Who was the friend of Yasmin Khala?

Where is the relationship between neighbours are healthier?

In a Municipal Corporation, the elected members are called_________.

The Ward Councillors meet and they make a ______ and the _______ is spent according to this.

Surat was one of the ........... in India.

The .......... and the ............ staff are appointed, councillors are elected.

Property taxes however form only 20-30 percent of the money that a .......... earns.

Gangabai was a respected and much loved woman.

Yasmin Khala was a retired Judge

Name four metropolitan cities in India.

Who decides where a park should go?

Define Urbanisation.

What are the public amenities?

Give any four examples of metropolitan cities in India.

Who are the people who do all these works?

What did Gangabai say when the Commissioner said that there were not enough trucks in the city?

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 neighbourhoods 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 25-30 per cent of its money.
(i) 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?

What qualifications are needed to become a member of the Municipality?

Why did Gangabai go to the Councillor's house? What did he suggest?

What are the functions of Ward Committee?

List the functions of the Chief Executive Officer in a Municipal Corporation.