It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the cantonment for—
- lighting streets and other public places;
- watering streets and other public places;
- cleansing streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation;
- regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices;
- removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places;
- securing or removing dangerous buildings and places;
- acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead;
- constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, bridges, causeways, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use;
- planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places;
- providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of potable water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used;
- registering births and deaths;
- preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective;
- establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, maternity and child welfare centres and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief;
- establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools;
- rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occurs;
- maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the management of the Board;
- establishing and maintaining civil defence services;
- preparing and implementing town planning schemes;
- preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice;
- naming and numbering of streets and premises;
- according or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building;
- organising, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities;
- celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon;
- fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.