A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council. The notion of municipality includes townships but is not restricted to them. A municipality is a general-purpose district, as opposed to a special-purpose district.
Local bodies are classified into Municipal Corporations, Municipalities of different grades and Nagara Panchayats depending upon the population and income of the Urban Local Body. These Urban Local Bodies have been constituted with the objective of discharging certain
Obligatory functions like:
(a) Supply of drinking water
(b) Providing and maintaining drainage and sewage systems
(c) Public street lighting
(d) Maintaining sanitation and hygiene of public places
(f) Maintenance of public parks and gardens
(g) Ensuring systematic/planned urban growth
(h) Regulation of building construction
(i) Licensing of Trade activities
(j) Maintenance of Birth and Death records.
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