Co-district Initiative

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About Co-district Initiative:

Co-districts’ are smaller administrative units below the districts led by an officer of the rank of Assistant District Commissioner.
The objective of this first-of-its-kind initiative in the country is to take governance one step closer to people.
It is expected to address the administrative challenges being faced by the administration in the districts.
The co-district commissioners will have powers and responsibilities similar to those of the district commissioners.
The functions that these offices are tasked with carrying out include land revenue matters, development and welfare work, excise and disaster management work.
These will have administrative control over all departments within the co-district and have magisterial powers such as the issue of permissions for events.
These will conduct routine administrative tasks such as the issue of ration cards, caste certificates, and sale permission of land.

Q1: What is governance?

It is the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs. It is also the process through which various stakeholders articulate their interest, exercises their rights and mediate their differences.

Source: Taking governance closer to people: Assam launches unique ‘co-district’ initiative