THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PLANNING BOARD ACT, 1985 

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

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CHAPTER I 

PRELIMINARY 

SECTIONS 

1. Short title and commencement. 

2. Definitions. 

CHAPTER II 

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PLANNING BOARD 

3. Constitution and incorporation of the Board. 

4. Composition of the Planning Committee. 

5. Power to co-opt, etc. 

6. Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of the Board or the Committee. 

FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE COMMITTEE 

CHAPTER III 

7. Functions of the Board. 

8. Powers of the Board. 

9. Functions of the Committee. 

CHAPTER IV 

THE REGIONAL PLAN 

10. Contents of the Regional Plan. 

11. Surveys and studies. 

12. Procedure to be followed for the preparation of Regional Plan. 

13. Date of coming into operation of the Regional Plan. 

14. Modifications of the Regional Plan. 

15. Review and revision of the Regional Plan. 

CHAPTER V 

FUNCTIONAL PLANS, SUB-REGIONAL PLANS AND PROJECT PLANS 

16. Preparation of Functional Plans. 

17. Preparation of Sub-Regional Plans. 

18. Preparation of Project Plans. 

19. Submission of Sub-Regional Plans to the Board. 

20. Implementation of Sub-Regional Plans, etc. 

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CHAPTER VI 

FINANCE, ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT 

SECTIONS 

21. Grants and loans by the Central Government. 

22. Constitution of the Fund. 

23. Budget. 

24. Annual report. 

25. Accounts and audit. 

26. Annual report and auditors’ report to be laid before Parliament. 

CHAPTER VII 

MISCELLANEOUS 

27. Act to have overriding effect. 

28. Power of the Central Government to give directions. 

29. Violation of Regional Plan. 

30. Technical assistance to the Board. 

31. Officers and employees of the Board. 

32. Power to delegate. 

33. Power of entry. 

34. Member-Secretary, officers and other employees of the Board to be public servants. 

35. Protection of action taken in good faith. 

36. Power to make rules. 

37. Power to make regulations. 

38. Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament. 

39. Dissolution of the Board. 

40.  Acquisition  of  land  and  determination  of  rights  in  relation  to  land  to  be  made  by  the 

Government of the participating State or Union territory. 

41. Repeal and saving. 

THE SCHEDULE. 

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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PLANNING BOARD ACT, 1985 

ACT NO. 2 OF 1985 

[9th February, 1985.] 

An Act to provide for the constitution of a Planning Board for the preparation of a plan for the 
development  of  the  National  Capital  Region  and  for  co-ordinating  and  monitoring  the 
implementation  of  such  plan  and  for  evolving  harmonized  policies  for  the  control  of        
land-uses and development of infrastructure in the National Capital Region so as to avoid any 
haphazard  development  of  that  region  and  for  matters  connected  therewith  or  incidental 
thereto. 

WHEREAS it is expedient in the public interest to provide for the constitution of a Planning Board for 
the preparation of a plan for the development of the National Capital Region and for co-ordinating and 
monitoring  the  implementation  of  such  plan  and  for  evolving  harmonized  policies  for  the  control  of     
land-uses and development of infrastructure in the National Capital Region so as to avoid any haphazard 
development thereof; 

AND  WHEREAS  Parliament  has  no  power  to  make  laws  for  the  States  with  respect  of  any  of  the 

matters aforesaid, except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the Constitution; 

AND  WHEREAS  in  pursuance  of  the  provisions  of  clause  (1)  of  article  252  of  the  Constitution, 
resolutions have been passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of the States of Haryana, Rajasthan and 
Uttar Pradesh to the effect that the matters aforesaid should be regulated in those States by Parliament by 
law; 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

CHAPTER I 

PRELIMINARY 

1.  Short  title  and  commencement.—(1)  This  Act  may  be  called  the  National  Capital  Region 

Planning Board Act, 1985. 

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of October, 1984. 

