Recently the government announced new municipalities and now their total number has reached 130. According to the source at Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), the government is about to declare 66 more municipalities. There are opinions both for and against the recent announcement.
Critics opine that newly declared municipalities do not deserve to be urban government units as basic norms and values of municipal governance have not been found in them. They think that the government had to have built basic physical infrastructure before converting numbers of Village Development Committees into municipalities. However there are sufficient reasons to take this as the government’s commitment to planned urban development.
