A tehsil ( Hindustani pronunciation: [tɛɦsiːl] , also known as tahsil , taluk , or taluka ) is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan . It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages . The terms in India have replaced earlier terms, such as pargana ( pergunnah ) and thana .
20-539: Nelamangala is a city and a taluk headquarter in Bengaluru Rural district of Karnataka , India . Nelamangala is situated at the nexus point of two National Highways; NH-75 (Bengaluru - Mangaluru) , NH-48 (Bengaluru - Poona) and also State Highway 74 (Karnataka) , to north-west of Bangalore city. Nelamangala Taluk is spread over 507 km. It is located at 13°05′N 77°23′E / 13.09°N 77.39°E / 13.09; 77.39 . According to
40-449: A designated place within tehsil area known as tehsil headquarters. Tehsildar is the incharge of tehsil office. This is similar to district office or district collector at district level. Throughout India, there is a three-tier local body/Panchayat system within the state. At the top is the zila/zilla panchayat (parishad). Taluka/mandal panchayat/panchayat samiti/community development block is the second layer of this system and below them are
60-486: A major occupation for a large section of the population. The soil and such climatic conditions are congenial for the cultivation of mulberry, rearing of silkworms, and production of silk, besides other agro-based industries. There are a number of wineries and quantity of production of wine has been increasing. There is a proposal by the Government of Karnataka to rename Bangalore Rural district to Kempe Gowda. In September 2007,
80-446: A newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the tehsil system. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system . In West Bengal , Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. Tehsil office is primarily tasked with land revenue administration, besides election and executive functions. It
100-480: Is administratively divided into 13 tehsils and 15 revenue blocks. Nevertheless, the two are often conflated. India, as a vast country, is subdivided into many states and union territories for administrative purposes. Further divisions of these states are known as districts . These districts (zila/zilla) are again divided into many subdivisions , viz tehsils or taluks. These subdivisions are again divided into gram panchayats or village panchayats. Initially, this
120-629: Is one of the 31 districts in Karnataka , India. It was formed in 1986, when Bangalore District was divided into Bangalore Rural and Bangalore Urban . Presently in Bangalore Rural district, there are 4 talukas : Devanahalli , Nelamangala , Doddaballapura , Hoskote . It has 20 hoblies , 294 villages , 3 towns , 2 tier-three cities , administered by 66 Village Panchayats ( Grama Panchayitis ) , 3 Town Municipal Councils ( Purasabes ) and 2 City Municipal Councils ( Nagarsabes ) . Proximity to
140-521: Is the second least populous district in Karnataka (out of 30 ), after Kodagu . The district is endowed with agricultural and horticultural crops such as ragi, rice, groundnut, sugarcane, castor, grapes, mulberry, etc. There are adequate infrastructural facilities such as transport and communications, banking, credit, and marketing. Though the region is not rich in mineral resources, its non-metallic mineral resources are utilised for bricks, tiles, and stoneware manufacture. For many years, weaving has also been
160-450: Is the ultimate executive agency for land records and related administrative matters. The chief official is called the tehsildar or, less officially, the talukdar or taluka muktiarkar . Tehsil or taluk can be considered sub-districts in the Indian context. In some instances, tehsils overlap with " blocks " (panchayat union blocks or panchayat development blocks or cd blocks) and come under
180-442: The district , also sometimes translated as county . In neither case is the analogy very exact. Tehsildar is the chief or key government officer of each tehsil or taluka. In some states different nomenclature like talukdar, mamledar, amaldar, mandal officer is used. In many states of India, the tehsildar functions as the executive magistrate of that tehsil. Each tehsil will have an office called tehsil office or tehsildar office at
200-511: The taluks of Kanakapura , Ramanagara , Magadi and Channapatna were merged to form the Ramanagara district. According to the 2011 census Bangalore Rural district has a population of 990,923. This gives it a ranking of 449th in India (out of a total of 640 ). The district has a population density of 441 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,140/sq mi). Its population growth rate over
220-569: The 2011 census, Nelamangala has a population of 37,232, of whom 18,840 are males while 18,392 are females. The literacy rate in Nelamangala is 89.65%. In Nelamangala, male literacy is around 93.27% while female literacy rate is 85.97%. Out of the total population, 14,600 are engaged in some sort of work or business activity. Of these, 11,118 are males while 3,482 are females. In the census survey, workers are defined as someone who does business, job, or service, and are engaged in labour activities. Out of
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#1732887426359240-487: The city of Bangalore has its impact on the district, with a considerable daily commuting population. The rural people are mostly agriculturists, although with the advent of Special Economic Zones in the area, service and IT industries are booming. Devanahalli is set to be the site of a ₹ 95 billion Devanahalli Business Park, near the Kempegowda International Airport . According to the 2011 census,
260-554: The decade 2001-2011 was 16.02%. Bangalore Rural has a sex ratio of 945 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 78.29%. 27.12% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 21.57% and 5.34% of the population respectively. Languages of Bangalore Rural district (2011) At the time of the 2011 census, 71.67% of the population spoke Kannada , 12.84% Telugu , 9.22% Urdu and 3.29% Tamil and 0.96% Hindi as their first language. Taluk In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana ,
280-443: The gram panchayats or village panchayats. These panchayats at all three levels have elected members from eligible voters of particular subdivisions. These elected members form the bodies which help the administration in policy-making, development works, and bringing grievances of the common public to the notice of the administration. Nayabat is the lower part of tehsil which have some powers like tehsil. It can be understood as tehsil
300-509: The land and revenue department, headed by the tehsildar; and blocks come under the rural development department, headed by the block development officer and serve different government administrative functions over the same or similar geographical area. Although they may on occasion share the same area with a subdivision of a revenue division, known as revenue blocks , the two are distinct. For example, Raipur district in Chhattisgarh state
320-548: The term tehsil is commonly used in all northern states . In Maharashtra , Gujarat , Goa , Karnataka , Kerala and Tamil Nadu , taluka or taluk is more common. In Eastern India , instead of tehsils, the term Subdivision is used in Bihar , Assam , Jharkhand and West Bengal , as well as large parts of Northeast India ( Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Sikkim and Tripura ). In Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland , they are called circle . Tehsil/tahsil and taluk/taluka and
340-559: The total 14,600 working population, 91.54% are engaged in main work while 8.46% are engaged in marginal work. Nelamangala is located on NH-4, around 27 km away from Bangalore city towards Tumkur and Mumbai . In 2020 the first Roll On Roll Off service of south western railway was started from the town of Nelamangala to Bale in Maharashtra.It was recognised as the only privately operated RORO service on Indian Railways then. Bangalore Rural district Bangalore Rural district
360-500: The total population of the district was, 990,923 of which 21.65% were urban with a population density of 309 persons per km . Bangalore Rural district has 22.5% of its population belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. Hinduism is the major religion of this district. The Bangalore Rural district is essentially an agriculture district but it has sufficient scope for industrialisation, dairy development and sericulture. It
380-488: The variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside the subcontinent , the word county has sometimes been provided as a gloss , on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city, town, or village, but subordinate to a larger state or province. India and Pakistan have an intermediate level of hierarchy (or more than one, at least in parts of India):
400-402: Was done for collecting land revenue and administration purposes. But now these subdivisions are governed in tandem with other departments of government like education, agriculture, irrigation, health, police, etc. The different departments of state government generally have offices at tehsil or taluk level to facilitate good governance and to provide facilities to common people easily. In India,
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