The functions of Union Administration shall be:- to collect and maintain statistical information for socio-economic surveys; to consolidate village and neighbourhood development needs and prioritise them into union-wide development proposals with the approval of the Union Council and make recommendations thereof to the District Government or Tehsil Municipal Administration, as the case may be; to identify deficiencies in the delivery of services and make recommendations for improvement thereof to the Tehsil Municipal Administration; to register births, deaths and marriages and issue certificates; to make proposals to the Union Council for levy of rates and fees specified in the Second Schedule of Local Government Ordinance, 2001 and to collect such rates and fees within the Union; to establish and maintain libraries; to organize inter-Village or Neighbourhood sports tournaments, fairs, shows and other cultural and recreational activities; to disseminate information on matters of public interest; to improve and maintain public open spaces, public gardens and playgrounds; to provide and maintain public sources of drinking water, including wells, water pumps, tanks, ponds and other works for the supply of water; to maintain the lighting of streets, public ways and public places through mutual agreement with the Tehsil Municipal Administration; to arrange facilities for the handicapped, destitutes and poor; to provide protection against stray animals and animal trespass, and to establish cattle pounds; to regulate grazing areas; to assist the relevant authorities in disasters and natural calamities, and assist in relief activities, including de-silting of canals; to co-operate with the public, private or voluntary organisations, engaged in activities similar to those of the Union; to execute the projects of the approved Union Annual Development Plan by contracting out to the private sector in the manner as may be prescribed and to obtain support of the Tehsil Municipal Administration or District Government for such execution; and to assist the Village Councils or, as the case may be, Neighbourhood Councils in the Union to execute development projects. The Union Administration may, subject to such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed, assign any of its functions to Village Council but the responsibility for discharge of such functions shall continue to vest with the Union Administration. No function or responsibility shall be transferred without allocation of corresponding resources and funds. The District Government or, as the case may be, the Tehsil Municipal Administration may entrust any of its functions to the Union Administration with mutual agreement but the resources required for carrying out such functions shall be made available to the Union Administration. The Union Administration may, with the mutual agreement and the funds raised by it through voluntary contributions, undertake development projects or functions of the Tehsil Municipal Administration or the District Government but no additional user charges or fees shall be collected from the population benefiting from such projects and functions. For carrying out such functions or completion of such projects, the Union Administration shall not have recourse to public funds or incur any debt.

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