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Deputy commissioner (popularly abbreviated as "DC" and DCO) is a chief administrative, ... Upper Dir: Gohar Zaman Wazir 38 Upper Kohistan: Sindh Province.
As of the 2023 census, Upper Dir district has 149,536 households and a population of 1,083,566.The district has a sex ratio of 98.36 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 46.77%: 62.76% for males and 31.67% for females. 392,214 (36.24% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 47,842 (4.42%) live in urban areas.
Dir District was officially split into Upper Dir and Lower Dir in 1996. Until 2000 as funds were not available to provide the accommodation needed at Dir town by government departments at a district headquarters, both districts continued to be administered by a single deputy Commissioner stationed at Timergara in Lower Dir.
The Office of Deputy Commissioner was upgraded/up scaled and designated as District Coordination Officer DCO and was deprived of the powers of District Magistrate. [10] However, in 2008, after the presidency of General Musharraf , provincial governments of Pakistan again established the office of Divisional Commissioner. [ 11 ]
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioner were now incapable of deciding judicial cases or act as a magistrate because of separation of power as guaranteed in the Constitution of Pakistan. They were also stripped of financial powers to impose Rahdaris, import and export tax and any kind of levies.
Commissioner Jody Lee Storozuk echoed that concern by phone Wednesday and said he believed Chisholm was "getting worn out." Commissioner Stephen Colwell said he thought Chisholm was doing a great job.
A district council (or zila council) is a local government body at the district level.. The functions of a district council include construction and maintenance of roads, and bridges, building hospitals and dispensaries, schools and educational institutions, health facilities and sanitation, tube wells for drinking water, rest houses, and coordination of activities of the Union councils within ...