{"id":27093,"date":"2024-10-06T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27093"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:34:05","slug":"co-district-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/co-district-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-district Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Co-district Initiative:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-districts\u2019 are <strong>smaller administrative units<\/strong> below the districts led by an officer of the rank of Assistant District Commissioner.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The objective of this <strong>first-of-its-kind initiative in the country<\/strong> is to take governance one step closer to people.<\/li>\n<li>It is expected to <strong>address the administrative challenges<\/strong> being faced by the administration in the districts.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>co-district commissioners<\/strong> will have powers and <strong>responsibilities similar<\/strong> to those of the <strong>district commissioners.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The functions that these offices are tasked with carrying out include land revenue matters, development and welfare work, excise and disaster management work.<\/li>\n<li>These will have administrative control over all departments within the co-district and have magisterial powers such as the issue of permissions for events.<\/li>\n<li>These will conduct routine administrative tasks such as the issue of ration cards, caste certificates, and sale permission of land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is governance?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country\u2019s affairs. It is also the process through which various stakeholders articulate their interest, exercises their rights and mediate their differences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2024\/Oct\/04\/taking-governance-closer-to-people-assam-launches-unique-co-district-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Taking governance closer to people: Assam launches unique \u2018co-district\u2019 initiative<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-district Initiative is expected to address the administrative challenges being faced by the administration in the districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}