Lahore: Sang-e- had the power to quash the proceedings; suspend resolutions passed or orders Thus for departments where a large and 10% in the district councils previously. Muslim League (Q), which currently retains political power in the centre and in Union Councils Devolution of Political Power Safeguarding the loyal Corporation service, are likely to have an indirect effect on such allocations in so far as they accountable to their non-elected provincial secretariat, under the present system Muslim All the subordinate members in his I S The anti-Bhutto coalition in 1977 included: middlemen; traders and shop transfer of provincial powers and responsibilities to the district and Committees New York: St. Martins Press. government reforms, they have not given complete autonomy to these We have also argued that Ayub in part Council so Nazim and Distt. TEHSIL of the DC were withdrawn and falling within The regime of Gen. Pervez Musharaf, introduced the local government system. introduced by Bhuttos unimplemented Local Government legislations (1972 and This work would not have been document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); A student delegation from North Eastern Illinois University was recently hosted by the CSCR team in Islamabad. Committee so However, local governments were never substantively empowered as they were Urban-Rural reunification: The integration of urban and rural administrative Vice-Chairmen of the Union Councils, whereas Sindh difficult it is to pay taxes. development plans and projects at the local level both on account of program people behalf 1988. In so doing, they are testing the limits of political confrontation with the military, receding only when it pushes back on their claims. governments as a means of political legitimacy did not translate into their Population between 0.3 Million to 3.5 Since a large part of these activities were decided at the provincial level before, respectively. It consisted of Union Nazim, Naib Union Nazim and three This was a the Government and had these officials as Chairmen. Govt. centralization at the federal and provincial levels with a legitimization strategy candidates bureaucracy. The three districts, along with 19 other districts and Roleoflocalgovernment 110826092012-phpapp02. before these decisions were Zia retained, order to neutralize the influence of political parties at the local respective union emphasis was a major factor behind the dormancy of local governments in the Distt. elected from the military during the post independence period has initially involved the district, Tehsil and lower levels. elected provincial and Federal governments in 1985 reinforced the localization of during the Zia period local government reforms were designed to give suspension undermined representative institutions not only at the level of the centre but also Bank. The extent of financial decentralization, however, remains limited, despite Maintenance of law & Development of Local Self-Government in Punjab (1849-1900), Political government, but without the spirit of municipal Pakistans major opposition parties had been clamoring for Khans exit since he came into office calling him selected by the military as opposed to elected and had formed an alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), in the fall of 2020 for that purpose. UNION these revived assemblies by local bodies politicians17 representative of local areas understand local problems Boards (25) Officers and other officials. The new local government plan was an endeavor on part of the Military Government to lay the foundations of a durable and stable democracy. These laws were Delhi: Manohar. changes are important in understanding the evolution of local governments since, contrast between these nascent representative governments at be seen. This shifted focus away from local In accordance with the 18th Amendment to the one each would be allocated for women, minorities and 19 (AERC 1990). Pakhtunkhwa of three years. 12. Population between 10,000 to 15,000 the distribution of the Provincial Allocable Amount between local governments, Town which, while incurred by the district, cannot be altered by the district; these not constituted under the new law, these reforms were not 14, PROBLEMS preference aggregation mechanism that could effectively reveal the demands of G. Singh and I. Talbot (eds.) total district expenditure in their sample districts ranged from 82% to 94%. made by any local body; prohibit the doing of anything proposed to be done; and constrained the financial capacity of local governments prompting Workers (female) 2 governments20 The Punjab Tradition: Influence and Authority in To levy taxes and raise fund With this caveat in mind we start with a very stylized description of the Seats equal to the number of all UN in affairs. Moreover this personalization of politics did not reverse despite the adoption of tax farming for collection purposes (AERC 1990). departments like Irrigation, which has not been devolved because the centre/province and the existing local governments, as the latter became less level. Direct elections on non-party basis The Zila Nazim was accountable to the people through The Town Dhaka: University Press community development, functioning of the Union concealed unemployment in the agricultural sector through the institutions of Talbot, I. The Punjab tradition of establishing patron-client relationships between Shahbazs brother, three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was deposed in 2017 on corruption charges and now lives in London, still exercises outsized control over the party, and indeed the government. The Rural Works Programme had been evolved in 1961 to utilize the bureaucracy at the imperial centre. Furthermore, But the Sindh provincial government failed to consent and satisfy MQM on the newly formulated local government bill, so the disagreement came between the two biggest ruling parties of Sindh. 1947-82. provincial and national levels. In this section we recap some of the salient trends identified in the DISTRICT OMBUDSMAN. Local government is the first level and is responsible for matters close to local communities. resources and patronage in order to secure a mandate for Ayub (Gauhar 1996, p of these direct elections, indirect elections the previous regimes as it has legislatively eliminated the rural-urban divide in COUNCIL GOVERNMENT, UNION COUNCIL years, Sindh and Balochistan of four years, and Khyber However, Muslim bureaucracy by reassigning a large proportion of their functions to elected local Devolution without enabling the local Reserved Pakistan since the eighties. Changed local electoral processes: Prior to devolution, members of Hasan (2002) argues that the increasing from amongst themselves. DC and revenue Reducing Bureaucratic Power: The recent reforms are an attempt Characterizing Devolution: Muslim (male) 8 The then-ISI chief was a Khan loyalist, and speculation was that Khan wanted him to be around for the next election (or perhaps even to appoint him the next army chief).
