CHARSADDA, Jan 14: Alamzeb Umerzai, Naib Nazim, district Charsadda, has said the new local bodies system would give a fillip to development activities across the country.

The vested interest in the bureaucracy, however, do not want this system to succeed and are creating hurdles in its smooth functioning.

Addressing a councillors’ convention here at Charsadda Club the other day, he said both the Nazimeen and councillors must play their positive role. The Nazimeen, while preparing developmental schemes for their area, must take the councillors into confidence. Their counsel must never be overlooked.

Leaders of Charsadda Councillors Ittehad, Wali Mohammad, Sadiq Ullah, Azam Jan Bacha, Farhath Jabeen, Zahida Begum and Pir Shahenshah criticized the government for ignoring councillors when fixing allowances for the Nazimeen.

They said the councillors were the base of the new system and by ignoring them the government’s plan of devolving power to the grass roots level would never materialize.

If the government wanted its plan to succeed, it must take back the allowances announced for the Nazimeen as both they and the councillors were elected by the same vote.