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The Corporation shall, having, regard to the available resources, provide civic services including water supply, sewerage and drainage, solid waste management, and construction and inainienanceof streets, and shall enforce lhe provisions of this Act and if so required by any other law in forcc for the lime being, ihe provisions or such law relating ro town planning, land use, controls regarding regular lines of streets, control of overground and underground building operations and protection of environment against pollution and noise-pollution; and community health, and for these purposes il shall be incumbent on the Corporation lo make adequate provisions, by any means or measures which ii may lawfully use or take, for each of the following mailers:— (a) the construction and maintenance of water-works and providing, by itself or by any agency, means for supply of ' water for public and private purposes; -(aa) providing, by ilsel f or by an agency, means of supply of water for firefighling purposes; -{aaa) measures as may be required for fire prevention and fire Wcsi Ben safely under the Wesl Bengal Fire Services Act, 1950, and the Act XVIII of rules made thereunder; (b) the construction, maintenance and clcansing of sewers and drains, sewerage and drainage works, and public latrines, urinals and similar conveniences; (c) the scavenging, removal and disposal of filth, rubbish and other obnoxious of polluted matters; (d) the reclamation of unhealihy localities, theremovalof noxious vegetation and generally the abatement of all nuisances; (e) the construction, maintenance, alteration and improvement of public streets and street furniture, bridges, culverts, flyovers, subways, causeways and the like; iSec fool-rime 7 on page 573. ante. ^Clauses (aa) and (am) were inserted by s. 8 of (he Calculla Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Acl. 1996 (West Ren. Act V] of 19W| [Wcsl Ben, Acl 602 The Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980. (Part U.—Constitution and Government.—Chapter IV.—Powers and functions of the municipal authorities and the officers of the Corporation.—A. Powers and functions of lhe Corporation.—Section 29.) (0 lhe lighting, watering and cleansing of public streets and other public places; (g) lhe removal orobstructionsand projections in orupon streets, bridges and other public phccs; (h) the naming and numbering or streets and premises; (i) the planting and care of trees on road-sides and elsewhere; (j) the control of regular lines of streets; (k) the control of building operations and securing or removal or dangerous buildings and places; (1) lhe regulation or underground building operations; ' (m) the co-ordination of overground rights enjoyed by service agencies; (n) the co-ordination of activities or agencies relating to laying and maintenance or underground railways, pipelines, lubes, cables and the like; (0) the lying DU! or the maintenance OR public parks, gardens or recreation grounds;; (p) Lhe registration or births and deaths; (q) Lhe regulation of places Tor the disposal of lhe dead and the provision and maintenance of places for the said purpose; (r) measures forprcvcntingandcheckingthespreadofdangerous diseases; (s) public vaccination of inoculation; (1) the organization ormanagemeittorchcmical or bacteriological laboratories for examination or analysis or waier, food and drugs for lhe detection ordiseases or research connected with community health or medical relief; ■ (u) the construction and maintenance of municipal markets and slaughter-houses and lhe regulation or all markets and slaughter-houses; (v) Lhe regulation and abatement or offensive or dangerous trades or praclices; (w) lhe maintenance of all monuments vesled in Lhe Corporation; (x) the maintenance and development or ail properties vesled in or entrusted to lhe management of Lhe Corporation; (y) the mainlenance of a vigilance organisation in respect of its various functions; The Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 19S0. 603 LIX of 1980.] Discretionary functions of the corporalion. (Pan 11.—Constitution and Government.—Chapter IV.—Powers and functions of the municipal author/lies and the officers of the Corporation.—A. Powers and functions of the Corporation.—Seciion 30.) (z) lhc compilation and maintenance of rccords and statistics relatinglo the administration andfunclions of the Corporation under this Act; and (za) the fulfilment of any oilier obligation imposed by or under [his Acl or any olhcr law inforce for lhc time being.