»	to identify potential urban growth centers all over West Bengal;
»	to notify those areas as Statutory Planning Areas;
»	to set up Statutory Planning Authorities for integrated planning for those Areas;
»	to set up Development Authorities for those Areas for integrated planning & development of those Areas;
»	to control land use and development to arrest haphazard growth;
»	to act as a catalyst in economic, social and cultural development of those Areas;
»	to preserve environmental balance in those Areas etc.
»	The Calcutta Gazette, December 12, 1978 (Land Utilisation and Reforms and Land and Land Revenue Department)
»	Explanatiory Memorandum as to the Action taken on the Recommendations made by The Third State Finance Commission, West Bengal, In its Report Submitted to The Government on October 31, 2008
»	Memo No. 3085-UL/6M-66/80(Pt.) Dated, 13.07.1982, Sub:- Principles governing allotment and fixation of price of land vested in the State under the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Act, 1976.