Co-district Initiative

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