A two-day India-Pakistan Symposium on Local government will begin at a local hotel on July 2 (Monday). Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi will be the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony.
Indian Punchayat Raj (Local government) Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Chairman National Reconstruction Bureau, Daniyal Aziz and delegates from India and Pakistan attending the ceremony.
Punjab Governor, Lieutenant General Khalid Maqbool (Retd) will be the chief guest at the concluding ceremony of the symposium on Tuesday afternoon.
To be organised by the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), the symposium will also discuss post-colonial administration and its effects on governance, fiscal decentralisation, fiscal capacity and financial management at the local level and the outcomes of the local government system in Pakistan and India with focus on public accountability, community empowerment and e-governance.
Meanwhile, the Indian delegation led by Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has arrived in the city to attend the symposium.
The delegation comprises State Ministers, Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assemblies, the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh, officials from the Union Panchayati Raj Ministry and experts in the field of local governance and sociologists.
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