J1 t:rort of tho (+rea ~or POOllit ],\Jullirillal (~on.stitution Corunlittee ty,... "'''1'ltt) AT !;,'RJil G.J:v~ ~~iL~'1 cE..iTtlat. :OISHi!' --;!',1!''ab{' !':-i'l;l,t •• $ SUP'.lti_t:{~('''l.,~ \overmnl"m I'l'Ultillt lind Sht,~l'1'J, ·~:l..').)f\y • • ·t \1:.!(,..ugh lh. 4~~Q CQ~.~..n.'iiI >:07' (pd>I', r-.ldia 1W\JH~ Al~Wf(jtll!N.::.dGn, W'. J!liI" \U' t14j~13 au", ;.'h'1'V,j~~ !:ao'krtU.f'i· . A' ,\, I' ,. > .... (Pllte-~x;~'~, <j, (rr .. ~. t!~'J .. "Hl ~ TABLE-OF CONTE~"'TS CIIAPTER I. InRODUO'IlON. Appointment of the Conunit~ 1 Per30nnsl of the C'mlmittoo 1 Tt'rnlS of ref<}~nce 1 Procell are of the enquiry 1 Plan of thE' R~p'rt 2 CHAPTER II. HISTORY OP Pomu. CU"Y AND lT$ SUDun:r.S. Origin oiFoona 3 fustory ofPoona 3 ~tOwt.h of Poooa S ("wographka! poi'ition and boundaries of Poona City Population ofPooIla City 4 "lOmh ofPoona Suburbs Jound,lIit'S of Poona Suburbs Popu.L\tlVtl ofPoona Suburban.Area. Hhltory and growth ofPoona Cantonment (I ll.HI':.ory and growth ofKirkee Cantonment 6 GROWTH 0 .. MUNICIPAL GOVERNllEliT I!'f POO!U Cll~Y .uQ) ITS SUBt:RIl3 • ,. Evolution of Lo{'<J. Self-elovernmcnt legiaIation in the Pt~'-'rince ••• 7 ~fo:ms betw6f'!l mos and 1922. EvobLion of the Poona City Municipality oTolution of the Poona SllblKban Munioipality 9 'il HIStory of Cantoumen\ legislation l() AdmilllStrat ion of Poona CantoIm!.el1t .... , ... - 10 dotinistrat,jon of Kirkee Cantonment 11 CRAPTER IV. hli:sBNT WOUDra o. POOIU CITY ..n SCBT.71UM.}f MVln'OlPALlTIRS "ND POOlf4 .Alm KlBXD CA.EroliJllllU BoARDS. ~ MunioipaJity­ 'It.itution rcea or InQOll18 J~k Il. W72-a ii Page. (c) Expenditure He (d) Activities .1. 15 Poona. Suburban Municipality­ (a) ConstitutIon 15 (b) Sources oflncome Hi (c) Expenditure IfS (il) Activities 17 Poona Cantonment- (a) Conetitution 17 (b) Sources ofIncome .... 18 (I) Expenditure 18 (Ii) Activities 18 Kitlkee Cantonment­ (a) Constitution 19 (b) Sources onncome 1~ (0) Expenditure 19 (d) Activities 2() CHAPTER V. ,.Administrative area of Grea.ter Poona. 21 Constitution of Grea.ter Poona. 21 , Elections: QuaUfieg,tiona'for V~'a.l/.d Candid&tea 22 Means of creating interest.in MUDioipal adminis1lration 22 Finance 23 Amenities needed • 23 CHAPTER VL . ~ ~erican~-- (a) "Mayor Council " 26 (b) H Commission" 26 (0) .. City Manager It British,.i.....,l"-" ~I J..,." ... # .. iii Indian Type- .. (G) Bombay City lIanicipaJ Corporation ••• , 1.. 28 (b) Madras City Municipal Corpor&tiOB. ... - 29 (c) Calcutta Municipal Corponti01l 30 (d) Karachi Municipal OorporatiOil H' 30 CHAPTER VII. ~t~~, 1~33 32 Second proposal, 1989 32 Third proposal, 1941-42 32 Fourth proposal, 1946 - 33 Objections by Cantonment Boards oouidered 33 Objectlons by the Poona Sububan Mtmioipality considered 34 A.dVRntages of amalgamation ... 35 ClIAPTER VIIL Greater POOBa &rea 36 Preparation. of ,. Master Flao. and creBotion of ,. Board to regulate development 38 Type of city governmeJ1t to be esbJ?liahed 38 (a) Corporation 39 (b) Standing Committee 40 (e) Municipal Commissioner 40 .ReeoMtit~ oJ lJ anU cmtI tAe EUcIorat&- (a) Multi-member coDlltitueociee ••• ~ (b) Dlstributive voting 4-2 (c) Joint electorli.te 42 (4) Franchise 42 (e) Literacy qualification for .. voller 43 (J) Educational qusJifieatiol1 for .. oandid&te 43 -Special Committees 43 Ad-hoc Committees .....- f(t!Jl'~ l~: « Prima.ry education. Appointment of other atatutorr offi08ra ... iv Page rowers and manner of making appointments 415 Aoquisition and disposal of property' , 46 Borrowing powers '46 Munh.lipa.l Fund 46 Aocounts, Audit, Administration Report and BuCtget 47 Munioipa.l.. Taxes 47 Water Supply, Roads, DrainS, eto, ., 48 Provision against breakdown of Munioipal Administration 48 Interim arrangements Fint stage 48 Seoond stage 49 Third stage '" 49 ~ , CHAP'tlnR IX. CoNCLUSION UD AOXNOWLEDGMENTS. Conclusion 50 Acknowledgments 51 APPENDICES. A. .Questionnaire issued by the Committee. I .. 53 B. Names of persons who were invited to give oral evidenoe 55 C. Present boundaries of Po on a. City Munioipality ... 58 D. Statement showing the wards, peths, area and the number of sea.ts allotted to eaoh ward in the Poona. Ci~y Munioipality 60 E. State:tn.ent showing the wards, peths, area a.nd the number of seats allotted to each ward in the Poona. Suburban Municipality' . , ••• 61 F. Sta.tement of Hospitals in reoeipt of grants from the Poona. City Municipality 62 G. r,Iap of Grea.ter Poona. and the a.rea to be inoluded in ~he Master Plan. 1 CHAPTER 1. INmODUCTION. 