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

(a) “Board” means the National Capital Region Planning Board constituted under sub-section (1) 

of section 3; 

(b) “Committee” means the Planning Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 4; 

(c)  “counter-magnet  area”  means  an  urban  area  selected  by  the  Board  under  clause  (f)  of     

section 8; 

(d) “Functional Plan” means a plan prepared to elaborate one or more elements of the Regional 

Plan; 

(e) “land” includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently 

fastened to anything attached to the earth; 

(f) “National Capital Region” means the areas specified in the Schedule: 

Provided  that  the  Central  Government  with  the  consent  of  the  Government  of  the  concerned 
participating  State  and  in consultation  with the  Board,  may,  by  notification  in the  Official  Gazette, 
add any area to the Schedule or exclude any area therefrom; 

(g) “participating States” means the States of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh; 

(h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 

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(i)  “Project  Plan”  means  a  detailed  plan  prepared  to  implement  one  or  more  elements  of  the 

Regional Plan, Sub-Regional Plan or Functional Plan; 

(j) “Regional Plan” means the plan prepared under this Act for the development of the National 
Capital Region and for the control of land-uses and the development of infrastructure in the National 
Capital Region; 

(k) “regulations” means regulations made by the Board under this Act; 

(l) “sub-region” means such part of the National Capital Region as falls entirely within the limits 

of a participating State or the Union territory; 

(m) “Sub-Regional Plan” means a plan prepared for a sub-region; and 

(n) “Union territory” means the Union territory of Delhi. 

CHAPTER II 

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PLANNING BOARD 

3.  Constitution  and  incorporation  of  the  Board.—(1)  The  Central  Government  shall,  by 
notification  in  the  Official  Gazette,  constitute  for  the  purposes  of  this  Act,  a  Board,  to  be  called  the 
National Capital Region Planning Board. 

(2) The  Board  shall  be  a  body  corporate  by  the  name  aforesaid,  having  perpetual  succession  and  a 
common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to contract and shall, by the said name, sue 
and be sued. 

(3)  The  Board  shall  consist  of  such  number  of  members,  not  exceeding  twenty-one,  as  may  be 
prescribed,  and  unless  the  rules  made  in  this  behalf  otherwise  provide,  the  Board  shall  consist  of  the 
following members, namely:— 

(a) the Union Minister for Works and Housing, who shall be the Chairman of the Board; 

(b) the Chief Minister of the State of Haryana; 

(c) the Chief Minister of the State of Rajasthan; 

(d) the Chief Minister of the State of Uttar Pradesh; 

(e) the Administrator of the Union territory; 

(f) eight  members,  to  be  nominated  by  the  Central  Government,  on  the  recommendation  of  the 

participating States and the Administrator of the Union territory: 

Provided  that  not  more  than  two  members  shall  be  nominated  on  the  recommendation  of  a 

participating State, or, as the case may be, the Administrator of the Union territory; 

(g)  three  other  members,  of  whom  one  shall  be  a  person  having  knowledge  and  experience  in 

town planning, to be nominated by the Central Government; 

(h) a full-time Member-Secretary of the Board, to be nominated by the Central Government from 

amongst officers of, or above, the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India: 

Provided  that  no  change  shall  be  made  in  the  composition  of  the  Board  by  rules  except  with  the 
consent  of  the  Government  of  each  of  the  participating  States  and  of  the  Administrator  of  the  Union 
territory. 

(4)  The  terms  and  conditions  of  office  of  the  members  nominated  under  clause  (f),  clause  (g)  or  

clause (h) of sub-section (3) shall be such as may be prescribed. 

4.  Composition  of  the  Planning  Committee.—(1)  The  Board  shall,  as  soon  as  may  be,  after  the 
commencement of this Act, constitute a Committee, to be called the Planning Committee, for assisting the 
Board in the discharge of its functions. 

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(2) The Committee shall consist of such members as may be prescribed and unless the rules made in 

this behalf otherwise provide, the Committee shall consist of the following members, namely:— 

(a) the Member-Secretary to the Board, who shall be the ex officio Chairman of the Committee; 

(b)  the  Joint  Secretary  to  the  Government  of  India  in  the  Ministry  of  Works  and  Housing,          

in-charge of Housing and Urban Development, ex officio; 

(c) Secretary-in-charge of Urban Development in each participating State and the Union territory, 

ex officio; 

(d) the Vice-Chairman, Delhi Development Authority, ex officio; 

(e) the Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Organisation, New Delhi, ex officio; and 

(f) the Chief Town Planner of each participating State, ex officio. 

