Question

explain how a district magistrate maintains law and order in a district

Answer 1

t is the Principal Administrative unit below the state level. It is a unit of administration covering most of the departments of Government. In the words ofthe study team on district administration constituted by the Administrative Reforms commission : The district is the most convenient geographical unit where the total apparatus of public administration can be concentrated, and where it comes into direct contact with the people. Most departments of the state Government out-side the secretariat, have external services which are located in the district. The sum total of the activities of these departments and some others, which may also be connected with the affairs of the Central Government, together constitute the administrative machinery in the district. The block and village level bodies are generally executive in nature, while the district level body mostly has a co-ordinating and supervisory role. Present Day District Administration can perhaps be traced to the Mauryan Era. In those days of slow and difficult communications, an unwieldy empire had to be split up into smaller and more manageable administrative units and placed in charge of imperial agents. The agent, who roughly corresponds to the present day collector(D.C.), was called the Rajjukkara. Though essentially a Revenue officer, the Rajjukkara also exercised judicial powers and was charged with the responsibility of maintaining roads in the proper state of repairs, promotion of trade, Commerce and industry, to carry out public works like construction of new roads, Irrigation schemes etc. The D.C., being the head of the district administration, is perhaps the only officer who exercises powers under the largest number of laws both state and central.