Chapter 6-Urban Administration Notes

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

One lazy Sunday afternoon Mala and her friends Shankar, Jehangir, and Rehana were playing cricket in the street. And break the street light.
They ran into Rehana’s house and told her mother what had happened. then Rehana’s mother said, that the best person for this work would be Yasmin Khala.
Yasmin Khala just retired from the Municipal Corporation. She lived in the same lane and she and Rehana’s mother were good friends.
The Municipal Corporation takes care of street lights, garbage collection, water supply, and keeping the streets and the market clean.
The Municipal Corporation is also responsible for ensuring that diseases do not break out in the city.
The Municipal Corporation also runs schools, hospitals and dispensaries and makes gardens and maintains them.
In a big city, it is called a Municipal Corporation and In smaller towns, it is called a Municipal Council.

The decisions like where a park or a new hospital should go are usually made by the Ward Councillors.
The city is divided into different wards and ward councillors get elected.
The complicated decisions that affect the entire city are taken by groups of councillors who form committees to decide and debate issues.
When the problems are within a ward then the people who live in the ward can contact their councillors.
While the Councillor’s Committees and the councillors decide on issues, the Commissioner and the administrative staff implement these.
The administrative staff are appointed whereas the Councillors are elected.
The budget for the maintenance of the ward is decided when the Councillors meet and formulate plans while considering the needs of the people of the ward.
Various departments handle the different needs of the ward. For instance, there is a water department, a department to maintain gardens, a garbage collection department, and a department for cleanliness and maintenance of the roads.

If there is any issue related to the health and well-being of the people living in the society, then the community of the ward can protest or submit a petition by addressing all the issues to the ward councillor. The ward councillor then takes care of it.
After the issues of the ward have reached the attention of the ward councillor, it is then taken care of by both the ward engineer and the ward councillor.
In the next step, a petition is forwarded to the office of the Municipal Corporation.
Then the particular ward community, with the help of their ward councillors, begin protests against the Municipal Corporation.
Lastly, the Municipal Corporation solves the issues with the right measures and strategic planning.
Lastly, the Municipal Corporation solves the issues with the right measures and strategic planning.