18) The District collector is the
representative of the government at
the level of tehsil.
True
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False
Answers
Explanation:
District Magistrate and Collector, is an officer who is in-charge of a district, the basic unit of administration, in India. They are also known as District Collector or Deputy Commissioner in several Indian states. In general parlance, he is referred to by the abbreviation DM or DC
District collectorate of West Godavari district in the state of AP
A bilingual signboard of District magistrate office of New Delhi
India has approximately 718 districts. Each one of them is headed by a DM.[1] He or she is assisted by a number of officers at the headquarters as well as in the lower levels of administration like subdivisions, tehsils and blocks. These posts, often called Deputy Collectors, belong to the State Provincial Service whereas the DM is almost always a member of the Indian Administrative Service, recruited by the Union Public Service Commission.