Name the local bodies that look after the urban areas.

Ans: The local bodies that look after the problems of the urban areas are:

• Municipal Corporations
• Municipalities
• Town Area Committees

Municipal Corporations: These are the local governing bodies of big cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai etc. The main functions of the municipal corporations are providing public health and sanitation, making arrangement for vaccination, supply of safe drinking water, clearing and disposal of garbage, cleaning roads, drains and public toilets.

Municipalities: Smaller towns and cities with population ranging between 20,000-5, 00,000 have municipalities as the local government body.

Town Area Committees: Municipalities and municipal corporations carry their day to day work with the help of a number of committees such as the education committee, the public health committee and the district planning committee.