Providing by itself or by an agency, means for supply of water for public and private purposes;
Construction, maintenance and cleansing of sewers and drains, sewerage and drainage works;
Construction, maintenance and cleansing of public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences;
Construction, maintenance, alteration and improvement of public streets and street furniture, bridges and culverts, flyovers, subways, cause-ways and the like;
Naming of streets and numbering of premises;
Lighting of public streets and other public places;
Planting and care of trees on road-side and elsewhere;
Construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughter houses and the regulation of all markets and slaughter houses;
Maintenance of all monuments vested in the Municipality;
Providing by itself or by an agency, means of supply of water for fire-fighting purposes
In The Sphere of Public Health and Sanitation :
Collection, Removal and disposal of solid wastes including filth, rubbish and other obnoxious or polluted matters;
Disposal of solid and liquid wastes consistent with efforts to cause recovery and re-use of all that can be salvaged;
Reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances;
Regulating and abating offensive and dangerous trades or practices;
Cleansing of public streets and other public places;
Ensuring the wholesomeness of water supplied for drinking and domestic purposes;
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;
Provide for places for the disposal of the dead and the regulation and maintenance of such places;
Measures for preventing and checking the spread of dangerous diseases;
Immunisation including public vaccination and inoculation;
Removal and disposal of the unclaimed dead bodies and carcasses of all dead animals;
Abatement of nuisances from birds and animals including dog menace;
Conversion of all service privies into sanitary latrines and providing adequate facilities for sanitation so that open defecation may be completely done away with;
In The Sphere of Town Planning and Development :
Devising town planning within the limits of the municipal area in accordance with the laws relating to town planning for the time being in force;
Planned development of the borders of the municipal area in accordance with the laws applicable for the purpose;
Improvement of bustees;
Control of regular lines of streets;
Control of all building operations and regulation of building uses;
Co-operation of all over ground rights enjoyed by service agencies;
Co-ordination of activities of agencies relating to laying and maintenance of underground pipelines tubes, cables and the like;
Laying out and maintenance of public parks, squares, gardens or recreation areas;
Re-development of congested areas for providing better living conditions;
Planned development of new areas for human settlement;
Preservation of monuments and places of historical, artistic and other importance;
Measures for beautification of the township by setting up fountains and status, providing recreational areas, improving river banks, landscaping and the like;
In The Sphere of Administration :
Survey of buildings and lands and preparation and maintenance from time to time of survey maps and plans of the town and other records relating to survey;
Removal of Unauthorised encroachment on, or obstruction of public places;
Securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places;
Registration of births and deaths;
Providing boundary marks for the municipal area;
Drawing up an Annual Administration Report on the activities and performances of the Municipality and submission, in the manner prescribed, of such report to the State Government;
Compilation and maintenance of records and statistics relating to the administrative functions of the Municipality;
Maintenance and development of all properties vested in or entrusted with the management of the Municipality;
Checking the construction of Unauthorised buildings and pulling down unlawful constructions;
Ensuring the stoppage of wastage of water supply and other civic facilities;
Protecting public properties in general and civic properties in particular;
Abatement of pollutions of all kinds;
Measures as may be required for fire prevention and fire safety under the West Bengal Fire Services Act, 1950, and the rules made there under;
Providing for adequate training facilities for the municipal employees and equipping and motivating them for public service;
