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प्रश्न
How does the Municipal Corporation earn the money to do its work?
उत्तर
The Municipal Corporation is one of the most important organs of the three-tier government system. It is responsible for all round development of its designated area. It undertakes all the public facilities and welfare works like sanitation, water, road, education, health, etc. As these works require fund, so it collects revenue from the residents living in its corporation area. It levies taxes on property, water and other services. Taxes are fixed on the measurement and consumption of the services. Taxes are levied on education and other amenities like owning a hotel, entertainment etc.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
List four ways in which the work of the Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller.
What did Gangabai do and why?
Several poor people in the city work as domestic servants as well as work for the Corporation, keeping the city clean. Yet the slums in which they live are quite filthy. This is because these slums seldom have any water and sanitation facilities. The reason often given by the Municipal Corporation is that the land in which the poor have set up their homes does not belong to them and that slum-dwellers do not pay taxes. However, people living in middle-class neighbourhoods pay very little in taxes compared to the amount of money the Corporation spends on them in setting up parks, street lighting facilities, regular garbage collection, etc. Also as you read in this chapter, the property taxes collected by the Municipality make up only 25-30 percent of its money.
Why do you think it is important that the Corporation should spend more money on slum localities? Why is it important that the Municipal Corporation provide the poor in the city with the same facilities that the rich get?
Fill in the blank with appropriate word to complete the sentence:
Property taxes form only ___________ percent of the money that a Municipal Corporation earns.
Fill in the blank with appropriate word to complete the sentence:
The kabadi wallah plays a major role in __________ household plastic and paper.
Fill in the blank with appropriate word to complete the sentence:
Gangabai rushed to the house of ____________.
State whether the sentence is true (T) or false (F).
Yasmin Khala was a retired judge.
State whether the sentence is true (T) or false (F).
Larger houses have to pay less taxes.
Very Short Answer Type Question:
Whose duty is it to replace the streetlights?
Very Short Answer Type Question:
Who takes decisions like where a park or a new hospital should go?
