Section 538(1) in Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959
(1)If at any time upon representation made it appears to the State Government that the Corporation is not competent to perform or persistently makes default in the performance of the duties imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force or exceeds or abuses more than once its powers, the State Government may, after having given the Corporation an opportunity to show cause why such order should not be made, by an order published with the reasons therefor in the Official Gazette to dissolve the Corporation.