The following qualifications are needed to become a member of the Municipality:
(i) His minimum age should be 25 years.
(ii) He should not be mad, a bankrupt or a criminal

It is important that the Corporation should spend more money on slum localities because the major workforce lives in these colonies. They work hard so that the economic activities of the city run smoothly. Hence, adequate money should be spent on slum locations.
It is important that the Municipal Corporation provides the poor in the city with same facilities that the rich get, because of the following reasons:
(a) God has sent both poor and rich as one and the same.
(b) Poor constitutes the major workforce. The health need to be cared for.
(c) They must be hale and hearty.

When the Commissioner said that there were not enough trucks in the city, Gangabai said, "But you seem to have enough trucks to collect the garbage from the rich localities".

The people who do all these works are the officers, officials and the elected representatives of the civic body.

The Chief Executive Officer in a Municipal Corporation is also known as the Municipal Commissioner. The State Government appoints this person. The Executive Officer acts as a link between the State Government and Municipal Corporation. Various officers in charge of departments like those in charge of health, education, engineering and sanitation help him or her in this work. The Municipal Commissioner co-ordinates their work and has the power to appoint lower level employees. He/she is the head of the executive branch of the Municipal Corporation. The Municipal Commissioner has all the executive powers. The day-to-day work of the Municipal Corporations is carried out with the help of a number of committees.

The important functions of Ward Committee are as follows:
(i) Supervision of the overall Municipal work.
(ii) Fulfil water and sanitation requirements.
(iii) Identification of slums and their upgradation.
(iv) Public health - information dissemination.
(v) Environment protection.
(vi) Supervision of public physical infrastructure
like hospitals, schools and roads.

Gangabai said that it is the Ward Councillor whom people should go to and protest, since the people elected him.
She gathered a small group of women and went to his house.
Gangabai described the situation in the locality to him The Councillor promised to go with them the next day to meet the Commissioner.
He asked Gangabai to get a petition signed by all of the adults in the locality saying that garbage was not being collected.
The Councillor suggested that taking the local sanitation engineer with them the next day might be a good idea.