Social Science [1 Mark Questions]

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Ward councilors.

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

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

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

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

Commissioner.

Temporary.

Ward Councilors.