Assam to have DC offices in all 126 Assembly segments: CM

Assam has 31 administrative districts and 126 Assembly constituencies. According to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state government is working towards setting up ‘DC offices’ in all 126 constituencies.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

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The Assam government is deliberating on reworking its administrative set-up to free deputy commissioners from routine work by decentralising powers from the district level to the constituency level.

Assam has 31 administrative districts and 126 Assembly constituencies. According to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state government is working towards setting up ‘DC offices’ in all 126 constituencies.

“There will be DC offices in all 126 Assembly constituencies in Assam and each will have an Additional Deputy Commissioner. And they will do all the work…people will need not come to the district headquarters for any work… there will be a district in every constituency,” he said, speaking to the media in Guwahati on Sunday.

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He said that the matter will be discussed in detail during a three-day DC conference which is scheduled to be held in Tinsukia on May 12-14.

“The DC’s work should be only supervision and monitoring… We want to push all the routine powers to the constituency level,” said Sarma.

Speaking at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration earlier in the week, he had explained the rationale behind the move “to strengthen the district’s ability to function as an economic and administrative unit”.

“The nation has lost a lot of good resources because we give them some work which can be done by any good gazetted officer. We don’t need a DC-level officer to do certain things. Instead what I’m trying to do is for the DC to function as a Chief Secretary for his district. They will be responsible for revenue, social sector, infrastructure, and development,” he said.

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