5. Power to co-opt, etc.—(1) The Board or the Committee may, at any time and for such period as it 

thinks fit, co-opt any person or persons as a member or members of the Board or of the Committee. 

(2) A person co-opted under sub-section (1) shall exercise and discharge all the powers and functions 

of a member of the Board or of the Committee, as the case may be, but shall not be entitled to vote. 

6.  Vacancies,  etc.,  not  to  invalidate  proceedings  of  the  Board  or  the  Committee.—No  act  or 

proceeding of the Board of the Committee shall be invalid merely by reason of— 

(a)  the  existence  of  any  vacancy  in,  or  any  defect  in  the  constitution  of,  the  Board  or  the 

Committee; or 

(b) any irregularity in the procedure of the Board or of the Committee not affecting the merits of 

the case. 

FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE COMMITTEE 

CHAPTER III 

7. Functions of the Board.—The functions of the Board shall be— 

(a) to prepare the Regional Plan and the Functional Plans; 

(b)  to  arrange  for  the  preparation  of  Sub-Regional  Plans  and  Project  Plans  by  each  of  the 

participating States and the Union territory; 

(c)  to  co-ordinate  the  enforcement  and  implementation  of  the  Regional  Plan,  Functional  Plans, 

Sub-Regional Plans and Project Plans through the participating States and the Union territory; 

(d)  to  ensure  proper  and  systematic  programming  by  the  participating  States  and  the  Union 
territory in regard to project formulation, determination of priorities in the National Capital Region or 
sub-regions  and  phasing  of  development  of  the  National  Capital  Region  in  accordance  with  stages 
indicated in the Regional Plan; 

(e)  to  arrange  for,  and  oversee,  the  financing  of  selected  development  projects  in  the  National 

Capital Region through Central and State plan funds and other sources of revenue. 

8. Powers of the Board.—The powers of the Board shall include the powers to— 

(a)  call  for  reports  and  information  from  the  participating  States  and  the  Union  territory  with 

regard to preparation, enforcement and implementation of Functional Plans and Sub-Regional Plans; 

(b)  ensure  that  the  preparation,  enforcement  and  implementation  of  Functional  Plan  or            

Sub-Regional Plan, as the case may be, is in conformity with the Regional Plan; 

(c) indicate the stages for the implementation of the Regional Plan; 

(d)  review  the  implementation  of  the  Regional  Plan,  Functional  Plan,  Sub-Regional  Plan  and 

Project Plan; 

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(e)  select  and  approve  comprehensive  projects,  call  for  priority  development  and  provide  such 

assistance for the implementation of those projects as the Board may deem fit; 

(f)  select,  in  consultation  with  the  State  Government  concerned,  any  urban  area,  outside  the 
National Capital Region having regard to its location, population and potential for growth, which may 
be developed in order to achieve the objectives of the Regional Plan; and 

(g) entrust to the Committee such other functions as it may consider necessary to carry out the 

provisions of this Act. 

9.  Functions  of the  Committee.—(1) The  functions  of  the  Committee  shall  be  to  assist  the  Board 

in— 

(a)  the  preparation  and  co-ordinated  implementation  of  the  Regional  Plan  and  the  Functional 

Plans; and 

(b)  scrutinising  the  Sub-Regional  Plans  and  all  Project  Plans  to  ensure  that  the  same  are  in 

conformity with the Regional Plan. 
(2) The Committee may also make  such recommendation to the Board as it may think necessary to 

amend or modify any Sub-Regional Plan or any Project Plan. 

(3) The Committee shall perform such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the Board. 

CHAPTER IV 

THE REGIONAL PLAN 

10. Contents of the Regional Plan.—(1) The Regional Plan shall be a written statement and shall be 
accompanied  by  such  maps,  diagrams,  illustrations  and  descriptive  matters,  as  the  Board  may  deem 
appropriate for the purpose of explaining or illustrating the proposals contained in the Regional Plan and 
every such map, diagram, illustration and descriptive matter shall be deemed to be a part of the Regional 
Plan. 

