Tehsil

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"Taluk" and "Mandal" redirect here. For other uses, see Taluk, Iran and Mandal (disambiguation).

A tehsil (Hindustani:

pergunnah) and thana.[2]

In

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the tehsil system. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system.[3] In West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks
are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils.

Tehsil office is primarily tasked with land revenue administration, besides election and executive functions. It is the ultimate executive agency for

block development officer and serve different government administrative functions over the same or similar geographical area.[4]

Although they may on occasion share the same area with a subdivision of a revenue division, known as revenue blocks, the two are distinct. For example, Raipur district in Chhattisgarh state is administratively divided into 13 tehsils and 15 revenue blocks.[5] Nevertheless, the two are often conflated.

Background

India, as a vast country, is subdivided into many states and union territories for administrative purposes. Further

districts. These districts (zila/zilla/jille/jilla) are again divided into many subdivisions, viz tehsils or taluks. These subdivisions are again divided into gram panchayats or village panchayats.[6] Initially, this was done for collecting land revenue and administration purposes. But now these subdivisions are governed in tandem with other departments of government like education, agriculture, irrigation, health, police, etc. The different departments of state government generally have offices at tehsil or taluk level to facilitate good governance and to provide facilities to common people easily.[citation needed
]

Nomenclature

In India, the term tehsil is commonly used in all

Eastern India, instead of tehsils, the term Subdivision is used in Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand and West Bengal, as well as large parts of Northeast India (Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura). In Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland
, they are called circle.

Tehsil/tahsil and taluk/taluka and the variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside the

district
, also sometimes translated as county. In neither case is the analogy very exact.

Organization setup

Tehsildar is the chief or key government officer of each tehsil or taluka.[8] In some states different nomenclature like talukdar, mamledar, amaldar, mandal officer is used. In many states of India, the tehsildar functions as the executive magistrate of that tehsil. Each tehsil will have an office called tehsil office or tehsildar office at a designated place within tehsil area known as tehsil headquarters. Tehsildar is the incharge of tehsil office. This is similar to district office or district collector at district level.

Throughout India, there is a three-tier local body/Panchayat system within the state. At the top is the zila/zilla panchayat (parishad). Taluka/mandal panchayat/panchayat samiti/community development block is the second layer of this system and below them are the gram panchayats or village panchayats. These panchayats at all three levels have elected members from eligible voters of particular subdivisions. These elected members form the bodies which help the administration in policy-making, development works, and bringing grievances of the common public to the notice of the administration.

Nayabat is the lower part of tehsil which have some powers like tehsil. It can be understood as tehsil is the sub-district of a district, similarly, Nayabat is the sub-tehsil of a tehsil.[9]

Every Taluku (Taluk) in India (Bharat) has a designated place(city/town/village) as its headquarter's within its jurisdictional area.The Taluku office where Tehsildar or Amaldar or Talukdar the government official who administers the Taluku operates from Taluku headquarter's. He has to visit villages coming within his jurisdictional Taluku as per requirement.Taluku office is under control of Revenue department of respective state government in Republic of India.Each Taluku office in Karnataka state has different sections like revenue.elections,land records,executive magistrate etc. which is looked after by section officers or Shirastedars/ Deputy Tahsildars[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "tehsil". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on March 22, 2020.
  2. ISBN 9789401797719
    – via Google Books.
  3. ISBN 978-81-317-0034-1
  4. ISBN 978-81-8069-818-7
    . The main purpose of the census is to provide data on size and composition of population of India and its geographic divisions, i.e., population of different states and union territories, districts, blocks and villages.
  5. ISBN 978-81-8405-017-2
    .
  6. ^ "class six civics pacnhayati raj". www.excellup.com.
  7. ^ "taluk". dictionary.com. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Notes On Rural Administration - Tamilnadu board Class 6 Civics". www.nextgurukul.in. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Complete List of New Administrative Units". Greater Kashmir. 14 March 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Taluk Office". Karnataka state government. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  • 2001 maps provides maps of social, economic and demographic data of India in 2001
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tehsil&oldid=1281183428"
This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article: Tehsil. Articles is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; additional terms may apply.Privacy Policy