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Local Government System of Pakistan
Local Government System of Pakistan
GOVERNMENT
SYSTEM OF
PAKISTAN
CONTENTS
Judiciary Executive
• To run the
State
Function Machinary
of Govt
Legislature
Tiers of Government in Pakistan
Federal Government
Provincial Government
Local Government
TYPES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Administration of local
Local Govt areas run by appointed
bureaucracy
• Administration of local
Local Self Govt areas run by its elective
representatives
WHAT IS LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT?
Parking Fee
Fisheries
1959
THE AYUB PERIOD: DECENTRALIZATION AND THE
POLITICS OF LEGITIMACY
Union Union
Committees Committees
(77) (449)
BASIC DEMOCRACIES (BD)
The most important and controversial function which was
included in constitutions of 1962 was that members of the
lowest tier, the Union Councilors, were designated as the
Electoral College and empowered to elect the President
and the members of national and provincial assemblies.
Local Govt
Provincial
Govt
Urban Rural
Distt Council
(86)
Town Municipal
Municipal Metropolitan Wards (3373)
Committee Committee
Corporation Corporation
(270) (117)
(11) (2)
Wards Wards
Wards (836) Wards (219) Union Councils
(3568) (2694)
(3786)
Wards (61292)
• Urban Councils Enjoyed Higher Levels of Revenue and
Income than Rural and semi-Urban Ones
Distribution of resources
DIFFERENT LEVELS
areas.
TERM LIMITS AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS
District Council
Metropolitan Corporation (for each Metropolitan
city)
Union Council
5% for labourer
or Peasant
METROPOLITAN CORPORATION (KARACHI DIVISION)
5% for
labourer or
Peasant
UNION COUNCIL
A Chairman
and a Vice
Chairman as
joiin
candidates
4 x General 1 x Women
Members member
Union
Council
1 x Non- 1 x Labourer
Muslim or Peasant
Member Member
1 x Member
to be elected
directly for
the Distt
Council
DISTRICT COUNCIL
Reserved
seats 5%
for Non-
Muslim
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
Members
The Municipal
elected by
the Union Corporation so
Committees
constituted shall
elect a Mayor and a
Deputy Mayor from
Reserved
seats 5%
for Non-
Muslim
MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE
Reserved
seats 5% for
Non-Muslim
TOWN COMMITTEE
Reserved
seats 5% for
Non-Muslim
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
The experience has shown in comparison to federal and