(2) The Regional Plan shall indicate the manner in which the land in the National Capital Region shall 
be used, whether by carrying out development thereon or by conservation or otherwise, and such other 
matters as arc likely to have any important influence on the development of the National Capital Region 
and  every  such  Plan  shall  include  the  following  elements  needed  to  promote  growth  and  balanced 
development of the National Capital Region, namely:— 

(a) the policy in relation to land-use and the allocation of land for different uses; 

(b) the proposals for major urban settlement pattern; 

(c) the proposals for providing suitable economic base for future growth; 

(d)  the  proposals  regarding  transport  and  communications  including  railways  and  arterial  roads 

serving the National Capital Region; 

(e) the proposals for the supply of drinking water and for drainage; 

(f) indication of the areas which require immediate development as “priority areas”; and 

(g) such other matters as may be included by the Board with the concurrence of the participating 
States and the Union territory for the proper planning of the growth and balanced development of the 
National Capital Region. 

11.  Surveys  and  studies.—For  the  preparation  of  the  Regional  Plan,  the  Board  may  cause  such 
surveys and studies, as it may consider necessary, to be made by such person or group of persons as it 
may appoint in this behalf and may also associate such experts or consultants for carrying out studies in 
relation to such specified matters as may be determined by the Board. 

12.  Procedure  to  be  followed  for  the  preparation  of  Regional  Plan.—(1)  Before  preparing  any 
Regional Plan finally, the Board shall prepare, with the assistance of the Committee, a Regional Plan in 
draft and publish it by making a copy thereof available for inspection and publishing a notice in such form 
and  in  such  manner  as  may  be  prescribed,  inviting  objections  and  suggestions  from  any  person  with 
respect to the draft Regional Plan before such date as may be specified in the notice. 

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(2) The  Board  shall  also  give  reasonable  opportunities  to  every  local  authority,  within  whose  local 
limits  any  land  touched  by  the  Regional  Plan  is situate,  to  make  any  representation  with respect  to the 
draft Regional Plan. 

(3) After considering all objections, suggestions and representations that may have been received by 

the Board, the Board shall finally prepare the Regional Plan. 

13. Date of coming into operation of the Regional Plan.—(1) Immediately after the Regional Plan 
has been finally prepared, the Board shall publish, in such manner as may be prescribed, a notice stating 
that the Regional Plan has been finally prepared by it and naming the places where a copy of the Regional 
Plan  may  be  inspected  at  all  reasonable  hours  and  upon  the  date  of  first  publication  of  the  aforesaid 
notice, the Regional Plan shall come into operation. 

(2) The publication of the Regional Plan, after previous publication, as required by section 12, shall 

be conclusive proof that the Regional Plan has been duly prepared. 

14.  Modifications  of  the  Regional  Plan.—(1)  The  Board  may,  subject  to  the  provisions  of           

sub-section (2), make such modifications in the Regional Plan as finally prepared by it, as it may think fit, 
being  modifications  which,  in  its  opinion,  do  not  effect  important  alterations  in  the  character  of  the 
Regional Plan and which do not relate to the extent of land-uses or the standards of population density. 

(2) Before making any modifications in the finally prepared Regional Plan, the Board shall publish a 
notice, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, indicating therein the modifications which 
are proposed to be made in the finally prepared Regional Plan, and inviting, objections and suggestions 
from any person with respect to the proposed modifications before such date as may be specified in the 
notice and shall consider all objections and suggestions that may be received by it on or before the date so 
specified. 

(3) Every modification made under this section shall be published in such manner as the Board may 
specify and the modifications shall come into operation either on the date of such publication or on such 
later date as the Board may fix. 

(4)  If  any  question  arises  whether  the  modifications  proposed  to  be  made  are  modifications  which 
effect important alterations in the character of the Regional Plan or whether they relate to the extent of 
land-uses or the standards of population density, it shall be decided by the Board whose decision thereon 
shall be final. 

15. Review and revision of the Regional Plan.—(1) After every five years from the date of coming 
into  operation  of  the  finally  prepared  Regional  Plan,  the  Board  shall  review  such  Regional  Plan  in  its 
entirety  and  may,  after  such  review,  substitute  it  by  a  fresh  Regional  Plan  or  may  make  such 
modifications or alterations therein as may be found by it to be necessary. 

