CHANDIGARH, JUNE 1
The Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, here today approved the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) Ordinance, 2017.
The Ordinance aims at developing vision for the continued, sustained and balanced growth of Gurugram Metropolitan Area by providing quality of life and reasonable standard of living to the residents through generation of employment opportunities.
The ordinance seeks to provide for integrated and coordinated planning, infrastructure development and provision of urban amenities, mobility management, sustainable management of urban environment, and social, economic and industrial development.
Under the Ordinance, the state government may, by notification, declare any area falling within the limits of controlled areas in Gurugram district to be notified area, having the potential for urban expansion, and the area under any or all of the local authorities like Municipal Corporation, Gurugram; the Municipal Council, Sohna; the Municipal Committees of Pataudi, Farukh Nagar, and Hailey Mandi and any panchayat in Gurugram district insofar as the Abadi Deh of such panchayats is concerned.
The Chief Minister will be Chairperson of the Authority. Apart from this, there will be a Residents Advisory Council to advise the Authority and provide guidance on the exercise of its powers and performance of its functions. The Residents Advisory Council will consist of Chief Executive Officer, who will preside over its meeting, and other members.
The Council will monitor implementation of the annual plan of action for infrastructure development, mobility management plan, and plan for sustainable management of urban environment and make such recommendations. These recommendations, along with an explanatory memorandum of the action taken or proposed to be taken, will be placed by the Chief Executive Officer before the Authority.
The GMDA will secure coordinated and integrated infrastructure development and provision of urban amenities, mobility management, sustainable management of urban environment, urban regeneration and renewal and social, economic and industrial development in the notified area.
Besides, it will take such measures or coordinate with the Central Government, the state government or the local authority as may be necessary and prudent for the purpose.
The Authority may recommend to the state government to acquire land for the purposes of the Authority and purchase, exchange, transfer, hold, lease, manage and dispose of land.
Also, the Authority may acquire land for implementation of plans for infrastructure development and sustainable management of the urban environment, in exchange for transferable development rights issued in lieu of payment towards cost of land in such manner and for such exchange value as the Authority may, in accordance with the policy in this regard notified by the state government, determine.
It may also acquire, lease, hold, manage, maintain and dispose of property, movable or immovable, other than land, establish a modern geospatial-based system for planning purposes and for land, infrastructure, urban amenities and urban environment in the notified area.
Apart from this, it may also direct the local authority having jurisdiction or the district magistrate to remove any obstruction or encroachment on roads including cycling tracks, open spaces, pedestrian footpaths or properties vesting in or under the control and management of the Authority.
The Authority may constitute as many coordination committees and as many standing committees, as it thinks fit, with terms of references as the Authority may determine for exercising any power or discharging any function or for monitoring or reporting or advising upon any matter which the Authority may refer to them.
The coordination committee will consist exclusively of officers of the Authority or the state government or any Board or company owned or controlled by the state government. But the standing committee will include residents of the notified area who are not employees of the Authority or the state government or any board or company owned or controlled by the state government. The number of such persons will not exceed one-third of its total membership.
The state government may make to the Authority grants, loans or advances of such sums of money annually, as the state government may deem necessary. All grants, loans or advances so made will be on such terms and conditions as the state government may determine.
The Authority may, from time to time, borrow money by way of loans, bonds or debentures or other instruments from sources other than the state government, on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the state government.
The Authority will be eligible to receive proportionate development charges for external development works and paid or payable by an owner granted a license in the notified area under the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975 provided that such proportionate development charges will be collected by the Director under the said Act and transferred to the Authority.
The Authority will have the power to levy duty on the transfer of immovable property situated within the limits of the notified area in addition to the duty imposed under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, as in force in the state.
The state government will, within a period of three months of commencement of this Ordinance, on the recommendations of the Chief Administrator of the Haryana Urban Development Authority and the Chief Executive Officer, by notification, publish a transfer scheme providing for the transfer of property, interest in property, rights and liabilities to the Authority.
Also, the state government will, within three years from the commencement of this Ordinance and thereafter on the expiration of every third year, constitute a committee, in such manner and consisting of such members as may be prescribed to evaluate and review the performance of the Authority in the said period.
The committee will include experts of national eminence and standing in the field of urban governance, infrastructure development, environment, management and public administration.
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