Section 421. District Planning Committee.

(1) The Corporation shall prepare every year a development plan for its area and submit it to 1[the District Planning Committee]. (2)1[The District Planning Committee] shall consolidate the Development plans prepared and submitted to it by the Corporation under sub-section (1) and prepare a draft development plan for the district as a whole. 2[x x x x] 3[(3)] Every 1[District Planning Committee] shall in preparing the draft development plan–– (a) have regard to :–– (i) matters of common interest between the municipalities and Panchayats including spatial planning, sharing of water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation ; (ii) the extent and type of available source whether financial or otherwise ; (b) consult such institutions and organisations as the 4[State Government] may specify. 3[(4)] The Chairperson of every 1[District Planning Committee] shall forward the development plan, as recommended by such Committee, to the Government.