Deputy Commissioner's Office.
The Housing branch is being run under the charge of the DHO who supervises all the housing programmes like RHS, EWS, LIGP, etc. Under the infrastructure development scheme, land measuring 1.10 Acres have been acquired for construction of departmental buildings and the construction works is in progress under EWS and LIGP, the target from 1988-89 upto 93-94 is 1,502 whereas the achievement is only 802. The shortfall in achievement is attributed to the financial constraints during the recent past.
The Supply branch is looked after by the DDS with the help of
one Inspector and three SI's. As the position stands today, the public distribution system has
wholesalerships and
fair-price-shops
The Excise branch is presently being run with
the help of one Inspector along with other constables and
assistants. With the closing down of
most of the wine stores due to the total prohibition called by certain youth welfare
organisations, the district
has fared very badly in terms of revenue earnings. The only source of revenue earned by the department is the duty collected from
the remaining wine stores at Balat and Borsora including a series of fines imposed on the blackmarketeers and illicit distillers.
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The Excise Department is at present run by the Superintendent of Excise/Deputy
Superintendent of Excise West Khasi Hills District, Nongstoin. Apart from the
remaining Wine Shop in Balat & Borsora which is the only source of revenue.
The department have coming up with the opening of more Wine Shops during the
year 2004-05 at Shallang, Riangdo, Borsora, Nolakata & the adjoining areas
of Nongstoin. The Revenue Collection of the department is to the optimum.
With the objective for decentralisation of the
planning process the District Planning
organisation is currently being run
by the District Planning Officer (of the IAS/
MCS cadre) with the help of RO and
RA's. The organisation is engaged in
activities of formulation of annual plan and
five year plan, review of plan schemes, evaluations and
minitoring of developmental schemes, coordination
and other allied matters. The organisation is also recently engaged in
implementing the schemes of Science
and Technology Cell of the Planning department for popularisation
of science and technology in the district.
Under the banner of "West Khasi Hills District Science
Club", which was formed in 1992 with the DC
as the President and representatives of all educational institutions as members,
various science popularisation schemes in
the form of competitions, fairs , exposure trips for school children have been organized.
IAS and MCS Officers
are conferred with executive and judicial
powers in civil and criminal cases. As
such, they try criminal
cases and civil suits with reference to various acts like IPC, CrPC, CPC, Excise Act etc.. The
District Magistrate and Addl. District Magistrate exercise Sessions power. The District Magistrate is
the Special Judge in MACT and NDPS cases. One
of the main duties of
The District Head Quarter at Nongstoin and the two Sub-Divisional Head Quarters at Mairang and
Mawkyrwat are full-fledged election branches for the purpose of conducting elections
to the District Council, State Legislative
Assembly and Lok Sabha from time to time. There are six L.A.
constituencies and seven District Council Constituencies in
the District. Intensive and summary revision of electoral roll and
implementation of PIC schemes is
also performed by this Branch.
Significant part of the District Administration is focused on developmental activities. The organisational set up in the development sector is headed by the DC and assisted by the ADC (Dev) in the District Head Quarter and by the BDO's at the Six block Head Quarters at Nongstoin, Mairang, Mawkyrwat, Mawshynrut, Ranikor and Kynshi. Each BDO in turn is assisted by technical extension officers drawn from various departments such as Agriculture, Veterinary, Statistics, etc. Formulation of technical plans and estimates at Block level is looked after by subordinate Engineers and Sectional Assts.. Each Block is divided into fifteen Gram Sevak Circles under the charge of the Gram Sevak. Another important wing of the developmental set-up is the DRDA which is an autonomous agency with the Deputy Commissioner as its Chairman and the Project Director from the ADC level. The Project Director is assisted by the Executive Engineer and the Subordinate Engineer on one hand and by a number of Assistant Project Officers in-charge of DWCRA and Monitoring, etc. on the other.
There are two banking treasuries at Nongstoin & Mairang and one non-banking treasury at Mawkyrwat each headed by
the Treasury Officer drawn from the MFS cadre.
All government transactions,
bills and cheques are
being passed for payment by the Treasury
Officer with the help of the Accountant and bill assistants.
All the three treasuries have their own strong room
for keeping stamps etc. and are also being used for safe custody of
important government articles like ballot boxes and ballot papers, public
examination question papers, whenever
necessary.
Government
stamps like non-judicial, court-fee and revenue are also made
available for sale at the treasuries.
The
District Unit of NIC, attached to the Deputy Commissioner's Office is of immense help in various works. Several
Central and State projects/ Programmes / Schemes are programmed and processed with the help of the
NIC personnel. Internet connection is also available at present where emailing
facility is utilised to send & receive important messages.
Different branches in the Office use the
Computer in various works. Data-base records and text records are fed and retrieved
whenever
needed. The unit is currently run by the
DIO, with the help of the DIA
and DC's office staff.
By virtue of being the head of the district, the DC is also entrusted with the responsibility
of chairing various meetings of
district level committees. There
are only few days in a month where the DC is free
to attend to his normal duties without having to chair
either one or two meetings.
Apart from being the
President of the West Khasi Hills Science Club,
Nongstoin District Sports Association (NDSA), Total Literacy Campaign Society (TLCS) and
Vice-Chairman of the District Planning & Development
Council (DPDC), the DC is also the chairman of more than 30
(thirty) different committees in the district such as:
2. District Selection Committee.
3. District Coordination Committee
4. District Leprosy Society.
5. District Blindness Control Society
6. Fourth Economic Census
7. Road Safety
8. Mahila Samriddhi Yojana (MSY)
9. Indira Mahila Yojana (IMY)
10. Chief Minister's Youth Development Scheme (CMYDS)
11. District Advisory Committee on Youth Programme (DACYP)
12. National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS)
13. National Maternity Benefit Scheme
14. National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas
15. Target Free Approach in Family Welfare Programme
16. National Old Age Pension Scheme
17. Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Scheme
18. ICDS
19. Small Saving
20. Employment
21. Fisheries
22. Library
23. Khadi & Village Industry
24. Cooperative Societies
25. Reserve Forest Scheme (RFC)
26. Selection of beneficiaries for Vety Scheme
27. Shifting Cultivation
28. Protection of Human Rights
29. PMRY Scheme
30. Apex Bank & Lead Bank Consultative Committee