ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday stressed that in order to ensure the effectiveness of the local government apparatus, representation of all segments — particularly women, youth, farmers and businessmen — was important.
Chairing a meeting on upcoming LG elections in Punjab, he said a functional grassroots government system was the guarantor of national development.
With an efficient local government system, the majority of the civic problems could be resolved, the prime minister said.
He said the aim of the local government system was to transfer power to a lower level.
The meeting was attended by federal ministers including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Khusro Bakhtiar, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar and provincial ministers including Hashim Jawan Khan, Basharat Raja and Mian Mahmood ur-Rasheed attended the meeting via video link.
