National Capital Region Planning Board Act,1985
Act No : 2
Section : SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PLANNING BOARD ACT, 1985
2 of 1985
9th February, 1985
STATMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The objective of the Delhi Development Act. 1957 (61 of 1957) was to promote and to secure the development of Delhi in accordance with the Master Plan and Zonal Development Plans. The Master Plan approved by the Central Government in 1962, recommended that the plan for planning the metropolis could not be considered complete without its metropolitan regional dimensions:
It highlighted among other things the need for integrated planning and coordinating, development of the Delhi Metropolitan Area and the National Capital Region to achieve an orderly and balanced growth of Delhi and its surrounding areas. Taking cognizance of this recommendation in the Master Plan for Delhi, Government of India had set up a High Powered Board in 1961 for the co-ordination of the regional planning activities in the National Capital Region so as lo secure the collaboration of the Stifle Governments concerned in the formulation and the implementation of regional plan. This Board. being only advisory in its capacity, could not effectively tackle the programme of preparation and implementation of the regional plan. In 1980 it was decided that the National Capital Region concept should be revitalised and the region as a whole should be taken up for co-ordinated development. An agreement was reached in August, 1982, between the Chief Ministers of the States of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan and Lt. Governor of Delhi on the one hand and the Union Minister of Works and Housing on the other on the need for a co-ordinating statutory machinery at the central level for the planning, monitoring .and development of the National Capital Region and also of need for the harmonised policy for land-uses and other infrastructure to avoid haphard developments in the region.
2. The Bill seeks to replace the aforesaid High Power d Board by a statutory Board, lo he known as the National Capital Region Planning Board, which shall consist of the Union Minister of Works and Housing as its Chairman, the Administrator of Union territory of Delhi, the Chief Ministers of the States of Haryana. Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and 11 other members, to be nominated by the Central Government in consultation with the participating States and Union territory of Delhi. While the objects of the statutory Planning Board would be the preparation, modification revision and review of a regional plan for the development of the National Capital Region and also for the preparation of functional plans for the proper guidance of the participating Stales and the Union territory of Delhi, the power to prepare sub-regional plan and project plan shall remain with the participating States and the Union territory of Delhi. The functions of the Planning Board would also include the power to co-ordinate and monitor the implementation of the regional plan and the power to evolve harmonised policy for the control of land-uses and development of infrastructure in the National Capital Region so as to avoid any haphazard development of the region. With a view to enabling the Planning Board to discharge its functions, the Bill provides for the establishment of a Planning Committee consisting of the officers and town planners of the participating Slates ,and the Union Territory of Delhi, to assist the Planning Board to discharge its functions. The Bill also contains the provisions which are necessary to give effect to the aforesaid objects. -Gaz. of Ind.. 27-8-1984. Pt. II-S. 2, Ext., P. 15 (No. 54).
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 (it 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 :-
SECTION 01: 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.
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