discuss the structure and function of municipality in West Bengal answer in 500 words
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Organizational Structure
Department of Municipal Affairs is entrusted with the responsibility of providing legal and administrative support to the ULBs of the State and to implement some of the development program through the municipal bodies. Urban development planning and infrastructural development are looked into by the Urban Development Department through various autonomous authorities/ agencies created under relevant Acts. Currently, one Minister-in-Charge looks after the affairs of the department. The Secretariat supervises the various functions of the Directorate and other organizations which are related to the department.
Chairman / Mayor, elected by the majority of the Board of Councilors (BOC), is the executive head of the ULB and presides over the meetings of the Chairman-in- Council / Mayor-in-Council responsible for governance of the body. The executive power of a ULB is exercised by the Council. The Chairman-in-Council / Mayor-in-Council, enjoys such power as is delegated by the Board. Every ULB, having a population of three lakh or more, groups the wards into five (up to 15 in respect of a municipal corporation) boroughs. The boroughs are constituted with not less than six contiguous wards and a Borough Committee is constituted for each borough. The Councilors of the respective wards are the members of such Borough Committee and elect the Chairman (not being a member of Chairman-in—Council / Mayor-in-Council) from among themselves.
Functions Of Municipality-
(1) in the sphere of public works,-
(a) providing by itself or by an agency, means for supply of water for public and private purposes;
(b) construction, maintenance and cleansing of sewers and drains sewerages and drainage works,
(c) construction, maintenance and cleansing of public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences,
(d) construction, maintenance, alteration and improvement of public streets and street furniture, bridges and culverts, flyovers,
subways cause-ways and the like,
(e) naming of streets and numbering of premises;
(f) lighting of public streets and other public places;
(g) planting and care of trees on road-side and elsewhere;
(h) construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughter houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter house
(i) maintenance of all monuments vested in the Municipality
(j) providing by itself or by an agency, means of supply of water for firefighting purposes,
(2) in the sphere of public health and sanitation,-
(a) collection, removal and disposal of solid wastes including filth rubbish and other obnoxious or polluted matters;
(b) disposal of solid and liquid wastes consistent with efforts to cause recovery and re-use of all that can be salvaged;
(c) reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances;
(d) regulating and abating offensive and dangerous trades or practices;
(e) cleansing of public streets and other public places;
(f) ensuring the wholesomeness of water supplied for drinking and domestic purposes;
(g) maintenance of all public tanks and regulating the re-excavation, repair and up-keep of all private tanks, wells and other sources of water supply on such terms and conditions as the Municipality may deem proper;