Explanation:

Explanation:  All statements are correct

 Evolution of local government

• There were many factors which made it necessary for the British government in India to work towards establishing local bodies. 
• Financial diffi culties faced by the Government, due to over centralisation, made decentralisation imperative.
  It became necessary that modern advances in civic amenities in Europe be transplanted in India considering India’s increasing economic contacts with Europe. 
• The rising tide of nationalism had improvement in basic facilities as a point on its agenda. 
• A section of British policy-makers saw association of Indians with the administration in some form or the other, without undermining the British supremacy in India, as an instrument to check the increasing politicisation of Indians. 
• The utilisation of local taxes for local welfare could be used to counter any public criticism of British reluctance to draw upon an already overburdened treasury or to tax the rich upper classes.