List of districts of Delhi

The National Capital Territory of Delhi is divided into nine revenue districts. Each district is headed by a Deputy Commissioner and has three subdivisions. A Subdivision Magistrate heads each subdivision. All Deputy Commissioners report to the Divisional Commissioner. These district are meant only for revenue collection & Administration. Delhi being a National Capital Territory of India, does not hold power to declare districts in its premises.

The nine districts came into existence from January 1997. Prior to that, there used to be only one district for whole of Delhi with district head quarter at Tis-Hazari.

The District Administration of Delhi is the enforcement department for all kinds of Government of Delhi and Central Government policies and exercises supervisory powers over numerous other functionaries of the Government. Below is the list of the districts and subdivisions of Delhi:

Map showing the nine districts of Delhi

The skyline of Central Delhi

The South Block in New Delhi houses the Indian defence and finance ministries.

Districts of National Capital Territory of Delhi

#	District	Sub divisions
1	Central Delhi	Darya Ganj	Pahar Ganj	Karol Bagh
2	North Delhi	Sadar Bazaar	Kotwali	Civil Lines
3	South Delhi	Kalkaji	Defence Colony	Hauz Khas
4	East Delhi	Gandhi Nagar	Preet Vihar	Vivek Vihar
5	North East Delhi	Seelampur	Shahdara	Seema Puri
6	South West Delhi	Vasant Vihar	Najafgarh	Delhi Cantt
7	New Delhi	Connaught Place	Parliament Street	Chanakya Puri
8	North West Delhi	Saraswati Vihar	Narela	Model Town[1]
9	West Delhi	Patel Nagar	Punjabi Bagh	Dwarka

Area and Population of Districts of NCT

District	Area in Sq.km.	Population Census 1991	Population Census 2001
Central Delhi	23.36	656,533	646,385
North Delhi	58.92	686,654	781,525
South Delhi	249.44	1,501,881	2,267,023
East Delhi	48.90	1,023,078	1,463,583
North East Delhi	56.32	1,085,250	1,768,061
South West Delhi	420.80	1,087,573	1,755,041
New Delhi	34.95	168,669	179,112
North West Delhi	442.84	1,777,968	2,860,869
West Delhi	130.56	1,433,038	2,128,908
Totals	1483.0	9,420,644	13,850,507

Municipal Corporations

Apart from this districts exists three municipal corporations within the National Capital Territory:

• Delhi Municipal Corporation - administers the vast majority of land in the NCT.
• New Delhi Municipal Council - administers the New Delhi District.
• Delhi Cantonment - administers some part of land in the NCT.

See also

Govt of NCT of Delhi

References

1. ^ "North West District: Organisation Setup". Government of Delhi website. http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/doit_northwest/North+West+District/Home/Organisation+Setup. 

(North Delhi District)