The New Delhi Municipal Council Act
206Minimum width of new public streets
The Chairperson shall, from time to time, with the sanction of council, specify the minimum width of different classes of new public streets according to the nature of the traffic likely to be carried thereon, and the streets with which they join at one or both ends, the localities in which they are situated, the heights up to which buildings abutting thereon may be erected and other similar considerations.
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Construction, maintenance and improvement of streets
- 202 Vesting of public streets in the Council
- 203 Functions of Chairperson in respect of public streets
- 204 Disposal of land forming site of public streets permanently closed
- 205 Power to make new public streets
- 206 Minimum width of new public streets
- 207 Power to prohibit or regulate use of public streets for certain kind of traffic
- 208 Power to acquire lands and buildings for public streets and for public parking places
- 209 Defining the regular line of streets
- 210 Setting back building to regular line of street
- 211 Compulsory setting back of building to regular line of street
- 212 Acquisition of open land and land occupied by platform, etc., within the regular line of street
- 213 Acquisition of the remaining part of a building and land after their portions within a regular line of street have been acquired
- 214 Setting forward of buildings to the regular line of street
- 215 Compensation to be paid in certain cases of setting back or setting forward of buildings, etc