The officials informed the Commission about the decision taken by the provincial cabinet which noted that under sections 4 and 5 of the KP Local Government Act, 2013, it was imperative to declare the new Tehsils established by the board of revenue under the law recently as the local areas for the Tehsil's government as the next local body elections would be conducted at the Tehsil subdivision level.
They said that out of 50 Tehsils, 25 are in merged districts and 24 in settled ones, adding the provincial cabinet of Chief Minister Mehmood Khan okayed 33 percent representation in Tehsil councils for women and five per cent for youth, farmers and minorities each.