CBKC Duties

• Lighting streets and other public places.
• Watering streets and other public places.
• Cleaning street, public places and drains abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation.
• Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades calling and practices.
• Removing on ground of public safety, health and convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in street and other public places.
• Securing or removing dangerous building and places.
• Acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead.
• Constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, markets, slaughter houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drainage works and sewerage work.
• Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places.
• Providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of pure and wholesome water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from polluted water used for human consumption and preventing polluted water from being so used.
• Registering births and deaths.
• Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires and protecting life and properties when fire occurs.
• Maintaining and developing the value of property vested in or entrusted to the management of the board ; and
• Fulfilling any other obligations imposed upon it by or under this act or any other law for the time being enforce.

Discretionary Functions of the Cantonment Board

• Laying out in areas, whether previously built upon or not, new street and acquiring land for the purpose and for the construction of buildings and compounds of buildings, to a butt on such streets.
• Constructing, establishing or maintaining public parks, garden, offices, drinking fountains, tanks, wells and other works of public utility.
• Taking a census and granting rewards for information which may tend to secure the correct registration of vital statistics.
• Making a survey.
• Giving relief on the occurrence of local epidemics by the establishment and maintenance of relief works or otherwise.
• Securing or assisting to secure suitable places for the carrying on of any offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trade, calling or occupation.
• Adopting any measures likely to promote the safety, health or convenience of the inhabitants of the cantonment.