Future of Local Govt In Pakistan

By Muhammad Ali Khan

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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Background
The Local Governments (LGs) in Pakistan:

1st Generation
2nd Generation

Inherited at the time of Independence

Basic Democracies Order 1959

3rd Generation
4th Generation

Local Government Ordinances, 1979

Local Government Ordinances, 2001

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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 linked

Elimination of rural urban divide

No vertical linkage Functional distribution among three tiers Decentralization of Financial and Administrative Authority
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Administrative Structure
( District / City District )

ZILA NAZIM
District Coordination Officer
Coordination
District Police Officer

For functions relating to Law & Order

Agriculture

Education

Health

Law

Revenue Works & Literacy Services

Community Development
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Finance & Planning

Information Technology

City Districts Public Transport, Enterprise & Investment Promotion, Municipal Services

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Administrative Structure
( Tehsil / Town )
NAIB TEHSIL/TOWN NAZIM TEHSIL/TOWN NAZIM

TOWN COUNCIL TEHSIL/TOWN

COUNCIL

TEHSIL/TOWN MUNICIPAL OFFICER

Chief Officers Planning

Infrastructure and Services
Municipal Regulations

Finance

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Administrative Structure
( Union )

Union Nazim

Naib Union Nazim

Union Council

Secretary (Community Development)

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Secretary (Union Council)

Secretary (Technical)

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Political Structure
Naib Zila Nazim

Zila Nazim

Tehsil/Town Nazim

Naib Tehsil/ Town Nazim

Members elected on reserved seats

Members elected on reserved seats

Zila Council
Union Nazim

Tehsil / Town Council Naib Union Nazim Union Council 13 Members

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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 Councils

Citizen Community Boards

Zila Mushavirat Committee
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Constitutional Position

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))

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Major Issues

Lack of ownership Coordination Size of the Provincial Government Transfers / Postings No regular monitoring of Nazims Relationship with the rival LGs

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Creation of new districts

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Resource mobilization

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
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Analysis

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

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Analysis

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 By:Muhammad Ali Khan in case of any haphazard change

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Recommendations

Wide-ranging Governments, opinion be held

consultations Civil

among

all

the

stakeholders i.e. Provincial Governments, Local Society Organizations.

Parliamentarians, and all other shades of public

Tendency to scrap the systems by the successive Governments needs to be strongly discouraged

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Recommendations

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

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