Charter of the Economy The Provincial Governments have proceeded to enact laws with passage through the Provincial Assemblies. The Government of Balochistan was the first Provincial Government to enact a Local Government Act in 2010. This was followed in 2013 by the other three Provincial Governments. Amendments have since been made in the original Acts. 8.2. Structure of Local Governments The different experiments with local government in Pakistan have included different structures based on a single-tier level, as in Basic Democracy, or on two or more tiers in other cases. They have either been based on the district being the top tier or on a horizontal demarcation between urban and rural areas within a district. Figure 8.1: Structure of Local Government, 1979 Where: MeC= Metropolitan Corporation, Municipal Corporation MC= Municipal Committee TC= Town Committee DC= District Council UC= Union Council The local government system of 1979 was based on the structure shown in Figure 8.1. There was a horizontal split within a district of urban and rural areas. Urban areas had municipal bodies based on the size of the settlement. The largest being the Metropolitan Corporation, followed by Municipal Corporation, Municipal Committee and Town Committee. Rural areas of a district had a District Council. Both urban and rural areas had Union Councils as the lower tier of local government. The design and structure of local governments in the Devolution Plan of 2001 is shown in Figure 8.2. There was no distinction between urban and rural areas. The top tier of local 76