Section 2(1)(f) in The Prohibition Of Employment As Manual Scavengers And Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
(f)“local authority” means,—(i)a Municipality or a Panchayat, as defined in clause (e) and clause (f) of article 243P of the Constitution, which is responsible for sanitation in its area of jurisdiction;(ii)a Cantonment Board constituted under section 10 of the Cantonments Act, 2006 (41 of 2006); and(iii)a railway authority;