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134                     THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                             (Part IXA.—The Municipalities)

                (a) the composition of the District Planning Committees;
                (b) the manner in which the seats in such Committees shall be
      filled:
             Provided that not less than four-fifths of the total number of
      members of such Committee shall be elected by, and from amongst, the
      elected members of the Panchayat at the district level and of the
      Municipalities in the district in proportion to the ratio between the
      population of the rural areas and of the urban areas in the district;
            (c) the functions relating to district planning which may be
      assigned to such Committees;                       e
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             (d) the manner in which the Chairpersons of such Committees
      shall be chosen.
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      (3) Every District Planning Committee shall, in preparing the draft
development plan,—                          di
                (a) have regard to—
                                        In
                       (i) matters of common interest between the Panchayats and
                the Municipalities 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 resources whether
                financial or otherwise;
            (b) consult such institutions and organisations as the Governor
      may, by order, specify.
       (4) The Chairperson of every District Planning Committee shall forward
the development plan, as recommended by such Committee, to the Government
of the State.
       243ZE. Committee for Metropolitan planning.—(1) There shall be
constituted in every Metropolitan area a Metropolitan Planning Committee to
prepare a draft development plan for the Metropolitan area as a whole.
      (2) The Legislature of a State may, by law, make provision with respect to—
                (a) the composition of the Metropolitan Planning Committees;
                (b) the manner in which the seats in such Committees shall be filled:

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