District Collector
Bureaucratic executive
Not directly named in the Constitution -- powers derive from statutes such as the Code of Criminal Procedure, state Land Revenue Acts, and the Disaster Management Act, 2005
In theory
The senior-most civil servant in a district, formally just a revenue and magisterial appointment under ordinary statute rather than a constitutionally created office.
In practice
Despite near-zero constitutional visibility, the Collector is often the most powerful and most encountered face of the state for ordinary citizens -- controlling law-and-order coordination, land records, disaster response, and election administration as the District Election Officer, making this one of the starkest dejure/defacto gaps in the entire system.
Checks and balances
This office checks
None recorded yet.
Sources
- Code of Criminal Procedure; state Land Revenue Acts; Disaster Management Act, 2005