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Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is the local government in Guwahati, Assam, India. GMC was formed in the year 1971 by the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Act, 1969. [ 2 ] The corporation was duly constituted in 1974 in the first meeting of the elected councillors as per provision of Sec.45 of this Act.
Each police station is under the care of Inspector of Police who is the Station House Officer (S.H.O.), and performs all the duties and exercises all the powers of the S.H.O., except that of Pragjyotishpur, Guwahati PS and Sonapur, Assam Police Stations where Sub-Inspector ranked officers are Officers-in-Charge.
It consists of the Governor appointed by the President of India as the head of the state, currently Lakshman Prasad Acharya. [3] The head of government is the Chief Minister , currently Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma , [ 4 ] who is the leader of the group that commands a majority in the unicameral Assam Legislative Assembly .
On 1 April 2010, the name of North Cachar Hills district changed to Dima Hasao. On 15 August 2015, Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam, announced the formation of five new districts in the state, [1] taking the total number from 27 to 32.
In 1874, Assam was constituted as a Chief Commissioner's province with the seat of the government in Shillong, the erstwhile capital of Assam, which is now in Meghalaya.To better administer the six districts of Goalpara, Kamrup, Sonitpur, Nagaon (formerly, Nowgong), Sivasagar (formerly, Sibsagar) and Lakhimpur, (the districts in the Brahmaputra valley, also called Assam Valley), the Judge of ...
Traditionally at the district level, the Superintendent of Police (SP) or Senior SP (SSP) maintains law and order by working with the District Magistrate (DM). Under the Commissioners of Police (CP) system, the state governments may or may not grant certain powers of the executive magistrate to the commissioner, contrary to the Superintendent of Police or Senior SP of a police district who ...
Deputy Commissioner (DC)- In India, some states use the term "Deputy Commissioner" instead of "District Magistrate" to refer to the head of the district administration. These states are Karnataka , Assam , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Nagaland , Jammu and Kashmir , Punjab , Haryana , Delhi , Himachal Pradesh , Jharkhand , Arunachal Pradesh , etc.
The Assam Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Assam in India. A regular police force was initiated in Assam by the British after the Treaty of Yandaboo to maintain the law and order. [2] It functions under the Department of Home Affairs, Assam. The headquarters of Assam Police is situated at Ulubari in the state capital Guwahati.