Uttar Pradesh: Administrative Structure
Considering the divisions of the state Uttar Pradesh, there are 75 districts, 18 divisions, 822 blocks, 52021 Panchayats and 107452 villages. Uttar Pradesh is the fifth largest state in India in terms of land area. The land area of Uttar Pradesh is 240,928 km². A district collector monitors a district. In Uttar Pradesh, he is also known as a District Magistrate or DM. He is an officer from IAS or PCS who gets a promotion as an IAS officer on the basis of tenure in Provincial Civil Services UPPSC.
A District Magistrate is appointed by the Government of Uttar Pradesh. A District Superintendent of Police or DSP is also known as a Superintendent of Police. A DSP heads the District Police organization of the state police as per the Police Act of 1861. A Sub division Police is under every sub division. The sub division Police is headed by a Police officer of the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police or DSP (Deputy Superintendent of Police). Every ministry and the respective department are headed by a minister.
Listing of divisions of Uttar Pradesh:
| Division | Headquarter |
Districts |
| Agra Division |
Agra |
Agra Firozabad Mainpuri Mathura |
| Aligarh division | Aligarh | Aligarh Etah Hathras Kasganj |
| Allahabad division |
Allahabad |
Allahabad Fatehpur Kaushambi Pratapgarh |
| Azamgarh division |
Azamgarh |
Azamgarh Ballia Mau |
| Bareilly division | Bareilly |
Badaun Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur |
| Basti division | Basti |
Basti Sant Kabir Nagar Siddharthnagar |
| Chitrakoot division | Chitrakoot | Banda Chitrakoot Hamirpur Mahoba |
| Devipatan division |
Gonda |
Bahraich Balarampur Gonda Shravasti |
| Faizabad division | Faizabad |
Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Barabanki Faizabad Sultanpur |
| Gorakhpur division | Gorakhpur | Deoria Gorakhpur Kushinagar Maharajganj |
| Jhansi division | Jhansi | Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur |
| Kanpur division |
Kanpur | Auraiya Etawah Farrukhabad Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar |
| Lucknow division | Lucknow | Hardoi Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow Raebareli Sitapur Unnao |
| Meerut division | Meerut | Bagpat Bulandshahr Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Hapur Meerut |
| Mirzapur division | Mirzapur | Mirzapur Sant Ravidas Nagar Sonbhadra |
| Moradabad division | Moradabad | Amroha Bijnor Moradabad Rampur Sambhal |
| Saharanpur division | Saharanpur | Muzaffarnagar Shamli Saharanpur |
| Varanasi division | Varanasi | Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Varanasi |