A sub-divisional magistrate,also known as sub collector,revenue divisional officer,or assistant commissioner,is the administrative head of a sub-division in an Indian district,exercising executive,revenue,and magisterial duties. The specific name depends on the state or union territory. The primary responsibilities include revenue collection,maintaining law and order,overseeing developmental activities and coordinating various departments within a sub-division.
Poonch or Punch is a district of the Jammu division of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. With headquarters in the town of Poonch,it is bounded by the Line of Control on three sides. The 1947-48 war between India and Pakistan divided the earlier district into two parts. One went to Pakistan and the other became part of the then-Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kulgam,known as Kolgom in Kashmiri,is a town,an administrative division and capital of the Kulgam district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is located at a distance of 67 km (42 mi) from the summer state capital of Jammu and Kashmir,Srinagar. The city is divided into 16 electoral wards that has a population of 23,584,of which 12,605 are males while 10,979 are females.
Shopian,known as Shupyan in Kashmiri,is an administrative division of the Shopian district. It is located in southern part of Kashmir Valley,of Jammu and Kashmir,India. Shopian is called the ''Apple town of Kashmir'' as majority of the population engages in apple growing practices. It also provides employment to more than 60% of the population. It is 2nd richest district in Kashmir region after Srinagar.
Shopian district,known as Shupyan in Kashmiri,is an administrative district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is a hill district with its administrative headquarters in Shopian town. As it is situated on the historical road commonly known as Mughal Road,most of its area is occupied by forests. Shopian district comes under the Pir Panjal Range which makes it very cold in winter. After partition of India,it was a tehsil of Pulwama district. In March,2007,the district status was granted by the Government of India. The economy of the district depends on agriculture,particularly apple growing.
Narinder Nath Vohra,popularly referred as N. N. Vohra,is a retired 1959 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Punjab cadre who was the 12th governor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was the first civilian governor of Jammu and Kashmir in eighteen years after Jagmohan.
Masud Choudhary was an Indian educator,social reformer,thinker and an administrator of Jammu and Kashmir union territory. He was the founding Vice Chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University in Rajouri,J&K. He was also the Chief Patron of the Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust. Choudhary served in the police and retired as the Additional Director of the General Police (IPS) in 2004.
Shah Faesal is an Indian bureaucrat currently posted as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Culture (India) In 2010,he became the first Kashmiri to top the Indian Civil Services Examination. He tendered his resignation from the Indian bureaucracy in protest on 9 January 2019,citing "unabated killings" in Kashmir among other things,which,reportedly,was "never accepted" by the central government and he even withdrew the same later.
Rana is a clan of the Gurjar ethnicity. It is predominantly found among the Gujjars of Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir,as well as in Pakistan's Azad Kashmir,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces.
Parvez Dewan is an Indian administrator,author and librettist (lyricist). He is an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre. He became Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in 2011,and also the chairman of the Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC). In 2012 he was appointed India's Tourism Secretary.
Muhammad Ashraf Bukhari,also known as Syed Muhammad Ashraf Bukhari is a former Indian Administrative Service officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre who was last posted as the chairman of the prestigious Board of professional entrance examinationJ&K Ashraf Bukhari has also served as Commissioner/Secretary,Agriculture Production Department Jammu and Kashmir. and is the longest served Commissioner/Secretary to the government GAD for as long as two years.
Dr Nirmal Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and was the last Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State. He is a former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. On 1 March 2015,he assumed the charge of the Minister for Power Development and Housing and Urban Development.
Chewang Phunsog is an Indian civil servant and the chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) of the Government of India. He is a former Chief Secretary of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Phunsog,an Albert Parvin Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School,was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri by the Government of India,in 1998.
Shahid Iqbal Choudhary is a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Jammu and Kashmir cadre and the current Secretary,Department of Rural Development and Local Self Government,Jammu &Kashmir. He secured an All India Rank 51 in the UPSC's Civil Services Examination for the year 2008. Shahid was the first Muslim from Jammu region and first Gurjar from J&K to get into Indian Administrative Service as a direct recruit from IAS.
Provincial Civil Service of Uttar Pradesh (IAST:Prāntīya Civil Sevā,often abbreviated to as PCS,is the administrative civil service of the Government of Uttar Pradesh comprising Group A and Group B posts. It is also the feeder service for Indian Administrative Service in the state.
The Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service is the administrative civil service of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The officers for this post are recruited by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission through an exam which is known as JKAS examination. The statewide combined competitive examination is conducted for recruitment of various state civil service. While the Jammu and Kashmir Accounts Service is a civil service responsible for overseeing the Financial Administration and Management of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Its primary responsibility is safeguarding the state's exchequer and public funds. Officers for this role are selected through the JKAS examination conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission. "
Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission widely known as JKPSC,is a constitutional body formed by the Government of India under articles 128 and 133 which conducts the civil services examination for appointment to various civil services in the Indian administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The JKPSC,autonomous body select the officers for various key positions in state civil services according to the merits of the candidates and the rules of reservation.
The Administration of Union Territory of Ladakh(sic) is the governing authority of the Indian union territory of Ladakh and its two districts. The Administration is led by a Lieutenant Governor appointed by the President of India who acts on behalf of the central Government of India. Ladakh does not have an elected legislative assembly. The two districts of Ladakh both elect their own autonomous district council-the Leh Autonomous Hill development council and the Kargil Autonomous Hill development Council,which have competence over a range of domestic affairs.
Aijaz Ahmad Mir is an Indian politician and the former member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly who represented Wachi assembly constituency of the Jammu and Kashmir (state). He is affiliated with Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party.
Baseer Ahmad Khan is a Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service officer and inducted to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 2000. On the 15th March 2020,he was appointed as an Advisor to Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir G. C. Murmu in 2020 and Continued to Manoj Sinha. Before advisor he served as a Divisional Commissioner (Kashmir).
