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No sources are given. What law governs the district collectors funtions? KristoferP 05:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
There is no specific law or Act of the Parliament under which the Collectors are appointed. The District Magistrate draws his powers from Sec 20 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. However, almost 40% of the Acts mention or involve the District Collector!
Collectors' functions are multifarious. They fall under three categories:
1. He/she is responsible for maintaining the law and order in the district; hence the powers of District Magistrate are conferred on the Collector, although, in metropolitan cities, Collectors are no longer magistrates. In many states, he/she heads the district police also.
2. He/she is the custodian of land records; the chief of the Census operations; the head of the criminal prosecution; the District Election Officer; heads all the departments of the State Government at the district; protects the interests of the State Governments.
3. He/she is the head of the welfare administration of the district; hence normally they are the executive officers of the district
panchayats.
In practice, they wield much wider powers.
A Collector need not be from the Indian Administrative Service. He/she can be from the State Civil Services also.
In Regulation Provinces, such as Bengal and Agra, the head of the district was called the Collector. In non-Regulation Provinces, such as Oudh and the Punjab, he was called the Deputy Commissioner. The reason for this apparently was, that after the extension of British rule under Dalhousie, there was not enough qualified Company servants to fill the new posts of Collector and, as the rule was that these posts could be filled only by regular Company civil servants, the name of the post was changed and a number of soldiers were appointed to them. In both cases Regulation and non-Regulation, he fulfilled exactly the same duties. He was District Magistrate and also Collector. As District Magistrate, he was the chief magistrate of the district and responsible for law and order in it. He had no actual authority over the police, but he and the Superintendent of Police were supposed to work closely together. Thus if Government thought that a district was getting out of hand, the Chief Secretary might write to the District Magistrate and tell him to do something about it, probably endorsing a copy of his letter to the Inspector General of Police so that he might issue necessary orders to the Superintendent of Police. As a Magistrate, the District Magistrate heard very few cases, mostly appeals from second and third class Magistrates. His main duty was to see that his subordinates, the deputy collectors and magistrates, did their work properly. The best way of ensuring this was to visit the jails and see that there was no unnecessary delay in the appearance of accused in court. This I did once a month. The jail was directly under the Civil Surgeon; both from a medical and administrative point of view, but here again the District Magistrate exercised supervisory powers. In fact, as head of the district, he more or less had to ensure that everything worked well.
Jcm.mudie ( talk) 12:53, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
The opening paragraph has a link to
State governments of India which is consistent with the wording in the Appointment section. However, the term is linked to the phrase Central government which sounds like it is different than State governments. I've changed it, but I am not conversant with Indian government structure, so someone with more knowledge should confirm or correct.--
S Philbrick
(Talk)
22:25, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
You are right.
ATTN: District Collector is a post of Bangladesh, equivalent to the one in India. As the article is about 'District Collector', not 'District Collector of India', it should cover all similar topics from different countries. I have added brief description of Collector of Bangladesh. I worked a lot for it. So, please discuss. Thanks. Jafar Sadik Chy (Talk) 19:15, 12 August, 2017 (GMT)
"District collector" is a general term for a number of posts, not a single post (such as the difference between ' prime minister' and ' Prime Minister of India'. Therefore it should be in lowercase, per WP:MOS (as it is in the article title). Mauls ( talk) 10:59, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Proposed Merger of
District Collector into
Indian Administrative Service.
Someone added a merger tag on
District Collector in 2016, but forgot to create a discussion, so here, I am doing that job, albeit a year late.
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions)
20:38, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
@ Mauls: I see you've changed the contents of the article District collector to accommodate almost analogous Bangladeshi post.
If anything, there should be a
Deputy Commissioner (Disambiguation). As Deputy Commissioner in Bangladesh exercises the roles of DM and Collector, but is designated as Deputy Commissioner. So, the plausible search term would be Deputy Commissioner, not District Collector.
Regards,
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions).
14:36, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Also, the appropriate place for this is in the relevant section of the article talk page, where user Jafar Sadik Chy asked for discussion of this content. Mauls ( talk) 20:51, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
What I would suggest is to move
District collector to
District Collector (India) with a redirect, just like
Home Secretary (United Kingdom) redirects to
Home Secretary, and to create new page titled either
District collector (disambiguation or
Deputy commissioner (disambiguation).
And if it's all the same to you, I am thinking about copying this discussion to
Talk: District collector.
Regards,
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions).
14:45, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Notifying and inviting possibly interested/significant contributors for their comments: @
Mauls: @
Bharat.varsh: and @
Jafarsadikchy:
Comment/Proposal: I suggest to move the article
District collector to
District Collector (India) with a redirect (as the case is
Home Secretary (United Kingdom) and
Home Secretary). I also suggest the creation of three articles viz.
Deputy commissioner (disambiguation),
Deputy commissioner (Bangladesh) and
Deputy Commissioner (Pakistan), as the roles of the officer vary from country to country and from state to state within a country.
Regards,
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions).
