Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the State Government may, subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose, transfer, by order published in the Official Gazette, to the Corporation any such function or duty of the State Government under any law which the State Legislature is competent to make, or which is otherwise within the executive power of the State and appears to relate to a matter arising within the Corporation area, being of an administrative character, and shall, on such transfer, allot to the Corporation such fund and personnel as may be necessary to enable the Corporation to discharge the function, or the duty, so transferred. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), the State Government may transfer to the Corporation such functions and duties as are performed by the departments of the'State Government on any of following matters, namely:— (a) town and country planning, (b) urban tievelopment, (c) urban development including urban water-supply and sanitation, (d) urban transport system including regulation of traffic terminus, (e) urban employment schemes and programmes, (f) health and family welfare, (g) relief and social welfare including social security schemes and programmes, (h) public works including road construction and housing, (i) cottage and small-scale industries, (j) education including primary education, adult education, social education, non-formal education, audio-visual education, and library services, (k) food and supplies including rationing and distribution, (1) civil defence, (m) fire-protection and fire-fighting, (n) sports and youth services, (o) welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, (p) environmental safety and improvement. (3) Where any function or duty conferred by or under any law is so transferred, that law shall have effect as if this section had been incorporated in that law. 60 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 29, 2008 [PART III The West Bengal Municipal Corporation Act, 2006. (Part 1V.—Chapter VIII.—Powers and functions of Corporation.— Sections 100, 101.) Power to transfer any function of Corporation under the Act to any organization. Powers of the Corporation to enter into any business or venture.