "(1) The State Government shall, by notification in the Official\r\nGazette, constitute a District Planning Committee in each district consisting\r\nof such number of persons not less than thirty and not more than forty as it\r\nolto\r\nmay determine.\r\nnat? tris ?edot (2) The District Planning Committee shall consist of following members,\r\nbHE\r\nnamely :-\r\n(i) the Chairperson of the committee to be nominated by the State\r\nanott6t0gGovernment;\r\n(ii) the President of the District Panchayat, who shall be the ViceChairpersoncl s e ??csno\r\n(iii) the District Collector, who shall be the Co-Vice-Chairperson;\r\n(iv) the District Development Officer;\r\n(v) the District Planning Officer, who shall be the Member-Secretary\r\nof the Committee; dna?\r\n(vi) a person or persons, as determined by the State Government,\r\nhaving special knowledge in the fields of economics, planning,\r\nfinance, engineering or administration;\r\n(vii) (a) such number of members as determined by the State\r\nGovernment, to be elected by and from amongst the elected\r\natiuen members ofthe District Panchayat; and\r\n???? (b) such number of members as determined by the State\r\nGovernment, to be elected by and from amongst the elected\r\nmembers of the Municipalities within the District:\r\nRan\r\n1o\r\nProvided that not less than four-fifths of the total number of\r\nthe members of the Committee shall be elected by and from\r\namongst the elected members of the District Panchayat and of the\r\nMunicipalities in the District in proportion to the ratio between the\r\npopulation of the rural areas and of the urban areas in the District.\r\n(3) (i) The members of the House of the People and the members of\r\nthe Gujarat Legislative Assembly elected from any constituency in the\r\nDistrict or a part thereof shall be permanent invitees to the District Planning\r\nCommittee; setimmoC ep to\r\n??1 (ii) such officer or officers of the State Government or of any\r\nstatutory Board, Corporation or Authority having knowledge in the field of\r\neconomics, planning, engineering, finance or administration, as decided by\r\nthe State Government, shall be the permanent invitees to the District Planning\r\nCommittee.\r\n",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4 Election.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1)\r\nTerm of office\r\nand other\r\nconditions of\r\nmembers of\r\nCommittee.\r\nGUJARAT GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EX,. 29-3-2008\r\nThe District Collector shall co-ordinate and supervise all\r\nworks in connection with the election of members to the\r\nCommittee in the manner as may be prescribed.\r\n(2) The District Collector shall appoint a Retuning Officer and as\r\nmany Assistant Returning Officers as may be necessary for\r\nconducting the election of members to the Committee.\r\n(3) The powers and functions of the Returning Officer and the\r\nAssistant Returning Officers shall be such as may be\r\nprescribed.\r\n(4)\r\n(5)\r\nWhere any dispute arises regarding any election held under\r\nthis Act, any person entitled to vote at such election may,\r\nwithin thirty days after the date of the declaration of the results\r\nof such election, file a petition, calling in question such\r\nelection, before the Election Commissioner of the State having\r\njurisdiction, and the decision of the Election Commissioner\r\nshall be final and shall not be called in question in any court..\r\nNotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act\r\nor in any other law for the time being in force, no civil court of\r\nlaw shall have jurisdiction to entertain any petition calling in\r\nquestion the validity of any election held under this Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Term of office and other conditions of members of Committee",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) The term of office of the members of the Committee other\r\nthan ex-officio, shall be five years.\r\na\r\n(2) A member of a Committee, who is a member of a District Panchayat,\r\nMunicipality, the House of the People, the Legislative Assembly of the\r\nState shall cease to be a member of the Committee if he ceases to be\r\nmember of the respective District Panchayat, Municipality, the House of the\r\nPeople or the Legislative Assembly ofthe State.\r\na\r\n(3) The other terms and conditions of the members of the Committee\r\nshall be such as may be prescribed o",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6. Resignation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) The Chairperson may at any time, resign his office by writing to\r\nthe State Government and on such resignation being accepted the\r\nChairperson shall be deemed to have vacated his office;\r\n(ii) The Vice-Chairperson or a member of the Committee may, at any\r\ntime, resign his office by writing to the Chairperson and, on such resignation\r\nbeing accepted, the Vice-Chairperson or, as the case may be, the member\r\nshall be deemed to have vacated his office.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7. Filling of casual vacancy in place of an elected member of Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Any vacancy occurring by reason of death, resignation or otherwise of\r\nan elected member of a Committee shall be filled by election of another\r\nmember in the manner as may be prescribed.