Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired an important meeting at his office about the new local government system in which secretary local government and community development gave a briefing about the new local bodies system. The CM said that a strong local bodies system will solve public problems at the grassroots and a genuine representation will be available to the people through Punjab Local Government Act. A public leadership would emerge at the grassroots through the elections of the village, panchayat and neighbourhood councils to solve the public problems at their doorsteps, he added. The government will introduce an exemplary system to strengthen the local bodies and a new era of development will start, the CM stressed. Provincial ministers Abdul Aleem Khan, Raja Basharat, Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Hashim Jawan Bakht, Murad Raas, chief secretary and administrative secretaries attended the meeting.
