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CHAPTER-III MASTER PLAN AND ZONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

Section 8: Civic survey of, and master plan for the development area

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 1 of 2025.

The Act was made as President's Act No. 11 of 1973; this copy shows the enacting words substituted by U.P. Act No. 30 of 1974, and the Reasons for the Enactment printed after section 60 are not reproduced.

The marginal headings printed beside each section in this edition are shown as the section headings; section 60 carries no marginal heading in this copy.

1[(1) Subject to such control and restrictions as may from time to time be imposed by the State Government, by special or general orders, the Board may appoint such officers and servants as it considers necessary for the efficient performance of its functions.]

(2) The master plan shall-

(a) define the various zones into which the development area may be divided for the purposes of development and indicate the manner in which the land in each zone is proposed to be used (whether by the carrying out thereon of development or otherwise) which any such development shall be carried out; and

(b) serve as a basic pattern of frame-work within which the zonal development plans of the various zones may be prepared.

(3) The master plan may provide for any other matter which may be necessary for the proper development of the development area.

2[(4) A master plan map be revised at the end of every ten years or earlier if the State Government so thinks fit.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 3 of U. P. Act No. 47 of 1976.
  2. 2.Subs. by sec. 4 of U. P. Act No. 12 of 2023.

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