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A block is an
Block is a district sub-division for the purpose of rural development department and Panchayati raj (India), Panchayati Raj institutes. Cities have similar arrangements under the Ministry of Urban Development, Urban Development department. Tehsils (also called Taluks) are common across urban and rural areas for the administration of land and revenue department to keep tract of land ownership and levy the land tax.
For planning purpose, a district is divided into four levels:
# Tehsils
# Blocks
# Gram panchayat, Gram Panchayats
# Villages
A tehsil may consist of one or more number of blocks. Blocks are usually planning & development units of a district in addition to tehsils. A block represents a compact area for which effective plans are prepared and implemented through Gram Panchayats.
For example, Muzaffarnagar district, Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh has 9 blocks namely:
administrative division
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
of some South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth descr ...
n countries.
Bhutan
InBhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
, a block is called a gewog. It is essentially for oil a group of villages. Gewogs are official administrative units
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
of Bhutan. The country is composed of 205 gewogs.
Each gewog is headed by a ''gup'' or headman.
India
Block is a district sub-division for the purpose of rural development department and Panchayati raj (India), Panchayati Raj institutes. Cities have similar arrangements under the Ministry of Urban Development, Urban Development department. Tehsils (also called Taluks) are common across urban and rural areas for the administration of land and revenue department to keep tract of land ownership and levy the land tax.
For planning purpose, a district is divided into four levels:
# Tehsils
# Blocks
# Gram panchayat, Gram Panchayats
# Villages
A tehsil may consist of one or more number of blocks. Blocks are usually planning & development units of a district in addition to tehsils. A block represents a compact area for which effective plans are prepared and implemented through Gram Panchayats.
For example, Muzaffarnagar district, Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh has 9 blocks namely:
Block Development Officer
The Block Development Officer is the official in charge of a block. Block Development Officer monitor the implementation of all programmes relating to planning and development of the blocks. Coordination of development and implementation of plans in all blocks of a district is provided by a Chief Development Officer (CDO). BDO's office is the main operational wing of the government for the development administration as well as regulatory administration.See also
* List of community development blocks in IndiaReferences
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