HYDERABAD, Aug 29: The District Council Hyderabad here on Thursday decided to send a detailed report to Islamabad on the way bureaucracy works with the elected representatives.

The report will apprise President Pervez Musharraf, the National Reconstruction Bureau and other central and provincial government functionaries of the level of response the district government received to the resolutions passed by its council in a year.

The members, however, vowed to fight the bureaucracy for the survival of the devolution system and that they would not get disappointed.

The Convenor adjourned the council session until Friday after presiding over it for the third consecutive day. The members continued discussion on the role of bureaucracy with regard to the devolution system.

The proposal of sending a detailed report came from Ghulam Raza Shah of union council Bhitshah who claimed that the working of the government departments given under the control of district government must be brought on record so that the high-ups should come to know what they had done with the elected representatives.

He claimed that not a single resolution was implemented during the last one year of the present system and added that each and every thing must be jotted down in the report which should also be sent to the Local Government Commission.

He observed that the members were not afraid of the bureaucracy as they knew how to get to grips with its members.

He maintained that the only cause for concern was the embarrassment which a Nazim faced when his electorates surrounded him for their minor works.

Shah pointed out that it was 108-year-old system that had been replaced by the devolution system and it would certainly take time to take roots. The members, therefore, must not lose hope, he remarked.

In his view a battle was going on between President Gen Pervez Musharraf and the establishment-cum-bureaucracy as the former wanted the system to keep going and the latter wanted to defeat it.

He said that the NRB and President must come to know what was done to the elected union council Nazims, the base of the devolution system.

Almost all the members were united in urging that the sanctity of the house must be upheld. They also claimed that the bureaucracy even defeated Zila Nazim and Naib Nazim as they too appeared helpless before the bureaucrats.

The convenor said that as per Sindh Local Government Ordinance (SLGO) the EDOs and DDOs were bound to seek approval of every work and added that the administration was neglecting the council members.

Rauf Jafri told the house that it was because of outgoing EDO (finance) that funds under head of stationary were allowed to be lapsed. He maintained that even the replacement of former DCO did not make any significant impact on the working of district government. He charged that it was the negligence of bureaucrats that the funds were lapsed.

Farheen Mughal, Ms Badr-un-Nisa Qazi, Sumera Akhlaque, Irshad Kaimkhani, Saleem Bozdar and Manthar Jatoi said that committees constituted by the house had remained inactive.

They said that sewerage and drainage problems continued to pose a challenge to the Nazims.