LAHORE, Sept 17 (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-i-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.