Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority Act, 2017
No: 34 Dated: Dec, 05 2017
THE GURUGRAM METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ACT, 2017
An Act to develop a vision for the continued, sustained and balanced growth of the Gurugram Metropolitan Area through quality of life and reasonable standard of living provided to residents through generation of employment opportunities, to provide for integrated and coordinated planning, infrastructure development and provision of urban amenities, mobility management, sustainable management of the urban environment and social, economic and industrial development, to redefine the urban governance and delivery structure in coordination with local authorities in the context of the emergence of Gurugram as a rapidly expanding urban agglomeration, to establish a statutory Authority for the said purpose and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in its Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority Act, 2017.
(2) It shall come into force on such date, as the State Government may, by notification, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision of this Act to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision
2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a)― "Authority" means the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority established under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(b)― "board" means a board established by or under any State law;
(c)― "Chief Executive Officer" means Chief Executive Officer of the Authority appointed under sub-section (1) of section 9;
(d)― "company" means a company registered under the Companies Act, 2013 (Central Act 18 of 2013);
(e)― "Corporate Social Responsibility Policy" means a policy as approved by the Board under the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (4) of section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Central Act 18 of 2013);
(f)― "geospatial based system" means processes and technology used to acquire, manipulate, plan and store datasets and information that identifies geographic location, characteristics and other attributes of natural or constructed features in the notified Area and includes –
(i) boundaries of natural or constructed features and jurisdictions;
(ii) statistical data;
(iii) information derived from, among other things, mapping, remote sensing and surveying technologies;
(g)― "Haryana Urban Development Authority" means the Haryana Urban Development Authority constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Haryana Urban Development Authority Act, 1977 (13 of 1977);
(h)― "infrastructure development plan" means the infrastructure plan published under sub-section (5) of section 17;
(i)― "infrastructure development work" means development of infrastructure such as roads, water supply systems and water treatment, sewerage systems, sewerage treatment and disposal, drainage, electricity transmission and distribution systems, solid waste management facility, metro railway systems, piped natural gas, communications or such other urban infrastructure which connects two or more sectors, municipal colonies or villages or which provides for the infrastructure needs of the notified area, but does not include any internal development work;
(j)― "internal development work" means development of roads, provision of water supply, sewerage, drainage, electricity, sanitation or such other urban facilities or urban amenities within a sector, colony, municipal colony or abadi deh areas of villages located in the notified area;
(k) ― "limited liability partnership" means a limited liability partnership incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2009 (Central Act 6 of 2009);
(l) ― "local authority" means a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Municipal Committee, Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zila Parishad, as the case may be in the notified area;
(m) ― "mobility" means movement of person on foot or a wheeled conveyance of any description;
(n) ― "mobility management plan" means the mobility management plan for managing mobility in the notified area under section 21;
(o) ― "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette of the State of Haryana;
(p) ― "notified area" means the Gurugram Metropolitan Area notified under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(q) ― "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(r) ― "regulations" means regulations of the Authority under this Act;
(s) ― "resident" means a citizen of India who ordinarily resides in the notified area;
(t) ― "Residents Advisory Council" means the Residents Advisory Council constituted under section 11;
(u)― "State Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana;