18 October 2004	Monday	03 Ramazan 1425

HARIPUR, Oct 17: A list of priorities for shemes to be designed, proposed and executed at the district level, under the citizen community boards was finalized here at a session organized by the Devolution Trust Community Empowerment, district council , the Sarhad Rural Support Programme and the National Commission for Human Development.

Representatives of various community citizen boards working in different parts of the district participated.

They were briefed on the finalization of priority uplift schemes costing over Rs250,000. Participants were asked to submit their CCB-oriented schemes to the district government by next month, otherwise the CCBs funds of Rs16.4 million would lapse by Dec 31.

The boards were the mandatory part of Local Government Ordinance 2001 through which the union tehsil and district administration would execute uplift projects with a contribution of 80 per cent of the total cost while the Citizen Community Boards would be required to contribute only 20 per cent.

The segregation of pecuniary powers of all the three tiers of the local government system pertaining to CCB-oriented projects, suggested that a scheme costing up to Rs100,000 would be completed by the union administration with a compulsory contribution of 80 per cent of the total cost while up to Rs250,000 the tehsil administration and above Rs 250,000 the district administration was empowered to, facilitate, approve and monitor.

Prioritization of schemes for Tehsil Ghazi and Tehsil Haripur administration had already been effected and according to informed sources, the uplift project of union level had been inaugurated in certain union councils while at tehsil and district level not a single Citizen Community Board-oriented project had so far been approved or executed.