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "Section 8. Grant to Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The State Government shall provide to the Committee such sum as it\r\nmay think fit for the purpose of carrying out the functions by the Committee\r\nunder this Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "Section 9. Procedure. records to be regulated by Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1) The Committee shall meet on such date, at such time and\r\nplace as the Chairperson may think fit and shall observe such rules of\r\nprocedure in regard to the transaction of business at its meetings as may be\r\nprescribed by rules:?\r\nProvided that the Chairperson, when required by a notice in writing\r\nby at least one-third of the members of the Committee shall call a meeting\r\nwithin one month from the date of receipt of the notice.\r\n(2) Minimum of ten members, shall form a quorum for a meeting\r\nof the Committee:\r\nProvided that no quorum shall be necessary for an adjourned meeting.\r\n(3) The Secretary of the Committee shall maintain records and the\r\nproceedings of the meetings of the Committee and shall take such actions as\r\nthe Committee may decide.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "Section 10. power and function of the committee",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) Every Metropolitan Planning Committee shall prepare a draft development plan for the Metropolitan area as a whole. \r\n(2) The Committee shall, in preparing the draft development plan under sub-\r\nsection (I), -\r\n(a) have regard to· \r\n(i) the plans prepared by the Municipalities and the Panehayats in the \r\nMetropolitan area, \r\n(ii) matters of common interest between the Municipalities and the \r\nPanchayats, including co-coordinated spatial planning of the area, \r\nsharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the \r\nintegrated development of infi:astructurc and environmental \r\nconservation; \r\n(iii) the overall objectives and priorities set by Government of India and \r\nthe State Government; \r\nResignation. \r\nFilling of casual \r\nvacancy in place \r\nofan elected \r\nmemt>er of \r\nCommittee. \r\nGrant to \r\nCommittee. \r\nProcedure, \r\nrecords to be \r\nregulated by \r\nCommittee. \r\nFunctions of \r\nMetropolitan \r\nPlanning \r\nCommittee. \r\n\r\nPower or State \r\nGovernment to \r\nmake rul<S. \r\nPo,.trto \r\nttmO\\'t' \r\ndifficultitS. \r\n19-6 GUJARAT GOYEIU\\'ME\\'T GAZETTE, EX., 30-9-2008 [PART IV \r\n(iv) the extent and nature of investments likely to be made in \r\nMetropolilan area by agencies of the Governmcm of India and of \r\nthe State Government and other available resources whether \r\nfinancial or otherwise; \r\n(b) consult such institutions and organizations as the State Go\\·emment may, \r\nby order, specify. \r\n(3) The Chairperson of a Metropolitan Planning Committee shall forward the \r\ndraft development plan, as recommended by such Committee. to the State \r\nGovernment in the manr.er as may be prescnl>ed. \r\n(4) The Chairperson of a Committee shall have powers to mvitc any expert of \r\nany field if necessary as a special invitee.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11. Power of State Government to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(I) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. \r\n(2) In particular and \"\"'ithout prejudice to the generality of the foregoing \r\npov.-er. such rules may provide for all or any of the matters, which under any \r\nprovision of this Act, arc required to be prescribed or to be provided for by rules. \r\n(3) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days \r\nbefore the State Legislature as soon as possible after they are made and shall be \r\nsubject to resci:.sion by the State Legislature or to ~uch modification as the State \r\nLegislarure may make during the session in which tllc) are so laid or the session \r\nimmediately following. \r\n(4) Any rescission or modification so made by the State Legislature shall be \r\npublished in the Official Ga=ette. and shall tllcreupon take efteet.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12. Power to remove difficulties",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": ".(I ) If any difficulty arucs in giving effect to the provisions of this Act. the Statc Government may, by order publishc:d in the Official Gazelle, make such \r\nprovisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as appears it to be \r\nnecessary or expedient for removing the d;mculty: \r\nProvided that no order under sub-section (I) shall be made after tllc expir) \r\noft\\\\O years from the date of commencement oftllis Act. \r\n(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after \r\nit is made, before the State Legislature . \r\nCo,emment Central Press, Gandhinag;ir.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "200818",
        "Act Number": "18",
        "Enactment Date": "2008-09-30",
        "Act Year": "2008",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008.",
        "Department": "Urban Development and Urban Housing Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:48"
}