Govt to introduce strong Local Govt system: Aleem Khan
Last updated on: 17 September,2018 05:42 pm
New laws being drafted so that they could be enforced in Punjab province
LAHORE (APP) – Senior Minister Punjab Abdul Aleem Khan Monday said the proposed new local government system would strengthen people and enable them to solve their genuine problems at local level.
Under the set up, he said, local government representatives would have administrative as well as financial powers.
Speaking to a delegation at his office, the minister said, PTI leadership believed in transfer of powers to lower level and it could only possible by strengthening the local government system. He said people were attaching great expectations from the new government for which in two months visible changes would be there.
He said, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as per aspirations of the people would not tolerate any impediment in implementing its agenda.
Aleem Khan who was holding the ministry of local government and community development said, on the instructions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, new laws were being drafted so that they could be enforced in Punjab province.
He said, previous PML-N government did nothing but to strengthen its rule adding elected representatives were ignored and did not transfer powers to them. “We are working to empower the elected representatives at local level,” Aleem Khan said.