LG representatives demanded immediate release of uplift funds
\nPESHAWAR
\nLocal government representatives on Monday announced that they will stage a \u2018sit-in\u2019 outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Chief Minister House on December 19 to demand release of developmental and non-developmental funds to village, neighborhood and tehsil councils across the province.
\nAddressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club (PPC), the president of tehsil council chairmen and mayor Mardan city council Hamayat Ullah Mayor said that two years have passed since local governments were installed in the province, but they are still deprived of rightful funds and powers.
\nHe said that local body representatives are unable to solve the grassroot level problems of the community as there are no funds with them.
\n\u201cThe elected local bodies have not received a single rupee of funds, due to lack of funds, the representatives across the province are facing difficulties in running the administrative affairs,\u201d he said.
\nFlanked by a group of local government representatives across the province, Himayat Ullah Mayor said that unfortunately the Peshawar High Court (PHC) has also referred the matter pertaining to funds and powers to the next elected Provincial Assembly.
\nThe responsibilities of the elected governments and elected local bodies are increasing, but they have been deliberately kept powerless, he said and added that local body representatives of the province have no other option to sit-in a protest camp outside provincial caretaker CM House force the government to bring an ordinance to restore the powers of local bodies and provide them with adequate developmental and non-developmental funds.
\nHe said that the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government during its tenure amended the Local Government Act 2019 and provided funds and powers to the elected local councils. However, spoiled two years in implementing the law pertaining to local body rights and powers, he said.
\nThe elected local body representatives across the province will stage a sit-in outside the KP CM House for their rights on December 19 , Himayat Ullah Mayor added.
\nTehsil Chairmen Upper Dir, Lucky Marwat and Chairmen Village Councils Tarkha Taimur Kamal, Akbarpura Malik Qasim and dozens of other villages were also present on the occasion and spoke about the non-release of funds in their respective councils.
\nThey said people\u2019s confidence in the local body system has lost and they have now become fed-up with the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LG representatives demanded immediate release of uplift funds PESHAWAR Local government representatives on Monday announced that they will stage a \u2018sit-in\u2019 outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Chief Minister House on December 19 to demand release of developmental and non-developmental funds to village, neighborhood and tehsil councils across the province. Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n