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Whenever it appears to the State Government that any town, together with, or exclusive of, any railway station, village, land or building in the vicinity of any such town— (i) contains a population of not less than 20,000 inhabitants, (ii) has a density of population of not less than seven hundred and fifty inhabitants per square kilometre of area, and Ben. Act VI of 1914. 216 The West Bengal Municipal Act, 993. XXII of 1993.] (Part IL—The Municipal Areas.—Chapter IL—The Constitution of Municipal Areas.—Sections 4-7.) (iii) has an occupational pattern in which more than one-half of the adult population are chiefly engaged in pursuits other than agriculture, and if the State Government is satisfied that if such town is constituted a municipal area, the municipal income from taxation and other sources is likely to be adeq tate for the discharge of municipal function under this Act, the State Government may, by notification, declare its intension to constitute such town a municipal area under this Act.