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Future of Local Govt In Pakistan
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Sequence of Presentation
Background
Salient features of LGO 2001
Administrative and Political Structures
Institutions under LGO 2001
Major Issues
Analysis
Recommendations
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1st Generation Inherited at the time of Independence
2nd Generation Basic Democracies Order 1959
3rd Generation Local Government Ordinances, 1979
4th
Generation Local Government Ordinances, 2001
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Background
The Local Governments (LGs) in Pakistan:
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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 linkedElimination of rural urban divide
No vertical linkage
Functional distribution among three tiers
Decentralization of Financial and AdministrativeAuthority
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Administrative Structure( District / City District )
ZILA NAZIM District Police
Officer District
CoordinationOfficer
For functions relating
to Law & Order
Revenue Health
Literacy Information
Technology
Education
CommunityDevelopment
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Works &
Services Finance &
Planning
Law Agriculture
City Districts Public Transport, Enterprise & Investment Promotion, Municipal Services
Co-ordination
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Administrative tructure( Tehsil / Town )
TOWN COUNCIL
TOWN COUNCIL TEHSIL/TOWNMUNICIPAL OFFICER
TEHSIL/TOWNNAZIM NAIBTEHSIL/TOWNNAZIM
TEHSIL/TOWNCOUNCIL
Planning Infrastructure
andServices
MunicipalRegulations Finance
Chief
Officers
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Administrative Structure( Union )
Union Council
Union Nazim
Secretary(Technical)Secretary(CommunityDevelopment)
Secretary (UnionCouncil)
Naib Union Nazim
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Political Structure
Union Council13 Members
UnionNazim Naib UnionNazim
Zila Council Tehsil / TownCouncil
Zila NazimNaib ZilaNazim NaibTehsil/TownNazim
Tehsil/TownNazim
Memberselected onreserved
seats
Memberselected onreserved
seats
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Institutions under LGO 2001
Provincial Local Government Commission
Provincial Finance Commission
Zila Mohtasib
Monitoring Committees/Accounts Committees
Musalihat Anjuman
Village & Neighbourhood CouncilsCitizen Community Boards
Zila Mushavirat Committee
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Constitutional Position
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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 ofthe president (268 (2))
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Major Issues
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Lack of ownership
Coordination
Size of the Provincial Government
Transfers / Postings
No regular monitoring of Nazims
Relationship with the rival LGsCreation of new districts
Resource mobilization
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Present Situation
Revamping vs Scrapping
Lack of institutional arrangement
System at standstill
Violation of prevalent law
Role of Bureaucracy
Development process
haltedGovernment interference in the LG matters
Vilification Campaign
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Analysis
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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 ZilaNazim not being accepted
Zila Nazim being considered as rivals
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Analysis
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Nazims required to be apolitical but have become
politicalNon-establishment of the institutions like Village &Neighbourhood Councils and Zila Mohtasib hasaffected the common man
Constitutional safeguard has provided the system amuch needed safety valve
Inability of the opponents of the system to developalternate model
Huge investment, in terms of money and humanresource, made in the new system would get wastedin case of any haphazard change
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Recommendations
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Wide-ranging consultations among all the
stakeholders i.e. Provincial Governments, Local
Governments, Civil Society Organizations.
Parliamentarians, and all other shades of publicopinion be held
Tendency to scrap the systems by the successive
Governments needs to be strongly discouraged
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Recommendations
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Public policy institutions must also initiate work onanalyzing/evaluating the system
Third party evaluation of the system be got conductedand the revamping should be done on the basis of the
report