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Functions and power of Committees
 Sr no. Name of Committee
Subject

1.

Standing Committee

Welfare of conservancy staff.
Transport.

Extinguishing fire and protecting life and properties against fire.

Securing or removing dangerous building and reclaiming unhealthy locality.

Naming of streets and numbering of premises.

Printing annual reports.

Giving relief and establishing and maintaining relief works.

Taking census and granting rewards.

Paying the salaries and allowances, rent and other charges incidental to the Court of any stipendiary or honorary Magistrate.

Maintenance of grazing ground.
Appointment of staff.
To compromise the suit.
To keep accounts current.

Farming of toll, market and slaughter house rent.

Compensation for compromising the suit.

Determination of damages, compensation etc.

In addition to above, Standing Committee is functioning as Finance Committee and to perform other duties as entrusted by the Council.

2.

Slanning & Public Works

Lighting of public streets, places and building.

Watering public streets and places.

Cleansing public streets, places and sewers and all space other than the private properties.

Removing obstructions and projection in public Street and spaces not being private properties.

Constructing, altering and maintaining public street, culverts, municipal boundary marks.

Define the limit of any alteration in limit of municipal area.

Acquisition of land.

Establishing and maintaining gymnasium, akhadas and home for disable destitute.

Construction public building like town hall, municipal office, shop, dharamshala, opens air theatre, studio and Rest House.

Maintaining public parks and gardens and also planting and maintaining road side and other trees.

To lay out and make new Public Street including tunnels, bridges, sub- ways and other works.

Issue notice for removal of part or portion of the building projecting beyond the regular line.

Prohibition of projections other than surface projection on street.

Revoke permission granted by the Chief Officer and to issue fresh permission in terms of section 184 (5).

In default of owner or occupier execute the work and recover the expenses.

Determination of damages, compensation etc.

Making survey to declare any street as a public street.

At present all such duties and functions are performed by the Standing Committee

3.

Health, Sanitation and Lighting

Performing fair, pilgrims etc.

Regulating or abating offensive or dangerous trades or practices.

Constructing, altering and maintaining markets, slaughter house, latrine, privies, baths, washing places, tanks.

Public vaccination.

Accommodation for calves, cows, or buffaloes for the supply of animal lymph.

Establishing and maintaining public dispensaries and providing public medical relief and organizing family planning centers.

Disposing off night soil and rubbish with preparation of compost manure from such night soil rubbish.

Providing special medical aid and accommodation for the sick in time of dangerous or communable diseases and taking such measures to prevent the outbreak of diseases.

Establishing and marinating public hospitals, lunatic asylums.

Securing and assisting to secure suitable place for carrying on of the offensive trade.

Establishment and maintenance of dairy farms and breeding studs.

Providing public medical relief or any other Institution of a charitable nature.

Improvement of huts.

Regulating bathing and washing places.

Control and prevention of dangerous diseases.

Prohibition of use of water likely to spread dangerous diseases.

Proceedings to abate over crowding of interiors of buildings.

Closing of place for disposal of dead
Provide and maintain municipal markets and slaughter house and issue license for private markets.
Control over preparation of food, eating house, lodging house, dairy and business of milk, milk products, factory etc.
Subject committee
To accord administrative approval and financial sanction for execution of developmental work up to Rs. 10,000 / -.
It is a sub ordinate to standing committee.
To prepare project and proposal subject wise through standing committee.