District administration in Nepal

District administration makes up the third level of government division in Nepal. The provision for a District Assembly, which acts as the legislature at the district-level, is mentioned in Part 17 of the Constitution of Nepal.^[1] The 77 districts of Nepal each have their own district assemblies which in turn elect their own District Coordination Committees, which serves as the executive at the district-level. In addition to this each district also has a District Administration Office which oversees the general administration of each district.

District Administration Office

The District Administration Office (Nepali: जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालय) is a general administration of government in each district of Nepal. The government of Nepal appoints a Chief District Officer in each district to function as a Chief Administration Officer.

The Local Administration Act, 2028 (1971) was implemented to conduct local administration in accordance with the decentralized administration system to effectively operate peace and order. Section 5 of the Local Administration Act was constituted to be a district administration office in every district to conduct general administration of the district.^[2][3] The DAO in each district of Nepal works under Ministry of Home Affairs.^[4] The main function of the DAO is to maintain peace, order and security in the district and provide assistance in development activities run by the federal government, provincial government, District Coordination Committee, urban municipality and rural municipality.^[5]

Chief District Officer

The Chief District Officer (Nepali: प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकृत, abbreviation: C.D.O.) is an administrative rank under Ministry of Home Affairs in Nepal who is appointed by the government as the senior-most executive magistrate and chief in-charge of general administration of a district . The main guideline to C.D.O. for his/her administration is the Local Administration Act, 1972. The C.D.O. is responsible for proper inspection of all the departments in a district such as health, education, security and all other government offices. In case of threatened public security conditions like riots, she/he can mobilize security forces and take other actions like imposing curfew order, fixing restricted area, arresting anyone according to law, hearing some cases as a quasi-judicial body. Distributing the Certificate of Nepalese Citizenship, processing and recommendation for passports, maintaining peace and security, law and order, acting as a representative of government, enjoying the authorities provided by more than 90 prevailing acts make a Chief District Officer powerful. The C.D.O. is the most powerful position in Nepalese administrative service. Likewise, Assistant Chief District Officers enjoys almost all the authorities as delegated by C.D.O. and other laws.

District Assembly

The District Assembly (Nepali: जिल्ला सभा) is composed of chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of each rural municipality and mayors and deputy mayors of each municipality within a district.^[6][7][8][9] The District Assembly coordinates between all municipalities and rural municipalities within the district. It elects a nine-member District Coordination Committee including a chief and deputy chief and at least three women and one member from the Dalit or minority communities for a five-year term. Any member within the village or municipal assembly in local levels within the district are eligible to be elected to the District Coordination Committee and if elected their status as a local representative will lapse.

District Coordination Committee

The District Coordination Committee (Nepali: जिल्ला समन्वय समिति, abbreviation: DCC) was formed on March 14, 2017, to replace the existing district development committee.^[10][11] Each of the 77 districts in Nepal have their own district coordination committees in.^[12]

The Head of a district development committee is elected by the district assembly. The government also appoints a Local Development Officer in each district development committee who heads the DCC in absence of an elected head or deputy head.^[13]

The DCC acts as an executive to the district Assembly. The DCC coordinates with the Provincial Assembly to establish coordination between the Provincial Assembly and rural municipalities and municipalities and to settle disputes, if any, of political nature. It also maintains coordination between the provincial and Federal government and among the local bodies in the district. It also monitors development within the district.^[1][14]

