Some More Information About Bijnor

More Information About Bijnor District

FUNCTIONS OF DISTRICT MAGISTRATE/COLLECTOR

District is the main unit of the state. The District Magistrate/Collector is the administrator of the district . The most important work of the the district magistrate is to maintain law and order, various rules and implementation of various govt. orders. Being a top administrator of the district , he directly order the police department whenever required. He is also responsible to maintain peace and justice in the district.

As a collector the most important works of the district magistrate are:

1. to collect the land revenue, main and miscellaneous dues of the government

2. proper maintenance of the Land Records

3. Land acquisition

4. Settlement of the refugees.

5. To provide the help to the public during the natural calamities like drought, flood and earthquake.

6. To maintain the accounts of receipts and payments in the district treasury by the help of the Treasury Officer and send the details to the government.

7. To implement all the government programmes in the interest of the common public of the district.

8. to make availability of all the consumable items under public distribution system to the fair price shops by the help of the District Supply Officer.

9. to conduct all national/state/local level elections peacefully.

For planning purpose district is divided into Blocks . These are :-

S No

Block Name

S No

Block Name

NAJIBABAD

NEHTAUR

KIRATPUR

DHAMPUR

MOHD. DEOMAL

SEOHARA

HALDAUR

10.

JALILPUR

KOTWALI

11.

NOORPUR

AFZALGARH

In Bijnor district. Block Development officer is the incharge of the block. BDO monitor the implementation of all the programs related to planning and development of the blocks. To make the co-ordination in the development work and for implementation of various schemes at various blocks, there is an officer i.e. Chief Development Officer.

S No	Post
1.	Additional District Magistrate (Finance & Revenue)
2.	SDM-SADAR
3.	SDM-CHANDPUR
4.	SDM-DHAMPUR
5.	SDM-NAGINA
6.	SDM-NAJIBABAD

NUMBER OF TEHSIL	TOTAL NUMBER OF VILLAGE	TOTAL AREA IN HACT.	AGRICULTURAL LAND	IRRIGATED AREA	Length OF CANALS (KM)	Area IRRIGATED BY GOVT. TUBE WELLS	AREA IRRIGATED BY GOVT. TUBE WELLS	AREA IRRIGATED BY OTHER SOURCES	NUMBER OF GOVT. TUBEWELLS
5	3,024	4,855,25	3,40,590	2,36,689	397	1,51,334	4,398	582	638
NUMBER OF PVT. TUBEWELL	NUMBER OF BLOCKS	NUMBER OF NAYAY PANCHAYAT	NUMBER OF GRAM SABHA	NUMBER OF VAN GRAM	NUMBER OF LEKHPALS	NUMBER OF LAND RECORD Clerk	NUMBER OF REGISTRAR KANOONGO		NUMBER OF ASST. REG. KANOONGO
75597	11	131	959	6	459	1	5		16

There is one Dy.Dir.Chakbandi and one settlement officer (Chakbandi) for chakbandi operation running in 426 villages out of 3024 revenue villages..

OTHER DISTRICT LEVEL OFFICERS OF U.P. GOVT. IN BIJNOR

In BIJNOR district there are several offices related to administration, development and public welfare as follows:

S No	Name of Officer	S No	Name of Officer
1	Chief Development Officer	15	District Gramodyog Officer
2	Chief Medical officer	16	District Supply Officer
3	General Manager, District Industries Centre	17	Asstt Registrar(Co-operative Societies)
4	Executive Engineer, Irrigation	18	District Agriculture Officer
5	Executive Engineer,East Ganga	19	District Plant Protection Officer
6	Executive Engineer, Jal Nigam	20	Chief Veterany Officer
7	Executive Engineer, PWD	21	District Cane Officer
8	Assistant Engineer, Minor Irrigation	22	District Social Welfare Officer
9	Project Director-DRDA	23	District Panchayat Raj Officer
10	Basic Shiksha Adhikari	24	District Horticulture Officer
11	District Inspector of Schools	25	Bhumi Sanrakshan Adhikari
12	District Excise Officer	26	District Probation Officer
13	District Information Officer	27	District Savings Officer
14	DIstrict Minority Welfare Officer	28	Deputy Director Agriculture

According to general and revenue administration, Bijnor is divided into five sub divisions Sadar, Chandpur, Dhampur, Nagina, Najibabad. The area of each subdivision includes the area of each tehsil. Every tehsil comes under S.D.M., acts as an assistant collector for revenue administration. Also there is one Tehsildar in each tehsil who is assisted by additional Tehsildar, Nayab Tehsildar (for each pargana). Tehsildar acts as 2nd-class magistrate for his tehsil and helps Assistant Collector (S.D.M.) for running the revenue administration properly. Tehsildar works as an officer incharge for its tehsil office and revenue court. His work mainly includes collection of all dues, maintenance of Land Records, disposal of revenue cases and welfare of general public. Tehsildar is also incharge of sub treasury office located in his tehsil.

For better administration tehsils are segmented in paragnas. Each pargana is headed by a Nayab Tehsildar. He is assisted by Kunoongo and Lekhpals.

Presently, Bijnor Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:

Purqazi

Meerapur

Bijnor

Chandpur

Hastinapur

Members of Parliament:

1952: Swami Ramanand Shastri, Indian National Congress

1957: M. Abdul Latif, Indian National Congress

1962: Swami Ramanand Shastri, Indian National Congress

1967: Swami Ramanand Shastri, Indian National Congress