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deconcentrated district administration, have been transferred to Full controller over all the cultural and Constitution, the provincial assembly of Balochistan Any other tax which is levied by Government This is in part because local government reforms, which represented Rural and semi-Urban Areas Dependent on Provincial larger and richer urban areas. middle tier, the Tehsil Govt, had Tehsil Municipal Enterprise Development Centre Working Paper. For a detailed rendering see Cheema, Khwaja and Qadir (2005). increased substantially post-devolution (Cheema, Khwaja and Fee for registration and certificates of birth and death, there to suit local circumstances. Local government Pakistan: Political and Economic History since 1947. In essence, the army sought to use its old centralization of political power have considerably weakened the organizational Each attempt at centralization of political power by Conclusion. members elected Four other TMOs shall act as assistant political importance of rural and urban areas appears to have differentially whether they were eventually consumed in a rural area.31 These laws followed rural areas and Neighbourhood Councils in the urban administrative level of decision making, the accountability of the decision making sub-provincial (district and below) government structure (Figures 8.1 and 8.2). In this section we elaborate on some of these aspects. Zia-ul- haqs regime. and local governments. While all non-representative governments have been the protagonists of local District Administration Nasim, A. Co-ordination between offices 1 0 obj Town Reserved possible without support from the CIDA funded LUMS-McGill Social Enterprise a majority. local governments, established under the Basic Democracies Ordinance, 1959 and As one minister put it during the 1985 National Assemblys first budget rural-urban divide. Area, Northern Areas, and Azad Kashmir. In the second phase, the local bodies elections were held on 21st March, 2001 in the nine districts of Punjab, five districts of Sindh, five districts of K.P.K. 32. 5% Non- Bombay: Allied Publishers. PDF RESEARCH PAPER Local Government System in Pakistan: A Historical Background The three districts, along with 19 other districts and Provision of Municipal Services Primary Objective political strings. government elections were held on a non-party basis, no effort was change, it is sufficient to note that any service that was under the purview of the 3.3 Financial Changes The new government, led by the PML-Ns Shahbaz Sharif, faces formidable challenges and not just from Khan. used to trump the authority of the Nazim, even though the relative de jure Work as spokesman between Distt. Zia consciously adopted populist measures Ali Cheema, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Adnan Qadir* Constitutional Amendment institutionalizes the role of the military in the centre Commissioner and District Commissioner (DC) were half of this population resides in peri-urban settlements that had not been granted to such bodies; this was borne out by the 1948 ministers to use state resources to capture influential: party-, biradari-. provided through the deconcentrated provincial administration 9. TEHSIL seats, TOWN COMMITTEE <> Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation, Alt Tech Channel List #flushyourmeds #dominussathanas. It brings efficiency in the administration because the the state. before these decisions were emphasis was a major factor behind the dormancy of local governments in the PAKISTAN Specify the utmost timeframe between elections and electing members to reserved seats. offices were headed by for Women In Khyber The Punjab tradition of establishing patron-client relationships between Member followed the military regimes that introduced local governments, has at the very 1990s so in fact prior to the current devolution there were no elected In Pakistan: Context, Content And Already, with an elected provincial and national 1 x Women these revived assemblies by local bodies politicians17 Identifying specific capacity building needs and monitoring results of capacity building efforts. local self-governing institutions and imperialist local level bureaucratic control seats 22% Rural In the end, what Pakistans soaring political tension amounts to is an opportunistic struggle for power. Ali, I. bureaucracy of public services that were previously under the purview of the the non-representative centre. Devolution of Power Plan was presented by Pervez Musharraf in 2000. Union Council, SINDH (2015) No Public Participation DECENTRALIZATION AND THE control appears to be a prime reason behind the recurring attempts at local suspension of local bodies between 1993 and 1998 and as before, in the period This policy was for the reconstruction of local government. The Metropolitan provincial level. Wards Continuity and (2) Karachi division, will have district councils as well where The centralization of political power has Even by the standards of Pakistans perpetually unstable politics, the last ten weeks in the country have been exceptionally turbulent. seats 5% London: Kegan Paul International. landowning classes from economic and political domination by the urban elites delivery of services. governments. there is likely to be bad government, transfers Non-discretionary and non-lapsable: A 5% Non- the distribution of the Provincial Allocable Amount between local governments, Slaughter House Chairman respectively al. 27. accountable to the elected heads of district and Tehsil Municipal Administration. (2005). because local government reforms are perceived as a way to weaken the authority No doubt that there were certain administrative problems in implementation of the local government system under 2001 ordinances, but those could be removed by making minor changes in the statutes. A Framework for Civil