I’m having a hard time finding any kind of information about the local governments of Pakistan. If you guys could help me out with some of the information I’m looking for or point me to a website, that’d be great.
Basically, I want to know how long a Zila Nazim’s (Mayor’s) length of term in office is, and what the election process is like. What would you normally expect the Nazim to do? Is the election process codified in Pakistan’s constitution, or some other legal document?
I guess being an idealistic, westernized Pakistani, I eventually want to work within the Pakistani system to fix it. Am I being naive?
I'm having a hard time finding any kind of information about the local governments of Pakistan. If you guys could help me out with some of the information I'm looking for or point me to a website, that'd be great.
Basically, I want to know how long a Zila Nazim's (Mayor's) length of term in office is, and what the election process is like. What would you normally expect the Nazim to do? Is the election process codified in Pakistan's constitution, or some other legal document?
I guess being an idealistic, westernized Pakistani, I eventually want to work within the Pakistani system to fix it. Am I being naive?
Pakistans LG system has quite a complicated history, the old zila nazim system introduced by Musharraf in 2000/2001 is suspended, in part because the provincial governments didn;t like the amount of power they were given at the provinces expenses and in part because the provinces objected to the federal government deciding something that's a provincial matter. At present, i suspect gleefully, they argue that the security situation is not stable enough to conduct local elections and have left local government in the hands of the old district management group of civil servants
To answer your last question, yes you are.. but the world runs on hope
Change is coming and it will come from people like you.
Whether you work from the outside or from within......you will make it happen.
Keep up the courage and stamina, you will need it.
When you feel that you are running out of steam, come back here and we'll help to restore it.
As sis Muzna said, change is on the horizon. It won't be the corroded old politicians who will become part of the change, it will be the patriotic youth who will strive to make Pakistan a glorious nation once again. Just keep at it, every wave helps build a tide that leads to complete washout and a clean start.
As for the current governance system in place, not really sure. It seems to change everytime there's a new Govt. in place. So nothing's permanent.
It would be a good idea to identify and align yourself with a Pakistani political party where you live. Once you have done that you can work to establish the "nizam" locally and then replicate that in the country once your party is in power.
Perhaps this is not an immediate solution, but a path anyway.
I'm having a hard time finding any kind of information about the local governments of Pakistan. If you guys could help me out with some of the information I'm looking for or point me to a website, that'd be great.
Basically, I want to know how long a Zila Nazim's (Mayor's) length of term in office is, and what the election process is like. What would you normally expect the Nazim to do? Is the election process codified in Pakistan's constitution, or some other legal document?
I guess being an idealistic, westernized Pakistani, I eventually want to work within the Pakistani system to fix it. Am I being naive?
You can find a lot of material and PLGO 2001 on net to explore.. one way or another I have been involved in all three systems and presently working on policy assignment to develop PLGO 2010 which would be tabled soon..
In 1979 LG ordinance.. In urban areas there were Town Committees (TC) for smaller towns, Municipal Committees (MC) for larger towns and Metropolitan Corporations for very Large cities.. These cities were governed by municipal limits and headed by a Mayors who were elected by Union Councillors.. Beside these city/town limits there were rural areas where Chairman Zila Councils headed the system elected by rural Zila Councillors.. Shortcomings of this system were that urban areas were governed in the same way as rural areas and urban management principles were not applied as a result there was massive urban haphazard growth.. staff in the local government was also very lean with a chief Officer, sub-engineer, taxation officer, accountant etc.
In Musharaf's rule PLGO 2001 urban -rural divide was finished and power were de-centralized at district and tehsil levels.. several departments were desoved to form a much hefty Local Government Department..in each District there were several EDO's and a DCO as well as District Nazim overseeing them.. in Tehsils, Tehsil Nazim headed the Tehsil with TMO and TO's looking after various funtions of Tehsil.. Positive thing in this system was introduction of much needed new posts like EDO(IT), Tehsil Officer Finance and Tehsil officer Planning.. there were much more women setas trying to bridge geneder balance..in negative side areas under jurisdiction were too large in comparison to resourses.. small towns suffered a lot as they were dependenton Tehsil headquarters..
Presetly, governments are trying make changes in PLGO 2001.. old urban and Rural divide is again coming .. but they are trying to improve on human resource part by introducing some new posts and trying to introduce cities that would be governed in a different way a rural areas may be rules..
You can find a lot of material and PLGO 2001 on net to explore.. one way or another I have been involved in all three systems and presently working on policy assignment to develop PLGO 2010 which would be tabled soon..
Presetly, governments are trying make changes in PLGO 2001.. old urban and Rural divide is again coming .. but they are trying to improve on human resource part by introducing some new posts and trying to introduce cities that would be governed in a different way a rural areas may be rules..
Degas i am sure there will be provincial variations in the new system but do you think the LG system would have been more effective in managing flood situations?
^ Yes, there wouold be a lot of variations and I was only talking bout Punjab - sorry didnt mentioned that..
I am not sure if local governments would had better dealt with flood as it was of a unprecedented scale. But union councillors are much more in contact with local people than bureaucracy.. At least they would had communicated better with people to avoid losses..