TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING

ACT
Act to provide for the promotion of planned
development and regulation of growth of
urban and rural areas in the state with the
focus on scientific spatial planning and to
ensure to their present and future inhabitants
sanitary condition , amenity and convenience
and for other matter connected with or
incidental thereto.
 BOARD
CHAIRPERSON 31 OTHER
MEMBERS
VICE –CHAIRPERSON(S)
POWER AND FUNCTION OF BOARD
Advise the government on policy formulation for
spatial planning
Guide and advise the DPC and MPC
Co ordinate monitor and evaluate the spaital
planning
Prepare or get prepared the perspective planning
• Prepare or get prepared plan for any area
within the state falling more than one district
• Evaluate and review the operations made by
various local self government
PROCEDURES
Preparation of perspective plan
Board will get the plan prepared from local self
government
• Phasing of implementation of perspective plan
in period of 5 years
• Draft for state published on web site and
notice of publication
• Sanctioning within 60 days and notification in
atleast 1 newspaper
 DPC District planning committee

• POWER AND FUNCTIONS

• Formulate development goals , objectives ,
policies
• Development and use of rural and urban land
• Plan preparation for the local self government
institution of district
• Prepare or get prepared the perspective plan
for the district
• Monitor and continuously evaluate the
physical achievement of the investment made
by various local self government
• Co ordinate planning and development
activities among the government department
PROCEDURE FOR PREPARATION , PUBLICATION
AND SANCTIONING OF PERSPECTIVE PLANNING
DPC will get prepared the plan within 2 years
from the date of deosion
60days time limit for receiving suggestions and
objectives
The Govt. insuring that the perspective plan is in
 IMPROVEMENT TRUST ACT
• Planning of town and cities in India dates back
to vedic time
• Town planning starts during British period
Legal support
Provide a guide line for preparing planning
propossal
• The history of contemparary planning practice
in india dates back to bombay improvement
trust act 1920
• Vist of patric giddes to india and his propagation
of the work –home place theory laid the
foundation for setting up of improvement trust
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OF ACT IN CITY
• Bombay improvement act 1898
• Mysore improvement act 1903
• Calcutta improvement act 1911
Town planning acts
• Bombay town planning act 1915
• Madras town planning act 1920
• M .P town planning act 1948
• J$K town planning act 1963
Town and improvement act
• Bihar town and improvement act 1931
• Orissa town and improvement act 1956
• Assam town and improvement act 1956
• Mysore town and improvement act 1961
• Gujarath town and improvement act 1964
 SLUM CLEARENCE
• Act to provide for the improvement and
clearence of slum areas in certain union teritoris
and for the protection of tenants in such areas
Major factors of slum areas improvement clearence
-1956
o To facilitate inclusive growth and slum free cities
o To provide assured security of tenure,basic
amenities and affordable housing for slum
dweller
o To assign a “legal document of entitlement”to
every land less person in a slum area entitled
to a dwelling space.
o To give mortgageable rights to allotees of
dwelling space however,tradability of dwelling
space limitted to govt. or the slum collectives.
o To provide compensation for acqusition land
,where ever necessary in the form of
concessional buildings
Complements To Slum Improvement And
Upgrading
• Bring in additional land for urban design on a
continual basis
• Revise upward the floor space index (FSI)
• Provide tenurial society Extend basic service
to slum area
• Involve the community in the process of
upgradation.
• Integrate slum improvement statergies
(ray)with JNNURM.