Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
(1) If it appears to the Commissioner in respect of any area in any part of the City, that the following conditions exist, that is to say— (a) that the area contains fifty or more dwellings for the poorer classes, (b) that at least one-third of the poorer class dwellings in the area are over-crowded, or unfit for human habitation and not capable at a reasonable expense of being rendered so fit, or so arranged as to be congested, (c) that it is expedient in connection with the provision of housing accommodation for the poorer classes that the area should be re-developed as a whole, the Commissioner shall cause the area to be defined on a plan and shall submit a draft re-development scheme for the approval of the Corporation. On the submission of such a draft re-development scheme, the Corporation shall take into consideration such scheme and approve the same with or without alteration as it may think fit. The Corporation shall then pass a resolution declaring the area so defined and approved by it to be a 're-development area'. (2) As soon as may be after the Corporation has passed a resolution under the foregoing sub-section, the Commissioner on behalf of the Corporation shall transmit to the State Government a copy of the resolution and of the plan, and shall publish simultaneously in the Official Gazette and in three or more news papers circulating within the City, a notice stating that the resolution has been passed and naming a place where a copy of the resolution and of the plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours. (3) Before any area is declared to be a re-development area, it shall be the duty of the Corporation to satisfy itself as to the sufficiency of its resources and to ascertain the number of persons who are likely to be dishoused in such area and thereafter to take such measures as are practicable whether in the arrangement of its programme or otherwise so as to ensure that as little hardship as possible is inflicted on those dishoused.