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ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1979 CHAPTER XII OPTIONAL FUNCTIONS OF MUNICIPAL COMMITTEES( (I)‑Social Welfare 127. Social Welfare.‑A Municipal Committee may‑ (a) establish, manage and maintain welfare homes, asylums, orphanages, widow homes and other institutions, for the relief of the distressed ; (6) provide for the burial and burning of paupers found dead within the Municipality 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 social evils ; (d) organise service volunteers ; and (e) adopt such measures as may be prescribed for the promotion of the welfare of backward classes, families of the persons serving in Armed Forces and women and children.