16:46, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
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No sources are given. What law governs the district collectors funtions? KristoferP 05:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
There is no specific law or Act of the Parliament under which the Collectors are appointed. The District Magistrate draws his powers from Sec 20 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. However, almost 40% of the Acts mention or involve the District Collector!
Collectors' functions are multifarious. They fall under three categories:
1. He/she is responsible for maintaining the law and order in the district; hence the powers of District Magistrate are conferred on the Collector, although, in metropolitan cities, Collectors are no longer magistrates. In many states, he/she heads the district police also.
2. He/she is the custodian of land records; the chief of the Census operations; the head of the criminal prosecution; the District Election Officer; heads all the departments of the State Government at the district; protects the interests of the State Governments.
3. He/she is the head of the welfare administration of the district; hence normally they are the executive officers of the district
panchayats.
In practice, they wield much wider powers.
A Collector need not be from the Indian Administrative Service. He/she can be from the State Civil Services also.
In Regulation Provinces, such as Bengal and Agra, the head of the district was called the Collector. In non-Regulation Provinces, such as Oudh and the Punjab, he was called the Deputy Commissioner. The reason for this apparently was, that after the extension of British rule under Dalhousie, there was not enough qualified Company servants to fill the new posts of Collector and, as the rule was that these posts could be filled only by regular Company civil servants, the name of the post was changed and a number of soldiers were appointed to them. In both cases Regulation and non-Regulation, he fulfilled exactly the same duties. He was District Magistrate and also Collector. As District Magistrate, he was the chief magistrate of the district and responsible for law and order in it. He had no actual authority over the police, but he and the Superintendent of Police were supposed to work closely together. Thus if Government thought that a district was getting out of hand, the Chief Secretary might write to the District Magistrate and tell him to do something about it, probably endorsing a copy of his letter to the Inspector General of Police so that he might issue necessary orders to the Superintendent of Police. As a Magistrate, the District Magistrate heard very few cases, mostly appeals from second and third class Magistrates. His main duty was to see that his subordinates, the deputy collectors and magistrates, did their work properly. The best way of ensuring this was to visit the jails and see that there was no unnecessary delay in the appearance of accused in court. This I did once a month. The jail was directly under the Civil Surgeon; both from a medical and administrative point of view, but here again the District Magistrate exercised supervisory powers. In fact, as head of the district, he more or less had to ensure that everything worked well.
Jcm.mudie ( talk) 12:53, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
The opening paragraph has a link to
State governments of India which is consistent with the wording in the Appointment section. However, the term is linked to the phrase Central government which sounds like it is different than State governments. I've changed it, but I am not conversant with Indian government structure, so someone with more knowledge should confirm or correct.--
S Philbrick
(Talk)
22:25, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
You are right.
ATTN: District Collector is a post of Bangladesh, equivalent to the one in India. As the article is about 'District Collector', not 'District Collector of India', it should cover all similar topics from different countries. I have added brief description of Collector of Bangladesh. I worked a lot for it. So, please discuss. Thanks. Jafar Sadik Chy (Talk) 19:15, 12 August, 2017 (GMT)
"District collector" is a general term for a number of posts, not a single post (such as the difference between ' prime minister' and ' Prime Minister of India'. Therefore it should be in lowercase, per WP:MOS (as it is in the article title). Mauls ( talk) 10:59, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Proposed Merger of
District Collector into
Indian Administrative Service.
Someone added a merger tag on
District Collector in 2016, but forgot to create a discussion, so here, I am doing that job, albeit a year late.
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions)
20:38, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
@ Mauls: I see you've changed the contents of the article District collector to accommodate almost analogous Bangladeshi post.
If anything, there should be a
Deputy Commissioner (Disambiguation). As Deputy Commissioner in Bangladesh exercises the roles of DM and Collector, but is designated as Deputy Commissioner. So, the plausible search term would be Deputy Commissioner, not District Collector.
Regards,
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions).
14:36, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Also, the appropriate place for this is in the relevant section of the article talk page, where user Jafar Sadik Chy asked for discussion of this content. Mauls ( talk) 20:51, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
What I would suggest is to move
District collector to
District Collector (India) with a redirect, just like
Home Secretary (United Kingdom) redirects to
Home Secretary, and to create new page titled either
District collector (disambiguation or
Deputy commissioner (disambiguation).
And if it's all the same to you, I am thinking about copying this discussion to
Talk: District collector.
Regards,
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions).
14:45, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Notifying and inviting possibly interested/significant contributors for their comments: @
Mauls: @
Bharat.varsh: and @
Jafarsadikchy:
Comment/Proposal: I suggest to move the article
District collector to
District Collector (India) with a redirect (as the case is
Home Secretary (United Kingdom) and
Home Secretary). I also suggest the creation of three articles viz.
Deputy commissioner (disambiguation),
Deputy commissioner (Bangladesh) and
Deputy Commissioner (Pakistan), as the roles of the officer vary from country to country and from state to state within a country.
Regards,
SshibumXZ (
Talk) (
Contributions).
16:46, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
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