Exp) Option a is the correct answer.

Statement a is incorrect. The Special Purpose Agencies function as autonomous bodies and deal with the functions allotted to them independently of the local urban governments, that is, municipal corporations or municipalities and so forth. Thus, they are not subordinate agencies of the local municipal bodies.

Statement b is correct. The states have set up certain Special Purpose Agencies to undertake designated activities or specific functions that ‘legitimately’ belong to the domain of municipal corporations or municipalities or other local urban governments.

Statement c is correct. The Special Purpose Agencies are established as statutory bodies by an act of state legislature or as departments by an executive resolution.

Statement d is correct. The Special Purpose Agencies are function-based and not area-based. They are known as ‘single purpose’, ‘uni-purpose’ or ‘special purpose’ agencies or ‘functional local bodies.