ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The reserves of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) will not be utilized for running the local government system in the federal capital, sources in the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) told Dawn on Saturday.

The sources said the CDA had requested the bureau to keep the reserves of the authority intact and not to spend them on the local government to be set up in Islamabad.

It was confirmed by the sources that the local government elections in the capital would be held after the forthcoming general elections. They ruled out the possibility of holding the proposed local government polls in Islamabad simultaneously with the provincial assembly elections to be held in the country on October 11.

They said the NRB had principally agreed that the CDA’s finances would not be utilized to run the local government in Islamabad and the government would release separate funds for the new system. The authority, they said, would work under a Capital Administration Commission (CAC) to be headed by a federal secretary.

The commission would have eight members including the present members of the CDA board and technocrats. The commission will frame policies, and the district Nazim will be under the check of the present members of the CDA Board.

A secretary of the Islamabad Capital Territory administration will be appointed under whom the capital’s police department will work. The inspector general (IG) of police will be answerable to the secretary, ICT administration.

The district Nazim will be elected while the district coordination officer (DCO) appointed. The DCO will work under the district Nazim. There will be no town Nazim in Islamabad, the sources said.

Some 16 departments of the federal government working in Islamabad will work under the DCO. They are the health department, education department including all model schools and colleges, PWD, environment, municipal administration, hospitals, police etc.

The sources said some 22 union councils would be established in both the rural and urban areas of Islamabad.

All powers of the CDA Board would go to the CAC and the post of the chief commissioner Islamabad/CDA chairman would be abolished. A managing director would be appointed as a head of the CDA who would report to the district Nazim.

The posts of the deputy commissioner, additional deputy commissioner (general) and senior superintendent of police (SSP) will be abolished.

The sources said the SP investigation of police, SP law and order and SP administration would directly work under the IG police.