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The Shillong Municipal Board undertakes responsibility for construction and maintenance of Public Utilities like roads, drainage system, Public Conveniences, Community halls, etc. for all the areas under its jurisdiction. The expenditure is met from various heads like National Slum Developmental Programme, Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana, Government-Grant-in-Aid and from the boards own fund.

Roads and Drains:
As all the major roads in the city are constructed and maintained by the State Public Works Department, the Board constructs and maintains minor roads, lanes, bye-lanes and footpaths. The total length of surfaced roads belonging to the Shillong Municipal Board is 25.857 kms. These included black topped and cement concrete roads.

Municipal Motorable Road

The Board undertakes, cleaning and maintenance of all the drains in the city with a total length of about 22.510 kms on a regular basis. As all the drains are open channels, the Board has covered most of them with R.C.C. slabs to minimise the dumping of solid waste.

Public Conveniences:
The Shillong Municipal Board also constructs Public conveniences in the form of pay-and-use toilets at selected places all around the city. These not only provide conveniences to the general public but also provide employment to local unemployed youths as collectors.

Community Halls:
Various localities in the city have had their community halls built by the Shillong Municipal Board. The total number of such halls constructed by the Board is 6 (six). All others are also being built with financial aid from the Shillong Municipal Board.

Community hall cum -- sports complex in Jaiaw Shyiap & Lumpyllon

National Slums Development Programme:
               Under its National Slums Development Programme the Shillong Municipal Board implements the development works of the designated slum areas of the city which are about 11 (Eleven) in numbers. The scheme as started in 1996-1997 is a Central Government Sponsored Scheme.
              As far as poverty allevation is concerned, the Government of India has taken up a large number of programmes in Urban and rural sector. The SJSRY was launched to cover the Urban poor. This scheme replaces the NRY, UBSP and PMIVPEP. However as far as slum improvenment and upgradation are concerned the component of this scheme would include :-

Provision of physical emenities like water supply, storm water drains, community bath, widening and paving of lanes, service community latrines, streets lights, etc.
Community infrastructire include provision of community centres to be used for pre-school education, non-formal education, adult education, recreational activities, etc.
Community Primary Health care centre can b e provided with infrastructure facilities.
Social amenities like pre-school education, non-formal education, adult education, maternity, child health care including immunization, etc.

The scheme should be implemented at the grass - root level by neighbourhood committees, and community development societies basically the same structure are required as SJSRY.

Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY):
            The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana shall seek to provide gainful employment to the Urban unemployed or underemployed poor through encouraging the setting up of self employment ventures or provision of Wage employment.
            This programme relies upon the creation of suitable community structure on the UBSP pattern and implemented through the ULB's and such community structures.
            The SJRSY consists of special schemes like
1. Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP).
2. Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP).

Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP): This Programme has three distinct parts.
    i. Assisstance to individual Urban poor beneficiaries for setting up gainful self employment ventures.
    ii. Assisstance to groups of Urban poor women for setting up gainful employment venture which may be called DWCUA.
    iii. Training of beneficiaries, potential beneficiaries and other persons associated with the Urban employment programme for upgradation and acquisition of vocational and entrepreneuial skills.

      Self employment programme encourages the underemployed or unemployed youths to set up small enterprises relating to servicing petty business and manufacturing for where is a lot of potentialities in Urban area. To avoid duplication with the ongoing PMRY, the component is confined to below poverty line beneficiaries who have got educational qualification upto tenth standard. The maximum unit cost will be Rs. 50,000 and the maximum allowable subsidy will be 15% of the project cost, subject to a limit of Rs. 7500. Beneficiary contribution required to the scheme is 5% of the project cost as margin money.
       Skill development through appropriate training is another element of this programme. Training includes variety of services and manufacturing trades as well as in local skills and local crafts so that they can setup self employment ventures to secure salaried employment with enhanced renuneration.
       DWCUA is distinguished by the special incentive extended to urban poor women who decide to set up self employment ventures. To be eligible for subsidy, the group should consist of at least 10 urban poor women. The group should select an organiser, and also should select its own activities. The DWCUA group society shall be entitled to a subsidy of 1,25,000 or 50% of the project cost which ever is less.

Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP):
       This programme seeks to provide wage employment to beneficiaries living below poverty line. The programme applies to Urban local bodies the population of which is less than 5 lakhs as per 1991 census.
        It is proposed to provide wage employment to urban poor beneficiaries by utilising their labour for construction of socially and economically useful public assests in the jurisdiction of urban local bodies. The nature of municipal works contempplaced relate to low cost water supply, poor flush community latrines, drainage related earthworks, community facilities, etc.
        In urban settlements below 20,000 persons, the material labour ratio will be 50:50 in urban settlement is between 60:40.Prevailing minimum wage applicable to the area will be paid.

Special Urban Works Programme(SUWP):
         Special Urban Works Programme is a development scheme sanctioned by the State Government on a basis of per Legislative Assembly Constituency. Through this scheme, the M.L.A of the area identifies the development works to be taken for a certain year and the Board implements them in accordance with availability of funds.

Government Grant-in-aid:
In addition to the above, the State Government also provides the Board with a yearly Grant-in-aid to implement the various development works not included in any of the above mentioned schemes. Also the Board undertake Development work through its own resources subject to availability of funds.

Community hall under construction at lawmali