District Administration: Redefining the Development Role

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Foreword. Introduction. 1. The collector, today and tomorrow/P.K. Dave. 2. The emerging role of the collector/M.P. Pai. 3. District officer in India: agent for change/Edwin Eames and Parmatama Saran. 4. District and state administration: a new leadership role for the IAS/G.C. Singhvi. 5. Administering a district in India: reviewing collector’s institution/D.S. Mishra. 6. Whither district government?/Abhijit Datta. 7. The changing role of the district officer (1860-1960)/Haridwar Rai. 8. The collector in the nineteen-sixties in Uttar Pradesh/J.D. Shukla. 9. The evolution of the office of collector (1770-1947)/B.B. Misra. 10. Politico-administrative base of Indian field administration/Haridwar Rai. 11. Changing role of the District Magistrate/Asok Mukhopadhyay. 12. Decentralizing administrative machinery for development needs: a case study of Andhra Pradesh/Y. Venugopal Reddy. 13. District collector and decentralised health planning/B.B.L. Sharma and A.D. Tripathi. 14. New pattern of district administration in Andhra Pradesh/Ram K. Vepa. 15. Changing pattern of development administration in the district/C.N. Bhalerao. Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rakesh Hooja

Rakesh Hooja is Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. His earlier prominent assignments in the government of Rajasthan include Area Development Commissioner, Indira Gandhi Canal Project, Secretary, Command Area Development and Water Utilisation and Commissioner, Agriculture Development Project. He has written extensively in his areas of interest like land and water management decentralized and district planning, rural development, participatory irrigation management, watershed management and development administration.