Introduction

The Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department is working to respond to the specific needs of the citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa falling within the ambit of local governance. The Department has been assigned the responsibility to implement the khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013 to achieve the stated objectives of the local government reforms introduced by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Department also has regulatory and administrative functions to ensure that the local governments throughout the province perform their roles and functions within the policy framework introduced under the new law.

• Up to 1959 the concept of  Local Government was in vogue through District Boards, Municipal Committees and notified Area Committees
• BD system was introduced in 1959.
• In 1979 through an Ordinance the system was reinvigorated.
• Local Government Ordinance 2001.
• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act-2012.
• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013