Administrative Sections of ULB

Overview of various administrative sections in Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and their key responsibilities

Establishment Section

  • Personnel management
  • Election related matters (parliamentary and other elections)
  • Monitoring of court cases
  • Management of all immoveable properties of the ULB
  • Leasing and monitoring the leases of properties
  • Collection of rents

Secretarial Section

  • Providing secretarial support to the deliberative wing of ULB
  • Assisting in conduct of meetings
  • Maintaining minutes of meetings
  • Communicating decisions of governing body to executive wing

Accounts & Audit Section

  • Preparation of budgets
  • Processing bills and payment vouchers
  • Monitoring revenue generation
  • Maintenance of books of account
  • Maintenance of payroll and general provident fund
  • Management of treasury
  • Pre-audit of all receipts and payments
  • Verification and approval of payments

Revenue Section

  • Assessment and levy of property tax
  • Assessment and levy of vacant land tax
  • Collection and monitoring of taxes
  • Revenue generation monitoring

Town Planning Section

  • Formulation of building rules, master plan rules and zonal regulation
  • Implementation of master plans
  • Road widening programmes
  • Public spaces, roads and junctions improvement
  • Issuance of permission for buildings and layouts
  • Regularization and demolition of unauthorized constructions
  • Removal of encroachments

Health Section

  • Cleaning of streets and supervision of sanitation
  • Lifting and dumping of garbage in dumping yards
  • Spraying disinfecting materials under anti-malaria schemes
  • Maintenance of vehicles, diesel bunks, vehicle sheds, and workshops
  • Registration of births and deaths
  • Regulation of dangerous and offensive trades
  • Maintenance of slaughter houses and animal certification
  • Prevention of epidemics
  • Prevention of food adulteration
  • Management of dispensaries (Indian Medicine and Allopathic)
  • Management of dogmenas
  • Management of pigmeans

Engineering Section

  • Preparation of plans and estimates for civil works
  • Construction and maintenance of roads
  • Construction of buildings
  • Execution of civil works
  • Construction and maintenance of drains
  • Maintenance of water supply

Urban Poverty Alleviation (UPA)

  • Implementation of government developmental schemes
  • Strategy formulation for schemes
  • Identification of beneficiaries
  • Administration of schemes