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    A municipal corporation is a self-governing elected body that administers smaller towns and cities. It is responsible for street lights, garbage collection, water supply, cleanliness, disease prevention, and running schools, hospitals and dispensaries. The city is divided into wards, each with an elected councillor. Councillors form committees to make budgets and debate issues. Sub-contracting involves hiring private contractors to perform work like garbage collection to save money, instead of using government workers. Contract workers have poorer conditions, with lower pay, temporary jobs, lack of safety measures, and no support for injuries. The municipal commissioner is the chief executive officer who implements the corporation's decisions and acts as a liaison between

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    A municipal corporation is a self-governing elected body that administers smaller towns and cities. It is responsible for street lights, garbage collection, water supply, cleanliness, disease prevention, and running schools, hospitals and dispensaries. The city is divided into wards, each with an elected councillor. Councillors form committees to make budgets and debate issues. Sub-contracting involves hiring private contractors to perform work like garbage collection to save money, instead of using government workers. Contract workers have poorer conditions, with lower pay, temporary jobs, lack of safety measures, and no support for injuries. The municipal commissioner is the chief executive officer who implements the corporation's decisions and acts as a liaison between

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    A municipal corporation is a self-governing elected body that administers smaller towns and cities. It is responsible for street lights, garbage collection, water supply, cleanliness, disease prevention, and running schools, hospitals and dispensaries. The city is divided into wards, each with an elected councillor. Councillors form committees to make budgets and debate issues. Sub-contracting involves hiring private contractors to perform work like garbage collection to save money, instead of using government workers. Contract workers have poorer conditions, with lower pay, temporary jobs, lack of safety measures, and no support for injuries. The municipal commissioner is the chief executive officer who implements the corporation's decisions and acts as a liaison between

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    URBAN ADMINISTRATION (Civics)

    Q1. What is meant by Municipal Corporation?


    ● It is a self governing body.
    ● It is an elected body.
    ● In smaller towns it is known as Municipal Council.

    Q2. What are the functions of Municipal Corporation?


    ● The Municipal Corporation takes care of street lights, garbage collection,
    water supply, keeping the streets and the market clean.
    ● The Municipal Corporation is also responsible for ensuring that diseases
    do not break out in the city.
    ● It also runs schools, hospitals and dispensaries.
    ● And makes gardens and maintains them.

    Q3. How does a Municipal Corporation function?


    ● The city is divided into different wards and ward councillors get elected.
    ● The complicated decisions that affect the entire city are taken by groups of
    councillors who form committees to decide and debate issues.
    ● All of the Ward Councillors meet and they make a budget and the money
    is spent according to this.
    ● The Ward Councillors try and ensure that the particular demands of their
    ward are placed before the entire council.
    ● These decisions are then implemented by the administrative staff.

    Q4. What is meant by sub-contracting?


    ● In order to save money the Commissioners of several municipalities across
    the country had hired private contractors to collect and process garbage.
    ● This is called Sub-Contracting.
    ● This means that the work that was earlier being done by government
    workers is now being done by a private company.

    Q5. “The condition of the contract workers is not good.” Justify.


    ● The contract workers get paid less.
    ● Their jobs are temporary.
    ● Collecting garbage is also quite a dangerous job.
    ● These contract workers do not have any access to safety measures.
    ● They are not taken care of if they are injured while working.

    Q6. Who is a Municipal Commissioner? What role does he play in the working of
    Urban Administration?

    ● Municipal Commissioner is a chief executive officer of Municipal


    Corporation.
    ● He is a government employee.
    ● He sees that the decisions made by the municipal corporation are
    implemented.
    ● He acts as a link between the state government and Municipal
    Corporation.

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