100% agreed with your point of view brother...this is a hard reality in our society...Here in Pakistan an educated young man cannot contest the elections because he does not have millions of rupees to spend on election campaign (This expenses are towards those men standing on the booth as mentioned by you)

I would like to add here is that DCO is also accountable to the Public Accounts Committee of the province...as an example I am here mentioning the functions of the DCO mentioned on the City District Government, Multan's website as per LGO-2001

"The functions and powers of the District Coordination Officer:-

In every district, the Provincial Government appoints a District Coordination Officer. The District Coordination Officer is the coordinating head of the District Administration. "Coordinating head" means authority to call for review and assess the performance of the groups of offices, individually or collectively, and give directions for taking actions or measures for improving efficiency, service delivery and achievement of goals assigned in the approved plans of the District Government.

He shall -ensure that the business of the District Coordination Group of Offices is carried out in accordance with the laws for the time being in force; co-ordinate the activities of the groups of offices for coherent planning, synergistic development, effective and efficient functioning of the District Administration; exercise general supervision over programmes, projects, services, and activities of the District Administration; coordinate flow of information required by the Zila Council for performance of its functions under the Local Government Ordinance; act as Principal Accounting Officer of the District Government and be responsible to the Public Accounts Committee of the Provincial Assembly; call for information and reports from local governments in the district as required by the Provincial Government or District Government through the Tehsil Municipal Officer; prepare a report on the implementation of development plans of the District Government for presentation to the Zila Council in its annual budget session; and initiate the performance evaluation reports of the Executive District Officers and shall be countersigning officer of such reports of the District Officers initiated by the Executive District Officers"

If you look at the above functions, you will come to know that there are sooo many checks and balances on the DCO and what about the so called public elected Nazim, wjere is he accountable? is he accountable to PAC of the provincial assembly? has any performance evaluation report? does he really get the votes due to his popularity or money or undue influence on poor??? does he really serve the purpose of the people who elects him? Is he available to meet the general public in his office? atleast DCO meets the general public daily in his office and holds an open court (as directed by the CM)

and what about the fact that after all this LGO system was given by a person who himself came to power by violating the constitution...so how can you expect an offender to deliver justice to you? has any public elected body approved the current LGO in ANY assembly? why every province is reverting to previous LG system (Commissionerate system)? and they are doing so by passing that from the respective assemblies of those provinces...even Punjab has today passed a resolution in the Punjab assembly to defer the local bodies elections further by 6 months, had that system been that good, they must had gone for the elections....and remember an educated officer selected through FPSC/PPSC listens to people in an educated way, how do you think an illiterate person would talk n talks to an educated but poor person???? our MNAs and MPAs are the faces of our politicians.....now do we want to give them license to use undue influence and illegal power even at district level to favour their political companions and to target opponents???? please fellows think about it.....