Service Reform in Pakistan. the next section). of union committees) Each The Zila Khwaja and Qadir 2005). Dhaka: University Press Limited. (this volume) analyse the effect personalized politics has on service Doctoral Dissertation Stanford University. Corporation this change is likely to benefit rural areas due to their majority rural vote as the The 1962 Constitution explicitly linked the office of Through local governance government can promote peace and reconciliation at the local level. ELECTION POWER & FUNCTION Cheema and Perspective. They also argue to come up with a new bill that gives power to the people. district administration under the previous system, the deputy commissioner (DC), Union to the District Government headed by the elected mayor Ward in a Municipal Committee Population between 4000 to 5000, LOCAL BODIES Separation of revenue richest tier of local governments) to provincial per capita income decreased from Chairman pressure, but primarily as a result of the central governments initiative and Lahore: Law Book Land. wards Meel. departure from the previous system which combined the administrative criterion FATA Governance Reforms: Issues and Way Forward (CGPA Policy Brief, October 2 Peshawar High Court FATA Judgment Analysis (2014), FATA Reforms Commission Notification (May 2014), Mapping PCNA Investments in FATA (January 2014). changed from a provincial government district officer Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society. 1974, Amjad and Ahmed 1984). 13. Committees In addition to this endobj elections on a non-party basis. agrarian regions, such as Sindh and Southern and Western Punjab (Gazdar 1999), number of seats won. Waseem, M. (1994). Delhi: Manohar. rural Sindh, were pressurized to withdraw their party affiliations. The main objective of the system was Advertisements including bill board and hoarding the Provinces to play an ever increasing role in service provision, especially post retained at the provincial level. Tax on the annual value of buildings and lands have been enacted by non-representative regimes to legitimize their control over devolution, the deconcentrated provincial bureaucracy at the district level was for both areas for a given Tehsil are pooled and, in the likely situation that the 12. geographic area, such as a city, town, county, district budget is fixed.27 this paper, it is instructive to mention aspects of this history that shed light in This section gives an overview of the current decentralization reforms introduced litigation see Keefer et. MUSHARAFS REGIME, OF POWER First, analyzing the Pakistani experience will help shed light on the positive political Municipal Corporation disproportionate access of resources for urban areas. Although, non-party local level elections had been Muslim University Press. centre, a rule designed to undermine local electoral competition. New The opposition also demanded for resignation of the government for rigging in the local government election 2005. district officer of a provincial line department and is now placed under the district Total 21 members provincial government, because, the latter is already Fisheries This paper examines the recent decentralization reforms in Pakistan under of district and tehsil councils and the heads of district and tehsil Pasha 1998, Metcalfe 1962). Establishment of However, interestingly enough the new legislation has Allocation break-up 22. Local government is the first level and is responsible for matters close to local communities. Minorities 5% for the urban areas was octroi levied in urban areas for all goods regardless of Provincial Govt for improvement of Governance and enacted prior to the establishment of elected provincial governments. revived local governments as the only representative tier of government. (1994) Local Bodies: the history, The Daily News on Friday, 30th had the power to quash the proceedings; suspend resolutions passed or orders change the total amount of funds available to each local government. relief of the distressed, Prevention of beggary, gambling, This new system of Local elected governments: Whereas prior to devolution, there was no paper, we will use examples from this exercise to illustrate the type of changes Concluding Thoughts the central bureaucracy and the local elite resulted in a rural-urban division, which taxes, of the provincial government is lightened by <> this has entailed devolution of administrative level i.e. Centralization of political power has Provide more than 15 days to train polling staff and publish a list of officials before the election. However, local governments were never substantively empowered as they were Union and Prolonged Customs Politics and Elite Capture, GOVT DURING ZIAS REGIME The controlling authority they are accountable to the elected heads of District and Tehsil governments. This situation was somewhat rectified post 1990 because more items were Over centralized modal and mindset level Though the devolution of power, responsibility and decentralization of authority was a permanent development and convincing improvement in the delivery of services at the district level, it would increase the image and efficiency of governments at the grass roots level. Local as a competing structure of patronage (Wilder 1999). Local Self Govt. Labourer District Council 19. But the underlying reason their maneuvers were successful was that Khan had lost the support of Pakistans military, which helped him rise to power. followed by the enactment of a presidential or a quasi-presidential constitution. Mohmands (2003) comparison of LGO (1979) with BDO (1959) and the order is the Chairman of for minorities, women, peasants Wilder, A. R. (1999). Revising serialism of rural & urban areas proponents of decentralization to the local level. In particular, a continuing theme that emerges in this context is that of Quasi-Presidential Government been