(1) It shall be the duty of the Board to take necessary measures to maintain, allot, lease or otherwise use the Board premises and to collect rents, compensation and damages in respect thereof.
(2) The Board may,—-
(i) provide technical advice to the State Government and scrutinize projects under housing schemes in the area to which this Act extends when required by the State Government to do so;
(ii) undertake research on various problems connected with housing in general and find out in particular the economical methods of constructing houses suited to local conditions ;
(iii) undertake comprehensive surveys of problems of housing ;
(iv) grant loans to individuals or body of indi— viduals for building houses under different schemes either at their own instance or under the direction of the State Government and recover the loans in such manner and in such procedure as may be prescribed ;
Other duties of the Board.
Md to msmne magnum ofrequisitioned lands.
lcconstimtion of plots.
Power to exempt schemes from provisions of sections 26 to 31.
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(v) do all things for—
(a) unification, simplification and standardisation of building materials ;
(b) encouraging pre-fabrication and mass production of house components ;
(c) organising or undertaking the production of building materials for residential or non—residential house;
securing a steady and suflicient supply of workmen trained in the work of construction of buildings.
38. The Board shall, subject to the general control of the State Government, assume management of all such land requisitioned of continued to be subject to requisition, by or under the authority of the State Government under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 or by or under any corresbeing in force, as the State (‘1) Government may direct.
39. A housing scheme may provide—
(a) for the formation of a reconstituted plot by the alteration of the boundaries of an original plot;
with the consent of the owners that two or more original plots each of which is held in ownership in severally or in joint ownership shall, with or without alteration of boundaries be held in ownership in common as a reconstituted plot;
(0) for the allotment of a plot to any owner dispossessed of land in furtherance of the housing scheme; and
(d) for the transfer of ownership of a plot from one person to another with the consent of such persons. .
(b)
40. The State Government may, by general or special order published in the Manipur Gazette, exempt any housing scheme undertaken by the Board from all or any of the provisions of sections 26 to 31 subject to such conditions, if any, as it may impose or may direct that any such provision shall apply to such scheme with such modifications as may be specified in the order.
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