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The term public participation can be understood as the involvement of people in the process of decision making. Here, decisions are those planning, political, administrative or any other kind of decisions that are related to the people directly or indirectly. […]

Urban governance is defined as the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, plan and manage the common affairs of the city. •It is a continuing process through which conflicting or diverse interests may be accommodated […]

According to THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PLANNING BOARD ACT, 1985 Section 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 […]

1. Planning, coordinating and supervising proper and orderly development within Bangalore Metropolitan Region under the City Development Authority Act, City Development Authority. 2. To plan, regulate, control and facilitate urban development for creating major infrastructure facilities, development of residential layouts, […]

Sr.No Name of State T& CP Dept. T & CP Act 1 Andhra Pradesh Directorate of T & CP Andhra Pradesh T & CP act 1920 2 Arunachal  Pradesh Department of T & CP Arunachal  Pradesh Urban and country planning […]

The owner’s privileges to use his land are often affected by town planning measures. These measures have to operate within the  following two limits, such that the land owner’s privileges and other interests in land or not adversely affected. 1.Planning […]

Development authority are constituted in different city / metropolitan region of India under development authority act Delhi Development authority constituted under THE DELHI DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1957 Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) set up under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development […]

The new role of Town and Country Planning Departments that emerges out of the provisions of the 73rd&74th CAA shall, among others, include: a)Advice and technical assistance to the State Government on matters pertaining to spatial planning and development as […]

The Urban local bodies : List of functions 1. Urban planning including town planning. 2. Regulation of land-use and construction of buildings. 3. Planning for economic and social development. 4. Roads and bridges. 5. Water supply for domestic, industrial and […]

Statutory process of master plan formulation in India was inspired by the erstwhile comprehensive planning system envisaged under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 of United Kingdom. As most of the Town Improvement Trust Acts then in force in […]