Mandatory reforms
• Adopting modern accrual-based double entry accounting system with e-governance features such as GIS and MIS
• Reform of property tax with GIS
• Levy of reasonable user charges to recover full operation and maintenance costs
• Internal earmarking within local bodies' budgets for basic services to the urban poor, including security of tenure
• Implementation of decentralisation measures as envisaged in 74th Constitutional Amendment Act
• Repeal of Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act*
• Reform of rent control laws*
• Rationalisation of stamp duty
• Enactment of the public disclosure law
• Enactment of the community participation law and introduce the concept of the "area sabha '
• Assigning or associating elected ULBs with "city planning functions'
*Not mandatory for water supply and sanitation schemes
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