(1) The Regional Development Authority shall submit the draft Master Development Plan to the State Government for sanction on the expiry of the period of one month from the date of publication of it in the Official Gazette under sub-section (2) of Section 15.
(2) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, sanction the draft Master Development Plan submitted to it, either without modification, or subject to such modifications as it may consider proper, or return the draft Master Development Plan to the Regional Development Authority for modifying the Master Development Plan as it may direct, or refuse to accord sanction and direct the Regional Development Authority to prepare a fresh Master Development Plan:
Provided that, where the modifications proposed to be made by the State Government are of substantial nature, the State Government shall publish a notice in the Official Gazette and also in local newspapers inviting objections and suggestions from any person in respect of the proposed modifications within a period of sixty days from the date of such notice.
(3) The State Government shall, before according sanction to the draft Master Development Plan, take into consideration such objections and suggestions.
(4) The State Government shall fix in the notification under sub-section (2) a date not earlier than one month from its publication on which the final Master Development Plan shall come into operation.
(5) A Master Development Plan which has come into operation shall be called the final Master Development Plan and shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be binding on the Region Development Authority.