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LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly here on Tuesday passed the ‘Punjab Local Government Bill 2019,’ ARY News reported.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the ruling party in Punjab presented the draft for new local bodies’ system in the provincial assembly. The provincial assembly also passed Punjab Panchayat and Neighborhood Council Act 2019.
On April 19, Punjab’s cabinet meeting had approved the Local Government Act-2019 and Water Act-2019.
The decisions had been taken during a provincial cabinet meeting with Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office in Lahore. Presiding over the meeting, CM Buzdar had said that the government had been committed to empower the local bodies of the province.
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Earlier, Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Local Government Muhammad Basharat Raja had said that the Punjab government had been committed to empower the local bodies of province by enacting a new powerful law in coming days.
“The draft for the local bodies system 2019 will be tabled in the house after passing through all legal channel”, he had said.
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