URBAN LOCAL BODIES Urban local bodies are responsible for

administering the governance of the urban areas

through elected representatives.
History Behind the Evolution of Urban Bodies in India:
•The first Municipal Corporation was set up in India in the year 1687 at Madras, followed by Bombay and Calcutta in
the year 1726.
•Lord Ripon is regarded as the father of local self-government for his resolution on local self-government in 1882
which is beheld as the ‘Magna Carta’ of local self-government.
•In September 1991 PV Narasimha Rao’s government introduced a modified version of the Municipalities Bill in the
Lok Sabha which emerged as the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act in 1992. It came into force on the 1st of June
1993.
•The municipalities are incorporated under Part IX-A of the Constitution under Articles 243P to 243-ZG.
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Significance of ULBs:
•They provide urban services efficiently, effectively and
STATE GOVERNMENT’S DIVISIONS equitably.
•They plan for economic and social development.
•They regulate land-use and construction of buildings.
DISTRICTS •They regulate water supply for domestic, industrial and
(Zila – Parishad) commercial purposes.
Urban Rural •They maintain the Public health, sanitation conservancy
and solid waste management.
BLOCKS VILLAGES •They administer various acts and regulations.
(Tehsils) (Gram Panchayat) •They implement the schemes of the central government
at the ground level.
•They perform the task of poverty alleviation.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
(Mahanagar – Palika)
Siliguri Municipal Corporation :
MUNICIPALITY • Siliguri, the gateway of Northeast India, is one of the
WARDS
(Nagar – Palika) most rapidly developing metropolis of the state.
CITY COUNCILS Situated in the Darjeeling district and though it is the
(Nagar – Panchayat) district's largest city, the district headquarters is in
Darjeeling.
Hierarchy Chart of Urban Local Bodies in India
• Siliguri is a unique city as 14 out of 47 wards of Siliguri
Municipal Corporation fall in the neighboring
Functions of SMC: Jalpaiguri district.
• Siliguri Municipality gets status as a corporation in
Obligatory Functions Discretionary 1994.
Functions Municipal Corporation
1. Supply of drinking water 1. Maintenance of
2. Construction and orphanages and rescue
maintenance of roads homes Council Standing committees Commissioner
3. Street lighting 2. Arrangement of housing legislative assists the working of the Municipal
4. Drainage and sewage of facilities for low-income body is council. It deals with Commissioner is the
headed by public work, education, chief executive
the town groups
the mayor taxation, health, finance, authority of the
5. Waste disposal 3. Providing treatment who is and so on corporation and is
6. Control of epidemics facilities, etc. assisted by responsible for
7. Maintenance of the the deputy implementation of
health care facility of the mayor decisions of council
town. and standing
committees
8. Supply of electricity.

Submitted by – Anirban Mukhopadhyay B. Planning 2nd Year LSAD

Regn. No. – 12116009 Submitted to – Mr. Vinod Singh Parmar