Punjab government, DCO delaying division of TMA assets

Provincial government and district co-ordination officer (DCO) are responsible of the present situation arising between Rawal and Potohar towns of Rawalpindi on the matter of distribution of resources and assets, while common man is ultimate sufferers of this tussle, said a highly placed source in the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) while talking to this scribe.
"The two splinter civic bodies of the Rawalpindi Tehsil have locked horns for the distribution of assets and resources of the former TMA and even they have gone in litigation", the source said with the condition of anonymity.
The responsibility lies on shoulders of provincial government and DCO, who have not done the spade work before the bifurcation and election of Town Nazims and councillors, he said adding that all these are ill managed matters causing lot of problems for masses.
He said that according to Local Government Ordinance after declaration of City District Government, various matters of TMA including commercialisation, sanitation, fire brigade, bus terminals were delegated to City District Government. But, he added, that all these matters are being dealt by Rawal Town. "District Government has shown incapability in handling the issue of sanitation and even the sanitation of Potohar Town is being done by Rawal Town", he maintained.
He said that Rawal Town is paying the salaries of sanitation staff of both the towns and all the expenditures are also being shouldered by this body.
He said that Potohar Town still exists nowhere and Nazim and Tehsil Municipal Officer (TMO) are not finding any place to sit, while still sanitation staff of Rawal Town is working in Potohar Town. They have no office and staff so how can they run the affairs and all is being done in papers not in reality, he added.
He said that there was no hope of early solution of the matter as no positive attitude is being shown by different concerned circles.
It may be recalled that Rawalpindi district was declared City District by the government under Local Government Ordinance (The devolution of power plan of the federal government) while Tehsil Municipal Administration of Rawalpindi was bifurcated into two towns of Rawal and Potohar.
The government at that time had maintained that all the resources and assets of the TMA would be distributed among two splinter civic bodies but after passage of six months in local government polls the matter of distribution of resources and assets is still unresolved.