{"id":51804,"date":"2019-05-02T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51804"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:47:04","slug":"punjab-assembly-passes-local-government-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-assembly-passes-local-government-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Assembly passes local government bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday passed a new local government (LG) bill that aims to empower elected representatives at the grassroots level, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-approves-draft-of-punjab-local-government-law.html\">PM approves draft of Punjab local government law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister for Law and Local Government Basharat Raja moved the bill for consideration and passage by the provincial assembly during a session, which was presided over by PA Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the bill was aimed at replacing a faulty legislation. He added that the provincial government would disburse billions of rupees to neighbourhood councils and <em>panchayat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/new-lg-law-to-empower-minorities.html\">New LG law to empower minorities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new LG structure comprises a two-tier administrative system: Panchayat at the rural level, and Neighbourhoods Councils at the lowest level of local government within urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>Under the said law, the district councils would cease to exist under the rural local governments, and a Tehsil Council would replace them at each <em>tehsil<\/em> level. This will raise the number from 35 districts to 138 tehsils across the province.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/outlines-of-the-new-local-body-law-shared.html\">Outlines of new local body law shared<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a panchayat system for each <em>mouza<\/em> (administrative districts comprising one or more settlements) would replace existing union councils; introducing 22,000 panchayat instead of 3,281 union councils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday passed a new local government (LG) bill that aims to empower elected representatives at the grassroots level, a news source reported. Read: PM approves draft of Punjab local government law Minister for Law and Local Government Basharat Raja moved the bill for consideration and passage by the provincial assembly during a session, which was presided over by PA Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. The minister said that the bill was aimed at replacing a faulty legislation. He added that the provincial government would disburse billions of rupees to neighbourhood councils and panchayat. Read: New LG law to empower minorities The new LG structure comprises a two-tier administrative system: Panchayat at the rural level, and Neighbourhoods Councils at the lowest level of local government within urban areas. Under the said law, the district councils would cease to exist under the rural local governments, and a Tehsil Council would replace them at each tehsil level. This will raise the number from 35 districts to 138 tehsils across the province. Read:\u00a0Outlines of new local body law shared Similarly, a panchayat system for each mouza (administrative districts comprising one or more settlements) would replace existing union councils; introducing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":49460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11509],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-punjab-assembly-passes-local-government-bill"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab Assembly passes local government bill - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday passed a new local government (LG) bill that aims to empower elected representatives at the grassroots level,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-assembly-passes-local-government-bill.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab Assembly passes local government bill - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday passed a new local government (LG) bill that aims to empower elected representatives at the grassroots level,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-assembly-passes-local-government-bill.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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