Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Rules, 1979

The plaintiffs sued the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation seeking either compensation for the loss of 974 square metres of land or, alternatively, an allotment of land of that size in any town planning scheme. The trial court granted the alternative relief of land allotment but rejected the compensation claim, prompting …

The Gujarat government prepared a development plan in 1987 reserving a "green belt" for public housing. After ten years the reservation lapsed under Section 20 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976. The Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority later framed a town‑planning scheme reserving the same l…

The appellants sought a writ of mandamus directing the Nagarpalika to implement a town planning scheme that had been sanctioned under the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976. The High Court Single Judge granted the direction, but the Division Bench set it aside on the ground that a variation of the sc…

The appellant, a tenant of a plot acquired for a road‑widening scheme, challenged the final allotment of re‑allotted plots on the ground that he had not been served a special notice as required by Sections 52 and 53 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act. The Court held that Rule 26 of the Gujarat Town …