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The tenure of municipality committee members is 5 years and a
municipality consists of 9-35 wards.

There are three types of municipality with criteria; include a certain
population, infrastructure and revenues. Presently, there are 293
municipalities in Nepal.

The urban areas need 40 thousand populations to be a municipality but
the government has provisioned only 10 thousand populations to declare
municipality particularly in Hilly and Himalayan.

The major functions of municipality are:
a. Make provision for street lights, planting trees on both side of the
road and waste management.

b. Plans for development works and construction, maintenance of
roads or so on.
c. To approve maps of house, building, etc. to be constructed.
d. Promotion for education and sports; and preservation of historical,
cultural and public properties.

e. Control things or objects that have adverse effects on peoples’ health.
f. Make provision for helpless and orphan children.
g. Promotion and preservation of small scale industries.

h. Make provision for Hatbazaar and fair.

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