Section 22. Sarak Yojna.

(1) Whenever the Board is of opinion that for the purposes of – (a) providing building sites, or (b) remedying defective ventilation, or (c) creating new or improving existing means of communication and facilities for traffic, or (d) affording better facilities for conservancy, it is expedient to lay-out new streets or alter existing streets (including bridges, cause-ways and culverts) in any area, the Board may frame a Sarak Yojana (street scheme) for such area. (2) Such scheme may, within the limits of the area comprised in the scheme, provide for the following matters, namely- (a) the acquisition of any land which, in the opinion of the Board, is necessary for the scheme; (b) the re-laying out of all or any of the lands so acquired including the construction and reconstruction of buildings by the Board or by persons authorised by the Board in that behalf and the laying out, construction and alteration of streets and thoroughfares; (c) the drainage, water supply and lighting of streets and thoroughfares so laid-out, constructed r altered; (d) the reclaiming or raising or lowering the level of any land vested in, or acquired by, the Board for the purposes of the scheme; and (e) the provision of open spaces for the better ventilation of the area comprised in the scheme.