CHAPTER X
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
The district of Etawah forms the north-western part of the Allahabad Division. The Division consists of the five districts, the other four being Allahabad, Farrukhabad, Kanpur and Fatehpur. The Division has been placed under the charge of a commissioner with headquarters at Allahabad. Commissioner The post of commissioner, created in 1929, was then known as commissioner of revenue and circuit. While regional officers of many new departments have been created at the Divisional level, the commissioner continues to represent the government in his Division, supervising and coordinating the work of almost all public departments and local bodies within his territorial jurisdiction. He controls, guides and advises district and regional level officers. On the appellate side, the commissioner hears appeals and revisions under the Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act and other allied enactments like Arms Act, 1959, Anti Goonda Act, etc. He is chairman of regional transport authority. He has extensive supervisory powers over the district boards, municipal . boards and other local bodies. In all important matters, the district magistrate has to address government through him or to keep him concurrently informed. In fact he is the connecting link between the government and the districts placed under him. District Staff The district is in the charge of the district officer. Under the Code of Criminal Procedure, he is designated as the magistrate and as head of the revenue administration he is called the collector. As a magistrate he exercises the Powers specified under The Code of Criminal Procedure and various special Acts. The district police being subordinated to him, he is the highest authority responsible for the maintenance of law and order in the district-He has to maintain a close watch on the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases and the unkeep of under-trail prisoners in the district jail as a collector he is responsible for recovery of land revenue and other government dues and maintenance of up-to-date records of rights, survey, record operations settlement, consolidation of holdings, resumption and acquisition of land, rehabilitation of displaced persons, distribution of relief on occurrence of natural calamities, etc. The district officer also heads the department of civil supplies and is responsible for equitable distribution of food-grains and other essential commodities with the help of the district supply officer. He is ex-officio district election officer and president of the district soldiers' sailors' and airmens, board, which looks after the welfare of ex-servicemen as well as families of serving soldiers of the district. He plays a pivatal role in the planning and development activities of the district. He is generally assisted in this sphere by the district planning officer or the A. D. M. (planning), as the case may be, who is in immediate charge of the Planning and development activities of the district. The district, officer is assisted by four sub-divisional officers, one for each subdivision, who perform duties similar to those of the district officer but confined to their subdivision and consis-. ting of hearings of revenue cases, maintenance of law and order and relief work, when necessary. They also supervise the work of land management committees of gaon sabhas. For the convenience of revenue administration each of the four tahsils. Etawah, Auraiya, Bidhuna and Bharthana is in the immediate charge of a resident tahsildar who acts as a magistrate in addition to being an assistant collector and presides at his tahsil office and court. His main duties are the collection of land revenue, maintenance of correct land records in his tahsil, and relief from scarcities and calamities, when necessary. Each tahsildar is also the subtreasury officer in charge of the tahsil subtreasury and the district is divided into four subdivision-Etawah, Auraiya, Bidhuna, and Bharthana, each one forms a tahsil of the same name. The superintendent of police is in over all charge of the police force and is responsible for its efficiency, discipline and proper performance of duties. He is assisted by six deputy superintendents of police. For further details of police organisation chapter XII may be seen. The judicial organisation of the district is headed by the district and sessions judge with headquarters at Etawah under the jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. He is the highest authority for administration of justice in civil and criminal matters for the district, Appeals against his orders He to the High Court. He was also the district registrar but a recent change conferred the powers of the district registrar on one of the additional district magistrate under the district magistrate, known as additional district magistrate (revenue) A subregistrar. whose work is to register documents relative to movable and immovable property, titles and interests, is stationed at the headquarters of each tahsil. Other District Level Officer The following are the district level officers, each being responsible possible to the head of the department concerned, their designa-ions giving clue to the nature of the work they do : Assistant Registrar Cooperative societies Assistant Engineer, Minor Irrigation
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES Income-Tax Department For the assessments of levy and collection of income-tax, wealth tax and gift tax. 1he district falls under administrative control of the inspecting assistant commissioner of income-tax. Kanpur range. The district is in the charge of an income-tax officer, assisted by an income-tax inspector who performes outdoor duties such as survey, search and raids etc. Central Excise Department For the purpose of excise administration, the district comes under the central excise division Kanpur. The work is looked after by the assistant collector central excise Agra. There is one superintendent posted in the district to supervise the work with the help of two intelligence Officers (preventive), in respect of the commodities like tobacco, cotton yarn, steel, cosmetics, matches. electric bulbs, iron safe, glass, asbestos, khandsari, etc. Indian Post and Telegraph Department Etawah district falls under Etawah postal Division which comprises Etawah and Mainpuri districts. The division is under the charge of a superintendent of post-offices. A post-master is Incharge of the district post-offices who carries out postal work with the help of five assistant Post-masters posted at Etawah. |
