Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply (Tamil Nadu)

The present Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department is one of the Department of Government of Tamil Nadu

History

• The present 'Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department' came into being in Secretariat in year 1916 in the name 'Local and Municipal Department'.^[3]
• A separate full-fledged Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply was formed in 1984, after bifurcation from the Rural Development and Local Administration Department of Secretariat.^[4]

Objective & Functions of the Department

The increase in the urban population in the State has placed tremendous responsibility on the Government to provide civic services of a high order so as to maintain and improve the quality of urban life. Apart from planning the growth of the urban centers, this Government is taking steps to arrest the degradation of urban environment due to the increasing pressure of the population so that the urban areas do not degenerate into urban slums. The higher expectations of the people in the urban areas is an added dimension of the challenge. Provision of a clear urban environment and maintaining public health in the urban areas call for an integrated approach in the provision of core civic services. In this direction, this Government is committed to increase the investment in the urban sector and is taking effective steps by implementing various schemes. The Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply is responsible for coordinating the activities of various organizations and agencies in the planning, execution and maintenance of measures to provide improved infrastructure and services in the urban areas of the State

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Works

According to the allocation of subjects as per the Business Rules, this Department has been allocated the following items of work:^[6]

• Roads and bridges vesting in Municipalities and Municipal Corporations.
• Corporation of Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Salem, Thiruchirapalli and Tirunelveli. Elections relating to Municipal Corporations and Municipalities.
• Fees (Licence fees levied by Municipalities and Municipal Corporations in respect of Public Health matters).
• Local Boards – General Administration and all matters relating to them not specifically assigned to other Departments.
• Municipality and Municipal Corporation – Audit report.
• Building Permission - Development works in Municipalities and Municipal Corporations under Five Year Plans.
• Local self Government, that is to say, the Constitution and powers of Municipalities and Municipal Corporations.
• Markets
• Municipalities Constitution, abolition and dissolution and General Administration and all matters relating to them not specifically assigned to other departments.
• Public Services – Statutory Rules of the services with which this department is concerned – Revision and amendments to those rules.
• Sanction of prosecution of Government servants.
• State Works and Buildings under the administrative control of this department.
• Taxes on advertisements other than advertisements published in news-papers leviable by Municipalities and Municipal Corporations.
• Taxes on animals.
• Taxes on lands and buildings. Taxes on professions, trades, callings and employments.
• Theatres and dramatic performance, Cinemas (Places of Public Resort Act)
• The Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board.
• Tolls (including tolls on vehicles and animals entering a notified festival area of Municipalities and Municipal Corporations)
• Zoological gardens.
• Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board.
• Fees (Licence fees levied by Municipalities and Municipal Corporations in respect of Public Health matters).
• Pilgrim Tax

Objective & Functions of the Department

The following are the Objective and purpose of the Municipal Administration and Water Supply : The increase in the urban population in the State has placed tremendous responsibility on the Government to provide civic services of a high order so as to maintain and improve the quality of urban life. Apart from planning the growth of the urban centers, this Government is taking steps to arrest the degradation of urban environment due to the increasing pressure of the population so that the urban areas do not degenerate into urban slums. The higher expectations of the people in the urban areas is an added dimension of the challenge. Provision of a clear urban environment and maintaining public health in the urban areas call for an integrated approach in the provision of core civic services. In this direction, this Government is committed to increase the investment in the urban sector and is taking effective steps by implementing various schemes. The Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply is responsible for coordinating the activities of various organizations and agencies in the planning, execution and maintenance of measures to provide improved infrastructure and services in the urban areas of the State

Sub - Departments

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Undertakings & Bodies

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Present Ministers (2011-Till)

• K. P. Munusamy, Minister for Municipal Administration

Former Ministers

• 2006 - 2011:
  • Karunanidhi - Minister for Home
  • R. Viswanathan - Minister for Prohibition and Excise

See also

• Government of Tamil Nadu
• Tamil Nadu Government's Departments
• Ministry of Urban Development (India)
• Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (India)
• Department of Finance (Kerala)

References

External links

• http://www.tn.gov.in/departments/maws.html, Official Website of the (Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department 1)
• http://www.tn.gov.in/maws/ (Official Website of the Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department 2)
• http://www.tn.gov.in (Official website of Government of Tamil Nadu)
• http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proactive/maws/handbook_MAWS.pdf (Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department RTI)

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