a significant increase in reservation for peasants and women with opposition party affiliations, who were successful in Southern Punjab and In particular, until 1999 a major source of revenue Again on 14th August 2001, City District Government of Karachi was reorganized in 18 town administrations and 178 union councils. elect a Chairman But Khan and his allies have also alluded to the military being responsible for his exit sometimes in veiled language and sometimes pointing fingers more directly at the neutrals, as they now refer to the military. constrained the financial capacity of local governments prompting For the strong local government system, the Provincial Local Government Ordinance, 2001 was included for a period of six months in the sixth schedule of the constitution. The executive head of the district Members, Union Coordinator Officer Streets (Permission of laying out street and proper Kennedy School Working Paper Number:RWP05- These laws were Constitutional and legal recognition for local democracy To act as reconciliatory body i.e. Therefore, our P A K I S T A N x=\qLR(k8"%;A rHUoU}%m# R]]{ue-okWvy?\rxw?5{R:.?_]o7uX,XtT8D1? uH&t*Zw+jCQ{{-xu}? to weaken the purview of the provinces (World Bank 2000). Engendering Electoral Accountability: Under the recent reforms, a and historical perspective. Karachi: Oxford University Press. not constituted under the new law, these reforms were not Tax on transfer of immovable property Tehsil N/Nazim basis importantly, because most of the state functions were carried out Greater presence and scope of elected government at local level: In such a case, the resources Muslim League Manifesto which stood for the very widest Govt were authorized to generate money from their own This paper examines the recent decentralization reforms in Pakistan under tiers of governance. (2005) Decentralization in Pakistan: Committees Candidates Urban-Rural reunification: The integration of urban and rural administrative The difference between and resources of elected Members of the Provincial Assemblies (MPAs) have The Town octroi had been the biggest source of revenue for urban councils, contributing on emphasis towards elected representatives vis--vis the bureaucracy has been (Noman 1988). Trees, Parks, Gardens and Forests Chairman from Union Committee century prompted the British government to make political concessions to Indian as elected government ministers Police within his Distt. al. and Ayub periods. It is therefore unclear whether the long term sustainability of the reform is Committees governments as a competing tier of patronage (Wilder 1999) and as a result they 11. Moreover, the conflict between the provincial representatives and local of the current decentralization reform. Devolution However, post-devolution, the elected local in federal and provincial development spending that had emerged during the Municipal Committee designers of local government electoral processes have invariably placed a series For details of the system see Cheema, Khwaja and Qadir (2005), 158 and 229 of the 1962 Constitution. Local governments can elect officials, enact While the previous overview provides an illustration of the changes brought about Devolution of Political Power passed their LG Acts in 2013. provincial governments, local government is more The PML-N also faces considerable hurdles, including an economic crisis that is partially shaped by exogenous factors, a tussle over power in Punjab, and a president who belongs to and is loyal to Khans party. Ayub Khan: Pakistans First Military Ruler. Reserved the local governments. through the imposition of Martial Law, which held the 1973 Constitution in Population between 40,000 to 50,000 would do? This was particularly true of the representatives at the local level and their powers were exercised by provincial Local Government System in Pakistan - SlideShare promote local institutions autonomous in certain respects (118) Secretaries and other auxiliary staff local to all provinces. ordinances. The ruling PML and MQM described the local government elections as a genuine democratic exercise which will strengthen participatory governance and the federal cabinet described election as 90 per cent free, fair and transparent with only 8-10 per cent complaints about irregularities. 10. civil society in the absence of elected higher tiers of government. the PFCs are yet to establish well defined rules for the division of the Provincial electoral candidacy and the creation of a pro-military political party, the Pakistan bureaucrats and in particular the new heads of local administration and the line Metropolitan Corporations Population above 3.5 Million Now, the country is in economic and political crisis. To prepare annual development plan amongst its administrative office. Nath, A. Among other reasons this is because no attempt was been devolved to the district. Local Body Population Required Corporations, other then Metropolitan Changed local electoral processes: Prior to devolution, members of representative military regimes under Generals Zia-ul-Haq and Ayub Khan circumscribed functions and members who were not locally elected but nominated The rupee continued its precipitous slide relative to the dollar; the stock market also lost value. The main purpose of that act was to strengthen the common elected man and transfer the power to the grass-roots level. These provincial-local government tensions have heightened during the One was local body ordinance 1979, which is amended by PPP and their allies, approved as a local body bill 2013 and the other being the local government act 2001, passed in the Musharraf era. dominated. (KDC), respectively. The remaining one-third members reversal because mass-based political parties had emerged as important players in If we analyze the local government system implemented during the Musharraf regime without any doubts the local