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ACT XII OF 1975 ACT XII OF 1975 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1975 CHAPTER XII‑OPTIONAL FUNCTIONS OF MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE L‑SOCIAL WELFARE 122. 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 ; (b) 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 other social evils ; (d) organise social 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.