What’s 2001 minus 1979?: CDGK turns into KMC
Now that the commissioner system is in place, the Sindh government has temporarily blocked the funding for all district governments and has appointed deputy commissioners and commissioners at the divisional and district levels.
This would be the single biggest reshuffle in the bureaucracy since the government came to power in 2008. “All the district governments have been abolished and the municipal corporations in Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur have been restored along with district councils in the rest of the districts,” Local Government Secretary Ahmed Ali Lund said. The chief minister would have powers to appoint an administrator in Karachi, who would look after the metropolitan corporation affairs. In other districts, however, the local government department itself would appoint administrators.
The Sindh government departments have issued notifications taking back all those departments that they handed over in 2001.
Now that there are five divisions — Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas and Larkana — the government has made their DCOs the new commissioners. In Karachi, DCO Mohammad Hussein Syed is the new commissioner, in Hyderabad Aftab Khatri, in Mirpurkhas Ghulam Hussain Memon, in Sukkur Inamullah Dharejo and in Larkana Aleem Lashari.
Sources said that there are chances that the commissioners for Karachi and Hyderabad may be transferred soon as they were appointed on the recommendation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which was a coalition partner of the government but is now part of the opposition.
On the other hand, the government had appointed deputy commissioners (DC) for the five districts of Karachi - East, West, South, Central and Malir. Mustafa Jamal Qazi has been appointed DC South, Matanat Ali Khan DC central, Shaukat Jokhio DC East, Jan Muhammad Qazi DC Malir and Ghanhwar Leghari DC West.
The Executive District Officers (Revenue) of Hyderabad, Larkana, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas have been appointed deputy commissioners. They start work today.
Sources said that government has not only stopped the funds of defunct district governments and town municipal administrations but also the funds for union councils. “About Rs1.8 billion have been allocated in this budget for union councils with each UC getting Rs0.2 million,” said a Saddar Town employee. “But the budget has been blocked. We are worried about our jobs. We do not know what will be the fate of the district government, TMA and UC employee.”
Chief Minister’s Adviser on Planning and Development Kaisar Bengali said, however, all work would continue as before and now supplementary budgets would be presented. “We have already earmarked the budget and now funds would be spent by the provincial governments because all departments have now been handed over to them,” he said.
When asked about the employees of district governments, he said that they would be adjusted into their department and some of them might be kept in the surplus pool. The money would be released.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 12th, 2011.
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Both systems are good. Simple deffinition are here. -1- Commissioner system is the best when minority wants to rule majority. It provides tools to effectively handle majority. While I say minority and majority, it does not mean any ethnic or religious division. It means classes of people with respect to their social status.
-2- The other system, which is called local goverenment system is not effective at all for a few people to controll masses.
In the case of Karachi. Because more than 95 % people belong to lower middle class, middle class and upper middle class and less than 5 % belong to elite or land lords who too belong to the rural areas and they have their inherent right of rulling over these middle class people. Hence, the best system is commissiore system for karachi.
Infact the commissinore system has three tier system. The commissinore is the lowest tier. The other two are Governer jeneral and viceroy. We hope as the commissinore is already restored the other two ranks of this system will soon be restored. Because it is the best system.
Law of Natural Justice Never becomes inoperative.
Commissionery system is the bet system and centuries old tested system it is still prevalent in islam abad and functionig successfully in FEDRAL CAPITAL if it was BAD why it is still prevalent in ISLAM ABAD CAPTAL IT PROVIDES SECURITY AND BRNGS LAW AND ORDE SYSTEM IN CONTROL efore it must be enforced and work now SIDH ASSEMBLY has passed it it is AT of ASSEMBLY
Wow ! 4 out of 5 are Sindhi speaking !!!!
Muhajirs are the single largest entity of Karachi , now are to be manned by 4 outsiders imposed upon by Zardari , those who even are not aware where is Lalookhet or Babar Market .
And they are preaching us to become Sindhi .
It's laudable decision of PPP that Mushraf system is over and it failed to deliver any good to people.Mushraf's local bodies system was aimed at distributing whole Pakistan to his favorite Nazims to legitimate his system and crush all democratic forces.Those who enjoyed unparalleled power in the days Mushraf,ofcourse,this new decision of PPP Govt will screw them up.
What's 2001 minus 1979? This should rather read 'What's 2011 minus 1979?' since last decade or so has seen some real progress for Cities of Sindh.
Bold indeed very bold step towards total failure!!!!! We are shifting from corrupt society to more most corrupt society particularly Sindh.....May God bless us as society..
A classic example of a failed state. Pakistan is a case study for the World at large. The entire World is headed in one direction and the land of the ignorant in the opposite. How long can the developed World tolerate this state as a liability on to themselves. One thing is certain, their patience is thinning out.