(1) lt shall be the duty of the Board to take measures with a view to expedite matters and to reduce the cost olconstruction of building and the Board shall, for the purpose do all things such as :-
(a) unification, simplificalion and standardisation of building materials ;
(b) encouraging pre-fabrication and mass production of building components ;
(c) organising or undertaking the production ol building materials required for housing scheme ;
(d) encouraging research lor discovering cheap building materials and evolving new methods of economic construction ; and
(e) securing a steady and sutficient supply of workmen trained in the work of construction of buildings.
(2) The Board may provide lechnical advice to the Government and scrutinise prolects under Housing Scheme as and when required bythe Government to do so.
(3) The Board may undertake research on various problems connected with housing in general and in particular to find out the economical method ot construcling houses suited to local condition and to undertake comprehensive surveys of problems of housing.
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34. The Board shall, il the State Government so directs, and subject to the general control of the State Government, assume management of all or any of the lands requisitioned by or under authority of the State Government.
35. A housing scheme may provide, -
(a) for the formalion ot a reconstituted plot by the alteration of the boundaries ol an original plol ;
(b) with the consent of the owners that two or more original plots each ol which is held in ownership in severalty or in joint ownership shall, with or without alteration of boundaries, be held in ownership in common as a reconstituted plot ;
(c) for the allotrnent of a plol of any owner dispossessed ol land in furtherance of lhe housing scheme ; and
(d) lor the transfer of ownership of plot from one person to another.
36. The Fovisions of section l7andseclions21 to 27 (both inclusive) shall not be applicable to any housing scheme entrusted to the Board by the Sale Govemment except to such extent and subject to such modifications as may be specilied in any general or special order made by the Sate Government and every such order shall be published in the Official Gazetle.
CHAPTER. IV ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF LAND