Radical amends to LG Ordinance on the cards

ISLAMABAD - PPP-led coalition government is poised to introduce radical amendments in the Local Government Ordinance 2002 and has decided in principle not to scrap the whole system with one stroke of pen, sources disclosed to TheNation here Monday.

Pakistan People’s Party and its coalition partners ANP, MQM, JUI-F have made up their mind to introduce cardinal changes in the existing Local Government system while PML-N that had been demanding the abolition of Local Governments, now favours necessary modifications in it to allow the system running.

PPP Co-Chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari said after his meeting with Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development on October 11 that PPP-led coalition government would soon amend the Local Government Ordinance 2002 to make it more people friendly.