Deputy commissioner (popularly abbreviated as "DC" and DCO) is a chief administrative, land revenue officer/collector and representative of government in district or an administrative sub-unit of a division in Pakistan. [1] The office-holder belongs to the commission of Pakistan Administrative Service [2] erstwhile DMG/CSP or the Provincial Management Service erstwhile Provincial Civil Service.
The deputy commissioner is assisted by additional deputy commissioners (general, revenue, finance, and planning) and assistant commissioners and district monitoring officer, deputy director development and General assistant revenue.[ citation needed ]
Divisional commissioner is assisted by additional commissioners (revenue, consolidation, coordination) and assistant commissioners (general, revenue) and director development.
In absence or transfer of the commissioner, deputy commissioner of division headquarter holds the acting charge, normally.
As of Sept. 2022, following are the names of serving DCs in Pakistan:
ICT | Incumbent name | Predecessor |
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Islamabad | Irfan Nawaz Memon |
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District | Incumbent DC | Predecessor |
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Attock (Campbellpur) | Rao Atif PAS | Zulqrnain langrial (PCS/BS19) |
Bahawalnagar | Capt (Retd) Muhammad Waseem | |
Bahawalpur | Irfan Ali Kathia PMS | |
Bhakkar | Zulfiqar Bhoon | Imran Hamid |
Chakwal | Qurat ul Ain | Capt. Retd Bilal Hashim |
Chiniot | Farooq Rashid | Capt. Nadeem Nasir |
Dera Ghazi Khan | Shahid Zaman Lak | Hamza Salick |
Faisalabad (Lyallpur) | Imran hamid DMG | Engr. Ali Shehzad DMG |
Gujranwala | Saira Umar | Danish Afzal |
Gujrat | Capt Rizwan Qadeer | Mehtab Waseem Azhar |
Hafizabad | Allah Ditta PCS/PMS | Muhammad Asif Raza PAS |
Jhang | Abdullah Khurram | Shahid Abbas PMS |
Jhelum | Nouman Hafeez | Nouman Hafeez PMS |
Kasur | Irshad Bhatti PMS | Fayyaz Ahmed Mohal PMS |
Khanewal | Shahid Farid | Salman Khan PMS |
Khushab | Zeeshan Shabbir | Capt Aurangzeb Haider Khan |
Lahore | Rafia Hyder PAS | Dr Umer Chattha DMG/PAS |
Layyah | Azfar Zia | |
Lodhran | Agha Zaheer Abbas PMS | Capt. Shoaib Ali |
Mandi Bahauddin | Shahid Imran Marth | Shahid Imran Marth |
Mianwali | Muhammad Umair | Umar javed |
Multan | Capt Retd Qadeer | |
Muzaffargarh | Ali Anan Qamar | Musa Raza |
Narowal | Shah rukh Niazi PMS | Imtiaz Shahid PMS |
Nankana Sahib | Ahmar Naik | Zahid Pervaiz |
Okara | Zahid Pervaiz | Capt(R) Muhammad Ali Ijaz |
Pakpattan | Imtiaz Ahmad khan khichi | |
Rahim Yar Khan | Musa Raza | Mehtab Wasim |
Rajanpur | Arif Raheem | Jamil A jamil |
Rawalpindi | Dr Hassan Waqar Cheema | Capt. Shoaib Ali |
Sahiwal (Montgomery) | Kamran khan | Awais Malik |
Sargodha | Capt. Shaoib Ali | Flt. Lt. Imran Qureshi |
Sheikhupura | Rana Shakeel Aslam PMS | |
Sialkot | abdullah Khurramm niazi | Messam Abbas |
Gilgit | Capt(R) Usama Majeed Cheema | |
Toba Tek Singh | Zahid Sohail | Umer javed |
Vehari | Safdar Virk PCS | Khidar Afzal Gujjar |
Chief commissioner ICT | Incumbent name | Predecessor |
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Islamabad | Capt. Anwar Ul Haq | *Aamir Ali Ahmed *Joudat Ayaz |
Division | Name |
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Bahawalpur | Capt. Rtd Zafar Iqbal |
Dera Ghazi Khan | Usman Anwar |
Faisalabad | Zahid hussain |
Gujranwala | Ghulam Farid |
Gujrat | Safder Verk |
Lahore | Capt. Asad Sumbal |
Multan | Amir Khattak |
Rawalpindi | Saqib Mannan |
Sahiwal | Ali Bahadur Qazi |
Sargodha | Maryam khan |
Division | Name |
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Banbhore(formed in 2013) | |
Hyderabad | Nadeem-ur-Rehman Memon |
Karachi | Muhammad Iqbal Memon |
Sukkur | Ghulam Mustafa Phul |
Larkana | |
Mirpur Khas | |
Shaheed Benazirabad | |
Khairpur | Sharjeel Noor Channa PAS |
During the presidency of Pervaz Musharraf, the office of deputy commissioner was replaced with district coordination officer, except in Islamabad. Also, the office of divisional commissioner was abolished. After his presidency, provincial governments of Pakistan again established this office through constitutional amendments. [3] [4] [5]
However the office of deputy commissioner is deprived of its previous powers of as a district magistrate. Subsequently, additional deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners does not execute the role of additional district magistrate and sub-divisional magistrate, respectively. Magisterial powers are now[ as of? ] executed by judicial officers and judges.
The district continued to be the unit of administration after Indian partition and independence of Pakistan in 1947. Initially, the role of the district collector remained largely unchanged, except for the separation of most judicial powers to judicial officers of the district.
District administration in Pakistan is a legacy of the British Raj. District collectors were members of the British Indian Civil Service and were charged with supervising general administration in the district. [6]
Warren Hastings introduced the office of the district collector in 1772. Sir George Campbell, lieutenant-governor of Bengal from 1871 to 1874, intended "to render the heads of districts no longer the drudges of many departments and masters of none, but in fact the general controlling authority over all departments in each district." [7] [8] [9]
The office of a collector/DC during the British rule in Indian subcontinent held multiple responsibilities –as collector, he was the head of the revenue organization, charged with registration, alteration, and partition of holdings; the settlement of disputes; the management of indebted estates; loans to agriculturists, and famine relief. As district magistrate, he exercised general supervision over the inferior courts and in particular, directed the police work. [10] The office was meant to achieve the "peculiar purpose" of collecting revenue and of keeping the peace. The superintendent of police (SP), inspector general of jails, the surgeon general, the divisional forest officer (DFO) and the chief engineer (CE) had to inform the collector of every activity in their departments. [7] [8] [9]
Until the latter part of the nineteenth century, no native was eligible to become a district collector, but with the introduction of open competitive examinations for the British Indian Civil Service, the office was opened to natives. Anandaram Baruah, an eminent scholar of Sanskrit and the sixth Indian and the first Assamese ICS officer, became the third Indian to be appointed a district magistrate, the first two being Romesh Chandra Dutt and Sripad Babaji Thakur respectively. [7] [8] [9]
The responsibilities of deputy commissioner vary from province to province. In Pakistan, these responsibilities changed with the passage of time. [6] However, now the local government law of all provisional governments is similar to a large extent to the law of Punjab Province. Below some of the duties of a deputy commissioner are given:
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