Administrative Setup

The Deputy Commissioner heads the District as the controlling Officer. The Deputy Commissioner who also acts as the district

Development Commissioner for the development purposes controls the district administration. The Deputy commissioner also acts as District Magistrate with regard to the law & order related matters. The administrative setup is as follows:

The district is administratively divided into four Tehsils I.e. Pulwama, Pampore, Shopian and Tral headed by the SDM/ Tehsildars respectively as shown in the table below:

SNO	Administrator	Tehsil	Nayabats
1.		Shopian	1. Shopian 2. Keegam 3. Zainapora 4. Herman 5. Kapran
2.	Tehsildar	Pulwama	1. Pulwama 2. Tahab 3. Rajpra 4. Newa 5. Kakapora 6. Patipora 7.Awantipora
3.	Tehsildar	Pampore	1. Khrewa 2. Pampore
4.	Tehsildar	Tral	1. Noorpora 2. Tral 3. Lurgam

Pulwama district has 236 Panchayats and 554 Villages out of which 18 villages are uninhabited. The building of District Secretariat was dedicated to the people of district Pulwama on 13^th of July 1979 by the then Hon’ble Speaker of J&K Legislative Assembly . It is situated at a very prime location on Jammu- Srinagar National Highway just at 14 km and 16 km milestones from Awantipora on Highway and Galander on Highway respectively. It is two storied building accommodating all the major offices of district like DC office, Chief Planning Officer’s Office, Distt Stat. & Evaluation Office, Addl. Deputy Commissioner/ Asstt. Commissioner (Revenue), Food & Civil Supplies, NIC, Election Office, Information Office, Asstt Commissioner (Development) Office, Relief Office, District Panchayat Bawan, etc.. This building is situated at a very prime location on Srinagar- Shopian road and is called D C Office/ Administrative Complex , Pulwama.

The district further has been grouped into six community block viz Pulwama, Shopian, Keller, Kakapora, Tral and Pampore for development purposes. There are 131 patwar halqas and 236 delimited panchayats. Tehsil wise number of halqas and villages is reported as under:-

SUB-DIVISIONS

TEHSILS

BLOCKS

ASSEMBLY SEGMENTS

Shopian

1. Pulwama

2. Pampore

3. Tral

4. Shopian

1 Pulwama

2. Kakapora

3. Shopian

4. Keller

5. Tral

6. Pampore

1 Pulwama

2. Rajpora

3. Pampore

4. Tral

5. Shopian

6. Wachi

The district is spread over an area of 1398 sq.kms, the blockwise area of the district is given as under:-

S.NO	Name of the Block	T otal area in 000 Hec.	T otal no. of Pyts.	T otal No. of Delimited Pyt. Halqas
1	Kakapora	8.57	14	24
2	Keller	14.78	19	43
3	Pampore	14.48	12	19
4	Pulwama	16.98	23	42

S.NO	Tehsil	NO.of villages		Total	No.of Patwar Halqa
S.NO	Tehsil	Inhabited	Un-inhabited	Total	No.of Patwar Halqa
1	Pulwama	206	09	215	50
2	Tral	079	01	80	26
3	Shopain	225	04	229	43
4	Pampore	026	04	30	12
	Total	536	18	554	131

S.NO

S.NO

Pulwama