Municipality building (Kabul)

 office building, national government / government, guildhall

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Kabul Municipality is headed by the Mayor of Kabul, and its employees include the directors of various departments such as roads and planning, and the administrators of each of the city’s 18 districts. The Municipality owns, or is in a position to sell, significant amounts of “public” or “state” land throughout the city. Moreover, the Municipality claims responsibility for housing, land assessment and ownership records, as well as for urban roads and water supply. Furthermore, the municipality claims the revenue collection for all of these services. In an environment where land tenure is often in dispute and where regulations may be unclear, allegations about the Municipality’s sales of land, its unsystematic provision of land ownership documents, and its idiosyncratic collection of revenues have led to charges of favouritism and conflicts of interest. As of this writing, the Kabul Municipality structure is under review and reform, and several key staff have recently been replaced.