Key Points
The Assam government is deliberating on reworking its administrative set-up to free deputy commissioners from routine work by decentralising powers from the district level to the constituency level...
Assam has 31 administrative districts and 126 Assembly constituencies..
According to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state government is working towards setting up DC offices in all 126 constituencies...
Speaking at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration earlier in the week, he had explained the rationale behind the move to strengthen the districts ability to function as an economic and administrative unit...
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