Published on 08 Jan 2025
Co-District
• Assam has introduced Co-Districts as smaller administrative units below districts, led by an Assistant District Commissioners (ADC) who will now be called Co-district Commissioner (CDC).
• This structure replaces civil sub-divisions in the state and gives CDCs administrative control and magisterial powers within each co-district, covering land revenue, development, welfare, excise, and disaster management.
• It aims to decentralize administration, bringing government services closer to residents.
• Residents will no longer need to visit district headquarters to see the District Commissioners (DCs) for services like land matters or scheme implementations which can be handled by ADCs.
• ADCs will report to respective DCs, who will now have ‘overall power’ for supervising and monitoring government programmes and schemes within the new sub-districts but will not interfere in the day to day affairs of CDCs.
Co-District
Decentralization
Good governance