• Source: Directorate General Defence Estates

The Directorate General, Defence Estates (abbreviate as: DGDE) is the main Indian regulatory and advisory body that provides inputs on matters of Cantonments and defence land matters to the Ministry of Defence and service headquarters i.e, Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and other organizations under Ministry of Defence of Government of India. DGDE is the headquarters of the Indian Defence Estates Service.




Functions of DGDE


The main responsibilities of DGDE are acquisition of lands, resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced persons, and hiring and requisitioning of lands and buildings.




Civil Service



The personnel of Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES) (an organised Group 'A' Central Civil Service, requirement by UPSC) are main officers who manage the DGDE and Cantonments in whole India, they works under Ministry of Defence.
DGDE has under its jurisdiction six Principal Directorates namely- Principal Directors, Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern, South-western and Western Command.
Under the Principal Directorates there are 39 Defence Estates Offices and 4 ADEO Circles for management of Defence lands in the country.




The Cantonment






= Management of Cantonments

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There are total 61 Cantonment Boards or simply Cantonments in India under DGDE. These are local bodies responsible for providing civic administration and implementing the Central Govt schemes of social welfare, public health, hygiene, safety, water supply, sanitation, urban renewal and education.
These Cantonments are managed by an IDES officers. The head IDES officer of an Cantonment posted as CEO.
The term of office of a member of a board is five years. A cantonment board consists of eight elected members, three nominated military members, three ex-officio members (station commander, garrison engineer and senior executive medical officer), and one representative of the district magistrate.
There are 62 Cantonment Boards in India, managed by Directorate General Defence Estates (DGDE).

Cantonments are divided into four categories-
Category I – population exceeds fifty thousand
Category II – population exceeds ten thousand, but does not exceed fifty thousand
Category III – population exceeds two thousand five hundred, but does not exceed ten thousand
Category IV – population does not exceed two thousand five hundred.




= Functions of cantonment

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The cantonment takes care of mandatory duties such as provision of public health, water supply, sanitation, primary education, and street lighting etc. As the resources are owned by Government of India,
(1) For every cantonment there shall be a Cantonment Board.
(2) Every Board shall be deemed to be a municipality under clause (e) of article 243P of the Constitution for the purposes of-
(a) receiving grants and allocations; or
(b) implementing the Central Government schemes of social welfare, public health, hygiene, safety, water supply, sanitation, urban renewal and education.
It is the duty of the president of the cantonment board:

unless prevented by reasonable cause, to convene and preside at all meetings of the board and to regulate the conduct of business;
to control, direct and supervise the financial and executive administration of the board;
to perform all the duties and exercise all the powers specially imposed or conferred on the president by or under this act; and
subject to any restrictions, limitations and conditions imposed by this Act, to exercise executive power for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.
in case of gross misconduct during the course of meeting, to suspend a member other than a chief executive officer from attending the un-conduct part of the meeting of the Board.




= List of cantonment

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Northern region

Himachal Pradesh
Bakloh (near Chamba)
Dagshai (near Solan)
Dalhousie Cantonment (Near Chamba)
Jutogh (near Shimla)
Kasauli (Solan)
Sabathu (near Solan)
Jammu and Kashmir
Badami Bagh (near Srinagar)
Jammu



North-western region

Delhi
Delhi
Haryana
Ambala
Punjab
Amritsar
Firozpur
Jalandhar



North-Central region

Uttarakhand;
Almora
Chakrata
Clement Town (near Dehradun)
Dehradun
Landour (near Mussoorie)
Lansdowne
Nainital
Ranikhet
Roorkee



Central region

Madhya Pradesh;
Jabalpur
Mhow
Morar
Pachmarhi
Sagar
Uttar Pradesh
Agra
Ayodhya
Babina (near Jhansi)
Bareilly
Jhansi
Kanpur
Lucknow
Fatehgarh
Mathura
Meerut
Prayagraj
Shahjahanpur
Varanasi



Western region

Rajasthan
Ajmer
Nasirabad (near Ajmer)
Gujarat
Ahmedabad
Maharashtra
Ahmednagar
Aurangabad
Dehu Road (in Pune)
Deolali (near Nashik)
Kamptee (near Nagpur)
Khadki (in Pune)
Camp (in Pune)



Eastern region

Bihar
Danapur
Jharkhand
Ramgarh
Meghalaya
Shillong
West Bengal
Barrackpur
Jalapahar (in Darjeeling)
Lebong (in Darjeeling)



Southern region

Karnataka
Belgaum
Kerala
Kannur
Tamil Nadu
St.Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram (in Chennai)
Wellington
Telangana
Secunderabad




See also


Indian Armed Forces
Ministry of Defence
Defence industry of India
Chief of Defence Staff
Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination & Services)
Indian Ordnance Factories Service
Indian Defence Estates Service
Indian Defence Accounts Service
Indian Armed Forces Tri-Service Commands
Defence Research and Development Organisation




External links


The official website of DGDE




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Universitas Durham
• Directorate General Defence Estates
• Indian Defence Estates Service
• Delhi Cantonment
• Cantonment
• Ahmedabad Cantonment
• Danapur Cantonment
• List of roads in Pune
• Bhim Janmabhoomi
• Defence Logistics Directorate (Namibia)
• Clement Town