(2) Where it is proposed to substitute a fresh Regional Plan in place of the Regional Plan which was 
previously finally prepared or where it is proposed to make any modifications or alterations in the finally 
prepared  Regional  Plan,  such  fresh  Plan  or,  as  the  case  may  be,  modifications  or  alterations,  shall  be 
published  and  dealt  with  in  the  same  manner  as  if  it  were  the  Regional  Plan  referred  to  in  sections  12    
and 13 or as if they were the modifications or alterations in the Regional Plan made under section 14. 

FUNCTIONAL PLANS, SUB-REGIONAL PLANS AND PROJECT PLANS 

CHAPTER V 

16. Preparation of Functional Plans.—After the Regional Plan has come into operation, the Board 
may prepare, with the assistance of the Committee, as many Functional Plans as may be necessary for the 
proper guidance of the participating States and of the Union territory. 

17. Preparation of Sub-Regional Plans.—(1) Each participating State shall prepare a Sub-Regional 
Plan for the sub-region within the State and the Union territory shall prepare a Sub-Regional Plan for the 
sub-region within the Union territory. 

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(2)  Each  Sub-Regional  Plan  shall  be  a  written  statement  and  shall  be  accompanied  by  such  maps, 
diagrams, illustrations and descriptive matters as the participating State or the Union territory may deem 
appropriate  for  the  purpose  of  explaining  or  illustrating  the  proposals  contained  in  such  Sub-Regional 
Plan and every such map, document, illustration and descriptive matter shall be deemed to be a part of the 
Sub-Regional Plan. 

(3) A Sub-Regional Plan may indicate the following elements to elaborate the Regional Plan at the 

sub-regional level, namely:— 

(a)  reservation  of  areas  for  specific  land-uses  which  are  of  the  regional  or  sub-regional 

importance; 

(b)  future  urban  and  major  rural  settlements  indicating  their  area,  projected  population, 

predominant economic functions, approximate site and location; 

(c) road net-work up to the district roads and roads connecting major rural settlements; 

(d) proposals for the co-ordination of traffic and transportation, including terminal facilities; 

(e) priority areas at sub-regional level for which immediate plans are necessary; 

(f) proposals for the supply of drinking water and for drainage; and 

(g) any other matter which is necessary for the proper development of the sub-region. 

18. Preparation of Project Plans.—A participating State, or the Union territory, may, by itself or in 
collaboration  with  one  or  more  of  the  participating  States  or  the  Union  territory,  as  the  case  may  be, 
prepare  Project  Plans  for  one  or  more  elements  of the  Regional  Plan,  Functional  Plan  or  Sub-Regional 
Plan. 

19.  Submission  of  Sub-Regional  Plans  to  the  Board.—(1)  Before  publishing  any  Sub-Regional 
Plan,  each  participating  State  or,  as  the  case  may  be,  the  Union  territory,  shall,  refer  such  Plan  to  the 
Board to enable the Board to ensure that such Plan is in conformity with the Regional Plan. 

(2) The Board shall, after examining a Sub-Regional Plan, communicate, within sixty days from the 
date  of  receipt  of  such  Plan,  its  observations  with  regard  to  the  Sub-Regional  Plan  to  the  participating 
State or the Union territory by which such Plan was referred to it. 

(3) The participating State, or, as the case may be, the Union territory, shall, after due consideration 
of  the  observations  made  by  the  Board,  finalise  the  Sub-Regional  Plan  after  ensuring  that  it  is  in 
conformity with the Regional Plan. 

20. Implementation of Sub-Regional Plans, etc.—Each participating State, or, as the case may be, 
the Union territory shall be responsible for the implementation of the Sub-Regional Plan, as finalised by it 
under sub-section (3) of section 19, and Project Plans prepared by it. 

CHAPTER VI 

FINANCE, ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT 

21.  Grants and loans  by the  Central  Government.—(1) The  Central  Government  may,  after  due 
appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, make to the Board grants and loans of such sums 
of money as that Government may consider necessary to enable the Board to carry out its functions under 
this Act. 

(2)  The  Central  Government  shall  also,  after  due  appropriation  made  by  Parliament  by  law  in  this 
behalf, pay to the Board such other sums as may be  necessary for meeting the salaries, allowances and 
other  remuneration  of  the  Member-Secretary,  officers  and  other  employees  of  the  Board  and  such 
amounts as may be necessary to meet the other administrative expenses of the Board. 

