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Municipalities
It is in
the fitness of things that there is a greater number of
municipalities in Gondal than elsewhere. The towns of Gondal,
Dhoraji, Upleta and Bhayavadar have each a municipality.
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Central Cinema
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Inner View
Central Cinema
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The town
enjoying municipal
status were only two during minority, while at present four towns
have that status. The annual expenditure on Municipalities has
increased 18 times during His Highness,’ regime, exclusive of new
works, like roads whose length within Municipal limits measures some
60 miles.
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Road Work
At Gondal
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View of Ghat Road
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All the
municipal towns have their moiety of conveniences – parks or
gardens, open spaces, play grounds, vegetable and grain markets,
Dharmashalas and the like. Gondal has in addition electric lighting.
There are four gardens, big and small, in Gondal. For all this the
inhabitants have to pay nothing. There is no house tax, neither toll
nor octroi. The incidence of taxation is practically zero.
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Batter Of Diesel
Rollers
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Hospital at
Bhayavadar
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There are
60 miles of municipal roads. Dust, the great spoiler of civic
health, is projected to be removed by a regular and extensive,
through expensive program of asphalt macadamizing all the main
municipal roads.
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