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UNIT-IV

Local Administration

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• Districts Administration head: Role & Importance
• Municipalities: Introduction, Mayor and role of elected representative, CEO of Municipal corporation
• Panchayati Raj: Introduction
• PRI: Zilapanchayat, Elected officials and their roles
• CEO Zilapanchayat: Position and role
• Block level: Organisational hierarchy
• Village level: Role of elected and appointed officials, Importance of grass root democracy.

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Facts about municipalities:

• It is a form of Local self government for selected urban area.
• Its power and jurisdiction will extend up to the area allotted for the municipality.
• It was made constitutional by 74^th amendment act 1992

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• There are eight types of urban local government in India:
• Municipal corporation
• Municipality
• Notified area committee
• Town area committee
• Cantonment board
• Township
• Port trust
• Special purpose agency

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Municipal corporation:

• Municipal corporations are created for the administration of big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and others.
• A municipal corporation has 3 authorities namely,
• The council
• The standing committee
• The commissioner
• The council consist of councillors directly elected by people and is headed by a Mayor while the commissioner is appointed by state government and is generally an IAS officer.

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Municipality:

• The municipalities are established for the administration of towns and smaller cities.
• They are known by various other names like municipal council, municipal committee, municipal board, borough municipality, city municipality and others.
• In composition they are quite similar to municipal corporations except that head of council is called president/chairman and in place of commissioner they have a chief executive officer/chief municipal officer.

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• Types of Municipalities:

The municipalities can be of 3 types based on the

1. Nagar panchayat: For areas which are transforming from rural areas to urban area.
2. Municipal council: For a smaller urban area.
3. Municipal corporation: For a large urban area.

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Notified area committee:

• A notified area committee is created for the administration of two types of areas.
• A fast developing town due to industrialisation, and
• A town which does not yet fulfil all the conditions necessary for the constitution of a municipality, but which otherwise is considered important by the state government.
• It is called so because it is created by a notification and unlike the municipality it is an entirely nominated body, i.e., all members, including the chairman, are nominated by the state government.
• Thus, it is neither a statutory body nor an elected body.

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Town area committee:

• It is set up by a separate act of state legislature for the administration of a small town.
• It is a semi-municipal authority entrusted with limited number of civic functions.
• It may be wholly elected or wholly nominated or partly elected and partly nominated as provided by state government.

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Cantonment Board:

• It is established for municipal administration for civilian population in the cantonment areas.
• It is set up under the provisions of the cantonment Act, 2006 by central government and works under Defence ministry of central government.
• It is partly elected and partly nominated body having the Military officer commanding the station as its ex-officio president.
• Vice president is elected amongst by the elected members of board.
• The executive officer of the cantonment board is appointed by the president of India.

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Township:

• It is established by large public enterprises to provide civic amenities to its staff and workers, who live in the housing colonies built near the plant.
• It is not an elected body and all members, including the town administrator, is appointed by the enterprise itself.

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Port Trust:

• The port trusts are established in the port areas like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai.
• Two purposes:-
• To manage and protect the ports
• To provide civic amenities

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• It is created by an act of parliament
• It consists of both elected and nominated members.

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Special purpose agency:

• The states have set up certain agencies to undertake designated activities or specific functions that legitimately belong to the domain of municipal corporations, municipalities or other local urban governments.
• In other words, these are function based, not area based.
• They are known as ‘single purpose’, ‘uni-purpose’ or ‘special purpose’ or ‘functional local bodies’ like town improvement trust, housing boards, pollution control boards e.t.c.,

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• They are established as statutory bodies by an act of state legislature or as departments by an executive resolution.
• They function as an autonomous body and are not subordinate agencies to local municipal bodies.

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