22.  Constitution  of  the  Fund.—(1)  There  shall  be  constituted  a  Fund  to  be  called  the  National 

Capital Regional Planning Board Fund and there shall be credited thereto— 

(a) any grants and loans made to the Board by the Central Government under section 21; 

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(b) all sums paid to the Board by the participating States and the Union territory; and 

(c)  all  sums  received  by  the  Board  from  such  other  sources  as  may  be  decided  upon  by  the 

Central Government in consultation with the participating States and the Union territory. 

(2) The sums credited to the said Fund referred to in sub-section (1) shall be applied for— 

(a)  meeting  the  salaries,  allowances  and  other  remuneration  of  the  Member-Secretary,  officers 
and  other  employees  of  the  Board  and  for  meeting  other  administrative  expenses  of  the  Board,  so, 
however,  that  the  total  expenses  shall  not  exceed  the  amount  appropriated  for  this  purpose  under   
sub-section (2) of section 21; 

(b)  conducting  surveys,  preliminary  studies  and  drawing  up  of  plans  for  the  National  Capital 

Region; 

(c)  providing  financial  assistance  to  the  participating  States  and  the  Union  territory  for  the 

implementation of Sub-Regional Plans and Project Plans; and 

(d)  providing  financial  assistance  to  the  State  concerned  for  the  development  of  the           

counter-magnet area subject to such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between such State 
and the Board. 

23. Budget.—The Board shall, in each financial year, prepare in such form and at such time as may 
be prescribed its budget for the next financial year and forward the same to the Central Government at 
least three months prior to the commencement of the next financial year. 

24. Annual report.—The Board shall prepare in each financial year its annual report in such form 
and  at  such  time  as  may  be  prescribed,  giving  a  full  account  of  its  activities  during  the  financial  year 
immediately preceding the financial year in which such report is prepared and forward, before such date 
as may be prescribed, copies thereof to the Central Government, the participating States and the Union 
territory. 

25. Accounts and audit.—The accounts of the Board shall be maintained and audited in such manner 
as may be prescribed in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India and the Board 
shall  furnish,  to  the  Central  Government,  before  such  date  as  may  be  prescribed,  a  copy  of  its  audited 
accounts together with the auditors’ report thereon. 

26. Annual report and auditors’ report to be laid before Parliament.—The Central Government 
shall cause the annual report and the auditors’ report to be laid as soon as may be after their receipt, on the 
Table of each House of Parliament while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days, which may be 
comprised in one session or in two more successive sessions. 

CHAPTER VII 

MISCELLANEOUS 

27.  Act  to  have  overriding  effect.—The  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  have  effect  notwithstanding 
anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument 
having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act; or in any decree or order of any court, tribunal or 
other authority. 

28.  Power  of  the  Central  Government  to  give  directions.—The  Central  Government  may,  from 
time to time, give such directions to the Board as it may  think fit for the efficient administration of this 
Act and when any such direction is given, the Board shall carry out such directions. 

29. Violation of Regional Plan.—(1) On and from the coming into operation of the finally published 
Regional Plan, no development shall be made in the region which is inconsistent with the Regional Plan 
as finally published. 

(2) Where the Board is satisfied that any participating State or the Union territory has carried out, or 
is  carrying  out,  any  activity  which  amounts  to  a  violation  of  the  Regional  Plan,  it  may,  by  a  notice  in 
writing, direct the concerned participating State or the Union territory, as the case may be, to stop such 
violation of the Regional Plan within such time as may be specified in the said notice and in case of any 

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omission or refusal on the part of the concerned participating State or the Union territory to stop activity, 
withhold such financial assistance to the concerned participating State or the Union territory, as the Board 
may consider necessary. 

30.  Technical  assistance  to  the  Board.—(1)  The  Central  Government  may  direct  its  Town  and 
Country Planning Organisation to provide, on such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon, 
such technical assistance to the Board as that Government may consider necessary and the Government of 
a  participating  State  may  direct  the  Town  Planning  Department  of  that  Government  to  make  such 
technical assistance to the Board as that Government may consider necessary. 

(2)  With  a  view  to  enabling  the  Committee  to  discharge  its  functions,  the  Board  shall,  out  of  the 
technical assistance received by it under sub-section (1) make available to the Committee such technical 
assistance as the Committee may require. 

