LG reps to meet Imran in Mansehra

MANSEHRA: The local government representatives would meet Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan during his visit on March 26 and apprise him about hurdles being created by the provincial government in the way of local government system in the province.

“Imran Khan is due here on March 26, the day when our convention is also scheduled against suspension of budgetary allocations to local governments and would apprise him about wrong policies of provincial government against this grassroots system,” Tehsil Nazim Khuram Khan Swati told a press conference here on Saturday.

He said that preparations for convention, which would be held outside the Mansehra Press Club, would be attended by local body’s representatives from across the district had been finalised.

“The PTI-led government is hatching conspiracies against this system. It has deducted over 80 percent allocations under the provincial finance commission to district for the last three consecutive years,” Swati added.

He said that 194 village and neighbourhood councils in the district were without budgetary allocations for the current fiscal year.

Meanwhile, a meeting of Nazmeen Ittehad, a representative body of village and neighbourhood council nazims, was held with its president Mohammad Fareed in the chair.

Basharat Ali Swati, general secretary, told reporters that the nazims and naib nazims and representatives of all 194 councils would attend the LG convention to be held on March 26.