By Muhammad Ali Khan Future of Local Govt In Pakistan By:Muhammad Ali Khan 2 Sequence of Presentation Background Salient features of LGO 2001 Administrative and Political Structures Institutions under LGO 2001 Major Issues Analysis Recommendations 1 st GenerationInherited at the time of Independence 2 nd GenerationBasic Democracies Order 1959 3 rd GenerationLocal Government Ordinances, 1979 4 th GenerationLocal Government Ordinances, 2001 By:Muhammad Ali Khan 3 Background The Local Governments (LGs) in Pakistan: By:Muhammad Ali Khan 4 Salient Features of the LGO, 2001 Governance through elected representatives LGs to function within Provincial framework Enhanced representation of women Three tiers of LGs politically linked Elimination of rural urban divide No vertical linkage Functional distribution among three tiers Decentralization of Financial and Administrative Authority By:Muhammad Ali Khan 5 Administrative Structure ( District / City District ) ZILA NAZIM District Police Officer District Coordination Officer For functions relating to Law & Order Revenue Health Literacy Information Technology Education Community Development ` Works & Services Finance & Planning Law Agriculture City Districts Public Transport, Enterprise & Investment Promotion, Municipal Services Co- ordination By:Muhammad Ali Khan 6 Administrative Structure ( Tehsil / Town ) TOWN COUNCIL TEHSIL/TOWN MUNICIPAL OFFICER TEHSIL/TOWN NAZIM NAIB TEHSIL/TOWN NAZIM TEHSIL/TOWN COUNCIL Planning Infrastructure and Services Municipal Regulations Finance Chief Officers By:Muhammad Ali Khan 7 Administrative Structure ( Union ) Union Council Union Nazim Secretary (Technical) Secretary (Community Development) Secretary (Union Council) Naib Union Nazim By:Muhammad Ali Khan 8 Political Structure Union Council 13 Members Union Nazim Naib Union Nazim Zila Council Tehsil / Town Council Zila Nazim Naib Zila Nazim Naib Tehsil/ Town Nazim Tehsil/Town Nazim Members elected on reserved seats By:Muhammad Ali Khan 9 Institutions under LGO 2001 Provincial Local Government Commission Provincial Finance Commission Zila Mohtasib Monitoring Committees/Accounts Committees Musalihat Anjuman Village & Neighbourhood Councils Citizen Community Boards Zila Mushavirat Committee Constitutional Position By:Muhammad Ali Khan 10 Local Government is a Provincial subject System was provided a safeguard by its inclusion in the schedule VI of the Constitution Laws included in the Sixth Schedule not to be altered, repealed or amended without the previous sanction of the president (268 (2)) Major Issues By:Muhammad Ali Khan 11 Lack of ownership Coordination Size of the Provincial Government Transfers / Postings No regular monitoring of Nazims Relationship with the rival LGs Creation of new districts Resource mobilization By:Muhammad Ali Khan 12 Present Situation Revamping vs Scrapping Lack of institutional arrangement System at standstill Violation of prevalent law Role of Bureaucracy Development process halted Government interference in the LG matters Vilification Campaign Analysis By:Muhammad Ali Khan 13 The political leaders reluctant to share power with people at the grass root level A workable system has fallen prey to the machinations of politicians, Bureaucracy and the vested interests Fiscal transfers to the grass root level being acknowledged even by the worst critics Assignment of duties relating to law and Order to Zila Nazim not being accepted Zila Nazim being considered as rivals Analysis By:Muhammad Ali Khan 14 Nazims required to be apolitical but have become political Non-establishment of the institutions like Village & Neighbourhood Councils and Zila Mohtasib has affected the common man Constitutional safeguard has provided the system a much needed safety valve Inability of the opponents of the system to develop alternate model Huge investment, in terms of money and human resource, made in the new system would get wasted in case of any haphazard change Recommendations By:Muhammad Ali Khan 15 Wide-ranging consultations among all the stakeholders i.e. Provincial Governments, Local Governments, Civil Society Organizations. Parliamentarians, and all other shades of public opinion be held Tendency to scrap the systems by the successive Governments needs to be strongly discouraged Recommendations By:Muhammad Ali Khan 16 Public policy institutions must also initiate work on analyzing/evaluating the system Third party evaluation of the system be got conducted and the revamping should be done on the basis of the report