Question

Choose the correct option to complete the statement given below.
Which one is not the job of the Municipal Corporation?
A. It keeps the streets and markets clean.
B. It makes gardens and maintains them.
C. It builds hotels for the tourists.
D. It runs schools, hospitals and dispensaries.

Answer 1

Hint: The 74th Amendment Act 1992, inserted a new Part IX which came into force in 1993, provided a foundation to the local self-governments in urban areas. The Articles 243P to 243ZG deals with the administrative function and powers of the Municipalities.

Complete Step by Step answer: A Municipal Corporation is a local body which is organised in metropolitan cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai. Every Municipality has a term of five years. However, the state government has the power to dissolve it earlier if the corporation is not discharging its duties properly. The Chairman of Municipal Corporation is known as the Mayor. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected by the members of the corporation. The members of a Municipal Corporation are fixed by the state governments on the basis of the population of the city and are directly elected by the voters residing in the city. The whole area is divided into wards and each ward elects one member.

The main functions of the Municipal Corporation are as under:
- To provide drinking water and electricity in the city.
- Construction and maintenance of roads and streets.
- Deals with health and sanitation that is to prevent the sale of return and adulterated food stuff and also to maintain hospitals and dispensaries.
- To keep the record of births and deaths.
- Maintenance of graveyard and cremation grounds.
- Regulation of land and construction of buildings.
- Construction and maintenance of public parks, libraries, leper homes and rescue homes for women.

Hence, the correct answer is Option C which is not the function of Municipal Corporation.

Note: The main sources of income of municipal corporations are income from various taxes such as property tax, home tax, profession tax, toll tax and octroi; tax on animals and vehicles fee; for approving house plans; grants from the government; water and electricity fee etc.