Saturday, 29 December 2012

KP unveils administrative arrangements under new local government system

PESHAWAR: The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday announced the consequential administrative arrangements under the new local government system to take effect from January 1, 2013.

According to a handout, the district setup of government departments shall stand segregated from Local Government and the institutions established under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Ordinance, 2001 (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Act No. XIV of 2001) and shall realign with their administrative departments at provincial level under the act.

The functions of erstwhile District Coordination Officer (Revenue & Estate) have been integrated in the office of deputy commissioner with the provision of additional deputy commissioner in each district.

The sub-divisional setup of deputy district officers (Revenue) and deputy district officers (Judicial) has been replaced with assistant commissioners and additional assistant commissioners. The Board of Revenue will process relocating the functions of collector and assistant collector in the office of deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners in accordance with the new administrative setup.

Each district shall be provided a district officer (Finance and Planning), a planning officer, a finance officer and a secretary District Public Safety Commission. The positions of assistant coordination officer, human resource development officer and deputy district officer (Finance) shall stand abolished. The positions of executive district officer at district level shall stand abolished.

The Local Government Elections and Rural Development Department shall notify constitution of each Local Council and make transitional interim arrangement and management in pursuance of Section 224 of the act.

The Agriculture Department at district level shall be reorganised.

The Agriculture (Extension) shall be manned by district director, subject matter specialists, agriculture officers, plant protection officers, assistant horticulture officers and assistant agronomists. The Livestock & Dairy Development (Extension) shall have district director, senior veterinary officers and veterinary officers.

On Farm Water Management shall have district directors, district officers and water management officers. The Soil Conservation shall have district officers soil conservation and soil conservation assistants.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Department at district level shall be re-organised under district education officers separately for male and female assisted by deputy district education officers (male and female) and sub-divisional education officers.

The Health Department at district level shall be re-organised under district health officers assisted by deputy district health officers and coordinators.

The Public Health Engineering Department and Communication and Works Department will continue with existing organisational hierarchy at the sub-divisional, district and regional level.

Account-IV modality for transfer of funds to districts shall remain operational with deputy commissioners as principal accounting officer for Account-IV and Chairman of the District Development Committee (DDC) of their respective districts. In addition to oversight of the accounting aspects of the reorganisation, the Finance Department shall notify the deletion of existing posts and creation of replacement as per requirements of government departments.

The commissioner shall oversee transition, facilitate government departments, coordinate relocation of functions and ensure continuation of services in their respective divisions.

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