City District: Overview of City District Government

Functions
The City District Government consists of Zila Nazim and District Administration. The City District Government shall be competent to acquire, hold or transfer any property, movable and immovable, to enter into contract and to sue or be sued in its name, through District Coordination Officer. On the commencement of the Local Government Ordinance 2001, the administrative and financial authority for the management of offices of the Government specified in Part A of the First Schedule of the Ordinance set up in a district shall stand decentralised to the City District Government of that District . In addition, on the creation of a City District, the authorities and organisations providing municipal services and facilities will come under the management of the City District.

Composition
The City District will comprise officers, staff and assets from:

  • The provincial departments decentralised to the District Government.
  • The Development Authorities and agencies attached to the City District.
  • Some of the officers, staff and assets from the defund Urban Local Councils (ULCs) and District Councils which will form part of the City District, in as far as they relate to the functions of the City District.

Offices of the City District
The Table below shows the offices/functions of the City District Government and their grouping under Part C and Part D of the First Schedule of the Local Government Ordinance 2001. Each of these offices of the City District Government, based on the ground situation and technical considerations, will have offices at Town level and where required at the Union level.

Groups of Offices and Offices of the City District
(Part C and Part D of the First Schedule of the Local Government Ordinance 2001)

S. No. Group Decentralized Offices Other Offices
1 2 3 4
1 District Coordination Civil Defence
  • Coordination
  • Human Resource Management
  • 2 Agriculture
  • Agriculture (Extension)
  • Livestock
  • On-Farm Water Management
  • Soil Conservation
  • Soil Fertility
  • Fisheries
  • Forests
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    3 Community Development
  • Labour
  • Social Welfare
  • Sports and Culture
  • Cooperative
  • Community Organization
  • Registration Office
  • 4 Education
  • Boys Schools
  • Girls Schools
  • Technical Education
  • Colleges (other than professional)
  • Sports (Education)
  • Special Education
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    5 Finance & Planning Accounts (excluding District Accounts Offices)
  • Planning & Development
  • Finance and Budget
  • 6 Health
  • Basic & Rural Health
  • Child & Woman Health
  • Population Welfare
  • Hospitals
  • Public Health
    7 Information Technology  
  • Information Technology Development
  • Information Technology Promotion
  • Database
  • 8 Law Environment Legal Advice and Drafting
    9 Literacy  
  • Literacy Campaigns
  • Continuing Education
  • Vocational Education
  • 10 Revenue Land Revenue, Estate and Excise & Taxation.  
    11 Works and Services
  • Roads and Buildings (District Roads)
  • Energy (Micro energy development/ generation projects for use at local community level)
    12 Public Transport (Regional Transport Authority)
  • Public Transportation and Mass Transit
  • Passenger and Freight Transit Terminals
  • Traffic Planning, Engineering and Parking
  • 13 Enterprise and Investment Promotion  
  • Industrial Estates and Technological Parks
  • Cottage, Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion
  • Investment Promotion and Protection
  • Depending upon the economies of scale and nature of infrastructure, the City District Government may vary grouping of offices contained in Part-C of the Local Government Ordinance, 2001 and set up District Municipal Offices for integrated development and management of the following services:

    1. Water source development and management, storage, treatment plants, and macro-distribution.
    2. Tertiary and secondary sewerage network, treatment plants, and disposal.
    3. Storm water drainage network and disposal.
    4. Flood control protection and rapid response contingency plans.
    5. Natural disaster and civil defence planning.
    6. Solid waste management, treatment and disposal, including land fill sites and recycling plants.
    7. Industrial and hospital hazardous and toxic waste treatment and disposal.
    8. Environmental control, including control of air, water, and soil pollution in accordance with federal and provincial laws and standards.
    9. Master planning, land use, zoning and classification, reclassification.
    10. Urban design and urban renewal programme, promulgation of building rules and planning standards.
    11. Urban and Housing development, including urban improvement and upgrading, and urban renewal and redevelopment, with care being taken to preserve historical and cultural monuments.
    12. Regional markets and city-wide commercial centres.
    13. Landscape, monuments, and municipal ornamentation.
    14. Parks, forests, play grounds, sporting, and other recreational facilities
    15. Museums, art galleries, libraries, community and cultural centres.
    16. Conservation of historical and cultural assets.