Subject(s): Land -- Town planning -- Town planning schemes- technique of land management, land value and urban development, compensation, urban land, town planning schemes- concepts and principles, land acquisition -- Internal experience, land readjustment and land booling, schemes in Australia, Korean pattern, procedure in Taiwan, lessons from other countries, disadvantage in cost recovery through sale of land -- Procedures and progress of town planning schemes in Maharashtra and Gujarat, procedure for town planning scheme under Maharashtra regional and town planning act 1966, assessment of betternemnt & betternment contribution, town planning schemes in Maharashtra, town planning schemes in Gujarat, progress of town planning schemes in Gujarat -- Critical review of formulation and implementation of town planning schemes in Maharashtra and Gujarat analysis of problem, betterment recovery concept- effective has it been for recovery of development cost -- Procedural changes, other suggestions for improvement in procedure of town planning schemes, need for guidelines about reconstruction and redistribution -- Legislation for LRP/new town planning schemes, need for new law, draft legislation