8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

1/16

ByMuhammad Ali Khan

Future of Local Govt In Pakistan

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

2/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan2

Sequence of Presentation

Background

Salient features of LGO 2001

Administrative and Political Structures

Institutions under LGO 2001

Major Issues

Analysis

Recommendations

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

3/16

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

By:Muhammad Ali Khan

3

Background

The Local Governments (LGs) in Pakistan:

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

4/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan4

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

5/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan5

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

`

Works &

Services Finance &

Planning

Law Agriculture

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

Co-ordination

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

6/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan6

Administrative tructure( Tehsil / Town )

TOWN COUNCIL

TOWN COUNCIL TEHSIL/TOWNMUNICIPAL OFFICER

TEHSIL/TOWNNAZIM NAIBTEHSIL/TOWNNAZIM

TEHSIL/TOWNCOUNCIL

Planning Infrastructure

andServices

MunicipalRegulations Finance

Chief

Officers

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

7/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan7

Administrative Structure( Union )

Union Council

Union Nazim

Secretary(Technical)Secretary(CommunityDevelopment)

Secretary (UnionCouncil)

Naib Union Nazim

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

8/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan8

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

9/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan9

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

10/16

Constitutional Position

By:Muhammad Ali Khan10

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))

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

11/16

Major Issues

By:Muhammad Ali Khan11

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

12/16

By:Muhammad Ali Khan12

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

13/16

Analysis

By:Muhammad Ali Khan13

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

14/16

Analysis

By:Muhammad Ali Khan14

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

15/16

Recommendations

By:Muhammad Ali Khan15

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

8/13/2019 Future of Lgs in Pakistan

16/16

Recommendations

By:Muhammad Ali Khan16

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