(1) grounds and procedure for filing of complaints/grievances;
(2) procedure for redressal of grievances;
(3) settlement of complaints by agreement;
(4) award by a Municipal Ombudsman;
(5) rejection of complaint;
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(6) proceedings before the Review Authority;
(7) powers of Municipal Ombudsman and procedure of functioning as an Arbitrator and notification and enforcement of an award; and
(8) any other matter which is, or may be, required to be provided by rules.
Chapter - 8 Functional Domain of Municipalities
70. Municipal Functions:
(1) Every municipality shall provide on its own or arrange to provide through any agency the following functions and services- (A) Core Functions
(i) Urban planning including town planning,
(ii) Regulation of land-use including protection of public land from encroachment and construction of buildings,
(iii) Planning for economic and social development,
(iv) Roads including footpath and road crossing facilities for pedestrians and bridges,
(v) Water supply for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes,
(vi) Public health, sanitation including storm water drains, conservancy and solid and liquid waste management,
(vii) Fire services,
(viii) Urban forestry, protection of the environment, promotion of ecological aspects and maintenance of environmental hygiene,
(ix) Safeguarding the interests of weaker sections of society, including the handicapped and mentally retarded,
(x) Slum improvement and upgradation including providing basic facilities,
(xi) Urban poverty alleviation,
(xii) Provision and maintenance of urban amenities and facilities such as parks, gardens, playgrounds, public markets, bathing and washing ghats, waiting sheds for travelers,
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(xiv) Establishment and maintenance of burial and burning grounds, cremations, cremation grounds and electric crematoriums,
(xv) Cattle pounds, prevention of cruelty to animals,
(xvi) Collection and updating of vital statistics including registration of births, deaths and marriages,
(xvii) Provision and maintenance of public amenities including street lighting, parking spaces for vehicles, bus stops and public conveniences like toilet facilities at public places,
(xviii) Regulation of slaughter houses and tanneries and sale of meat, fish and other perishable food stuffs etc.
(B) General Functions
(i) Organising voluntary workers and promote community participation in all development activities,
(ii) Organise campaign for thrift,
(iii) Awareness building against social evils like alcoholism, consumption of narcotics, dowry and abuse of women and children,
(iv) Organize legal awareness campaigns among weaker sections, campaign against economic offences, adherence to civic duties, and promoting communal harmony,
(v) Provision of public transport,
(vi) Organise relief activities during natural calamities and maintain relief centres like hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, rescue homes, maternity houses and child welfare centres, etc.,
(vii) Mobilising local resources in cash or in kind,
(viii) Organise and promote resident welfare associations, neighbourhood groups and committees, and self-help groups with focus on the poor,
(ix) Disclosure and dissemination of information of public interest,
(x) Maintenance of public properties, >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 449
(xi) Issue of licences to dangerous and offensive trades and industries,
(xii) Issue of licence to domestic pet animals and destruction of stray dogs,
(xiii) Conservation and preservation of water bodies,
(xiv) Conservation and preservation of places and buildings of historical and cultural importance,
(xv) Promoting energy efficiency and build awareness on climate change,
(xvi) Promote introduction of Information Technology and e- Governance in the working of the Municipality.
(C) Sector-wise functions:
(i) Urban Planning including Town Planning
(a) Planned development of new areas for human settlement, erection and maintenance of boundary marks defining the limits or any alteration in the limits,
(b) Measures for beautification of the municipal area by setting up fountains, providing recreational areas, improving river banks, and landscaping,
(c) Integration of the development plans and schemes of the municipal area with the district or regional development plan,
(d) Preparation and keeping upto date of appropriate maps, data and records of lands within municipality and utility to which such lands are from time to time put;
(ii) Environment and Social Forestry:
(a) Organise campaign for environmental awareness,
(b) Motivating local action for its upgradation, planting of trees, etc.,
(c) Reclamation of waste lands, promotion of social forestry and maintenance of open spaces,
(d) Establishment and maintenance of nurseries, promotion of greenery;
(iii) Small Scale Industries:
(a) Promotion of handicrafts,
(b) Formulate and implement self-employment schemes in industrial sector,
(c) Implementation of the entrepreneur development programmes;
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(iv) Housing:
(a) Identify the homeless, provision of house sites and houses, implementation of shelter rejuvenation programmes,
(b) Mobilise fund necessary for housing;
(v) Education and Culture:
(a) Run the pre-primary, primary, higher secondary and technical schools, vocational training centres, and implement literacy programmes,
(b) Promote civic education, adult education, social education and nonformal education,
(c) Promotion of cultural activities including music, physical education, sports and theatres and infrastructure therefor,
(d) Advancement of science and technology in urban life,
(e) Organization, establishment and maintenance of art galleries and botanical or zoological collections,
(f) Maintenance of municipal office, and of all public monuments and places of historical, artistic and other importance,
(g) Presentation of awards to persons of distinction, paying homage on death to persons of repute,
(h) Holding and regulation of fairs, festivals, industrial and health exhibitions;
(vi) Public Works:
(a) Construct and maintain the roads except National Highways, State Highways and major District roads within the municipality, and buildings for institutions including those transferred from Government.
