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GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
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DIVISIONAL COMMISSIONER
The Government have created the posts of the Divisional
Commissioners in place of the Divisional Officers from March 3, 1958 with the passing of the Bombay Commissioners Act, 1957. The posts of Commissioners had existed in the old Bombay State but were abolished in 1950. The same were again revived after the reorganisation of the States because of the increase in the area of the State. The State of Maharashtra has now been divided into four divisions with headquarters at Bombay, Poona, Nagpur and Aurangabad and each division has been placed in charge of a Divisional Commissioner. The jurisdiction of the Divisional Commissioner, Poona Division, extends besides Sangli district, over Poona, Sholapur, Kolhapur, Ahmednagar and Satara districts.
Subject to the general or special order of the State Government, the Commissioner is the chief controlling authority in all matters connected with the land revenue. The District Collectors are subordinate to the Divisional Commissioner. Of the powers delegated to the Divisional Commissioner and conferred upon him by law in land revenue matters, the following are important: —
(1) to revise the limits of the sub-divisions of the districts,
(2) to pass final orders regarding extinction of rights of public
and individual in or over any public road, lane or path not
required for use of the public,
(3) to sanction reduction of assessment consequent upon
reclassification of agricultural lands up to Rs. 200 per annum
when classification operation is confined to a single village and
Rs. 400 per annum when it extends to more than one village in
a taluka,
(4) to decide disputes regarding rights to lands between municipalities and Government.
(5) to sanction remission in cases of total loss of crop due to local calamities up to Rs. 1,000,
(6) to fix priority for scarcity relief works, and
(7) to sell lands for building sites without auction if the value of such land does not exceed Rs. 1,000 in rural areas and Rs. 5,000 in urban areas.
The Commissioner supervises the working of the revenue offices, exercises executive and administrative powers delegated to him by Government or conferred upon him by law from time to time, undertakes general inspection of offices of all the departments within his division, inspects local bodies, co-ordinates and supervises the activities of all divisional heads of departments with particular reference to planning and development and integrates the administrative set-up in the incoming areas. He is also the co-ordinating authority as far as the Zilla Parishads in his division are concerned and heads the selection body for the class III non-technical employees of the Zilla Parishads.
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