Cantt Board is a Body Corporate. It provides civic services to the civil residents of Lansdowne Cantt. The Cantt Board functions under the provisions of the Cantts Act. 2006 & rules made thereunder.

It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable provision within the cantonment for-

Lighting streets and other public places;

Watering streets and other public places;

Cleansing streets, public places and drains, abating nuisances and removing     noxious vegetation;

Regulating offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades, callings and practices;

Removing , on the ground of public safety, health or convenience, undesirable     obstructions and projections in streets and other public places;

Securing or removing dangerous buildings and places;

Acquiring , maintaining, changing and regulating places for the disposal of the     dead;

Constructing, altering and maintaining streets, culverts, bridges, causeways,     markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies, urinals, drains, drainage works and     sewerage works and regulating their use;

Planting and maintaining trees on roadsides and other public places;

Providing or arranging for a sufficient supply of potable water, where such supply     does not exist, guarding from pollution water used for human consumption, and     preventing polluted water from being so use;

Registering births and deaths;

Preventing and checking spread of dangerous diseases; establishing and     maintaining a system of public vaccination and inoculation for the said objective;

Establishing and maintaining or supporting public hospitals, maternity and child     welfare centers and dispensaries, and providing public medical relief;

Establishing and maintaining or assisting primary schools;

Rendering assistance in extinguishing fires, and protecting light and properly     when fires occur;

Maintaining and developing the value of property vested in, or entrusted to, the     management of the Board;

Establishing and maintaining civil defence services;

Preparing and implementing town planning schemes;

Preparing and implementing plans for economic development and social justice;

Naming and numbering of streets and premises;

According or refusing permission to erect or re-erect building;

Organising, promoting or supporting cultural and sports activities;

Celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day and incurring expenditure     thereon;

Fulfilling any other obligation imposed upon it by or under this Act or any other     law for the time being in force.