In spite of long historical background, constitutional obligation, inevitable requirement for participatory and sustainable development local government in Bangladesh could not develop accordingly. Of course, there are many fold reasons behind this failure. Comprehensive reform is still required for strengthening local government that suggests for the thorough evaluation of the efforts of the different reform committees/commissions including the policy prescriptions, implementa-tion strategies, in their recommendations, corresponding changes as well as the problems and limitations faced by them in the local government. On this backdrop this essay would try to review the reform initiatives, reform perspective, recommendations and the implementation of the recommendations of the reform commissions/ committees from a comprehensive perspective. This article is trying to highlight the nature of membership in different reform commissions under various political regimes. In light of the interactive model of policy reform by Thomas and Grindle, it would try to see whether the political motive of the governance regime and the memberships of different commissions intervene to implement the reform policy.