Power to alter, create or abolish divisions, districts, sub-divisions and tahsils

Power to alter, create or abolish divisions, districts, sub-divisions and tahsils. —

1. (1) The State Government may create divisions comprising of such districts as it may deem fit and may abolish or alter the limits of such divisions.
2. (2) The State Government may alter the limits of any district or tahsil and may create new, or abolish existing districts or tahsils, and may divide any district into sub-divisions and may alter the limits of or abolish, any sub-division Provided that the State Government before passing any orders under this section on any proposal to alter the limits of any division or district or tahsil or to create new or abolish existing divisions, districts or tahsils, shall publish in the prescribed form such proposals for inviting objections and shall take into consideration any objections to such proposal.
3. (3) Subject to the orders of the State Government under sub-section (2), every tahsil shall be deemed to be a sub-division of a district.