Objectives
Some obligatory functions:
Supply of pure and wholesome water
Construction and maintenance of public streets
Lighting and watering of public streets
Cleaning of public streets, places and sewers
Regulation of offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades and callings or practices
Maintenance or support of public hospitals; establishment and maintenance of primary schools
Registration of births and deaths; removing obstructions and projections in public streets, bridges and other places
Naming streets and numbering houses.
Some discretionary functions:
Construction and maintenance of public parks, gardens, libraries, museums, rest houses, leper homes, orphanages and rescue homes for women
planting and maintenance of roadside and other trees
Housing for low income groups
Conducting surveys
Organising public receptions, public exhibitions, public entertainment; provision of transport facilities with the municipality
Promotion of welfare of municipal employees