Question

Mention the functions of the Nagar Parishad (Zila Parishad).

Answer 1

The essential functions of the City Council include cleaning the city and arranging lighting in the streets and arranging drinking water, getting the roads built and repaired cleaning the drains, arranging for primary education, opening schools and running it.

Protecting it from epidemics and arranging for vaccines etc. opening hospitals for the care of the health of humans and animals, making arrangements for safety from fire arranging suitable places for burial and cremation of dead bodies and birth and death. To register their accounts etc.

City councils optional takes include building new roads, constructing streets and drains, making the city's dirty areas habitable, building houses for the poor, managing electricity, setting up exhibiting, building parks, gardens and museums for residents of the city to meet the entertainment and health related needs of the library and reading room etc.