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Question
How are the two types of urban local bodies constituted?
Solution
- Keeping the city clean is the primary duty of a municipality. The municipality has to make arrangements for the removal of the garbage and waste. Drains are needed to flush out dirty water from the cities and towns.
- The municiplities not only keep the cities clean but they also ! make arrangements for vaccination against smallpox and inoculation against diseases like cholera, plague and tuberculosis.
- The municipalities also make arrangements for checking food adulteration.
- A municipality opens hospitals, dispensaries and other medical centres in different localities where qualified doctors are employed.
- One of the important functions of a municipality is to keep a record of all the births and deaths in the city. It helps in the planning of welfare services for the people.
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State whether the following is true or false.
The municipal corporation is not responsible for the supply of safe drinking water.
Mention five functions of the municipal corporation related to public health and sanitation.
Answer the following question briefly:
The municipal corporation is responsible for the maintenance of public works and services in the city. Give any five examples to explain this.
Answer the following question briefly:
List the optional functions of the municipal corporation.
