The District Council (formerly the District Local Board) came into existence in 1884 to provide services and facilities to people in rural areas. Since that date, its administrative set-up has gone through many changes. Sukkur District comprises four subdivisions and six revenue talukas, having one municipal corporation, two municipal committees, four town committees, 140 Union Councils, and one District Council. The District Council Sukkur covers an area of 4,525 sq. miles and provides basic services to about 800,000 people out of a total population of about 1.1 million in the entire District (1981 Census). The Council is empowered under Section 59 of the Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 1979, to levy a cess on various classes of land; this ‘local cess’ provides the major part of the Council’s income. On the revival of local councils in 1979, the District Council assumed office on 14 November with seats. sixteen representatives of various departments were also nominated by the Government as members of the Council. Since then the profile has changed a little; at present, seat allocation is as follows:
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| General | 48 | General | 58 |
| Minority | 2 | Minority | 2 |
| Peasants and farmers | 3 | Peasants | 2 |
| Workers | 1 | Farmers | 2 |
| Women | 3 | Women | 6 |
| Total | 70 | ||
The District Council maintains 405 miles of pucca road, 848.5 miles of katcha roads, 23 miles of paved brick, 33.5 miles of metal led road, seventeen medical dispensaries, six veterinary dispensaries, three maternity homes, and thirty- three cattle ponds to provide for the basic needs of people in the rural areas. Between 1979 and 1983, the District Council constructed seventy-three primary schools at a cost of Rs 4.74 million, and repaired a further forty-four; it also built four medical dispensaries. The District Council also undertook some schemes under the Arid Zone Development Program (AZDP) during 1979-80 and 1980-81. The priorities of the AZDP are to provide basic requirements in the fields of health, education, water supply, and communications, and to encourage the integrated development of livestock, development of cottage industries, and exploitation of mineral and underground water resources. The District Council has built several wells and tanks and a medical dispensary under the AZDP. In 1984 Sukkur District Council revised the existing (1979) export tax on farm produce.* Subsequently, the Government of Sindh promulgated the Sindh Local Government Amendment (Ordinance), 1988, (Sindh Ordinance No. 1 of 1988),** under which rawangi mahsool (export tax) was to be livable on firewood, timber for use in construction of buildings, wheat, barley, rice, cotton (ginned, unpinned, or waste), and sugar or sugar products such as misri, rewri, and other sweetmeats, whether such produce or resources were exported from the urban limits or rural limits of the revenue District. The Municipal Corporation is authorized under part II of Schedule V of the 1979 Ordinance to levy certain taxes. These include a tax on the import into the area of goods for consumption, use, or sale (octroi), road-bridge and ferry tolls, a tax on the transfer of immovable property, and a rate for the provision of waterworks, among others.
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