Summary of Previous Lecture Approaches to study public administration.

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Summary of Previous Lecture Approaches to study public administration

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Summary of Previous Lecture

Approaches to study public administration

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Devolution in Pakistan

–Context

– Content

– Causes

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A few facts about Pakistan

Founded by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Pakistan emerged as an independent sovereign state on August 14th 1947.

Capital City: Islamabad

Total Area: 796,095 sq km

Population: 190 m

Language: Urdu (National) English (official)

Divided into 4 provinces: Sindh, Punjab, North West Frontier Province, and Balochistan.

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Devolution in Pakistan

• It is time for the local government elections in Pakistan

• The drama is going to start in December/January, 2013-

14.

• Gigantic task before tired election commission of

Pakistan

• Challenges, printing of 400 millions ballot papers in a

short span of 25 days.

• The other arrangements are also in progress

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Devolution in Pakistan • Over 66 years of independence we tried all possible

form of local government.

• However we focus recent decentralization reforms in

Pakistan under General Musharraf.

• We also discuss the mechanism of current elections.

• This time local government elections are conducted on

party basis.

• Whether successful experience or not- wait and see

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Devolution in Pakistan

• In the process, we highlight major aspects of this

reform (2000).

• We provide a detailed history of local government

reforms in Pakistan.

• The purpose is to better understand the context and

potential causes behind the current decentralization.

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History of Decentralization in Pakistan• Some interesting facts- Military leader were keen to local set up-why- Three significant reforms/set up were from

dictators- Ayub- Zia- Musharraf

- Lets start from pre independence

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Pre independence

• Pre-existing Local Governments:

• Before the advent of the British rule in India, there was no

advanced tradition of local self-government in the modern

sense.

• However, a rudimentary local government system did

exist in the rural areas.

• This was the system of village panchayats (literally council

of five) which performed administrative, judicial and

sometimes developmental functions.

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Pre independence

• However, in terms of geographical coverage and

history, Panchayats never existed over the whole of the

sub-continent--

• and not in all periods in history, although some system

of village self-government more or less existed in the

various ages of Indian history

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Pre independence

• In terms of representation, the Panchayat was only

rarely representative of the village as a whole,

• Often representing the founding-families, upper

castes and large farmers.

• It is also worth emphasizing that Panchayats were

not the only form of village government in pre-

British India.

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Pre independence

• The system of village headmen is one example of

other forms of rural government

• Although “under the reign of the Moguls and the

time o f the British government the headman was

more a representative of the central government

rather than of village self-government.”

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Local Governments under the British

• In the areas that presently comprise Pakistan

• Local governments were introduced by the British

• Not by building on the village panchayats, but

instead from scratch, following the annexation of

Sindh in 1843 and of Punjab in 1849

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Local Governments under the British

• After the War of Independence (or Indian Mutiny) of 1857.

• The governance of India transferred from the hands of the

East India Company to the Crown

• Attempts were made to co-opt the native elite by establishing

representative local governments.

• These local governments were formed in a “top-down”

manner in urban and rural areas

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Local Governments under the British

• Members were not locally elected but nominated by the

British bureaucracy.

• However, despite legislation for setting up district committees

in almost every province

• The Committees were nothing more than a convenience to

the District Magistrate

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Local Governments under the British

• To supply him with information or to carry out

miscellaneous duties.

• Village life was hardly touched by the new District

Committees.

• They were formed by the District Magistrate from

among his ‘mulaqatis’ and other respectable citizens.

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Democratic Processes at the Provincial Level

• The outbreak of World War I and agitations by nationalist

parties change the scenario

• Demand rose for greater representation in provincial and

central governments

• It shifted focus away from local governments and prompted

the British government to make political concessions to Indian

political parties.

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Democratic Processes at the Provincial Level

• They granted more autonomy at the provincial level.

• This change is important in understanding the

evolution of local governments- why?

• Since it sharpened the contrast between these

nascent representative governments at the

center/province and the existing local governments.

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Democratic Processes at the Provincial Level

• As the latter became less relevant as means of

representation.

• The public debate shifted to the more regional and

central arena of the nationalist movement.

• This shift in political emphasis was a major factor behind

the dormancy local governments in the areas that were to

constitute Pakistan

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Democratic Processes at the Provincial Level

• The first significant constitutional accommodation

was Government of India Act 1919

• That introduced a system of diarchy under which

Indian ministers responsible to the provincial

legislative assemblies were made in charge of some

minor departments.

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Democratic Processes at the Provincial Level

• This Act, granted limited space to Indian politicians

• But essentially retained the control of the central

imperial bureaucracy

• In fact bureaucratic power at the provincial level

was further entrenched.

• The space available to Indian elected ministers was

further curtailed by the limited assignment of

expenditure functions and fiscal resources

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References

Niazi, M. A. (1994) “Local Bodies: the history,” The Daily News on Friday, 30

September.

Noman, O. (1988). Pakistan: Political and Economic History since 1947.

London: Kegan Paul International

Rizvi, S. A (1976) Changing Patterns of Local Government in Pakistan.

Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society.

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