Taluks

Background

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 (zile, singular zilaa, Hindi: ज़िले, ज़िला). These districts are again divided into many subdivisions, which are the tehsils or taluks. These subdivisions are again divided into revenue villages. Initially, this 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.