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ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1979 CHAPTER XVII‑TOWN IMPROVEMENT 156. Development Schemes.‑Where a Town Improvement Committee is constituted, the Government may, in the prescribed manner, provide for‑ (a) the types of schemes to be undertaken such as for general improve ment, rebuilding, streets, development, expansion, housing, accommodation, re-housing, multifarious or deferred schemes ; (b) initiation of schemes by the Town Improvement Committee on the direction of the Government or on move by the Local Council ; (c) considerations governing initiation of schemes such as conditions of adjoining localities, the direction which a town is likely to expand and the relative claims of any other localities to any alternative schemes ; (d) matters to be provided for a scheme such as compulsory or private acquisition of land, retention, management or disposal of lands vested in the Municipal Committee demolition of unhygenic buildings, relaying out and redistribution of land in a scheme, laying out and alteration of schemes, provisions and management of open spaces reclamation of land and its reservation, for the production of fruit, vegetable, fuel fodder and the like for the residents of a local area, water supply and lighting, drains and sewerage, health measures, demolition, erection and re‑erection of buildings advances to owners, communication and other matters ; (e) alteration and abandonment of schemes and acquisition of land ; (f) furnishing of information by a Local Council or by the Government or other agency and which is necessary for the purpose of framing a scheme or of assistance in its execution or maintenance ; (g) powers of such sanction or as the case may be of rejection or modification of a scheme ; (h) powers to facilitate movement of population and powers of entry ; (i) powers to make a survey or contribute towards their costs ; and (j) such other matters as may be necessary.