Functions & Duties Of the Board
Different Categories may include as:
- 1. Duties of 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) Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices;
- (v) Removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places;
- (vi) Securing or removing dangerous buildings and places;
- (vii) Constructing, altering and maintaining, culverts, bridges, causeways, markets, Slaughterhouses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains. Drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use.
- (viii) Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places;
- (ix) Providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of potable water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution of water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used;
- (x) Registering births and deaths;
- (xi) Preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective;
- (xii) Establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief;
- (xiii) Establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools;
- (xiv) Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occur;
- (xv) Maintaining and developing the value of property vested in or entrusted to the management of the board;
- (xvi) Establishing and maintaining civil defence services;
- (xvii) Preparing and implementing town planning schemes;
- (xviii) Preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice
- (xix) Naming and numbering of streets and premises
- (xx) According or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building;
- (xxi) Organizing, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities;
- (xxii) Celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon;
- (xxiii) Fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.
- 2. Power to manage property
- 3. Discretionary functions of Board
