Functions & Duties Of the Board
DUTIES OF THE BOARD
- (i) Lighting streets and other public places.
- (ii) Watering streets and other public places.
- (iii) Cleaning streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation.
- (iv) Registering births and deaths.
- (v) Preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases, establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective.
- (vi) Establishing, maintaining and supporting public hospitals and dispensaries and providing public medical relief.
- (vii) Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices.
- (viii) Removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places.
- (ix) Securing or removing dangerous buildings and places.
- (x) Acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead.
- (xi) Constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, markets, slaughter houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use.
- (xii) Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places.
- (xiii) Providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of pure and wholesome water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution of water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used.
- (xiv) Establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools.
- (xv) Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occurs.
- (xvi) Maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the management of the board.
- (xvii) Establishing and maintaining civil defence services.
- (xviii) Preparing and implementing town planning schemes.
- (xix) Preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice.
- (xx) Naming and numbering of streets and premises.
- (xxi) According or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building.
- (xxii) Organizing, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities.
- (xxiii) Celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon.
- (xxiv) Fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.
- (xxv) Revenue administration and to generate revenue for the Board functioning through various tax and non-tax receipts.
CANTONMENT PROVISION
- (i) Laying out in areas, whether previously built upon or not, new streets and acquiring land for that purpose and for the construction of buildings and compounds of buildings to abut on such streets.
- (ii) Constructing, establishing or maintaining public parks, gardens, offices, dairies, bathing or washing places, fountains, tanks, wells and other works of public utility.
- (iii) Reclaiming unhealthy localities.
- (iv) Furthering educational objects by measures other than the establishment and maintenance of primary schools.
- (v) Setting up or supporting high schools, colleges for vocational, professional and special education.
- (vi) Constructing and maintaining works and structures, including rain-water harvesting, for providing supply of water for public and private purposes.
- (vii) Constituting, maintaining and managing supply and distribution of electricity, by exploiting non-conventional energy sources, to public and private premises.
- (viii) Taking a census and granting rewards for information which may tend to secure the correct registration of vital statistics.
- (ix) Making a survey.
- (x) Giving relief on the occurrence of local epidemics, floods, famines or other natural calamities by the establishment or maintenance of relief works or otherwise.
- (xi) Securing or assisting to secure suitable places for the carrying on of any offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trade, calling or occupation.
- (xii) Establishing and maintaining a farm or other place for the disposal of sewage.
- (xiii) Constructing, subsidizing or guaranteeing tramways or other means of locomotion and electric lighting or electric power works.
- (xiv) Establishing and maintaining cattle pounds.
- (xv) Arranging for civic reception with prior approval of the appropriate authority.
- (xvi) Providing housing accommodation for any class of inhabitants.
- (xvii) Conservation and maintenance of ancient and historical monuments, archaeological sites and remains or place of public importance in the Cantonment.
- (xviii) Developing land resources under the management of the Board.
- (xix) Preparing and implementing group housing schemes.
- (xx) Establishing and undertaking remunerative projects.
- (xxi) Developing small scale and cottage industries.
- (xxii) Developing expertise in different areas of urban governance and local self government to and able to provide consultancy to other Municipal and Development Authorities.
- (xxiii) Adopting any measure, other than a measure specified in section 62 or in the foregoing provisions of this section likely to promote the safety, health or convenience of the inhabitants of the Cantonment.
- (xxiv) Establishing and maintaining or supporting stadium, gymnasium, akharas and places for sports and games.
- (xxv) Establishing theatres and cinemas.
- (xxvi) Organizing and managing fairs and exhibitions.
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(xxvii) constructing and maintaining :-
1. rent-houses.
2. poor-houses.
3. infirmaries.
4. children's home.
5. houses for deaf and dumb and for disabled and handicapped children.
6. shelters for destitute and disabled persons.
7. asylums for persons of unsound mind.
8. old age homes.
9. working women's hostels. - (xxviii) Establishing and managing chemical or bacteriological laboratories for the examination or analysis of water, food and drugs for the detection of diseases or research, connected with the public health or medical relief.
- (xxix) Providing relief to destitute and disabled persons.
- (xxx) Establishing and maintaining veterinary hospitals.
- (xxxi) Constructing and maintaining warehouses and godowns.
- (xxxii) Constructing and managing garages, sheds and stands for vehicles and cattle sheds.
- (xxxiii)Constructing and managing community and convention halls.
- (xxxiv)Holding seminars, workshops, public debates, and similar activities particularly on issues and rules and regulations of civic importance.
