18. (1) As soon as may be after the constitution of a NIRMAN Kshetra Authority for a NIRMAN Kshetra, the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority shall, subject to general or specific directions of the State Government or the Board, carry out, or appoint an agency as it may deem fit to conduct a civic survey and prepare an existing land use map and prepare a draft Master Development Plan for the area declared as the NIRMAN Kshetra and the periphery, if any, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) The NIRMAN Kshetra Authority shall on preparation of the Draft Master Development Plan for the NIRMAN Kshetra invite comments, objections and suggestions from the NIRMAN Kshetra Board, the State Government and public. The NIRMAN Kshetra Authority may consider the comments and may incorporate such changes as it may deem fit in the draft master development Plan.
(3) The “NIRMAN Kshetra Committee” 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 NIRMAN Kshetra Authority for modifying the Master Development Plan as it may direct, or refuse to accord sanction and direct the NIRMAN Kshetra Authority to prepare a fresh Master Development Plan.
(4) The NIRMAN Kshetra Committee shall decide on the draft master development within sixty days from the date of preparation of the draft master development plan in accordance with provisions of sub-section (3).