KP government to fulfil responsiblities for holding LB Polls : CM.

Peshawar -- "The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is sincere taking practical steps to fulfil its constitutional responsibilities for the intime conduction of local bodies elections throughout the province including the newly merged areas of the erstwhile FATA.''

This was said by the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mahmood Khan while presiding over a meeting of the provincial cabinet on Tuesday.

The cabinet approved the notification declaring 49-new tehsils of merged districts as well as settled areas as the local areas for the purpose of conducting incoming local bodies elections in the province.

The Chief Minister directed all the departments to prepare rules for all enactments within one month. No leniency would be tolerated in this regard.

The cabinet took for debate a 24-point agenda and made a number of decisions. Starting the proceedings, the cabinet noted that under the section-4 and 5 of the local government Act-2013, it is imperative to declare the new tehsils established by the Board of Revenue under the Act as the local areas for the tehsil's government because the incoming local bodies elections would be conducted at tehsils' sub division level for tehsil local government, a system to be introduced in the province.

This is one of the reason that the cabinet deemed it necessary that the new 25-tehsils should be declared and then approved for the holding of local bodies' elections to the tehsil local governments.

The provincial cabinet also agreed to the ratio of representation in the tehsil council for the women, youth, farmers and minorities as 33 percent and the rest 5 percent each respectively. Mehmood Khan said ''provincial government today came true to its words for the democratization of whole system of governance trickling it down to the gross root level''.

The cabinet reviewed the sustainable development strategy for 2019-23 presented by Planning and Development department that stressed for the road map by the political leadership and bureaucracy for the development of the province, reconciling the reforms agenda with the developmental strategy and redefining the direction for the social and economic development of the province. The strategy is a mid-term developmental framework under which the provincial government would reconcile the developmental strategy with the ground realities in order to provide solid base for improving the social economic living standard of the people.

This is a hundred-day plan prepared...