Title: Local Government System In Pakistan Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) Pakistan
1Local Government System In PakistanPunjab Local
Government Ordinance 2001 National
Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) Pakistan
- CHAPTER IV
- ZILA COUNCIL
- CHAPTER XIII
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
Presenter Asif Rafique Rajwana2005-03-0050
CS 578-IT Architecture Spring 2005-06
2Local Government System In Pakistan
- Every country has multilevel government
structures - Federal, provincial and local governments -
political bureaucratic - NRB was set up in 1999, to work on reconstruction
of institutions of the State - New local government system introduced in 2001
- Agenda
- Rebuilding national confidence and morale
- Decentralization of administrative and financial
authority to local governments - Devolution of power was based on three basic
principles - People-Centered Development,
- Rights and Responsibility-Based, and
- Service Oriented Government
- Three levels of local government
- district (zila),
- tehsil (taluka)/town, and
- union
3Local Government System In PakistanDemocratic
and Political Structures
- The democratic system is uniform across the four
provinces - direct elections for seats in union councils
- indirect elections for reserved seats of
- women, peasants/ workers and minorities,
tehsils/towns and districts/city districts
councils - Councillors are elected on non-party basis
- Voters age is 18 years
- Province-wise position of local areas under LGO
2001
Province Districts Tehsils Towns Union Councils
Federal Capital Area 1 - - 12
Punjab 35 130 38 3464
Sindh 23 103 18 1110
NWFP 24 50 4 986
Balochistan 28 75 2 567
FATA 7 Agencies - - -
Total 1107117 358 62 6139
4Local Government System In PakistanOrganogram
5Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001
- Introduced on 2, August 2001
- Gives devolution plan - a new local govt.
- Section 2, gives definition of respective offices
and other items - According to sec 2(XXiV) nazim means Z N, Tw N,
Th N U N - Zila Nazim
- Ch 4 deals with zila council headed by zila nazim
- Town Nazim
- In metropolitan cities, cities divided into towns
as AU looked after by Z N but almost indep. in
their hierarchy headed Tw N - Tehsil Nazim
- Tehsil based on AU in district run by TMAs headed
by Th N
6Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 CHAPTER
IV - ZILA COUNCIL
- Section 37(1), Composition of Zila Council
- consist of all Union Nazims and
- members elected on the reserved seats as
- Category
age of total of unions - Women 33
- Peasants/workers 5 (min. 1)
- minority communities 5 (min. 1)
- Section 37(2), lower½ lt categorylt upper½
- Section 38, Secretariat of the Council
- The Zila Council secretariat is headed by the
Naib Zila Nazim
7CHAPTER IV - ZILA COUNCIL Organogram Zila
Council
- Naib Zila Nazim is the convener of the Zila
council - speaker of the District assembly
- responsible to regulate the business of the Zila
Council bye-law - presides over its meetings
8Local Government System In PakistanOrganogram -
City District Government
- Headed by the District (Zila) Nazim.
- Assisted by the DCO the DPO
- EDOs are subordinate to the DCO
- All Dept. are grouped placed under EDO
9Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 CHAPTER
IV - ZILA COUNCIL
- Section 39, Functions and powers of Zila Council
- To approve proposals of dist. govt. byelaw (under
LGO) , taxes (under schedule PI/PII) , dist.
Administrations and Tehsil/Town Muncipal
Administrations - To approve long/short term development plans,
annual/ supplementary budgetary proposals of the
dist. govt. - approve annual budget of the Zila Council
- To elect committees to monitor performance of
dist. govt. without interference in their daily
working - To review monitoring committees quarterly reports
- Councils elect other committees like Insaf
(Justice), Accounts, Sports and Ethics etc. -
10Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 CHAPTER
IV - ZILA COUNCIL
- Section 40, Functions of Zila Council in a City
District - To approve review master plans, development
changes land use plans, such as - houses, roads, traffic, tax, infrastructure,
sanitation Municipal services etc. - Section 41, Z-C to approve certain plans for
towns - as may be notified by the City dist. govt.
- Section 42, Conduct of the business of Zila
Council - To regulate its business in accordance with the
bye-laws - Sub-section 42(4), Elect a naib zila nazim
- In the first meeting of the Council members elect
a naib zila nazim by securing majority votes - Presided by the Returning Officer
- Sub-section 42(4A), Role of naib zila nazim
- A Convener of the Zila Council
- Preside its meetings and shall
- perform functions assigned by the Zila Nazim
-
11Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 CHAPTER
IV - ZILA COUNCIL
- Section 43, Address of Zila Nazim
- Address in first session of every year
-performance dist. govt - Section 44, Joint committee of Councils
- as may with the consent of Tehsil Councils or
Union Councils - Section 46, Resignation of Naib Zila Nazim
- Section 47, No confidence motion against Naib
Zila Nazim - acting against the public policy or the interest
of the people - has lost confidence of the Council
- Motion refers to vote of confidence
- New Zila naib nazim (10 days
- If motion fails then proposer and seconder of
such motion shall lose their seats both - Section 48, Power of Zila Council to elect
officiating Zila Nazim - ZC elects a member as officiating Zila Nazim
- officiating Zila Nazim cant be candidate
12Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 CHAPTER
XIII - LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
- Section 121, Ownership of immovable property
- Subject to any conditions imposed by the
Government, the property specified shall vest in
the respective local government - through succession as provided insection 180
- transferred to the local government by the
Government or any other authority - Section 122, Transfer of Property by the
Government - may, on its own or on a request by a District
Government, transfer the management of
Government or public property to it for
administration as a trustee - Section 123, Stock taking by the Nazim
- Every Zila Nazim, Tehsil Nazim, Town Nazim and
Union Nazim shall, once in every year take the
physical stock of movable and immovable
properties of local govt and submit a report to
the concerned Council
13Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 CHAPTER
XIII - LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
- Section 124, Use and disposal of properties of
local governments - Properties of local governments shall be used
only for public purposes - Section 125, Acquisition of immovable property
- Whenever any local government considers it
necessary or expedient it may acquire or purchase
any immovable property for public purposes - Section 126, Loss of property of local government
- loss of property of the local government, the
responsibility for such loss shall be fixed by
the concerned local government and the amount of
the loss shall be recovered