(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 17, if, at any time after a revised regional plan has been notified/ published in the Official Gazette (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “revised regional plan”), the Government is of the opinion that such revised regional plan is required to be withdrawn, the Government may direct the 51 [Chief Town Planner (Planning)] to withdraw the operation of the revised regional plan from such date, either prospective or retrospective, as the Government deems fit, and in its entirety or in part, as the case may be, and undertake the revision of the regional plan as existing immediately before the revised regional plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “existing regional plan”), in its entirety or in part, as the case may be, and thereupon the foregoing provisions of this Act relating to the preparation of the regional plan shall, as far as may be, apply to the revision of a regional plan under this section.
(2) The 52 [Chief Town Planner (Planning)] shall, thereafter, withdraw the operation of the revised regional plan from the date as directed by the Government, in entirety or in part, as the case may be, by publication of a notification in the Official Gazette and in two local newspapers.
(3) On and from the date of withdrawal of the revised regional plan by publication of the notification under the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section, all development programmes undertaken by any Department of the Government or by public and private ---10--- institutions or by any other person shall conform to the provisions of the existing regional plan.]
53 [17D. Power to direct preparation of Zoning Plan.— (1) The Government may direct the Chief Town Planner (Planning) to prepare a Zoning Plan in respect of the whole or any part or parts of the local planning area.
(2) The Zoning Plan referred under sub-section (1) shall be prepared after consultation with the concerned local authority or authorities and it shall be within the broad framework of regional plan.
(3) The provisions of sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply for preparation of Zoning Plan.