Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak approved the proposal for replacement of the name of district government with district council and the district nazim as its head. He also approved the district government priority areas under the new guidelines for the new district government system throughout the province.
He was presiding over high-powered committee on recommendations for local government at the CM Secretariat on Friday.
He also approved the allocation of resources to different sectors under the newly laid down formula. Education and health will get 20 per cent and 10 per cent respectively in the district government system, whereas agriculture, women development, youth/sports would get 15 per cent and there will be 50 per cent discretionary power that would be used by the district government in any given district.
The meeting was also attended by Local Government Minister Inayatullah Khan, Irrigation Minister Sikandar Hayat Khan, Health Minister Sharam Tarakai, Special Assistant for Information Mushtaq Ghani, Chief Secretary Amjad Ali Khan, Secretaries law, local government and others.
The meeting amended different sections from section 11 to section 16. The chief minister directed the quarter concerned to move a summary for a formal approval.
The chief minister directed to outsource the sanitation and if the local government system needs recruitment they would have to get an approval from the competent authority at the provincial level, under the rules and regulations.
He asked to prepare a system for such recruitments. The district officer P and D will be the Sectary of DDAC, previously the post was held by the assistant director of local government.
The meeting enhanced the fuel for a nazim up to 300 litres and allowing different vehicles to nazims and employees, etc., under rules. The district nazim will be the chief executive of the district and the administrative approval for schemes would be issued by the deputy commissioner. However, the district development committees would be chaired by respective DCs for the provincial funded schemes. The same procedure would be followed at tehsil level as well.
The chief minister eliminated the discretionary power for postings and transfers for all devolved departments and there should be no violation of the criteria. There will be check and balance mechanism and the process would be monitored and the final decision will be taken by the secretary education.
The provincial health and education departments would prepare a pool of needed employees from where there any need would be fulfilled. He said the provincial government would remove the weaknesses and there should be no duplication. The CM asked to send summary containing suggestions for removing any weaknesses that would be approved for a smooth functioning of local government system.