Improving skills: Govt plans training workshop for LG representatives

The programme would educate members about the new system.

LAHORE: The government is planning to organise a training workshop for the newly-elected local government representatives to help them understand the new system, The Express Tribune has learnt.

Following the directives from the provincial government, the mayors, deputy mayors, chairmen and vice chairmen have been briefed by their district government officials concerned regarding the working of the district governments in Punjab.

These representatives, however, have remained largely ignorant about the working of the new local body system especially after the promulgation of Civil Administration Ordinance 2016.

In order to address the issue, the government has decided to organise a training-orientation for mayors, deputy mayors, chairmen and vice chairmen in the first phase.



Adviser to Chief Minister Khawaja Ahmad Hassan said that the training workshop would soon be held for the local government representatives in Lahore in the first phase. He said that later a training session would be organised for the local government representatives of the lower tier in the second phase.

He said that a two-day or three-day workshop was being organised by the secretary Local Government and City Districts.

Chairman District Council Narowal, Ahmad Iqbal said that he has not been informed about any such workshop, however he appreciated the government’s plan of training workshops. He said that a training workshop would be really helpful for the local body representatives to understand the mechanism of service delivery.



Secretary Local Government and City Districts Aslam Kamboh said that trainers of the Staff College have been written to spare time for the training workshop of local body representatives.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd, 2017.