{ "id": 16814, "slug": "the-gujarat-metropolitan-planning-committees-act-2008", "title": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008", "short_title": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008", "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 18 of 2008", "act_year": 2008, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Gujarat", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"Chief Executive Authority\" means officer appointed by the Government in respective Urban Development Authority;\n(b) \"Collector\" means the Collector of the District in the Metropolitan area;\n(c) \"Committee\" means a Metropolitan Planning Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;\n(d) \"district\" means a district of Gujarat;\n(e) \"District Development Officer\" means the officer appointed as such by the Government under the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993 (Gujarat 18 of 1993);\n(f) \"District Panchayat\" means a District Panchayat defined in clause (7) of section 2 of Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993 (Gujarat 18 of 1993);\n(g) \"panchayat\" means a village panchayat as defined in clause (30) of section 2 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993 (Gujarat 18 of 1993);\n(h) \"population\" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published;\n(i) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(j) \"Metropolitan area\" means an area having a population of ten lakhs or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more Municipalities or Panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Government by public notification to be a Metropolitan area for the purposes of this Act;\n(k) \"Municipality\" means an institution of self-Government as defined in clause (14) of section 2 of the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 (Gujarat 34 of 1964);\n(l) \"notification\" means notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(m) \"Urban Development Authority\" means an urban development authority constituted under sub-section (1) of section 22 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976 (President Act, 27 of 1976) for Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Constitution of Metropolitan Planning Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) The Chairperson of the committee shall be the Minister nominated by the Government;\n(ii) the President of the District Panchayat having largest population in the Metropolitan area if there are more than one district, within the Metropolitan area, shall be a member;\n(iii) the Chairman of the concerned Urban Development Authority in Metropolitan area, ex-officio ;\n(iv) the Mayor of Municipal Corporation shall be member;\n(v) the Municipal Commissioner, ex-officio ;\n(vi) the District Collector, ex-officio ;\n(vii) the District Development Officer of the District Panchayat having largest population in the Metropolitan area if there are more than one district, within the Metropolitan area, ex-officio ;\n(viii) the Chief Executive Authority of concerned Urban Development Authority shall be Member-Secretary of the Committee and his office will be the Secretariat of the Committee;\n(ix) a person or persons, as determined by the State Government having special knowledge in the fields of economics, planning, finance, engineering or administration, may be appointed as member or members;\n(x) Such number of members as determined by the State Government, to be elected by and from amongst the elected members of Municipalities and Chairpersons of Panchayats falling in the Metropolitan area ;\n(ii) Such officer or officers of the State Government or of any statutory Board, Corporation or Authority having knowledge in the field of economics, planning, engineering, finance or administration, as decided by the State Government, shall be the permanent invitees to the Metropolitan Planning Committee.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Election.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Term of office and other conditions of members of Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Resignation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Filling of casual vacancy in place of an elected member of Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Grant to Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Procedure, records to be regulated by Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Functions of Metropolitan Planning Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) have regard to -\n(i) the plans prepared by the Municipalities and the Panchayats in the Metropolitan area,\n(ii) matters of common interest between the Municipalities and the Panchayats, including co-coordinated spatial planning of the area, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation;\n(iii) the overall objectives and priorities set by Government of India and the State Government;\n(iv) the extent and nature of investments likely to be made in Metropolitan area by agencies of the Government of India and of the State Government and other available resources whether financial or otherwise;\n(b) consult such institutions and organizations as the State Government may, by order, specify.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Power of State Government to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Power to remove difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "guj115", "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 18 of 2008", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2008", "Short Title": "The Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committees Act, 2008", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Gujarat" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }