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प्रश्न
List four ways in which the work of the Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller.
उत्तर
The work done by the Municipal Corporation, which affects the life of a city-dweller:
(i) Installing, maintaining and repairing street lights
(ii) Ensuring proper collection and disposal of garbage
(iii) Keeping the streets and the markets clean
(iv) Ensuring that diseases do not break out in the city
(v) Running schools, hospitals, and dispensaries
(vi) Laying, maintaining and repairing roads
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Do you know how decisions are made?
How does the Municipal Corporation earn the money to do its work?
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?
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