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The district magistrate, also known as the district collector or deputy commissioner, is a career civil servant [a] [2] who serves as the executive head of a district's administration in India. The specific name depends on the state or union territory .
The primary responsibilities include revenue collection, maintaining law and order, overseeing developmental activities and coordinating various departments within a sub-division. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The post is held by officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), and sometimes, by officers of state administrative services.
After this tenure as a district magistrate or district collector or deputy commissioner, IAS officers can be posted to various positions in the state government. These positions include secretary or principal secretary in different departments, director of a department, divisional commissioner , or chairman of a government corporation.
The responsibilities of deputy commissioner vary from province to province. In Pakistan, these responsibilities changed with the passage of time. [10] However, now the local government law of all provisional governments is similar to a large extent to the law of Punjab Province. Below some of the duties of a deputy commissioner are given:
District are now under control of deputy commissioners, who are responsible for law and order, collection of revenue, developmental program coordination and common welfare of people in their respective districts. [20] DCO Faisalabad Maj (R) Azam Suleman (middle) along with District Mayor Faisalabad, chairing district development meeting
Each subdivision is under the charge of an officer designated as a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), or deputy collector, who is a member of the State Civil Service cadre. In the revenue department, the deputy collector reports to the district revenue officer (DRO), who is also called the additional district magistrate (ADM Revenue) and is the ...
WBRS officers can be posted as Assistant commissioner in Commercial tax department, or as Deputy Excise Collector in Excise Directorate or as an Additional District Sub-Registrar in Directorate of Registration and Stamp Revenue. Officers recruited at a young age can get promoted up to Commissioner rank which is an IAS cadre post.
Field appointment of DC combines roles of District Magistrate (DM) and Collector (Land Revenue) BPS-19: Deputy Secretary to the Government of Pakistan; Additional Secretary to Provincial Government; Additional Commissioner of a Larger Administrative Division (Appointment created on required basis). Deputy Commissioner for a larger district