(1)The Ward Committees and Ward Sabhas shall have the following duties, namely:-(i)disseminate information regarding the development and welfare activities;(ii)participate and propagate the programmes regarding health and literacy and other similar time-bound development, programmes;(iii)Collect essential Socio-economic basic data;(iv)provide information by collecting the progress regarding development activities;(v)adopt moral means for payment of taxes, repayment of loans, improvement of environmental cleanliness and maintenance of social harmony;(vi)mobilise, resources locally to augment the financial sources of the Municipality;(vii)supervise development activities as voluntary groups;(viii)make arrangements to report immediately the occurence of epidemics, natural calamities etc.;(ix)co-ordinate and implement the activities for the protection of nature to import knowledge to the people on environmental problem.
