2. List four ways in which the work of the Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller.
Answer:
The following are work of Municipal Corporation in the city:
- Take care of street lights.
- To collect the garbage and keep the street and market clean
- Provide water supply
- Control the disease to spread
- Run public facilities such as Scholl, hospital, and dispensaries
- Make garden, park, and new public amenities.
3. Who is a Municipal Councillor?
Answer:
The elected representative of a smaller city or town is called Municipal Councillor. The smaller city has a Municipal council to administrate whereas the bigger city has Municipal Corporation.
5. How does the Municipal Corporation earn the money to do its work?
Answer:
Municipal Corporation earns money in the following way:
- Property tax(25-30 % of total )
- Tax on water and services
- Tax on Movies tickets.
- Market place tax
- Also, get from the state and central government scheme
6. Discuss
In the two photographs, you see different ways of collecting and disposing of garbage.
i) Which way do you think provides safety to the person disposing of garbage?
Answer:
- It is dangerous to human health by disposing of or collecting garbage by bare hand.
- The method of garbage disposal shown in the second image on the right side is safer because they are using the mask, hand globe, and van for disposing of the garbase.
ii) What are the dangers of collecting garbage in the manner shown in the first photograph?
Answer:
They are prone to infection of many communicable diseases such as malaria, skin infection,
7. Several poor people in the city work as domestic servants as well as work for the Corporation, keeping the city clean. Yet the slums in which they live are quite filthy. This is because these slums seldom have any water and sanitation facilities. The reason often given by the Municipal Corporation is that the land in which the poor have set up their homes does not belong to them and that slum-dwellers do not pay taxes. However, people living in middle-class neighborhoods pay very little in taxes compared to the amount of money the corporation spends on them in setting up parks, street lighting facilities, regular garbage collection, etc. Also as you read in this chapter, the property taxes collected by the Municipality makes up only 25-30 percent of its money. Why do you think it is important that the Corporation should spend more money on slum localities? Why is it important that the Municipal Corporation provide the poor in the city with the same facilities that the rich get?
Answer:
- The main job of a Municipal corporation is to provide municipal services to all city areas without discrimination. Discrimination is any farm is against our constitution and against social justice.
- The municipal corporation has also the responsibility to provide the basic amenities to everyone, if slum area is lacking with basic amenities, they should spend more on these areas.
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