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Activities

Compulsory activities under section 63 of the Act carried out by the Municipal Corporation

1	To clean the garbage from all the roads of the city.
2	To collect and carry sewage and stinking substance, garbage, refuse.
3	To clean and maintain drains, gutter work and public lavotries, W.C., urinals.
4	To extinguish fire and provide security to life and property against fire.
5	To take steps against contagious diseases.
6	Arrangement of light on public roads.
7	To maintain Municipal office and monuments obtained by Municipality, open places.
8	To name the roads and public places obtained by the Corporation.
9	To maintain and regulate the places for disposal of dead bodies.
10	To construct, acquire and maintain public markets and slaughter houses.
11	To construct, acquire and maintain cattle lockers.
12	To vaccine for smallpox.
13	To maintain schools for primary education and make arrangement of paces for the same.
14	To improve the areas dangerous for health and remove the calamitous trees-fodder.
15	Birth & Death Registration.
16	To maintain and make public roads, bridges, sub-ways.
17	To remove any construction which disturbs and are outside the public roads, bridges.
18	To prevent dangerous diseases and its spread.
19	To secure or remove risky buildings and places.
20	To make provision for relief during famine and scarcity.
21	To expend upto 10% of revenue income in slum areas.

Voluntary services under section 66 of the Act carried out by the Municipal Corporation

1	Regarding organization or maintenance or arrangement of institutions in the city or outside the city for taking care of the incapable, sick and persons with incurable diseases or for care and education of blind, deaf, dumb or handicapped in other ways or children with disablement.
2	Regarding organization, maintenance or arrangement of maternity homes and child welfare homes or centers.
3	Regarding providing milk to the pregnant women or feeding mothers and children or to the school going children.
4	Investigation or analysis of water, food or medicines, to find out diseases or for research in respect of public health, regarding organization, maintenance or arrangement of laboratories in the subject of life science.
5	Regarding bath houses, public washing houses, bath places and other institutions established for public health services.
6	Regarding providing milk or milk products for the benefits of citizens and its distribution and for carrying out process thereon, dairies or other spheres in the city or outside the city.`
7	Regarding drinking water taps for the people on public roads or places or troughs for cattle.
8	Regarding planting and maintaining trees on road sides and at other places.
9	To make provision for music for the people.
10	To make provision of public gardens, sports grounds and entertainment places, gardens.
11	To arrange exhibitions and experiments of exercises and sports.
12	Regarding regulation of boarding houses, camp houses and rest houses.
13	Regarding maintenance of ambulance service.
14	Regarding constructing, establishing and maintaining theatres, rest houses and other public buildings.
15	Regarding organization or maintenance of shops or market for selling essential commodities in event of scarcity.
16	Regarding constructing or purchasing and maintaining residential dwellings for Municipal Officers and employees.
17	Regarding providing finance to Municipal employees for buildings or construction subject to the conditions resolved by the Corporation.
18	To make any application of welfare for Municipal employees or its any class.
19	Regarding purchasing any gadgets for supply of electricity or gas or to commence any programme for general interest of the public or to provide financial assistance to them.
20	Regarding constructing, purchasing and organizing, maintaining or making the arrangements of light, railway, tramway, trams without tracks or facilities of transportation through motor vehicles in the city or outside the city for the people and to and fro of goods.
21	Regarding encouraging the objects mentioned in Part 15 of Section 63 and regarding disbursing grant to educational institutions in the city or outside the city.
22	To establish and maintain or to assist the Libraries, Museums, Art Galleries, Horticulture or Zoos and regarding purchasing or constructing the buildings for them.
23	Regarding constructing or maintaining the dispensary or hospital for animals.
24	Regarding destroying harmful birds and beasts or insects and detaining or destructing stray dogs.
25	Regarding contributing in any public fund raised for eradication of human grief and public welfare.
26	Regarding preparing certificates of honour to be handed over to the prestigious individuals or to award certificate of honour.
27	Regarding registration of marriages.
28	Regarding giving prizes for providing information for statistical registration in the matter of life.
29	Regarding paying salary and allowances, rent and other expenses or part of expense for relevant to maintenance of Court to any salaried Magistrate.
30	To acquire and maintain graze fields and to establish and maintain place for horse breeding.
31	Regarding establishing and maintaining the facilities or factory for disposal of sewage.
32	To clear sewage and to provide places for releasing the same in gutters under control of the Corporation as per the general system approved by the Corporation or to construct and maintain tanks, joined works, pipes and any other equipments for the use of such places.
33	Regarding awarding prizes for providing information in respect of the violation of any provisions of this Act or Rules, Bylaws or Standing Orders.
34	Regarding drawing new public roads in the areas in which construction has been carried out or not carried out and to construct buildings for the said purpose on such roads or such roads or to acquire required land for their compound.
35	Regarding constructing or purchasing and maintaining proper residences for poor and labour classes or regarding providing finance or extending other facilities to any individual, society or institution having interest in providing such residences.
36	Regarding providing shelter to helpless or persons without shelter and regarding making provision of any type of relief for poors.
37	Regarding constructing or purchasing and maintaining healthy stables or animal-camps for horses, ponies used in horse carts or carts or cattle or milching cows.
38	Regarding surveying the buildings and lands.
39	Regarding applying means to meet any calamity affecting the people of the city.
40	Regarding contributing in the funds of local independent body of Bombay.
41	Regarding contributing in any public programme or entertainment with prior approval of the State Government.
42	Regarding applying any means not referred hereinabove for the which increases the security of the people, health facilities and education.

To meet with the above services, Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation recovers main revenue income of taxes - General Tax, Conservancy Tax, Water Charge [Meter & Unmetered], Octroi etc. taxes. The income is not derived from all activities. Out of the above services, the conservancy service and water service is provided with deficit and the same is adjusted in main income.