A Municipal Corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

Municipal Corporations are urban local government that works for the development of a city, which has a population of more than one million (ten lakh).

Functions-

Hospitals
Water Supply
Drainage
Market places
Fire Brigades
Roads
Over Bridge
Solid Waste
Street Lightning
Parks
Education
Birth and Death Records in the Area

It also helps in education and primary health care

Cleaning of public streets, places and sewers
Regulation of offensive, dangerous or obnoxious trades and callings or practices
Supply of pure and wholesome water
Construction and maintenance of public streets
Lighting and watering of public streets
Maintenance or support of public hospitals; establishment and maintenance of primary schools
Registration of births and deaths; removing obstructions and projections in public streets, bridges and other places
Naming streets and numbering houses.

Some discretionary functions:

Housing for low income groups
Conducting surveys
Organising public receptions, public exhibitions, public entertainment; provision of transport facilities with the municipality
Promotion of welfare of municipal employees
Construction and maintenance of public parks, gardens, libraries, museums, rest houses, leper homes, orphanages and rescue homes for women
planting and maintenance of roadside and other trees