List of district coordination committees with their heads

SN	District	Nepali	Chief District Officer	District assembly chief	Political party	DCC Website	DAO Website
1	Taplejung	ताप्लेजुंग	Mohan Kumar Pokhrel			[1]	[2]
2	Panchthar	पाँचथर	Ganesh Gaire			[3]	[4]
3	Ilam	इलाम	Madhav Prashad Dhungana			[5] https://dccilam.gov.np/	[6] https://daoilam.moha.gov.np/
4	Jhapa	झापा	Chabi Lal Rijal			[7]	[8]
5	Morang	मोरङ	Kashiraj Dahal			[9]	[10]
6	Sunsari	सुनसरी	Indradev Yadav			[11]	[12]
7	Dhankuta	धनकुटा	Yuvraj Katel			[13]	[14]
8	Tehrathum	तेर्हथुम				[15]
9	Sankhuwasabha	संखुवासभा	Shivaraj Joshi	Suman Shakya	CPN (Unified Socialist)	[16]	[17]
10	Bhojpur	भोजपुर	Phanindra Dahal			[18]	[19]
11	Solukhumbu	सोलुखुम्बु	Shri Sunil Khanal			[20]	[21]
12	Okhaldhunga	ओखलढुङ्गा	Janakraj Panta			[22]	[23]
13	Khotang	खोटाङ	Ekdeva Adhikari			[24]	[25]
14	Udayapur	उदयपुर	Bishnu Kumar Karki	Gaur Bahadur Bishwakarma^[15]	CPN (Unified Socialist)	[26]	[27]
15	Saptari	सप्तरी	Rudraprasad Pandit	Shiv Narayan Shah^[16]	Nepali Congress	[28]	[29]
16	Siraha	सिरहा	Bhagirath Pandey	Dinesh Kumar Mahato^[17]	PSP-N	[30]	[31]
17	Dhanusa	धनुषा	Dilip Kumar Chapagai	Ramnandan Mandal^[18]	Nepali Congress	[32]	[33]
18	Mahottari	महोत्तरी	Baburam Shrestha	Suman Kumar Lal Karn^[19]	LSP-N	[34]	[35]
19	Sarlahi	सर्लाही	Krishna Bahadur Katuwal	Kaushal Kishor Singh^[20]	Nepali Congress	[36]	[37]
20	Sindhuli	सिन्धुली			[38]	[39]
21	Ramechhap	रामेछाप	Shobhakhar Regmi		[40]	[41]
22	Dolakha	दोलखा	Laxman Bikram Thapa			[42]	[43]
23	Sindhupalchok	सिन्धुपाल्चोक				[44]
24	Kavrepalanchowk	काभ्रेपलाञ्चोक	Shiv Prasad Shimkhada	Dip Kumar Gautam^[21]	CPN (Unified Socialist)	[45]	[46]
25	Lalitpur	ललितपुर	Mahadeb Pantha		Nepali Congress	[47]	[48]
26	Bhaktapur	भक्तपुर	HumKala Pandey			[49]	[50]
27	Kathmandu	काठमाडौं	Kedarnath Sharma			[51]	[52]
28	Nuwakot	नुवाकोट	Birendra Kumar Yadav			[53]	[54]
29	Rasuwa	रसुवा	Nabaraj Jaisi			[55]	[56]
30	Dhading	धादिङ	Shyam Prasad Bhandari			[57]	[58]
31	Makwanpur	मकवानपुर	Chakra Bahadur Budha			[59]	[60]
32	Rautahat	रौतहट	Basu Dev Ghimire	Ram Ayodhya Yadav^[22]	Nepali Congress	[61]	[62]
33	Bara	बारा	Vijay Narayan Manandhar	Narendra Kumar Sah^[23]	CPN (UML)	[63]	[64]
34	Parsa	पर्सा	Vinod Prakash Singh	Niranjan Sah Sonar	PSP-N	[65]	[66]
35	Chitwan	चितवन	Narayan Prasad Bhatt		Nepali Congress	[67]	[68]
36	Gorkha	गोरखा	Shri Jitendra Basnet			[69]	[70]
37	Lamjung	लमजुङ	Yuvaraj Mainali			[71]	[72]
38	Tanahun	तनहुँ	Bharat Kumar Sharma			[73]	[74]
39	Syangja	स्याङ्जा	Shri Mahesh Aacharya			[75]	[76]
40	Kaski	कास्की	Taranath Adhikari			[77]	[78]
41	Manang	मनाङ	Hariprasad Panta			[79]	[80]
42	Mustang	मुस्ताङ	Ramchandra Tiwari			[81]	[82]
43	Myagdi	म्याग्दी	Krishnaprasad Adhikari			[83]	[84]
44	Parbat	पर्वत	Rajesh Panthi			[85]	[86]
45	Baglung	बागलुङ				[87]	[88]
46	Gulmi	गुल्मी	Shri Gopal Prasad Aryal			[89]	[90]
47	Palpa	पाल्पा	Bishnu Prasad Dhakal			[91]	[92]
48	Nawalpur	नवलपुर	Udaya Bahadur Rana Magar			[93]	[94]
49	Parasi	परासी				[95]	[96]
50	Rupandehi	रुपन्देही	Hariprasad Mainali			[97]	[98]
51	Kapilvastu	कपिलवस्तु	Madan Bhujel			[99]	[100]
52	Arghakhanchi	अर्घाखाँची	BijayRaj Paudel			[101]	[102]
53	Pyuthan	प्युठान	Dr. Krishna Bahadur Ghimire			[103]	[104]
54	Rolpa	रोल्पा	Ganj Bahadur MC			[105]	[106]
55	Eastern Rukum	पूर्वी रुकुम	Bhupendra Sapkota			[107]	[108]
56	Western Rukum	पश्चिमी रुकुम	Banshi Kumar Aacharya			[109]	[110]
57	Salyan	सल्यान	Paramananda Ghimire			[111]	[112]
58	Dang	दाङ	Shri Gajendra Bahadur Shrestha			[113]	[114]
59	Banke	बाँके	Ramesh Kumar KC			[115]	[116]
60	Bardiya	बर्दिया	Shri PremLal Lamichhane			[117]	[118]
61	Surkhet	सुर्खेत	Sitaram Karki			[119]	[120]
62	Dailekh	दैलेख	Shri Bishwaraj Nyoupane			[121]	[122]
63	Jajarkot	जाजरकोट	Pushparaj Shahi			[123]	[124]
64	Dolpa	डोल्पा	Bhupendra Thapa			[125]	[126]
65	Jumla	जुम्ला	Bishnu Paudel			[127]	[128]
66	Kalikot	कालिकोट	Chandranath Gautam			[129]	[130]
67	Mugu	मुगु	Shri Umakanta Adhikari			[131]	[132]
68	Humla	हुम्ला		Shiv Raj Sharma^[24]	CPN (Unified Socialist)	[133]	[134]
69	Bajura	बाजुरा	Luk Bahadur Chetri			[135]	[136]
70	Bajhang	बझाङ	Prem Singh Kunwar			[137]	[138]
71	Achham	अछाम	Kishor Kumar Chaudhari			[139]	[140]
72	Doti	डोटी	Surya Bahadur Khatri			[141]	[142]
73	Kailali	कैलाली	Gobind Prasad Rijal		Nepali Congress	[143]	[144]
74	Kanchanpur	कञ्चनपुर	Ram Prasad Pandey			[145]	[146]
75	Dadeldhura	डडेल्धुरा	Janakraj Bhatt			[147]	[148]
76	Baitadi	बैतडी	Siddha Raj Joshi			[149]	[150]
77	Darchula	दार्चुला	Janardan Gautam			[151]	[152]

See also

• Gaunpalika
• List of cities in Nepal
• List of gaunpalikas of Nepal
• Village development committee
• District Development Committee

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External links

• Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (Nepal)