[1][2] Umerkot, also known as Amarkot, (Urdu: عمرکوٹ) is a town in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.
2,00,87,451/- from the District Government Mirpurkhas as share of District Government Umerkot for expenditure on the schemes relating to the below mentioned sectors: Rural Development (Farm to Market Road) i. ADP ongoing schemes ii.
Abandoned schemes Education Health Agriculture During the year 2005–06, the elected District Government came into existence, who prepared and passed its own budget keeping in view the policies of Local Government, priorities, financial strategy and plans in financial terms, with following expected receipts and expenditures in accordance with new chart of accounts.
Receipts 1,46,46,82,902 Expenditure 1, 46,41,62,418 Saving 5,20,484 On account of financial decentralization, complete delegation of sanction authority is vested in the District Government which has facilitated the District Government to carry out more development projects, for betterment of general public of local area however, administrative authority is required to be extended in order to achieve the desired results at gross roots level.
The district being a newly created having got no its own source of revenue and as such it has to depend upon indicative grant of the provincial government.
The Zila Council has elected monitoring committee for each group of offices of the District Government.
of Dehs è 235 As for as the development in Education Sector is concerned it is worthy to mention that District Umerkot has remained fortunate in achieving remarkable progress in infrastructure, construction and effective functionalization in the sector.
Nearly 411 new buildings as per details given below have been constructed from 2001 to up to date reflecting keen interest of District Government for giving top priority to education sector.
With the construction of this large number of school buildings the reasonable facilities have been provided to the public to get their children quality and standard education in the District.
Govt.Primary School HR Siddiqui Education of women their betterment and uplift of social conditions is a part of the core policy of District Government Umerkot.
In order to provide easy approach to the girls special packages have been given to them in form of scholar ship, free text books and necessary assistance as required in this regard.
Efforts are being made to provide job opportunities to educated women belonging to for off and remote areas of District for functionalizing schools through SMC funds.
As already discussed the district is newly created one having acute shortage of personnel in each and every group of offices.
Three Rural Health Centers viz Samaro, Kunri and Pithoro has been upgraded to the level of Taluka Headquarters Hospital.
A plan for rehabilation and Renovation of Health facilities with support and funded by ADP has been submitted to Provincial Government for approval with cost of 34 million.
Lady health workers and staff concerned with Extended Program of Immunization (EPI) is also trained.
New Lady Health Workers and Drivers are recruited to provide medical cover to the remote areas of different union councils.
Besides, the registration of 70 CCBs, Health Management Committees (HMCs), School Management Committees (SMCs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) are also constituted in order to ensure more community participation in various forms of development activists and improvement in service delivery.
Apart from this the CCBs have to act for mobilization of stake holder for community involvement in the improvement, maintenance of facilities, welfare of the handicapped, widows and families in extreme poverty.
The centers are providing skill development services on modern method to the female to learn & earn along with basic knowledge of education to fulfill their requirement, they are also participated various exhibition organized by Govt: & Non Govt: organization to introduce cultural articles & provided market facilities through District Resource Committee & Department.
The registered NGOs before LGOS-14 & registered NGOs after LGOS, 2001 is-52, number of non governmental institutions are working for the betterment of the people, like FYG is one of the network run by Germans under president ship of HR Siddiqui to spread the network of awareness .
Shifa Foundation has been actively working in Umarkot in delivering services to Nutritional status and in 2017 extended its interventions to add WASH component i.e. provision of safe drinking water to vulnerable communities.
In this regard organized relief camps with the joint venture District Administration & NGOs provided relief material to the Earth Quake victims of N.W.F.P, Azad Kashmir & Punjab effected people.
However, its major crops are Cotton, Chillies, Sugar-cane, Wheat, Jawar, Bajra, Maize and Sun-flower.
due to absence of local govt system there is no Zila Nazim of District Government Umerkot.
In order to improve gender development the District Government has reserved 33% seats for women.
In order to empower the women the Sindh Local Government Ordinance – 2001 has also reserved 25% seats in each monitoring committee.
(i) Improvement for girls education (j) Any other activity / project / facility suggested / recommended by majority of Women Councilors within the function assigned to District Governments.
In addition to the District Government, the Taluka and Union Administration have also been set up for solving the problem of masses at the door step level.
Musalihat Anjuman are also constituted in each union council consisting of panel of three Musaleheen where the matters are referred even by any competent court having jurisdiction for amicable settlement.