<Li> Notified area committee </Li> <P> The municipal corporations and municipalities are fully representative bodies, while the notified area committees and town area committees are either fully or partially nominated bodies . </P> <P> As per the Constitution of India, 74th Amendment Act of 1992, the latter two categories of towns are to be designated as municipalities or nagar panchayats with elected bodies . Until the amendments in state municipal legislations, which were mostly made in 1994, municipal authorities were organised on an ultra vires (beyond the authority) basis and the state governments were free to extend or control the functional sphere through executive decisions without an amendment to the legislative provisions . </P> <P> After the 74th Amendment was enacted there are only three categories of urban local bodies: </P>

Who acts as a link between the state government and the municipal corporation