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The Chittagong City Corporation Ordinance, 1982

( Ordinance NO. XXXV OF 1982 )

Chapter XII

Social Welfare

Social Welfare
136. The Corporation may, and if so required by the Government, shall,-
 
 
 
 
(a) establish, manage and maintain welfare homes, asylums, orphanages, widow homes and other institutions for the relief of the distressed;
 
 
 
 
(b) provide for the burial and burning of paupers found dead within the City at its own expense;
 
 
 
 
(c) adopt such measures as may be prescribed for the prevention of beggary, prostitution, gambling, taking of injurious drugs and consumption of alcoholic liquor, juvenile delinquency and other social evils;
 
 
 
 
(d) organise social service volunteers;
 
 
 
 
(e) adopt such measures as may be prescribed for the promotion of the welfare of backward classes, and women and children; and
 
 
 
 
(f) adopt any other measures likely to promote social welfare.
 
 

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