(2) 587 disburse the salaries of its officers and 'servants as is noticed from the Resolution of the Municipal Corporation No. 98, dated the 4th September, 1965; and (b) has neglected to under take the improvement of water supply and to provide a sufficient supply of suitable water for public and private purposes; And whereas, an opportunity was given to the Municipal Corporation to show cause why in the aforesaid circumstances an order of supersession under sub section (1) of section 408 of the said Act should not be made , And whereas, after considering the reply of the Municipal Corporation and subsequent it submissions made by it the Government of Maharashtra is of the opinion that the Municipal Corporation is not competent to perform the duties imposed on it by or under the said Act; Now ' therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub section (1) of section 408 and subsection (1) of section 409 of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling it in this behalf, the Government of Maharashtra for the reasons specified aforesaid, hereby (1) directs that all the Councillors of the Municipal Corporation shall retire from office as and from the 1st day of October, 1965; (2) declares the Municipal Corporation to be superseded from that date; and (3) appoints Shri D. H. Deshmukh to be the Administrator of the City of Nagpur From the order it appears that there were two grounds on which the State government formed the opinion that the corporation was not competent to perform the duties imposed on it by or under the Nagpur Municipal Corporation Act, 1948.