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The Councillors or Ward Members are chosen by direct election from electoral wards in the Nagar Panchayats. Town boards are also known by different names depending on the region, including: Nagar Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat, Municipal Board, Town Panchayat, and Pura Panchayat. Certain states lack Town Panchayats or equivalent urban local bodies.
Panchayat samiti is a local government body at the Taluka (sub-district)( level in India. It works for the villages that together are called a Block. The Panchayat Samiti is the link between the Gram Panchayat and Zilla Parishad. There are 351 panchayat samitis or block panchayats in Maharashtra.
A municipal corporation is a type of local government in India which administers urban areas with a population of more than one million. The growing population and urbanization of various Indian cities highlighted the need for a type of local governing body that could provide services such as healthcare, education, housing and transport by collecting property taxes and administering grants ...
The table below lists all the talukas (tahsils/tehsils) of all the thirty-six districts in the Indian state of Maharashtra, along with district-subdivision and urban status information of headquarters villages/towns, as all talukas are intermediate level panchayats between the zilla parishad (district councils) at the district level and gram panchayats (village councils) at the lower level.
Toll tax is the most important income of a municipality. All commercial vehicles may receive toll taxes, except auto rickshaw. Income is also generated from commercial activities like hotels, tourist centers, renting and sale of municipal property, and education cess.
Local Body Tax (LBT) is a levy that traders have to pay the local municipal corporation for goods imported to the state. It is an account-based tax for every raw material used or imported into the city's limits by all businesses, traders and manufacturers and replaces traditional tax collections.
The payment of the property tax is usually made before mid-October. The tax notice is drawn up in the name of the owner who is the only person liable for the property tax. The precise deadline for paying it varies depending on the method of payment chosen. Exemption from property tax. In certain situations the property tax allows exemptions.
Thus, when the Mayor receives or sees the guest off, he does it on behalf of all the citizens of Mumbai. Similarly, when the Mayor accords a civic reception or presents a civic address to a Monarch, or a President or a Prime Minister of any country, he does so in the name of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation and the citizens of Mumbai.