Responsibility Performs by The Local Leaders

Q. What type of responsibility performs by the local leaders?

Local leaders have to work on each sector of local level planning. Political local leaders and community local leaders should be included in every sector of local level institutions work. In 1885, the Bengal Local Self-Government Act introduced three tier of local bodies, namely the district board at the district level, the local board at the sub-division level and the union committee at the union level. The union committee was entrusted with the management and maintenance of primary schools, roads, tanks, drains, sanitation, registration of births, etc. on behalf of the District Board. The Ordinance of 1983 divides the function Union Parishad into five categories:

• Civic function
  
• Police and defense functions
  
• Revenue and general administrative functions
  
• Development functions
  
• Transferred function etc
  

The function of the District Board may be categorized as follows:

• Communication
  
• Health and sanitation
  
• Water supply
  
• Education
  
• Scrutiny of development efforts within the district
  
• Establishment and maintenance of public libraries
  
• Construction, maintenance and development of roads, culverts and bridges not owned by the Pourashava of roadside trees etc.
  

Due to rapid urbanization, the role and functions of urban local government institutions in Bangladesh have been gaining in significance in the recent year. At present the function of Pourashava and City Corporations are almost similar in nature. The chartered functions of these bodies are enumerated below:

 

• Construction and maintenance of roads, bridges and culverts
  
• Removal, collection and disposal of refuse, wastes and rubbish
  
• Provision and maintenance of street lighting
  
• Provision and regulation of water supply
  
• Construction and maintenance of shopping centers
  
• Plantation of trees on road sides
  
• Regulation of in sanitary buildings
  
• Prevention of infections diseases and epidemics
  
• Provision and maintenance drainage
  
• Provision and maintenance of graveyards and cremation grounds
  
• Control over traffic and public vehicles etc.
  

Local leaders have to play role in all these functions and ensure the efficiency of local level institutions.