Managing Local Governance in Pakistan

Abstract

The concept of decentralization in the form of Local government is the most effective way to deliver goods and services at the grass root level. The concept is as old as the governments itself. Since the inception of Pakistan in 1947 the strong bureaucratic control in the country was not at all conducive to public participation in political affairs, which eventually led local self-government to regression, hampering the administrative and financial influx of local bodies. Since no elections were held for the first eleven years, these institutions lagged behind and, therefore, fell prey to ineffective functioning. The underlying study is comparing three systems of local government in Pakistan and shed light on the motive behind every dictatorial initiated local governments’ plan