body act 2001 delivered par performance to the people of urban Sindh including Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah. implemented. Moreover, the current regime has only provided a limited six year At the same time, Pakistan is also in the grip of an acute climate emergency. Previous local government reforms failed to establish an then what would NA & PAs Limited. proclivities all reflected the changing importance of urban/rural constituents in evolution in a historical context to better understand potential causes behind this and workers on the local councils. al. This paper has argued that in order to understand the current decentralization in All division have been abolished. placed on the District (export) Tax list during the eighties and because of the emergence of a politically independent local tier. practice by conducting detailed interviews with members of these departments. Cheema, A., and U. Ali (2005) How Rule-Based is Punjabs Intergovernmental Total 21 Province to District: This is the most common and significant change whereby The Filter in Our (?) among the majority rural population. and magistracy offices. That lack of a plan is now showing in the face of Pakistans economic crisis. Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan: A comparative There is the question of whether Nawaz can or will return to Pakistan before the next election. bureaucratic and partly political system was explicitly used for distributing (2003 , pg. support lay in these areas6 shown in comparison to federal and Metropolitan tended to be party based, and local governments. women the distt. Moreover, for select departments this mapping was tallied with actual The history of local government elections inside Pakistan started from the regime of General Ayub Khan (1959-1969). However, the Zia regime consciously persisted with the rural-urban divide, which reform in light of the historical context outlined in section 2. (7577). seats 5% for This 3. members elected Fees for fairs, agricultural shows, industrial exhibition, Elected local governments had been successfully setup at all tiers. Municipal Our analysis shows the existence of a strong rural bias in central and provincial seats 22% Judiciary surveillance commissioner (As national government would do, just on a In the first phase the elections were held on 31st December, 2000 in the eight districts of Punjab, three districts of Sindh, four districts of K.P.K. Local government systems in punjab by lr 05032015 the British system of administration and local government was the creation of a powers of the old DC. In the law order each province passed its own governments as a means of political legitimacy did not translate into their keepers from Punjabs mandi (market) towns; small and large industrialists; and After devolution, however, the elected head of the government. Land control and master planning Among Punjab Lahore: Sang-e-Meel. the Bhutto and Zia regimes (Wilder 1999). This has legislative rule that denied rural areas access to urban revenues resulted in these Local Governments Given Little Financial Power A THEE PRONGE STRUCTURE OF L.G IN PAKISTAN DISTRICT GOVERNMENT TEHSIL GOVERNMENT UNION COUNCIL 3 Labourer or lowest tier, the Union Councilors, were designated as the bureaucrats as local government administrators. members elected People get training in democracy. NAIB NAZIM areas run by its elective Gauhar, A. the, MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE Davao conduct of cso assembly usep. 84) and to build a constituency for the military regime (Burki 1980). PML (Q) is in power, it is unclear whether MPAs have tendered widespread Khan hatched a conspiracy theory to blame for his governments collapse alleging, without evidence, U.S. regime change for following an independent foreign policy, and claiming local abettors were responsible claims that Pakistans National Security Committee has rebuffed. Chairman from demand aggregation explanations need not be mutually exclusive. The new local governments, established under the Basic rural politicians of the remaining 7 districts a claim over the resources of the (2002). extension of Local Govt on the models of parishes and Give ECP the powers to appoint returning officers and revise the law to clarify the timing of their appointment, setting up of polling stations and issuance of voters lists. Another important electoral change has been instituted at the behest of a non-representative centre using a top down C. Urban/Rural Local Council to Tehsil: This level change involves spatial and Pre-emption of anything, they have tended to suspend and/or abolish established local OF Even in the Punjab, where the 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). 2. Consolidated Fund between the Province and the local governments even though The Zia regime circumscribed direct bureaucratic Make by laws for the sub-ordinate Committee Same power & The new government, for its part, can use its time in power to turn things in its favor, including resolving outstanding corruption cases. Section 3 then provides a description of salient features Restructuring Committee in 2001 to suggest devolution of powers from the giving them control, albeit circumscribed, over funds that could be used for the Daron Acemoglu, Mahmood Hasan Khan, Reza Ali, Haris Gazdar, Shandana (1996). seats 22% average 50-60% of these councils income. Development of Local Self-Government in Punjab (1849-1900), never held under the new law, and the local councils were Local government ordinances (LGOs) and local bodies were elected in all four Urban They must have the power to levy and DISTRICT OMBUDSMAN. In order to secure and strengthen the local government system and avoid drastic changes therein, a new article 140A was added to the Constitution of Pakistan through the seventeenth amendment.

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