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Abstract

The district has been the model point of the administrative system in newlineIndia for about two hundred years. It is largely at the district level that all newlineagencies of government coverage and policies and programmes find a concrete newlineshape. The district is the principal unit of territorial administration in India. It is newlinealso a major element that India has contributed to the world administrative newlineculture.1 newline