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