Social Studies [1 Mark Questions]

In smaller towns Municipal Corporation is called the Municipal Council.

Chandigarh.

The hiring of private contractors to undertake jobs like collecting garbage, cleaning streets, building bridges and roads by the Municipal Corporation.

The city of Surat had a plague scare in 1994. Surat was one of the dirtiest cities in India.

Panchs.

In the nearest drain or street.

A sum of money that people pay to the government for the services that government provides.

Surat.

Private contractors who collect and process garbage.

Kabadi Wallah.

A city is much larger and bigger than a village. It is more spread out.

The person who is elected by the people of a ward is called the municipal councilor or ward councilor.

The head of the Municipal Corporation.

There is the water department, the garbage collection department, a department to look after roads etc.

A Municipal Corporation administers a city that has a population of over 10 lakhs. The smaller cities are administered by Municipal Committee.

Temporary.

A municipality is either in the form of a Municipal Committee or a Municipal Council. It is found in towns and small cities.

Different taxes such are property tax, vehicle tax, water tax, entertainment tax, octroi tax, and service tax.

Ward Councilors.

A district collector is a Central Indian government officer who is in charge of the governance of a district in a State. He is the most powerful officials of the district.

The diseases that spread rapidly among many people in a same place for a particular time is known as an epidemic.

Ward councilors.

In a city, the elected ward Councilor is a Municipal Councilor.

Commissioner.

Municipal Council.

The members of the corporation that are elected by the people of each ward to represent their wards are known as ward councillors.

The chief executive officer of a Municipal Corporation is called a Municipal Commissioner. He is elected for five years.

The members of the municipal corporation elect some mature and esteemed people of the city to the corporation. They are called ‘aldermen’.

Municipality is the local body of the city having a small population.

Municipal Corporation or Nagar Nigam-Municipal Council or simply Municipality or Nagar Palika-Town Committee or Nagar Panchayat. (write a few lines on each from the chapter).

One good lesson that was learnt from Surat episode was to keep the city clean. To this date, it continues to be the second cleanest city after Chandigarh, in India.

The duty levied on goods brought into the town is called an Octroi.

For the purpose of better administration and elections.

The urban habitat with a population between ten thousands to twenty thousand is a town.

Municipal Corporation is also responsible for ensuring the health of the people. It also runs schools, hospitals and dispensaries.

The local bodies of the corporation in a society are: Nyaya Panchayat, Municipal Committee and Municipal Corporation.

A Grant in Aid is the aid given to the local bodies by the government for meeting their expenditure.

A museum is a building in which objects depicting art, history, science etc. are displaced.

The head of a municipality is called a councillor.

Ward Councillors take decisions where a park should go.

Taxes.

The Commissioner is appointed by the government.

Decisions are implemented by the Commissioner and administrative staff.

When the problems are within a ward then the people who live in the ward should contact their councillors.

The complicated decisions that affect the entire city are taken by groups of councillors who form com-mittees to decide and debate on the issue.

In the smaller towns it is called the Municipal Council.

The Municipal Corporation also runs schools, hospitals and dispensaries. They can also be run by the State Government as well as by the Central Government.

The Municipal Corporation is responsible for preventing the spread of diseases.

In the urban areas the Municipal Corporation is the body which is responsible for many work.

The children spent their pocket money to have it replaced.

When all were playing cricket, window glass of Nirmala Mausi had broken.

They were playing cricket.

The Municipal Corporation has various departments such as water department, a department to look after gardens, another to look after roads.

The city is divided into different wards and Ward Councillors get elected. The decisions like where a park or a new hospital should go are usually made by the Ward Councillors.

Municipal Councillors are the elected members of the Municipal Corporation. They are elected by the registered voters of the city for five years.

The people who do all these works are the officers, officials and the elected representatives of the civic body.

Planning is done by a set procedure.

Yes, decisions are made by the urban administrative machinery.

Yes, we have ever wondered that these services are run by the urban administration.