| 单词 | union committee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunion committee c. In Pakistan: a local administrative unit, below the level of a tehsil (see tehsil n.). Chiefly attributive, as union committee, union council, union level, etc.The union level was the lowest level in a five-tier system of government created by the Basic Democracies Order of 1959: see quot. 1964 for further details. ΚΠ 1959 Times 27 Oct. 9/1 The bottom of the pyramid will be made up of ‘union councils’ not very different from the village panchayats used in experiments with local self-government in undivided India. 1964 R. W. Gable in Inayatullah District Admin. W. Pakistan i. 15 Basic Democracies are characterized by a four-tier structure of councils... The councils operate, in ascending order, at the level of unions, or groups of villages; tehsils (in West Pakistan) and thanas (in East Pakistan); districts; and divisions. In urban areas there are Town Committees and Union Committees in place of Union Councils. 1970 Times of India 6 Sept. 12 He demanded the immediate abolition of the basic democracies system and alleged that the chairmen of the union councils and union committees were using their position to convass [sic] support for their favourite candidates. 2013 Dawn (Pakistan) (Nexis) 31 Dec. The political parties have still not finalised their candidates for the different union councils or wards in the district. < as lemmas |
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