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The Zila Panchayat or District Development Council or Zilla Parishad or District Panchayat or is the third tier of the Panchayati Raj system and functions at the district levels in all states. A Zila Parishad is an elected body representing the entire rural area of a district. A District Panchayat is headed by a President, who is an elected member.
The telugu speaking dominant regions Kostaandhra and Rayalaseema were separated from Madras State to form Andhra State in 1953. [1] As Andhra State, it consists of 11 districts, which are Anantapur, Chittoor, East Godavari, Guntur, Kadapa, Krishna, Kurnool, Nellore, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and West Godavari. [2] [3]
This led to the establishment of a three-tier Panchayati Raj system: Gram Panchayat at the village level, Panchayat Samiti at the block level, and Zila Parishad at the district level. On 24 April 1993, the Constitutional (73rd amendment) Act of 1992 came into force in India to provide constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj institutions.
A district (), also known as revenue district, is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.In some cases, districts are further subdivided into sub-divisions, and in others directly into tehsils or talukas.
This article lists all the urban local bodies in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, including municipal corporations, municipalities and Nagar panchayats.According to the Directorate of Town and Country Planning under the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the state comprises 123 urban local bodies across its 26 districts.
The specific names may vary from state to state, but the purpose remains the same – to oversee the development and welfare activities at the block or tehsil level. The district level Panchayat Raj institutions are known by different names in different states, such as zilla panchayat, zilla parishad, district council and district panchayat. [20]
Rajnandgaon is a city in Rajnandgaon District, in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. [5] As of the 2011 census [update] the population of the city was 163,122. [ 2 ] Rajnandgaon district came into existence on 26 January 1973, as a result of the division of Durg district.
Zilla Panchayat (District Administration) • Body: Bidar district Panchayat • Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) Sagar Khandre (Indian National Congress) • District Commissioner and District Election Commissioner: Shilpa Sharma, IAS • Additional District Commissioner: Shivkumar Sheelvanth, KAS • Superintendent of Police: Pradeep Gunti, IPS