Twelfth Schedule
18 subjects that can be devolved to Municipalities (urban local government), added by the 74th Amendment (1992). · Article 243W
The urban counterpart to the Eleventh Schedule — lists subjects state legislatures can hand down to Municipalities, as part of the 74th Amendment's push for genuine urban local self-governance.
The 18 Subjects
- Urban planning including town planning
- Regulation of land use and construction of buildings
- Planning for economic and social development
- Roads and bridges
- Water supply for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes
- Public health, sanitation, conservancy and solid waste management
- Fire services
- Urban forestry, protection of the environment and ecological aspects
- Safeguarding the interests of weaker sections, including the disabled and mentally retarded
- Slum improvement and upgradation
- Urban poverty alleviation
- Provision of urban amenities and facilities such as parks, gardens, playgrounds
- Promotion of cultural, educational and aesthetic aspects
- Burials and burial grounds, cremations and cremation grounds and electric crematoriums
- Cattle pounds, prevention of cruelty to animals
- Vital statistics including registration of births and deaths
- Public amenities including street lighting, parking lots, bus stops and public conveniences
- Regulation of slaughter houses and tanneries
This is what your municipal corporation is constitutionally empowered to actually handle — the same civic issues (potholes, garbage collection, water supply) covered in our Potholes & Civic Complaints rights category trace back to this Schedule's grant of authority.
Related article
The core article empowering states to devolve these subjects to Municipalities
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