31.  Officers  and  employees  of  the  Board.—(1)  The  Board  may  appoint  such  other  officers  and 

employees as it considers necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions under this Act. 

(2)  The  terms  and  conditions  of  the  officers  and  employees  of  the  Board  shall  be  such  as  may  be 

determined by regulations. 

32.  Power  to  delegate.—The  Board  may,  by  notification  in  the  Official  Gazette,  direct  that  any 
function or power (other than the power to approve the Regional Plan and to make regulations), or duty 
which  the  Board  may  perform,  exercise  or  discharge  under this  Act  shall  subject  to such  conditions, if 
any, as may be specified in the notification, be performed, exercised or discharged also by such person or 
persons  as  may  be  specified  in  the  notification  and  where  any  such  delegation  of  power  is  made  the 
person or persons to whom such power is delegated shall perform, exercise or discharge those powers in 
the same manner and to the same extent as if they were conferred on him or them directly by this Act and 
not by way of delegation. 

33.  Power  of  entry.—Subject  to  any  rules  made  in  this  behalf,  any  person  generally  or  specially 
authorised by the Board in this behalf, may, at all reasonable times, enter upon any land or premises and 
do  such  things  thereon  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  purpose  of  lawfully  carrying  out  any  works  or  for 
making any survey, examination or investigation, preliminary or incidental to the exercise of any power 
or performance of any function by the Board under this Act: 

Provided that no such person shall enter any building or any enclosed courtyard or garden attached to 
a dwelling-house without previously giving the occupier thereof at least three days’ notice in writing of 
his intention to do so. 

34. Member-Secretary, officers and other employees of the Board to be public servants.—The 
Member-Secretary, officers and other employees of the Board shall be deemed, when acting or purporting 
to  act  in  pursuance  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  to  be  public  servants  within  the  meaning  of 
section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). 

35. Protection of action taken in good faith.—No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall 
lie  against  the  Board  or  any  member  or  any  officer  or  any  other  employee  of  the  Board  including  any 
other person authorised by the Board to exercise any power or to discharge any function under this Act, or 
for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act. 

36. Power to make rules.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, 

make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act. 

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any 

of the following matters, namely:— 

(a) the composition and number of the members of the Board and of the Committee, as required 

by sub-section (3) of section 3 and sub-section (2) of section 4, respectively, to be prescribed; 

(b)  the  terms  and  conditions  of  the  office  of  the  members  as  required  by  sub-section  (4)  of  

section 3, to be prescribed; 

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(c) the form and manner in which notice under sub-section (1) of section 12 and sub-section (2) 

of section 14 shall be published; 

(d) the manner in which notice under sub-section (1) of section 13 shall be published; 

(e) the form in which and the time at which the Board shall prepare its budget under section 23 
and  its  annual  report  under  section  24  and the  manner  in  which the accounts  of  the  Board  shall  be 
maintained and audited under section 25; 

(f)  the  conditions  and  restrictions  with  respect  to  the  exercise  of  the  powers  to  enter  under   

section 33 and other matters relating thereto; and 

(g) any other matters which is to be, or may be, prescribed or in respect of which provision is to 

be, or may be, made by rules. 

37.  Power  to  make  regulations.—(1)  The  Board  may,  with  the  previous  approval  of  the  Central 
Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations not inconsistent with this Act and 
the rules made thereunder to carry out the provisions of this Act. 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such regulations may 

provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— 

(a)  the  manner  in  which  and  the  purposes  for  which  the  Board  may  associate  with  itself  any 

person under section 11; 

(b)  the  terms  and  conditions  of  service  of  the  officers  and  employees  of  the  Board  under          

sub-section (2) of section 31; and 

(c) any other matter in respect of which provision is to be, or may be, made by regulations. 

38.  Rules  and  regulations  to  be  laid  before  Parliament.—Every  rule  and  every  regulation  made 
under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it 
is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more 
successive  sessions,  and  if,  before  the  expiry  of  the  session  immediately  following  the  session  or  the 
successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or regulation, as 
the case may be, or both Houses agree that the rule or regulation, as the case may be, should not be made, 
the rule or regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case 
may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of 
anything previously done under that rule or regulation. 

