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THE POLITICS OF DEVOLUTION

THE POLITICS OF DEVOLUTION. MULTIPLE CONTEXTS Development challenge The rhetoric of good governance Military government’s quest for political legitimacy The demonstration of a reform agenda. ASPECTS

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THE POLITICS OF DEVOLUTION

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  1. THE POLITICS OF DEVOLUTION

  2. MULTIPLE CONTEXTS • Development challenge • The rhetoric of good governance • Military government’s quest for political legitimacy • The demonstration of a reform agenda

  3. ASPECTS • Territorial: Organisation of union councils, talukas and districts as devolution units • Political: Elections of representatives to respective councils • Administrative: Organisational restructuring and placements • Financial: Fiscal Transfers vs resource generation • Legal: local government laws and implementation - LGOs

  4. ISSUES and CHALLENGES • Devolution in a political vacuum • Devolution in the absence of democratisation • ·Devolution in a legal vaccum: Constitutional Protection without endorsement of Parliament • Devolution and federalism: horizontal sharing of power verses vertical transfer of power

  5. SHOCKS TO THE SYSTEM ·9/11 ·referendum ·elections in a legal vacuum

  6. STATE OF DISTRICT GOVERNMENT IN KHAIRPUR • a direct territorial field of the power centre in the province • DPO/DCO agents of provincial government in opposition to Zila Nazim • Crisis of governance in the district

  7. STRUCTURAL ·Relationship with the provincial government · Problematic position of Zila Nazim ·Conflict ridden relationships between Nazims, Naibnazims, councillors ·Councillors directly elected yet most powerless ·Taluka Councils outside the system ·The unsettled problem of town committees

  8. ADMINISTRATIVE ·Uncontrolled Transfers and Postings ·Transfers/Postings political power instrument ·Low Capacity of Officers at District Level ·Hardship posts ·Double Jurisdictions between provincial and local authorities ·Overcentralisation and bureaucratisation in the DCOs and EDOs ·Law and order and the police

  9. FINANCIAL ·Vertical Fiscal Transfers ·Very few tax resources ·Financial Award

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