MAIN THEMES

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MAIN THEMES

• a. IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION THE CIVIL SERVANTS
  PERSPECTIVE.
• b. REFORMS IN STRUCTURE OF POLICE DEPARTMENT.
• c. WHAT SHOULD BE THE DEVOLUTION STRATEGY.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

• Civil Servants are unhappy with the Devolution
  Plan because
• It takes away their Powers, and puts them in a
  coordination role.
• Police, which was the enforcement arm of
  administration and had a coordination role with
  the administration, has been made independent of
  the administration.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. Elected person have been made the reporting
   officer of the Civil Servant and also given
   powers of all postings and transfers upto BPS-17.
2. The tradition/ accepted administration command
   structure has been ignored. Control of Tehsil
   Administration made completely independent
   thus problematic.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. Too many independent bodies, in the name of
   devolution created encouraging conflict at the
   gross root levels (intentionally to create a
   balance of powers) e.g. TMA, Administration,
   District Government, City Government etc.
2. The perceived advantage of dispersing powers
   preventing too much of power in one hand
   against universally accepted concept of unity
   of command will cause unending conflict with
   doubtful advantages, if any

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. System requires higher seniority officers to be
   posted in District Government, with less powers
   and status making field postings unattractive
   DCO BPS-20 of all districts regardless of
   size, importance.
2. Devolution Plan too complex and complicated
   with everything including nomenclatures new
   (intentional, to show a break from colonial past)
   too much for the illiterate public to
   comprehend and feel comfortable with for a number
   of years.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. While planners in Islamabad, may be allergic to
   colonial past people in the village are nostalgic
   about the colonial past/ tradition.
2. Civil Servant feels he has been discriminated
   against. Whereas complete command given to the
   elected person in his case same yardsticks not
   applied to police.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. Official powers of transfers and promotions of
   petty bureaucracy being in the hands of elected
   man will completely politicize the grass root
   bureaucracy.
2. An existing one-window operation (in the form of
   D.C/ A.C) has given way to dispersing of powers
   and allowing only coordination role to the top
   senior civil servant in district making life
   more complex for relief seeking public.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. Powers and responsibilities of district
   government not commensurate to its own resources.
   Dependence on central and provincial funds
   against principle of autonomy leading to
   conflict and confusion.

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IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION - THE CIVIL SERVANTS
PERSPECTIVE

1. In built conflict between district government and
   expectations of the MNA MPA not attended to.
   Historical record of the conflict too convincing
   to hope for any thing different this time.
   (During democratic governments, local/ district
   governments have withered while only in
   military rule they have flourished).

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RESTRUCTURING OF POLICE

• Setting up of National, Provincial and District
  Public Safety Commission to de-politicize the
  police and monitor their performance.
• Investigations to be separated from watch ward
  at the Police Station level.
• Police to work only under Judicial Magistracy and
  report to Nazim on Law Order matters.

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RESTRUCTURING OF POLICE

• Capital City Police to be independent.
• Ranges to be abolished and replaced by Regions.
• Setting up of Police Complaint Authority.
• Independent Prosecution Service.
• Setting up Police Management Board.

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WHAT IS IDEAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Only four areas require further devolution,
  health, education , local bodies and agriculture
  extension.
• Law and Order should be specially kept out of the
  ambit of District Government in our current level
  of development/ education/ history.

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WHAT IS IDEAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• We should study again the District council
  systems, as it was thirty years back, when
  schools, dispensaries, veterinary centres, and
  roads used to be managed by the District
  Councils.

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WHAT IS IDEAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• In order to relieve the judiciary of excessive
  load, and give the administration wherewithal to
  deliver, the institutions of executive magistracy
  should be revived.

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