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Tehsildar

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called the additional district magistrate (ADM Revenue) and is the person in charge of the revenue department for the district. The DRO in turn reports to the district collector (also called district magistrate, or DM), who is in charge of overall management of the district across all departments. Deputy collectors are hired through State Service Selection Commissions, whereas DROs and district collectors are usually Centre Civil Services employees appointed to the state cadre.
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or prants (West India). Each subdivision is under the charge of an officer designated as a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), or deputy collector, who is a member of the State Civil Service cadre. In the revenue department, the deputy collector reports to the district revenue officer (DRO), who is also
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in Telangana, or other equivalent exams in other states of India), or promoted from a subordinate post like Kanoongo (also known as Revenue Inspectors). In Uttar Pradesh, tehsildar are promoted from Naib Tehsildar. Later on, they get promoted to the post of
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Tehsildar are Class 1 gazetted officers in most states of India. In Uttar Pradesh, tehsildar are given powers of assistant collector Grade I. They also are given judicial power. They implement the various policies of the
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with regard to land revenue. A tehsildar is also known as an executive magistrate of the relevant tehsil. The immediate subordinate of a tehsildar is known as a
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Each state is divided into districts. The district's senior civil servant is the district collector/district magistrate, who is an officer from the
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revenue office. While each taluka has a mamlatdar, there are also several joint mamlatdars and the work is distributed among them.
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word meaning "holder of a position". Mamlatdar is a synonymous term used in some Indian states that comes from the Hindi word
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is a land revenue officer accompanied by revenue inspectors. They are in charge of obtaining taxes from a
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origin and is perhaps a union of the words "tehsil" and "dar". "Tehsil" is presumably an
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officer of the government, employed to raise revenue. The position was called
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Index

Tahsildar

Wardhannapet
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
tehsil
Mughal
Arabic
Persian
British rule
stipendiary
Goa
Maharashtra
British Empire
India
Mouzadar
taluka
district collector
UP-PSC
HP-PSC
RPSC
MP-PSC
BPSC
AP-PSC
TSPSC
sub-divisional magistrate
taluka
IAS
revenue subdivisions

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