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| Konkan Division Overview |
| Konkan Division in Brief |
| Area of Konkan Division |
30,746 sq. km |
| Districts Under Konkan |
6 Districts |
| Total Sub-Divisions |
15 sub-divisions |
| Total Taluka |
50 Talukas |
| Total Populations |
2,48,07,357 |
| Literacy Rate |
81.36% |
| Area under Irrigation |
4,384.54 km² |
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For making a sizeable division of the existing divisions for the purpose of proper implementation of developmental works. EGS works, supervision of normal revenue works, the following Revenue Divisions were created since February, 1981.
The Government has divided State into 6 divisions, 31 districts and 399 Talukas for the purpose of revenue administration.
For each division, Divisional Commissioner is in charge. The District Collector is in charge of District. Each Taluka is placed under Tahsildar.
For each village or a group of villages a Talathi is appointed for revenue administration.
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Under Section 3 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, the State of Maharashtra was divided into revenue divisions, consisting of one or more districts (excluding the City of Bombay). Similarly, under Section 4(1)(i), the State Government could, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the districts (excluding the City of Bombay), which constitute a division. Greater Bombay consists of the City of Bombay and the Bombay Suburban District. The City of Bombay was a separate unit, and was not included in a division and was included in the Konkan Division. The City of Bombay had been directly under the State Government, through the Collector and not through the Commissioner of the Division. That position continued, mainly because the erstwhile Bombay Division was always unwieldy.
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| But recently the Revenue Divisions were for administrative convenience and increasing efficiency, reorganized into six Divisions known as Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Konkan, Nashik and Amravati. To complete this reorganization it was decided to consider the City of Bombay also to be a district and to create a new Bombay Division immediately consisting of the districts of the City of Bombay and the Bomba Suburban District. This would be a viable and compact unit, with the inclusion of the City of Bombay. Later on the intention is to alter and divide the areas of these districts into two or more districts. The Chief Revenue Authority in this Division, as in other Divisions, would be the Divisional Commissioner. |
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By the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (Amendment) Act, 1981 (Mah.XLVII of 1981), the City of Bombay was constituted as a district, and a new Division by the name of the Bombay Division had been created, with effect from the 29th July, 1981, consisting of the two district of the City of Bombay and the Bombay Suburban District, which was formerly included in the Konkan Division. It was expected that this would help securing greater administrative efficiency and developmental activities. But the experience gained during the period of more than one and half years had shown that there was no special advantage in having a separate Bombay Division, and on the contrary some administrative problems had been created, and considerable inconvenience was being caused. The transfers and promotions in the Revenue Department such as those of Deputy Collectors and Thasildars were Division-wise. With the creation of a separate Bombay Division, it was not easy to transfer officers from or to the Bombay Division, and this had created problems of postings and promotions of the officers, which had involved Government in litigation.
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The Commissioner for the Konkan Division continued to hold charge of the post of the Commissioner of the Bombay Division, as it would have been difficult to justify a separate Officer of that status, with his usual staff, for the limited work load of two districts. There was also the difficulty of finding more office accommodation in Bombay. Government therefore, considered it necessary to take action not to continue the separate Bombay Division and to add the areas of the two districts of the city of Bombay and the Bombay Suburban District to the Konkan Division so that the Konkan Division might in future consist of all the six coastal districts of City of Bombay, Bombay Suburban District, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg.
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