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.