1. Our Committee was appointed by the q.overnment of Bombay by their Resolution, Health and Local Government Department, No. 5608/33, dated the 7th July 1947, to examine and Appointment of the COJDllllttee. report on measures required to ensure the more E'ffident municipal government of the Greater Poona region. 2. The following persons were appointed members of Oul' Committee:- Personnel of the CoDlDdttee. Mr. M. D. Bhat. M.A. (Cantab.). (Chairman). " R. B. Ghorpade, B.Sc. (New York), M.L.A. n A.. K. A. A. Khan, B.A., LL.B., M.L.A. " Et. S. Naik, B.A. (Bombay), B.So. (Edin.), L.C.E. (Bombay). Rao Bahadur D. V. Nadkami, J.P. (Secretary). 3. The terms of referenoe were as follows:- Terms of reference. (1) To e:ramine and report, after eliciting local OpInIOn, whether, having regard to the ultimate benefits to the people residing within the limits of the Poona City Municipal Borough and the Poona Suburban Municipal Borough and in the existing or growing contiguous areas, it would be advisable to establish a single local authority in place of the existing separate local authori­ ties for the municipal government of all these areas; and ~2) To suggest legislative and other measures, if any, considered necessary to achieve greater efficiency of municipal administration and to promote better development of all these areas, whether under a single local authority or under the existing separate local authorities. We were asked to 8ubmit our report within sUr months. 4. A skel3ton staff was sanctioned by Government in. their Resolution, Health and Local Government. Department, No. 5608/33, dated Procedure 01 the the 16th July 194:7. We held the first meeting on 19th enquirJ. July 1947 to consider the draft questionnaire and to disClISS and settle the pl'ocedure and programme of our work. The questionnaire in both English and Marathi languages, (vide Appendix A.) was issued to 581 persons whose names were suggested to us by the authorities of the Poona City a d Suburban Municipalities and the Collector of P~ona. Besides, a notification was published in all the local news-papers announcing I that dopies of the questionnaire had been supplied to the City and Suburban Municipalities and were aVaIlable in their offices to persons who had not received the questionnaire and who wished to offer their views. ihe respoIlBe was fairly good as more than 200 persons took away -copies of tbe questionnaire from these offices. Some pexsons also asked for copies of the questionnaire directly fiom the Committee's office in Bombay. Altogether 324 memoranda were received. -0-1 Ilk B 1072-1 . It is evident that a considerable n~~r.of per~ons 'in the city and suburbs took interest in the 'inquiry and were eager td A$sist us. 5. We held in all 14 meetings, 10 a.ii.Paana.a.nd.4 at Bombay. While in Poona, we ,w~nt rsmnd the city and its s1J.burbs 81,14 visited the neighbouring villages wli!~p were ,s.ug~s~e~ to, U~_ fo~ iAcluSi~p:. iD: ilJe: ,~uni~ip81 . limits' 'or Gr~ater Poona. We exaIniileq .orally 69 pe~so:qs, (~ Ap~nd~ B) ,who Included promment cittzens possessm~, eXp~rienca of, iimhieipsl adiiUnistration, rep1:e&ell""'iC$ of ~eiognized loeal mstitutiol1s al'}~ -MuniCipal -and Govenunent officers. We- desire to express OU1" thanks for the co-opera£iorl we received from all those both officia.ls and non-o~ci!1~ who sW>mtttec:J m~p19:r3:n4\ 0.£ then; view~ an4,gaye. or!!l e~ence at the expense of much time and at conSIderable inconvenience. The Conector of Foona afforded us -all possible help and readily furnished th(f. infop:!!8tio~ required by us. We are greatly indebted to him for his valuable" assistance. The Chief Officer and oth~r, o~ers of th~ \ Foona Ci~y M;wpcipality and the Chief Office1" of the POOM Suburban Mun.icipaIity prepared for us exhaustive notes on the actual working D£ the tvw Mwlicipalities, and. supplied aU the information wanted by us. They explained.to ~ oraUy th~, di1liculties experienced by the Municipalities and the eX'ec~tive in cairying on the administration under the existing constitution,. and. made, cett:a.W. sugg~atiQll,S fot relI\oving some of the difficulties. We are deeply g~a~~ful to tqem ,for the co-operatiolJ and help which they ungrud gingly ga.ve us. 6. There are two main ideas which are apparently respolUlible for our enquiry. T11.e ~s~ is th~ a~!l-Ig~~!ltion of th~ existing, ~unicipa1 au~hofltles ~ in an4- arou:g~. P,?on~ CIty an<~ the, ~~cond Plan of the RellolL. :rh,o~e efP,<tie~t, and pl~nnE!~ In:unip~p~l, ad~st!:ation fop Poona City and Its suburbs. ~owledge of the pa~t hi~t<?"'Y of P~ona qty a~d it3 suburbs,: tb~~ d~yelop'in.en( and the, growth of munIcipal government ~. thes~ are~s js ~sse,nt!al to u~~el'~and the sigl!jficance of these two ideas.