7. Urban Administration
Class 6 Social Science
EXERCISE
Question 1. Why did the children go to Yasmin Khala’s house?
Answer: The children went to Yasmin Khala’s house to know about who is competent to replace the damaged street lights.
Question 2. List four ways in which the work of the Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller.
Answer: The Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller in several ways:
- It takes care of street lights.
- It ensures that diseases do not break out in the city.
- It runs schools, hospitals, and dispensaries.
- It takes care of garbage collection, water supply, keeping the streets and the market clean.
Question 3. Who is the Municipal Councillor?
Answer: The elected representative of a ward is the Municipal Councillor.
Question 4. What did Gangabai do and why?
Answer: Gangabai and other women of her locality were very much unhappy to find garbage lying all over the street and spreading foul smell. One day she said that it is the Ward Councillor who they should go to and protest since they are the ones who elected him. She gathered a small group of women and went to his house to get their problems solved.
Question 5. How does the Municipal Corporation earn the money to do its work?
Answer: Municipal Corporation earns money to do its work by collecting several types of taxes. They include:
- Property tax.
- Taxes for education and other amenities.
- Entertainment tax.
- Other taxes.
Question 6. Discuss: In the above two photographs (Fig. 7.1 and 7.2) you see different ways of collecting and disposing of garbage.
(i) Which way do you think provides safety to the person disposing garbage?
(ii) What are the dangers of collecting garbage in the manner shown in the first photograph?
(iii) Why do you think that proper ways of disposing of garbage are not available to those who work in municipalities?
Answer:
(i) The way shown in photo 2 provides safety to the person disposing of garbage.
(ii) The dangers of collecting garbage in the manner shown in the first photograph are:
- poisonous gas infection
- breathing problems
- falling sick
- falling victim to the epidemic.
- skin disease.
(iii) Proper ways of disposing of garbage are not available to those who work in municipalities because of the following reasons:
- The poor economic condition of the municipalities,
- Pilferage of municipal funds,
- Workers are not aware of their health,
- They do not want to work in right earnest,
- The government now has started providing trucks etc. but not still in adequate numbers.
Question 7.
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 neighborhoods 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 percent of its money.
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?
Answer:
It is important that the corporation should spend more money on slum localities because the major workforce lives in these colonies. They work so hard that the economic activities of the city-run smoothly. Hence, adequate money should be spent on slum locations.
It is also important that municipal corporation provides the poor in the city with the same facilities that the rich get because of the following reasons:
- God has sent both poor and rich as one and the same.
- Poor constitutes the major workforce. Health needs to be cared for.
- They must be hale and hearty.
अध्याय 7. शहरी प्रशासन
स्वाध्याय
- इसमें स्ट्रीट लाइट का ध्यान रखा गया है।
- यह सुनिश्चित करता है कि शहर में बीमारियां न फैले।
- यह स्कूल, अस्पताल और औषधालय चलाता है।
- यह कचरा संग्रह, पानी की आपूर्ति, सड़कों और बाजार को साफ रखने का ख्याल रखता है।
- संपत्ति कर।
- शिक्षा और अन्य सुविधाओं के लिए कर।
- मनोरंजन कर।
- अन्य कर।
- जहरीली गैस का संक्रमण
- साँस की परेशानी
- बीमार पड़ना
- महामारी का शिकार।
- त्वचा रोग।
- नगरपालिकाओं की खराब आर्थिक स्थिति,
- नगरपालिका निधियों का अधिकार,
- श्रमिकों को उनके स्वास्थ्य के बारे में पता नहीं है,
- वे सही तरीके से काम नहीं करना चाहते,
- सरकार ने अब ट्रक आदि उपलब्ध कराने शुरू कर दिए हैं लेकिन अभी भी पर्याप्त संख्या में नहीं।
