LAHORE:To improve revenue and liaison among the provincial government and rural folks, the government has decided to reactivate the decades-old numberdari system.
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has already given a go-ahead for activation of this traditional headman system in rural areas of the province. The government will appoint around 45,000 numberdars (headmen) who will perform various important functions on behalf of the government to increase revenue collection and maintain law and order in their respective areas.
These numberdars will report to the local government about encroachments and help protect state lands from illegal occupants. They will also help the government to keep a vigilant eye over leakage of revenues and outbreak of any epidemic in their respective areas. It would be their responsibility to inform the competent authority about epidemics or outbreak of any disease in their villages.
The government believed that this time-tested system of numberdari can play a vital role in improving revenue collection and governance in the rural settings. Initially, the government had decided to award them some 14 government’s function on behalf of different government departments in their jurisdiction. READ MORE
