S4 dr. aamer irsshad - devolution
- 1. 18TH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT & DEVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURE Aamer Irshad Chief Food and Agriculture Planning Commission
- 2. DEVOLUTION Devolution- provincial to local Local Government Ordinance 2001 More share of provinces in divisible pool 7th NFC Award-2009 Devolution -federal to provincial 18th Constitutional Amendment-2011 Devolution- federal to provincial NFC Award Devolution- provincial to local What happened What it should be
- 3. RELATIONS BETWEEN FEDERATION AND PROVINCES (Pre 18th Amendment) Legislative Lists, under Article 70(4): Federal Legislative List (67 subjects): Parliament has the exclusive power to make laws with respect to any or all subjects (Part- I, 59 & Part -II, 8) Concurrent Legislative List (47 subjects): Parliament and Provincial Assemblies can make laws. 3
- 4. AGRICULTURE AND CONSTITUTION Agriculture, in original Constitution, neither in FLL nor CLL thus residuary power of Provinces Federation role traced back to enactment of Seeds Act 1976, on request of provinces under Article 144 Entries on drugs, medicines and poisons in CLL provided Federation for Plant Quarantine Act 1976 & Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance 1971 Federation further exploited FLL 16, 19, 25, 27 and 32 for its extended role in the field of Agriculture
- 5. RELATIONS BETWEEN FEDERATION AND PROVINCES (Post 18th Amendment) Abolishment of Concurrent Legislative List Changes in Federal Legislative Lists Part-I ( subjects decreased from 59 to 56) Weakening of Federal legislative Part-I Part-II: ( subjects increased from 8 to18) Strengthening of Federal Legislative List Part-II Enhanced control of CCI 5
- 6. FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE LIST Part I, No. 16 Federal agencies and institutes for the following purposes, that is to say, for research, for professional or technical training, or for the promotion of special studies Part I, No. 19 Port quarantine, seamen’s and marine hospitals and hospitals connected with port quarantine Part I, No 25 Copyright, inventions, designs, trademarks and merchandise marks
- 7. FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE LIST Part I, No. 27 Import and export across customs frontiers as defined by the Federal Government, inter-provincial trade and commerce, trade and commerce with foreign countries; standards of quality of goods to be exported out of Pakistan Part I, No 32 (New) International treaties, conventions and agreement and international arbitration Part II, No. 7(Shifted from Part I) National planning and national economic coordination including planning and coordination of scientific and technological research
- 8. CONCURRENT LEGISLATIVE LIST No. 20 Drugs and medicines No. 21 Poisons and dangerous drugs No. 22 Prevention of the extension from one province to another of infectious or contagious diseases or pests affecting men, animals or plants No. 24 Environmental pollution and ecology
- 9. DEVOLUTION OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE Ministry of Livestock and Dairy Development Ministry of Food and Agriculture DEVOLVED Functions 38, Departments 12, PSDP Projects 74 Federal Ministries Functions 26, Dept. 7,Project 16 National Food Security & Research * Functions 21, All Dept. Projects 32 Provinces Functions10, Dept. 1, Project 19 Deleted Function 2, Dept. 4, Project 39 *Various functions have been clubbed 9
- 10. MYTH vs. REALITY 10 Item Key Institutions Federal /Provincial Land Boards of land revenue Provincial Water-river flows M/o Water and Power & IRSA Federal Seed FSC&RD Federal Fertilizer Fertilizer Review Committee Federal Pesticides Plant Protection Department Federal Research PARC/PCCC Federal Agri credit Sate Bank of Pakistan Federal Extension Extension departments Provincial Pricing policies Agriculture Policy Institute / ECC Federal Food Trade Policy M/o National Food Security/ECC Federal Fuel Prices NEPRA, OGRA Federal Border Control Quarantine Departments Federal
- 11. IMPLICATIONS 11 Constitution vs. abolishment of MinFA Development funds Institutional memory Technical record Custodian Focal point Litigations Human resources
- 12. 12 Thank you