14 Acts & Rules · 14.2 Local government and the Constitution
14.2.3 District and Metropolitan Planning Committees: Articles 243ZD–243ZE and local-government committees (Balwant Rai Mehta to G.V.K. Rao)
The 74th Amendment created two constitutional planning bodies, the District Planning Committee (Article 243ZD) and the Metropolitan Planning Committee (Article 243ZE), to prepare draft development plans above the level of single local bodies; they are the end point of a long line of committees on decentralisation from Balwant Rai Mehta (1957) to L.M. Singhvi (1986).
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Key terms
- District Planning Committee
- Metropolitan Planning Committee
- four-fifths
- two-thirds
- draft development plan
- metropolitan area
- Maharashtra District Planning Committees Act 1998
- Maharashtra Metropolitan Planning Committees Act 1999
- MRTP s.4(1A)
- s.42E
- Balwant Rai Mehta
- democratic decentralisation
- Ashok Mehta
- G.V.K. Rao
- L.M. Singhvi
- Vasantrao Naik
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- Common trapsFoundation
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