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New Local Government System: A Step Towards Community Empowerment?

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  • Zulqarnain Hussain Anjum

    (National Reconstruction Bureau, Islamabad.)

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Failure of the central/provincial governments to adequately capture local preferences and provide basic services strengthened the case for a new local government system for delivery of public services along with the authority to impose fees, taxes, user charges, etc. to finance these services. The new System aims at transferring political, administrative and fiscal powers1 from higher tiers of the government to lower tiers (Figure 1) in order to bring governments closer to common citizens for greater accountability and better understanding of the needs and preferences of people. National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) was entrusted the task of designing a local government system which presented its first blue print in the form of “Devolution Plan 2000”. As a result of this exercise a new Local Government System has been installed in Pakistan on 14th August 2001 after the promulgation of Local Government Ordinance 2001 by all the four Provinces. The new System comprises a District Government or a City District Government and Zila Council in a district, Tehsil Municipal Administration and Tehsil Council in a tehsil (a Town Municipal Administration and Town Council in a town in a city district) and Union Administration and Union Council in a union. Village/Neighbourhood councils provide an interface with the lowest tier of the Local Government (Union Administration) with the community.

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  • Zulqarnain Hussain Anjum, 2001. "New Local Government System: A Step Towards Community Empowerment?," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 40(4), pages 845-867.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:40:y:2001:i:4:p:845-867
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    1. Muhammad Shakil Ahmad & Noraini Bt. Abu Talib, 2013. "Local Government Systems and Decentralization: Evidence from Pakistan’s Devolution Plan," Contemporary Economics, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw., vol. 7(1), March.
    2. Muhammad Shakil Ahmad & Noraini Bt. Abu Talib, 2016. "Analysis of Community Empowerment on Projects Sustainability: Moderating Role of Sense of Community," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 129(3), pages 1039-1056, December.
    3. Rashida Haq, 2005. "An Analysis of Poverty at the Local Level," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 44(4), pages 1093-1109.
    4. Hussain Ali & Syed Ali Shah & Ahmad Ali, 2016. "Community Development Perspective in the Local Government System of District Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa," Global Regional Review, Humanity Only, vol. 1(1), pages 132-140, June.
    5. Wahid, Abdul & Ahmad, Muhammad Shakil & Abu Talib, Noraini Bt. & Shah, Iqtidar Ali & Tahir, Muhammad & Jan, Farzand Ali & Saleem, Muhammad Qaiser, 2017. "Barriers to empowerment: Assessment of community-led local development organizations in Pakistan," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 1361-1370.

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