Question

With regard to the functions  of a Municipality, answer the following question:
What are the functions of a Municipal Committee?

Answer 1

The functions of a Municipal Committee:
Obligatory Functions:

1. Public Health and Sanitation: It undertakes the responsibility of maintaining hospitals and dispensaries, cleaning public lanes, and preventing the sale of rotten food-stuffs and adulterated milk, etc.
2. Electricity and Water Supply: It provides safe drinking water and electricity for domestic and commercial use.
3. Education and Sports: The Municipalities establish primary and secondary schools. They also provide facilities to young boys and girls to develop their aptitude for sports.
4. Public Works: The public works mainly include the construction of roads, shopping centres and community halls.
5. Registration of Births and Deaths: The Municipals Boards maintain an account of births and deaths in the city.

Discretionary Functions:
Municipalities establish libraries and reading rooms, constructing stadiums for sport activity, organizing fairs and exhibitions, providing, transport facilities and other amenities for peoples, convenience. Under Nehru Rozgar Yojana, financial assistance was given to small artisans for self employment. There was also a provision for housing and slum clearance programmers.