39. Dissolution of the Board.—(1) Where the Central Government is satisfied that the purposes for 
which the Board was established under this Act have been substantially achieved or the Board has failed 
in  its  objectives,  so  as  to  render  the  continued  existence  of  the  Board  in  the  opinion  of  the  Central 
Government unnecessary, that Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that the 
Board shall be dissolved with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification; and the Board 
shall be deemed to be dissolved accordingly. 

(2) From the said date— 

(a) all properties, funds and dues which are vested in or realisable by the Board shall vest in, or 

be realisable by, the Central Government; 

(b) all liabilities which are enforceable against the Board shall be enforceable against the Central 

Government; 

(c) for the purpose of carrying out any development which has not been fully carried out by the 
Board  and  for  the  purpose  of  realising  properties,  funds  and  dues  referred  to  in  clause  (a)  the 
functions of the Board shall be discharged by the Central Government. 

(3)  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  as  preventing  the  Central  Government  from 

reconstituting the Board in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 

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40.  Acquisition  of  land  and  determination  of  rights  in  relation  to  land  to  be  made  by  the 
Government  of  the  participating  State  or  Union  territory.—For  the  removal  of  doubts,  it  is  hereby 
declared that the acquisition of land or the determination of any right or interest in, or in relation to, any 
land  or  other  property,  where  necessary  to  give  effect  to  any  Regional  Plan,  Functional  Plan,               
Sub-Regional Plan or Project Plan, shall be made by the Government of the concerned participating State, 
or, as the case may be, the Union territory, in accordance with the law for the time being in force in that 
State or Union territory. 

41.  Repeal  and  saving.—(1)  The  National  Capital  Region  Planning  Board  Ordinance,                  

1984 (Ord. 11 of 1984), is hereby repealed. 

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance shall be 

deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act. 

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THE SCHEDULE 

[See section 2(f)] 

The National Capital Region shall comprise the following areas:— 

1. Delhi 

The whole of the Union territory of Delhi. 

2. Haryana 

(i)  The  whole  of  District  of  Gurgaon  comprising  the  Tehsils  of  Gurgaon,  Nuh  and         

Ferozepur-Jhirka; 

(ii) The whole of District of Faridabad comprising the Tehsils of Ballabgarh, Palwal and Hathin; 

(iii)  The  whole  of  District  of  Rohtak  comprising  the  Tehsils  of  Rohtak,  Jhajjar,  Bahadurgarh, 

Meham and Kosli; 

(iv) The whole of District of Sonepat comprising the Tehsils of Sonepat and Gohana; and 

(v) Panipat Tehsil of District of Karnal and Rewari Tehsil of District of Mohindergarh. 

3. Uttar Pradesh 

(i)  The  whole  of  District  of  Bulandshahr  comprising  the  Tehsils  of  Anupshahr,  Bulandshahr, 

Khurja and Sikanderabad; 

(ii)  The  whole  of  District  of  Meerut  comprising  the  Tehsils  of  Meerut,  Bagpat,  Mawana  and 

Sardhana; and 

(iii) The whole of District of Ghaziabad comprising the Tehsils of Ghaziabad and Hapur. 

4. Rajasthan 

(i)  The  whole  of  the  following  Tehsils  of  Alwar  District,  namely,  Behroor,  Mandawar, 

Kishangarh and Tijara; and 

(ii)  Part  of  Alwar Tehsil  comprising  the  area  bounded  in the north  by  the Tehsil  boundaries  of 
Mandawar  and  Kishangarh,  in  the  east  of  the  boundaries  of  Tehsil  Ferozepur-Jhirka  of  District 
Gurgaon, Haryana and Alwar Tehsil, in the south by the Barah river right up to Umran lake in the 
west, and then following the southern boundaries of Umran lake up to the junction of Umran lake and 
State Highway from Alwar to Bairat and from then on west by north-west across the ridge up to the 
junction of the Tehsil boundaries of Alwar and Bansur. 

Explanation.—Save as otherwise provided, reference to any district or tehsil in this Schedule shall be 
construed as a reference to the areas comprised in that district or tehsil, as the case may be, on the 27th 
day of August, 1984, being the date on which the National Capital Region Planning Board Bill, 1984 was 
introduced in the House of the People. 

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