LAHORE, Nov 8: The Punjab local government commission has again fallen into a deep slumber without having implemented majority decisions it took in its belated meeting held on Sept 22.

“Except for a meeting with the Lahore district government, none of the major decisions taken by the commission on Sept 22 have been implemented. The commission has once again gone into hibernation,” sources said here on Wednesday.

The sources said the commission had not even filled the post of a technical member, which fell vacant seven months ago after the completion of four-year term of former Punjab IGP Salman Qureshi.

They said no one at the helm of affairs was listening to the commission members who had recently held a meeting with officials of the Allama Iqbal Town by their own. “There is no other progress,” they claimed.

The commission had met in September after a gap of three years in violation of the related provision of the Local Government Ordinance 2001 which makes it compulsory for it to meet every month to ensure smooth running of the local government system in the province.

According to the main decisions taken during the meeting presided over by local government minister and the Commission Chairman Muhammad Basharat Raja, the government was to soon fill the vacant seat of its technical member. However, official sources said they did not know about any step taken in this regard so far.

It decided to visit Multan soon after its meeting with Lahore district government officials to check its functioning. And so far no such visit has been arranged.

The commission was to summon all district and tehsil nazims to Lahore to explain to them the actual working of their respective councils, powers, limitations and the role of the central body. This event too is yet to take place.

Another decision was to immediately ask all local councils to send their annual internal audit reports and resolutions of their monthly meetings to assess how they were spending their funds and operating. This too has yet to be materialised.

The sources said the delay in implementing the decisions of the meeting supported nothing but the apprehension that the government did not want to activate the commission made all powerful as a result of latest amendments to the local government ordinance.

“The commission is the actual supervisory body of the local government system in the province. And if it is activated in letter and spirit no one would be able to run the system at will,” they said.