The National Capital Region Planning Board Act, 1985

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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. 

CHAPTER III 

FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE COMMITTEE 

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. 

CHAPTER III 

FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE COMMITTEE 

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. 

CHAPTER V 

FUNCTIONAL PLANS, SUB-REGIONAL PLANS AND PROJECT PLANS 

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.