It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the cantonment for--
         (i) lighting streets and other public places;
         (ii) watering streets and other public places;
         (iii) cleansing streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing noxious vegetation;
         (iv) regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices;
         (v) removing, on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable obstructions and projections in streets and other public places;
         (vi) securing or removing dangerous buildings and places;
         (vii) acquiring, maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the dead;
         (viii) constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, bridges, causeways, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage works and sewerage works and regulating their use;
         (ix) planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places;
         (x) providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of potable water, where such supply does not exist, guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and preventing polluted water from being so used;
         (xi) registering births and deaths;
         (xii) preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective;
         (xiii) establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, maternity and child welfare centres and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief;
         (xiv) establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools;
         (xv) rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and property when fire occurs;
         (xvi) maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the management of the Board;
         (xvii) establishing and maintaining civil defence services;
         (xviii) preparing and implementing town planning schemes;
         (xix) preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice;
         (xx) naming and numbering of streets and premises;
         (xxi) according or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building;
         (xxii) organising, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities;
         (xxiii) celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure thereon;
         (xxiv) fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.