(vii) Public Health and Sanitation:
(a) Run dispensaries, primary & public health centres and hospitals under all systems of medicines, child welfare centres and mother care homes,
(b) Organise remedial and other preventive measures against disease,
(c) Implement family welfare programmes,
(d) Organise mass inoculation campaigns for eradication of infectious diseases,
(e) Reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances,
(f) Maintenance of all public tanks and regulating the reexcavation, repair and up-keep of all tanks, wells and other sources of water-supply and provision for unfiltered watersupply for non-domestic uses,
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(h) Maintenance of ambulance service,
(i) Advancement of civic consciousness of public health and general welfare by organizing discourses, seminars and conferences,
(j) Prevention of food adulteration and control of eating-houses,
(k) Effective implementation of national and state strategies and programmes for prevention and control of diseases;
(viii) Social Welfare:
(a) Run anganwadis, and institutions for the welfare of handicapped, destitutes etc.,
(b) Sanction and distribute pension to destitutes, widows, handicapped, distribute unemployment wages, and implement Group Insurance Scheme to the poor,
(c) Implementation of programmes for liberation and rehabilitation of scavengers and their families,
(d) Campaigns for dissemination of information, vital for public welfare,
(e) Securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places, obstructions and projections in or upon streets, bridges and other public places;
(ix) Eradication of poverty:
(a) Develop skills and implement self-employment and group employment schemes for the poor, especially for women,
(b) Create community assets to get continuing benefit to the poor;
(x) Development of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe:
(a) Implementation of beneficiary oriented schemes under Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) and provide basic facilities in the residential centres and financial assistance for the Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe,
(b) Run nursery schools, vocational training centres for the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe;
(xi) Public Distribution system:
(a) Examine complaints against public distribution system and find out and implement remedial measures,
(b) Organise campaigns against offences relating to weights and measures,
(c) General supervision of shops and other public distribution system and to provide guidance;
(xii) Natural Calamity relief:
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(2) The municipality may plan, build, operate, maintain or manage the infrastructure required for the discharge of any of the functions, as aforesaid, either by itself, or through public-private partnership or by any agency under any concession agreement.
(3) The Government may direct a municipality to perform any of the functions as aforesaid, if such function is not taken up, or is postponed, by the municipality.
71. Additional Functions assigned by Government: (1) -The municipality may, subject to the underwriting of the costs by, and approval of, the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, undertake any function belonging to the functional domain of the Central Government or the State Government as the case may be, and such functions may include primary education, curative health, urban transport, supply of energy, fire prevention and fire safety and urban poverty alleviation.
(2) The municipality may also, subject to the orders of the State Government, undertake such or all functions related to:
(i) Urban development including development of commercial infrastructure;
(ii) Public welfare including community relations; and
(iii). Such other functions as may be assigned
72. First charge on Municipal Fund: A municipality may, having regard to the satisfactory performance of its core functions which shall constitute the first charge on the Municipal Fund, and subject to its managerial, technical and financial capabilities, undertake or perform, or promote the performance of any of the general functions or sector-wise functions referred in section 70.
CHAPTER 9 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS Transaction of Business by Municipality
73. First meeting of Municipality -
(1) The first meeting of a municipality after the general election of councillors to the municipality shall be convened within thirty days from the date of publication of the names of elected councillors in the Official Gazette under the provisions relating to municipal elections in the State.
(2) Seven days’ notice shall be given for the meeting.
(3) In the case of a Municipal Corporation, the meeting shall be convened by the Divisional Commissioner or any officer authorized in this behalf by the State Government.
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(4) In the case a Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat, the meeting shall be convened by the Deputy Commissioner or any officer authorized in this behalf by the State Government.