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THE DISTRICT
General:
The District government will include the Zila Nazim and Zila
Nazim, the Zila Council and the District administration. The
Naib Zila Nazim will be the speaker of the Council and the Zila
Nazim will not be its member.
The Zila Nazim will be the executive heads of the district and
administration and the administration and the police will be
responsible to him. This will make state functionaries and
service providers accountable to the elected representatives of
the people.
Elections:
Elections of members of Zila Council:
The Union Councillors of the district will elect the Zila Nazim
and Naib Zila Nazim as joint candidates. The Zila Nazim and
Naib Zila Nazim will have academic qualification of al least
matriculation/secondary school certificate, or equivalent.
If the office of the Zila Nazim falls vacant for any reason, the
Zila Council will elect an officiating Zila Nazim to fill the post
until such time that by-elections are held and another Nazim
takes over. The person so elected will serve for the remaining
part of the term only. Recall of either the Zila Nazim or the
Naib Zila Nazim will not automatically result in the removal of
the other.
(a) Internal:
A motion for the recall of the Zila Nazim may be moved by any
member of the Zila Council and seconded by another. A simple
majority in the Zila Council will be needed for the motion to be
carried. In case, the motion fails in the Zila Council, then the
member who moved and the one who seconde the motion will
lose their seats in the Zila Council as well as their positions of
Nazim of their union councils. If the motion carries in the Zila
Council it will be voted upon by all the Union Councillors of the
District and will require a two-thirds majority for final
approval.
(b) External:
(d) To obviate divisive politics, the Naib Zila Nazim will not be
entitled to succeed the Nazim temporarily or take part in the
by-election for that office.
Naib Zila Nazim: The Naib Zila Nazim will be the speaker of the
Zila Council and provide liason between the Council and the
Zila Nazim. The Naib Zila Nazim will deputise for the Zila Nazim
in his temporary absence.
District Administration:
The Zila Nazim will be the executive head of the district: and
the administration and the police will be answerable to him.
The Zila Nazim will have the authority to transfer the DCO
prematurely but only after giving him a formal warning. In
such an eventuality the Zila Nazim will state his reasons for
the transfer in writing to the Chief Secretary, who will be
obliged to transfer the DCO within a week.
(a) The Zila Nazim being the head of administration will initiate
the performance evaluation report of the District Co-ordination
Officer (DCO). The technical reporting officer of DCO will be the
Chief Secretary, and the counter-signing authority of the Chief
Minister.
(j) Revenue: Land Revenue & Estate, and Excise & Taxation.
(a) Prepare plans and budget for submission to the Zila Nazim,
and upon approval by him and passage by the Zila Council,
carry out their implementations.
District Ombudsman:
District Judiciary:
THE TEHSIL
General:
The Tehsil government will include the Tehsil nazim, the Naib
Tehsil Nazim, the Tehsil Council, and the Tehsil administration.
Tehsil governments will be established in all existing tehsils
except in case of districts that comprise only one Tehsil.
Elections:
The Tehsil Council will be a directly elected body comprising
Naib Union Nazims of all the unions of the Tehsil. Under this
arrangement, all the union of a Tehsil will get representation
at the Tehsil level. As the Union Nazim and Naib Union nazim
will be elected on a joint ticket, both will be operating in
harmony in the interest of their union at all the three levels of
the local government i.e. the union, the tehsil, and the district.
The Tehsil Nazim and Naib Tehsil Nazim will be elected as joint
candidates with the Union Councillors of the whole Tehsil
serving as the Electoral College. The Tehsil Nazim will be the
executive head of the Tehsil Government, while the Naib Tehsil
Nazim will act as the convenor of the Tehsil Council. The Tehsil
Nazim and Naib Nazim will have academic qualification of at
least matriculation/secondary school certificate or equivalent.
(a) Internal: the Tehsil Council may recall the Tehsil Nazim
by a simple majority on a
motion to be tabled by a Tehsil Councillor and to be
seconded by another. In case
the motion fails to muster the required support in the
Tehsil Council, the mover
and seconded of the motion shall lose their seats in the
Tehsil Council and also
their Union Council seats. If the motion is carried, the
Union councilors of that
Tehsil will vote upon it. The recall will take effect
subject to confirmation by two-
thirds of the total member of union councilors in the
Tehsil.
(b) External: The Zila nazim may initiate the motion for ecall
of the Tehsil Nazim.
The motion will require passage by a two-thirds majority
of the total membership
of the Zila Council.
Administration:
The Tehsil Nazim will head the Tehsil Government. Under the
Nazim there will be a Tehsil Municipal Officer (TMO) who will
be the co-ordination officer of the Tehsil administration. There
will be four Tehsil Officers (TOs) reporting to the TMO, one
each for (i) Finance, Budget and Accounts (ii) Municipal
Standards and Co-ordination (iii) Land Use Control (iv) Rural-
Urban Planning.
Functions:
THE UNION
General:
The Union government will comprise the Union Nazim, the Naib
Union Nazim, the Union Council, and the Union administration.
Union Councils are being extended to urban areas for equal
local representation throughout the district. Thus, the
population of Unions in urban areas will match the population
of unions in rural areas in the district. This measure will
equalize the level of local representation available to urban
and rural areas. One third of the union councilors in a union
will be women. Electoral conflicts will be mitigated through
multi-member election wards in both urban and rural unions.
Elections:
(b) External: The Tehsil Nazim may initiate the motion for the
recall of a Union Nazim
by moving it in the Tehsil Council where it will require a
two-thirds majority to be
carried. If passed, the motion will then go the zila Council
for ratification by a simply
majority.
Functions:
The Union Councils will carry out their functions through the
Union government and the Monitoring Committees. At a
minimum, there will be Monitoring Committees for municipal
services, finance, public safety, health, education, literacy,
works and services, and justice.
Functions:
MUSALIHAT ANJUMAN
In each Union, a Musalihat Anjuman shall be constituted
consisting of a panel of three Musaleheen (Conciliators) one
of whom shall be its Convener, to be selected by the Insaf
Committee of the Union Council, within thirty days after its
election, from amongst the residents of the Union who are
publicly known to be persons of integrity, good judgment and
command respect.
The Union Nazim, members of the Insaf Committee and
Musaleheen (Conciliators) shall use their good offices to
achieve the amicable settlement of disputes amongst the
people in the Union through mediation, conciliation and
arbitration, whether or not any proceedings have been
instituted in a court of law in respect of such disputes.
Provided that such settlement shall be carried out in such
cases where all the parties to the dispute agree thereto and no
fee shall be charged for such settlement.
Conclusion:
Throughout Pakistan’s history, local government has been an
object of political manoeuvring, rather than a recognized layer
of government. On the one hand, the various military rulers
have established elected local bodies to legitimize their own
power and weaken that of the political parties. On the other
hand, civilian governments have not promoted elected local
government because they have preferred to rule through
provincial administrators. The association of elected
government with military rule has tainted the very concept of
elected local government. It is imperative that elected
government be established as a regular feature of a
functioning democracy in Pakistan.