Everything about Tehsil totally explained
A
tehsil (
Urdu: تحصیل ) (or
tahsil,
tahasil,
taluka,
taluk,
taluq,
mandal) is an
administrative division of some
countries of
South Asia.
Generally, a tehsil consists of a
city or
town that serves as its
headquarters, possibly additional
towns, and a number of
villages. As an entity of
local government, it exercises certain
fiscal and
administrative power over the
villages and
municipalities within its jurisdiction. It is the ultimate executive agency for
land records and related administrative matters. Its chief official is called the
tehsildar or
talukdar.
It should be noted that
tehsil and
taluka and their variants are used as
English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside of the
subcontinent, the word
county has sometimes been provided as a
gloss, on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city, town, or village, but subordinate to a larger state or province. However, India and Pakistan have
two (or more, at least in parts of India) intermediate levels of hierarchy—the
District and the
tehsil, both of which are sometimes glossed as
county. In neither case is the analogy very precise in specific details.
In Pakistan, the term
tehsil is generally used except in
Sindh where the term
taluka (
Urdu: تعلقه ) predominates for example
Larkana Taluka. The tehsil is the second-lowest tier of local government in Pakistan; each tehsil is part of a larger
District (
Zillah (
Urdu: ضلع )). Each tehsil is subdivided into a number of
Union Councils
» See also Subdivisions of Pakistan.
The term
taluka or
taluk is used in some
States, including
Goa,
Maharashtra,
Kerala,
Tamil Nadu, and
Karnataka, and
tehsil in others, such as
Uttar Pradesh,
Uttarakhand,
Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan.
Andhra Pradesh used to have taluks (with
Firkas under them), but these have now been replaced with mandals. In addresses the abbreviation
TK often appears.
Each taluka or tehsil is part of a larger
District within a
State or
Union Territory. In some cases, the tehsils of a given District are organized into smaller groups of tehsils called
Sub-Division (
Pargana,
Anuvibhag).
In India there has been research on making talukas self sufficient in energy.
The governmental bodies called the
panchayat samiti operate at the tehsil level.
The villages of a tehsil are grouped into smaller clusters known as
hobli.
» See also Subdivisions of India.Further Information
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