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Earn 100
List four ways in which the work of the Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller.
Important Questions on Urban Administration
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Who is a municipal councillor?
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What did Gangabai do and why?
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How does the Municipal Corporation earn the money to do its work?
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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 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?
