- Providing public services required by local people in their areas of jurisdiction. These include educational facilities like schools and libraries, cattle dips, waters supply, roads e.t.c.
- They run social services like day care centres, social clubs, meal services and hostels e.t.c.
- Provision of housing facilities in Urban areas. They clear slum dwellings, build and manage new houses, provide sewarage, rubbish disposal, street lighting e.t.c.
- Providing recreation services like swimming pools, sports grounds, parks, museums, gardens, public films shows e.t.c.
- Are responsible for public health functions like food hygiene dispensaries, cleanliness in shops and offices, ortuaries, ambulance services, vaccination and immunisation programmes.
- Burying destitute persons who die within their areas of jurisdiction i.e no relatives to claim and bury them
- Regulating trading activities through provisions of markets, abattoirs, consumer protection, trading licenses and permits.
- Providing building regulation and protection. They approve building plans, provide fire control / services.
- Passing by – laws to regulate specific aspects of public life e.g prohibition of dumping rubbish in certain areas. By laws are approved by Local government.
- Providing job and training opportunities for people within their jurisdiction e.g councilors, administrators, clerks, labourers.
- It enhances participatory democracy as it affords the people to participate in the management of public affairs and their government through elected mayors, chairman and councilors.
- Assisting officers of the central government at district level to find solutions to local problems. They are better placed to determine the nature and complexity of local problems.
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