Functions & Duties Of the Board
It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the Cantonment for :
- (i) Lighting streets and other public places
- (ii) Watering streets and other public places
- (iii) Cleaning streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation
- (iv) Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices
- (v) Removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places
- (vi) Securing or removing dangerous buildings and places
- (vii) Acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead
- (viii) Constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, bridges, causeways, markets, slaughter-house, latrines, privies, urinals, drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use
- (ix) Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places
- (x) Providing or arranging for a supply of potable water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used
- (xi) Registering births and deaths
- (xii) Preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective;
- (xiii) Establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, maternity and child welfare centers and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief
- (xiv) Establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools
- (xv) Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occurs
- (xvi) Maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the management of the board
- (xvii) Establishing and maintaining civil defence services
- (xviii) Preparing and implementing town planning schemes
- (xix) Preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice
- (xx) Naming and numbering of streets and premises
- (xxi) According or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building
- (xxii) Organizing, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities
- (xxiii) Celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon
- (xxiv) Fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force
